of course, all people argue. That’s what a democracy is. When you stop arguing, that’s when you have a dictatorship.
—David Mamet (HT: Barry Ickes).
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R. Scott Clark
R.Scott Clark is the President of the Heidelberg Reformation Association, the author and editor of, and contributor to several books and the author of many articles. He has taught church history and historical theology since 1997 at Westminster Seminary California. He has also taught at Wheaton College, Reformed Theological Seminary, and Concordia University. He has hosted the Heidelblog since 2007.
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I think it was Erick Erickson who penned the memorable line about the “new intolerance”: “You will be made to care.”
Ericsson has a book by that title.
God is not undemocratic in the way He silences those who would argue with Him.
As so many of His servants have found.
How many times have I read of this present administration closing the door on any debate!