A second issue has to do with the common assumption that anything that is lawful in one medium is lawful in another. But I don’t believe that this is the case at all. Some things should be strictly limited in how they are communicated. Trevin Wax said this in one of his posts: ‘If a movie version of the book of Genesis were made, it wouldn’t be for minors.’ This is quite true, and this means that to write a novel that contained the same level of description as Genesis does would be lawful to do. ‘And behold, it was Leah.’ The same with the Song of Solomon. Writing and publishing erotic poetry is clearly within bounds for believers. But do we get to make Song of Solomon: The Movie? Not a chance. Do we get to film those portions of Ezekiel where we see the Assyrians who are hung like a donkey and ejaculate like horses (Eze. 23:20)? We don’t just look at the content of what is said — we must also take care to learn how it is said. The media matter. Ezekiel can do what he does with words, and we can imitate him in our use of words, everything else being equal. But if we made a movie out of it, then we are clearly being scabrous.
Douglas Wilson
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“Jamin has confirmed to me recently that — I asked him that question”
Jamin has confirmed to me recently that — I asked him that question — ‘Did Natalie know about it?’ According to Jamin, he said, ‘Yes, she knew — she knew all about it.’ She knew she was in a relationship with him, but did she know that this was a parent-approved relationship? Jamin would say ‘Yes.’
Douglas Wilson
“The first thing we did was place Jamin under oath”
The first thing we did was place Jamin under oath, and when he was under oath before God, we asked him if the written confession he had provided to the Greenfields some months ago was a true and accurate account. He replied that it was. . . .
Douglas Wilson
Welcome Readers from Rachel Held Evans!
Please make yourself at home and feel free to comment. Here are some more money quotes from Pastor Douglas Wilson of Christ Church, Moscow. We call the category Purely Gratuitous, for obvious reasons.
Plagiarism: Defined & Demonstrated
Pastor Douglas Wilson of Christ Church, Moscow, has recently struggled with the definition of the word plagiarism, so Rachel Miller has uploaded a new post to assist him. She titled it The Very Definition of Plagiarism. And to remind you, . . . Continue reading
Now it’s your fault
Or you can leave. Continue reading
John 8:44
“the father of it”
The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree. Continue reading
“you can get high and get laid in a 6′ × 8′ prison cell”
The parody of liberty is found in the libertarian image of the fornicating pot smoker — but you can get high and get laid in a 6′ × 8′ prison cell. There is one who defiantly cries out that he wants more liberty — so that he can enslave himself ever more tightly in chains he has forged himself. But no tyrant has ever been successfully resisted by cluster of lotus eaters, however big the cluster might be. Virtuous people cannot be kept as slaves, and an effete and self-indulgent people are made for slavery. It is their native habitat.
Douglas Wilson
“victims . . . victims . . . victims”
When you have a situation like this, the court system has a policy of keeping victims’ names out of public knowledge to protect the names and reputations of victims. I would have announced the situation, if it was just Steven and no victims. . . . My interest is in keeping victims and their families protected.
Douglas Wilson
In the Matter of Serial Pedophile Steven Sitler
What the victims don’t know can’t hurt them
On December 23, 2015, the Court granted Steven Sitler permission to reestablish contact with some of his victims and their families, if these people so desire; and the Court also ordered that the parents of these victims do not have to inform their children — the victims — that Steven Sitler molested them as a precondition of reestablishing contact. Continue reading
“Refusal to discipline amounts to hatred and is simply a slow, cruel way for a man to disown his son, clearly marking him out as illegitimate.”
The father here disciplines the son in whom he delights. Refusal to discipline amounts to hatred and is simply a slow, cruel way for a man to disown his son, clearly marking him out as illegitimate. True discipline is the foundation of respect — respect that will last a lifetime. . . . A neglectful abdicating father despises his son.
Douglas Wilson
Offender Family Contact Rules
Father Hunger
This list essentially prohibits Sitler from acting as an authority figure in his child’s life. He cannot initiate contact with his son. He cannot show physical affection to his son. He cannot discipline his son. He cannot do any normal parental activity with his son without violating this code of conduct, because Idaho recognizes that Sitler, along with all other fixated pedophiles, is a constant threat to his child’s wellbeing. Continue reading
“DuPont’s Finest”
We like the word authentic, but we detest the reality. A fading beauty in Beverly Hills walks into an upscale bistro, her skin stretched out with botox, her breasts as fine a pair as DuPont could make them, her hair the color of nothing found on earth, and yet she double checks with the waiter (twice) to be sure that her salad will have hormone-free chicken. Why? Either because she is committed to going all natural, which would not seem to be the case, or because her table is only big enough for one hormone queen. She is insisting that the chicken be the authentic one.
Douglas Wilson