“But this moral inversion is not something that can be achieved in a day. Before you reverse good and evil, you must flatten good and evil, and before you flatten good and evil, you must flatten greater evil and lesser evil and greater good and lesser good. Moral egalitarianism is a rot that proceeds slowly. …
Posing as Peasants
“One of the saddest features (or funniest, depending) of contemporary food snobbery is the notion that rich people are getting in touch with the rhythms of the earth when they shop at the Whole Foods market. Paying three times as much for a really good apple is a fine thing to do, so long as …
Before Lawless Thrones
“The point here is that the biblical Christian has a natural point of appeal above every human institution—whether than institution be popular elections, that fortress of fraud we call the Congress, the faux-imperial White House, or the black-robed SCOTUS Nazgul who ghoulishly prey on the unborn. One of them singly, or all of them together, …
Free From
“We should pursue the ideal of good cooking and good food the same way—free from guilt, free from snobbery, free from lies about cooties in the food” (Food Catholic, p. 20).
Which Is Why We Were Warned
“You cannot build your house in a left wing swamp or on a pile of right wing sand and then, when troubles arise, as they surely will, whistle up the foundation you wish you might have had. You either have a foundation when you need it, or you don’t” (Empires of Dirt, pp. 22-23).
False Alternative
“Some defend objective beauty (as they ought to), but they approach aesthetics simplistically, with a stopwatch. Others see how difficult it is, needing to involve much more than a stopwatch, and conclude that it must be impossible, and veer into an incoherent relativism” (Food Catholic, p. 19).
Patience Then
“Scripture is full of believers participating in subpar systems—as weighed in the balances of a biblical worldview—and it does not follow from this that such participation was sinful” (Food Catholic, p. 16).
Idols Assume a Narrative
“Idolatry is an account of the world. It is not stand-alone worship of some god who is not God, who is being worshiped for its own sake. No, the idol is connected to an account of the world. This means that when we reject the idolatry, as we must do, we are still not in …
Endowed by Their Blind Evolutionary Process With Certain Alienable Privileges Which May or May Not Be Revoked at the Next Stage
“Why should men be free? Why should they be treated with equity? Why should we govern ourselves democratically? The answers will vary depending on whether you believe that we evolved out of the primordial goo, or God put us here” (Empires of Dirt, p. 16).
Or Two Crinkly Bags
“Nothing is being said here about the gourmand who knows and understands good food, and would consequently prefer a meal bursting with the interplay of numerous intelligently placed spices to a meal on the couch from a crinkly bag, the name of which ends with that pervasive food group suffix –itos” (Food Catholic, p. 12).