“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).
Because More Is Going On
“Those who appreciate the Bible for its literary or historical value will not appreciate the Bible for long” (Empires of Dirt, p. 17).
Because Natural is Important
“. . . a woman who has a botoxed face and siliconed chest, but who eats plenty of leafy greens because it seems ‘more natural’) (Food Catholic, p. 12).
Pharisee Devils
[Concerning 1 Tim. 4:2-3] “In scriptural terms, when a person’s conscience is seared with a hot iron, he doesn’t become an anarchist, he becomes a fierce moralist . . . A man with a seared conscience is the prohibitionist, the wowser, the fusser” (Food Catholic, p. 11).
Because Fallacies Can Operate on Any Material
“Once the principles of unreason are well-established in our midst, we will find that we cannot turn them off with a switch, simply because we are now dealing with something more serious” (Food Catholic, p. 9).
No Idol Is Exceptional
“American exceptionalism is the idea that America is more of a creed than a nation. This kind of American exceptionalism makes a certain kind of civic religion possible, a quasi-sacramental approach which all consistent Christians reject as, in equal turns, blasphemous and silly” (Empires of Dirt, p. 10).
A Simple Binary
“I would say the same thing about Jesus. If He is Lord, we should do what He says. If He is not, then we needn’t bother” (Empires of Dirt, p. 10).
Gratitude: The Sauce
“My point is that a man cannot sin by bowing his head over it, saying grace with true gratitude in his heart, and then tucking in—and this truth is not affected by whether what he is about to eat is a chocolate pudding cup from a fast food joint or lots of spinach, rich in …
The Basics
“By mere Christendom I mean a network of nations bound together by a formal, public, civic acknowledgement of the lordship of Jesus Christ and the fundamental truth of the Apostles’ Creed” (Empires of Dirt, p. 9).
He Just Changes His Clothes
“When the Church crosses the border between ‘outside and persecuted’ to ‘inside and influential,’ that border crossing does not mean that the devil has gone into retirement” (Empires of Dirt, p. 7).