Theology That Bites Back
“Notice that Paul says that Cretans are a particular way, but notice also that he tells Titus to rebuke them sharply so that they can learn how to be different. In other words, he is not fatalistic about it. Cultures can grow in virtue, and cultures can also be corrupted in vice.”
Devoured by Cannabis, p. 83
“A society is an organic body, and like other bodies, it can have a disease that is well contained by the immune system, and it can also have a disease that has overwhelmed the immune system. In other words, societies can have AIDS.”
Devoured by Cannabis, p. 82
“We have to remember that we are a fallen race and that we sin downhill. We compromise downhill. We grow less disciplined downhill. It is not hard to go downhill.”
Devoured by Cannabis, p. 81
“There is no reason why, in the Bible as in Shakespeare, the minute study of parts should not be dangerous to the conception of the whole.”
Phillips Brooks, The Joy of Preaching, p. 105
“Medical science is supposed to be about the pursuit of truth, not the pursuit of tolerable truths”
Devoured by Cannabis, p. 64
“When a constitution was drafted for a free and virtuous people, and we try to make it work for a dissolute and wasted people, this will have the effect of declaring war on the few remaining citizens who want to live in a virtuous way.”
Devoured by Cannabis, p. 58
“Take away the safety net, and it is likely that the number of people experimenting with the trapeze bar will decrease significantly.”
Devoured by Cannabis, p. 57
“The way the push for legal pot is happening now, the pressure is on us to increase the liberty of the irresponsible citizens while simultaneously decreasing the liberty of the responsible ones. That fact all by itself should reveal the play that is being run on us.”
Devoured by Cannabis, p. 49
“Remember how rapidly we progressed from homosexuality simply being decriminalized to the point now where its celebration is mandated in virtually every public space.”
Devoured by Cannabis, p. 47
“When the people are dissolute, this means they are slaves to their sins. And one of the things that despots found out a long time ago is that slaves to sin have handles that can be used by rulers.”
Devoured by Cannabis, p. 44
