@AJWTheology Very helpful. (Although some of the later points seem more like observations than clear theses.) I'm curious about the "nearly"... would you be willing to share where you disagree?
@AJWTheology@timsuffield As an American who has been trying to get my own head around this, I really appreciate what you and Tim have written here. Thank you!
@howertonjosh Man this is really helpful, and I can see how I’ve done this. Question though: might the problems that are merely ‘fashionable’ in one context be the true danger in another? I suspect it would be hard to generalize which is which across the board.
@AJWTheology Man, I can’t wait to read this! Looks incredible. Just wondering why wine (perhaps “the joy of God”...?) didn’t make the list? Or is it included with fruit?
@Resbyterian @paulcmaxwell@PerfInjust That is not to minimize the sin of murder and rape, but I think he wants us to see spiritual violence as eternally consequential. Tempting a child towards pride probably doesn't strike us as heavily as it should. 2/2
@Resbyterian @paulcmaxwell@PerfInjust Yes I agree w/ you, murder has physical and spiritual dimensions. I think Jesus' warning in Luke 17 is significant because it is outrageously gratuitous and pointed not at the people we would quickly condemn (murders, rapists, etc) but those who tempt children into sin. 1/2
@Resbyterian @paulcmaxwell@PerfInjust Yes. I am not saying murder is less than evil. I am vigilantly pro-life. I am saying all manner of other sins are likely more evil than we typically think. Both physical violence and spiritual violence are abominable -- but we are more sensitive to the former.
Last year, I wrote why I think it’s a bad idea to teach kids that Santa is real. This year, I’m writing about why I think it might be a bad idea to not teach kids about Santa at all.
https://t.co/mtmui6jiOy
What happened to Lewinsky was wrong, even tho she was over 18. Aborting babies is wrong, even when younger than 22 weeks. Making arbitrary age limits the arbiters of morality is senseless — & calls to mind the one who wanted to justify himself by asking, “And who is my neighbor?”
@KatelynBeaty I agree. Also, healthy balance can only be achieved by being extreme in all directions. They way to avoid falling into various extremes is to hold the best of them all. Like cables balancing a tower, an infinite number of duplex, seemingly paradoxical tensions can balance us.
If you are more loyal to a person than you are to principles — whether that be your president, pastor or pope — you are paving the way for someone else’s cult. The only person bigger than principle is the One on whom our best principles are based.
Soraya Roberts on why 'The Fugitive,' a piece of $70 million popcorn amusement from the '90s, is still a cultural touchstone today https://t.co/bozIfEJBQb
I strongly object to wrong arguments on the right side. I think I object to them more than to the wrong arguments on the wrong side. I am afraid that this taste for intellectual justice is not universally understood.