“One of the things I have noticed in my interactions with atheists is the fact that they are very good at getting themselves into a fever pitch of moral indignation. It is one of their signature moves. Hitchens used to do it, Dawkins does it, and Harris does it. They banish any and all possible grounds for any kind of moral evaluation at all, and then they wheel on you, jowls quivering and anger in their eyes, like a Victorian archbishop who just found a couple of painted ladies in the choir loft.”
Repenting of Learned Helplessness
“Whenever socialism—the singular mania of the Democrats—is imposed anywhere, it is the death of that place. It has been imposed on black America, and it was imposed on black America by the Democrats. The results have been an unmitigated disaster. The ones who should be held responsible should be the ones who did it. I have no objection to black leaders calling abuse. It is long past time for them to do so. But they ought to call abuse on the one who is actually hitting them.”
When Sovereign Grace is Corny
“A preacher of the gospel can say no condemnation, but no one else can. If a preacher of the gospel undertakes to deliver this message, he must preach it to every creature. He must do it in the spirit of the Sunday School song I learned when I was a kid—preach to red and yellow, black and white. Does that sound corny? Too bad.”
Not This Week Anyway
“The answer is that such a thing is impossible. Being impossible, it may be tentatively ranked among those things that are not going to happen.”
The Guilty Pleasure of Guilt
David Stove “refers to whites who ‘having renounced the pleasures of power . . . discover the pleasures of guilt.’ This goes double for the evangelical racial healers, who—in possession of the Holy Spirit—do for our race relations what Benny Hinn does for rheumatoid arthritis.”
How Context Matters
“Put another way, black lives matter would be a wonderful sentiment if we found it in a personal letter of William Wilberforce to his mother.”
No Authority to Say “Stop”
“One of the reasons why a justice system has to be manifestly uncorrupted is that people will not stop rioting in the streets in order to let a corrupt system handle their grievances.”
Not the Best Idea
“To go along with any level of this PC foolishness is like going on a bender in Bangkok and getting a tattoo from a guy whose English is not that strong.”
In the Name of Opposing Lynchings
“To revile due process is to become, in principle, a defender of lynchings.”
Mostly Feathers
“There are some insufferable bores out there, and there are people who puff themselves up like a barn owl when it is ten below.”