Theology That Bites Back
You cannot invoke the gods of chaos without getting the gods of chaos. Offended by the president’s lack of basic decency, the respectable leadership of official Washington has declared that it was time to race him to the bottom. Turns out they show remarkable talent for it. Official Washington lecturing the president on his lack …
Prolegomena to the Preamble to the Introduction: I suppose I need to say, right at the outset, that this blog post is something of a beast. You might say it is a little hefty. But this happened for ...
I will have a good deal to say about this in the weeks to come, but I wanted to make one crucial point before the day was over. It is a point that will have to be made repeatedly, so we might as well start making it now. All the conservatives who condemned this last …
Introduction: So it is looking as though one way or another we are going to have to learn how to live under a government we believe to be at bottom illegitimate. And that looks to be the case no matter ...
Introduction: Remember when you were a kid, and your sister was going to have a birthday party, and you wanted to help by blowing up balloons? But you weren’t that good at it yet, and so occasionally you would get one up to the requisite size, but then your fingers would slip, and the balloon …
Introduction: Yes, I know. This one should hold your interest, at least for a bit. A metaphor for an incoming Biden administration . . . Among conservative Christians who are politically ...
Introduction: If you will allow me, I would like to share a few snapshot thoughts of where we currently are. As I write this, the president has not conceded, the Electoral College has not yet done its thing, although they are about to, and the inauguration of Biden has not occurred. The disputing continues, in …
Introduction: It will no doubt be said, by some observers anyhow, that I can’t quite make up my mind. It will be said by others that I have adopted as my motto “the dwarves are for the dwarves,” and have taken to shooting both Calormene soldiers and horses. And a third group will speculate that …
A Round-Up on Electoral Fraud: Introduction: Last Friday, I tweeted this little something: Pennsylvania reportedly issued 1.8M mail-in ballots, and in the presidential race they took in 2.5M of them. I believe that the conclusion is undeniable, which is that I am doing that white supremacy math thing again.— Douglas Wilson (@douglaswils) November 27, 2020 …
Introduction: Math is hard, but only for some. Math doesn’t care about your feelings, and math feels free to mess with anyone’s deluded opinions as much as it wants to. I am speaking here of “math,” but being a math bigot from the old school, I hasten to add that I was referring of course …
