“Sorry to get into all the deep theology here but the Christian faith means calling everyone to believe in Jesus” (Empires of Dirt, p. 32).
Side Effects May Include Throwing Rocks at the Moon
“You can still see the modernist idol at work in the television advertisements for the newest Big Pharma drugs. You know the kind—where the fine print of ad copy was written by lawyers with a gruesome turn of mind? ‘Side effects may include writing on the living room floor, chewing on the coffee table leg, …
The Field of Battle is Not an Army
“Traditional values can’t fight sin, for the same reason that healthy tissue can’t fight cancer, but is rather the tissue that provides cancer with its scope and future” (Empires of Dirt, p. 31).
Reciprocal Stink Eye
In the fifties, if a woman breastfed her baby, she was thought to be acting like a savage, like she wanted to get photographed for National Geographic or something. Why didn’t she do the right thing for her baby and give her this scientific formula in a can? That modernistic hubris really was something—just as …
Blessings, Not Rewards
“But gratitude is not pride, and this is a nation of sinners, prone to do what sinners in this position have always done—which is to interpret blessings as rewards, to see the milk and honey as ‘best in show’ indicators. The reason this is a big deal is that the very quickest way to shut …
Which Works Out for Them
“They want you to make all your points to the satisfaction of those who have a vested interest in not being satisfied by them” (Food Catholic, p. 36).
As Would Seem to Follow
“And if we should not work for food that perishes, we shouldn’t get worked up over food that perishes” (Food Catholic, p. 30).
Flags, Fireworks, and Fun
“In my experience, those who are most ambivalent or cynical about patriotic pieties—flags, fireworks, and fun—are most likely to support the abuses of statist power when the state is attempting to become some jitney god in the lives of the citizens. But those who wave the flag at the parade and eat their hot dogs …
Prophetic Proportions
[No sense of proportion] “is why so much of the contemporary ‘prophetic’ witness to our civil rulers is such a joke. It is not so much dressed in camel hair with a leather belt as it is decked out in some Kuba the Clown outfit. And then it blames the lack of responsiveness on hardness …
A Big Sheet
“Christians who feel guilt over their decisions of what to eat need to go to sleep on the roof, like Peter did, so that they might see the entire inventory of General Mills lowered in a sheet from heaven” (Food Catholic, pp. 29-30).