Luke Wayne

Writer & Researcher with the Christian Apologetics and Research Ministry. Husband, father, churchman, hunter, hiker, general outdoors wanderer, and avid reader.

[Luke Wayne @LukeWayne10]

@jhow0089 @TexasPreacher Dispensationalism doesn't exist. There was no Darby, no Scoffield, no Kirk Cameron, wake up sheeple!

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@AaronBair I think your definition specifically applies to the anti-hero protagonist. There are counter examples where the anti-hero is a secondary antagonist, a morally corrupted "end justifies the means" counterexample to the proper hero, an "enemy of my enemy" who yet must be opposed.

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@AaronBair The Eustace arc in Dawntreader also reinforces this theme, even if it's not strictly a RE-enchantment since Eustace was never allowed enchantment in the first place.

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@AaronBair Just read George Orwell's essay "Raffles and Miss Blandish" which you might find useful in this thread of research.

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@AaronBair Or, worse, to straight up celebrate moral failings and scorn virtue.

Of course, this is primarily when the anti-hero is the protagonist. An anti-hero secondary character CAN be used effectively as a contrast to a noble hero, to show that the end doesn't justify the means, etc.

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@AaronBair The moment I started thinking about it, I ran into the same problem. "Anti-hero" can easily (and unhelpfully) be broadened to include both tragic figures and redemption arcs that are not really the same thing but do have some important resemblances.

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@andrewrappaport @RealDMWPodcast @HwsEleutheroi Your tactical error here was tagging Dr. White. You've got my vote, but let's be honest, your best hope is that as few of his followers as possible even know this is happening, ha ha!

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@jhow0089 @Exodus15_11 The ecumenical councils might not be best illustration of your point since, even though they arrived at the same core doctrine, the literal-historical-grammatical hermeneutic was not the primary approach of those involved (especially when it came to their approach to the OT).

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@theologyreality Primer

Mind bending in all the best ways!

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@Richardst5 1: Pilgrim's Progress, Bunyan
2: The Holiness of God, Sproul
3: Seeing and Savoring Jesus Christ, Piper
4: How Should We Then Live, Schaeffer
5: The Forgotten Trinity, White

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@philvischer @JoelWBerry The OP was poorly worded, no doubt, but you gotta admit there's a huge difference between the culture of Roman abortion potions and the post-Sanger ideologically driven mass slaughter that's taken more human lives in just the last couple decades than all wars in history combined.

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@AX4sqhGS @DougTenNapel Right, and while even on a Dawinian model this clearly doesn't descend directly from those, let's pretend it did. There's a LOT of steps between! And all the early one's look just a little LESS poisonous, LESS dangerous, while still being quite visible and not yet snake-like

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@AX4sqhGS @DougTenNapel Earthworms already look more the 1% snake-like. Doesn't seem to bother birds much. If you reason from what we actually see rather than from the story you want to believe, you'll find a world of wonder and awe to discover out there outside the confines of Darwin's narrow answers

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@AX4sqhGS @DougTenNapel Because its also 1% less plant like, 1% more visible than it's rival caterpillars. You don't start with a bug with NO defenses and then develop the snake head from some neutral place. The ancestor bugs already had a way to survive, and this steps AWAY from that to something else

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@AX4sqhGS @DougTenNapel It's not about turning greener. It's about switching TO looking like a snake FROM, say, looking like grass, bark, or a leaf. The patterns in between are more visible without yet being scary. You can PLAN to go from one to the other, but left to natural selection? Bird food.

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@AX4sqhGS @DougTenNapel That doesn't explain the preservation of intermediate steps that have no survival advantage. The predator doesn't keep those around so they can eventually develop into a fully formed and useful version generations later. He eats them too, often more readily.

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@AX4sqhGS @DougTenNapel The Oldes Brothers didn't have the model T in mind. Henry Ford, in turn, didn't have Honda in mind. Yet each new form was purposefully designed. Same with dog breeding, agriculture, etc. Whether car, corn, or canine, intermediate steps are preserved through foresight and planning

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@AX4sqhGS @DougTenNapel Intelligent designers selected the changes from wolf to dog, preserving intermediate steps because they moved toward a conscious and planned goal. Even so, those changes involved the loss of
genetic information and the breaking of unwanted systems.

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@JustnBullington I nominate @MattSlick (of https://t.co/kTWPLzPzqB fame) who shockingly has fewer than 3,000 followers and about whom I feel some fun AI art could be born!