Miscellaneous

Pavlov’s Doug

Pavlov's Doug

The words “gay & lesbian” trigger a Pavlovian response in him. You can see the chain reaction take place in his head: “gay & lesbian” leads to “culture war” leads to a defense of “race-based chattel slavery in the antebellum South.” Ring the bell, watch Doug drool. Continue reading

Monday, June 20, 2016 |

Dietrich Bonhoeffer, 1906–1945

“He being dead yet speaketh”

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“Silence in the face of evil is itself evil: God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.” — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Continue reading

Saturday, April 9, 2016 |

Book Review: Virtuous: A Study for Ladies of Every Age

Virtuous

“A virtuous woman is a woman who protects the weak and vulnerable. A virtuous woman would bravely speak up and tell her pastor husband that writing about other women’s breasts is unseemly and revolting. That woman would be downright ‘plucky.’ Now I am in no way implying this pastor’s wife sat silently by but rather pointing out the virtue in a woman that would abide a husband who demeans women.” Continue reading

Saturday, March 19, 2016 |

Site Note ↑

I added two subcategories to the Quotes category: Breasts & Rape. To access them, hover over the Categories button on the navigation bar above ↑, you’ll see Quotes on the dropdown menu. And when you hover over Quotes, you’ll see another dropdown menu with the subcategories Breasts, Purely Gratuitous, and Rape.

Most if not all of the quotes in Breasts overlap with Purely Gratuitous, but they deserve their own stand-alone category due to the sheer volume of citations (I have about 10 more in the queue).

Regarding the Purely Gratuitous category, it’s worth your time to thumb through those quotes. He waxes vulgar simply for the thrill of shocking his readers. Of course, the problem with this approach is that the writer must continually lower the standard of discourse to maintain his level of shock. Eventually they exhaust their vocabulary and have nothing more to say.

As for the Rape quotes, they should fall under the category Purely Gratuitous because he clearly did not believe the things he wrote, insofar as he addresses punishment for rapists. He wrote them because he wanted his followers to believe he believed them, which is important to hypocrites. Pharisees value appearance over substance every day of the week. “They say and do not” (Matt. 23:3).

Saturday, March 19, 2016 |

Katie Botkin: “Serving Tash”

Katie Botkin remarks on Doug Wilson’s imprecatory prayers:

When I consider that these words, or similar ones, may be directed at me and my family through Doug, I have to conclude that the deity Doug is invoking with these words is a malevolent one, created in Doug’s own image. And as such, I do not believe his prayers will be answered. When you toy with malevolent deities, you bring destruction upon yourself, draw your power from the sickening rot of anguish. And this, more than anything, makes me very sad for the man.

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Please read the comments too, for Natalie’s father, Gary Greenfield, links to a prayer by St. Chrysostom.

Monday, March 7, 2016 |