Giving Whitefield the greatest benefit of the doubt, it is hard to imagine an empathy more dull and forsaken. Yet it got even worse. Much worse. . . .
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Until we remove the wickedness at the core of the system, we Christians can preach all we want, but we will prove that we have no better answers to covetousness and theft than the secular world around us. Set up the alternatives first, then start talking.
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Reading about The Master’s University and Seminary under probation by its accrediting institution led me to raise an eyebrow at the most important point not being addressed in all of it.
Readers who may be suspicious of anti-MacArthur or theological bias on my part may be set at ease: I openly admit those biases, but this is not focused on him. This scandal involves most Christian institutions of higher learning.
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Ben Shapiro is widely regarded as a brilliant conservative mind. He “destroys” his opponents not with flourishing rhetoric so much as with bare facts and logic, usually dispensed at machine gun rates. He is widely perceived as a cold logician, a no-compromise conservative thinker.
So, when he said, “Socialism is indeed theft,” I was curious to find out if he would really stick with the logic of that. It is so easy to poke fun at Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for their “Socialism,” but once you define things correctly, that sword starts to swing both directions, and it is not easy to escape.
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It is always easy to say that all groups have their fringe and we should not pin the blame for the lone wolf on a whole movement. When, however, the movement lives with its lit match right by the fuse, eventually the game of “optics” will blow up in its face.
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One of America’s top political scientists, Angelo Codevilla, strikes again. The first time you may remember was in 2010 when his long essay on America’s elitist “Ruling Class” was turned into a book and promoted by Rush Limbaugh. You could call that viral. Now, he has spring-boarded off the Kavanaugh hearing/circus to argue the elites are now irreversibly desperate and in full fang and claw.
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Evangelicals and Christian activists of all types, my generation and younger, stand a good chance of not knowing about this, but they need to know about this. Like me, you may have caught a name or two in the national news a decade or so ago. You may recognize these names. But perhaps, like me, you did not put together the full picture. Now you can, and it coincides with what I and a few others have been teaching for a long time about fake Christian conservatism and the corruption it spreads among many otherwise well-intentioned Christians and conservatives. We need to listen up closely to this.
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It seems that every theologian and his cat has felt compelled to post an opinion on whether Tim Keller is a Marxist. Yet after all of it, there is still something very important missing. I’d like to say, “Let’s clear this up,” but there’s no easy way to do so. Besides, that’s exactly what everyone else claims to do, while in reality doing more sidestepping, whitewashing, slandering, and demagoguing—oh! the demagoguing these days!
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Bringing these values and this perspective to the world of atheism proves very enlightening—the very thing so many atheists claim to have and claim religious folk don’t. But real facts matter. Even if you’re the one claiming to have the facts, and reason and logic, on your side, the truth will eventually catch up with you.
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The most pressing, over-arching point is the one covered briefly in my previous article: for all the furor made over the lack of due process, my fellow conservatives (as well as liberals) have given virtually zero attention to Kavanaugh’s own track record on due process.
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A couple people have asked about James White’s podcast regarding the Kavanaugh hearings and laws for witnesses. In an effort to describe the conflagration surrounding the Ford testimony, the discussion turned to the law of God and its application in modern times. “Kinda sounds like Theonomy,” was the thought—which would be a novel thing for someone who has criticized Theonomy. So, the question was asked. Let’s examine it a bit.
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I have already voiced my displeasure with the “Statement on Social Justice” by MacArthur, et al. A very important aspect, however, remains to be addressed. In light of the breadth of the topic of “social justice,” the level of outrage flowing from the Statement, and its stark condemnations, it is startling to notice the scope of the what the document does not say.
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This question has been asked by a handful of critics, one of whom mined a quotation from a 2010 article I wrote and behaved as if they had exposed something big: either McDurmon is confused, a hypocrite, has sold out big time, or all three.
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Today, we have another monument that may help us answer that question. Founders Ministries has combined with others, including MacArthur, to address the evils of so-called “social justice.” The resulting document and campaign has led to requests for comment from me.
While there is much in it that is agreeable, the document has flaws that will produce serious consequences. I will not sign the document for several reasons, among them:
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I was certainly surprised, happily, at his comments on racism in a book I recently found in the American Vision library. For a conservative Reformed Baptist voice in America, this is certainly a little surprising, but far more welcomed. I’d like you to take the time to review some of his more pressing and thoughtful comments with me.
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Whether we look at the economy and finance, education, health, stress and happiness indicators, Crime, War, Freedom and Faith, Marriage and Families, or the Environment, among others, things have actually gotten much better in almost every area over decades. . . .
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The view of women among “Christian Reconstructionists” is often assumed to be one of traditional patriarchy a la “the way things used to be” back when America was great. After all, this is what the Bible says, right? And just look at all the feminized men we have today. Look how far we have fallen. We obviously need to get rid of this feminism and restore manhood the way it used to be, right? You are partially correct. Too often we do not have a good understanding of our own history or what the Bible says. This is where what Christian Reconstruction actually has taught is important.
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Just over a month ago, I posted an exposé on interracial marriage and racism in modern ministry. My intent was to highlight the inflexible line between biblical law and racialism. Since vestiges of racism have been carried into the little corner of the Reformed world in which I find myself, there needs to be a clear delineation between the exposition and application of biblical law (known as Theonomy) and various expressions of racialism clinging illegitimately to it.
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You have heard it said that “children are a heritage of the Lord” and “Blessed is the man who has his quiver full of them” (Psa. 127:3–5). Christians should, therefore, have many, many children, right? Not just a couple, but a whole “quiver full”—as many as may come. So we’ve been taught by some.
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Peter Hammond issued a response to my article exposing his views on interethnic marriage. Like John Weaver, Hammond tries to position himself as the victim (what else could he do except repent?). But this is not the case. The whole issue has arisen for one reason: Peter Hammond’s own words—unequivocal, clear words. Like Weaver, too, in all of his defense of himself and labeling, he never actually gets around to addressing those words. As it is, his defense is both a defense of himself and a defense of his awful words in which the offense and its countless victims still stands as before.
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