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The Very Definition Of Gaslighting
“Pay No Attention To The Man Behind The Curtain”
McWhorter On Cancel Culture
How To Resist Cancel Culture
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Pinker: Cancel Culture Is Orwellian
Steven Pinker, the Harvard psychology professor and bestselling author, who was one of the signatories of the letter to Harper’s protesting against a climate of intolerance, has claimed he is the target of an “Orwellian” attack on his reputation. … “It’s utterly . . . Continue reading →
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Derryck Green: The New Antiracism Is A New Religion
Paul said, “From now on, we regard no one according to the flesh.” He saw other people as present or potential members of the “new creation”: “The old has passed away and the new has come” (2 Cor. 5:16–17). The new creation, . . . Continue reading →
More On Cancel Culture
Steven Pinker is correct. It is Orwellian to demand jot and tittle conformity (in civil life—we live in a twofold kingdom).
It is also Orwellian to deny that “cancel culture” exists. Certainly it exists. It is gaslighting to contribute to it by denying that it exists. The evidence for its existence is right before us. About 15 signatories to the recent public letter defending free speech remained anonymous for fear of the consequences of being found to be politically incorrect.
Example: I am thinking of a simple declarative sentence that is undeniably true and reasonable but to say it risks the irrational wrath of the mob. I will not say it now because the potential cost outweighs the benefit.
That is cancel culture.
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What Patty Hearst’s Kidnapping Tells Us About The Rise Of Woke Culture
What caused the woke white woman to break onto the scene? For the sake of illustration, let’s revisit an extreme case of initiation, the case of Patty Hearst. Aside from being a newspaper heiress, Hearst was an average 19-year-old college undergrad looking . . . Continue reading →
Harrison Perkins: How God Offered Incorruptible Life To Adam (2)
Cancel Culture
Cancel culture has nothing to do with truth, justice, or the American way. It is the exercise of power under the guise of victimhood.
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New Resource Page: On Roman Catholicism
From time to time, evangelicals and a few from the confessional Presbyterian and Reformed churches to convert to Romanism. They do so for a variety of reasons but one commonality among them is ignorance of the history of the Western church, the . . . Continue reading →
NYT Blames Churches For Spreading Coronavirus, Ignores Protests And Riots
In this morning’s New York Times three staff reporters filed a story datelined “Pendleton, Ore” (odd question—why not use the standard postal abbreviation for Oregon, which has been in use for decades?) and it begins ominously: “Weeks after President Trump demanded that . . . Continue reading →
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The Closing Of The American Mind: When Impartiality And Objectivity Become A Crime
Today, of course, the contention that some ideas are better than others—let alone that some deserve to be called “the best”—is rejected as an elitist crime against “diversity.” The cult, the ideology of diversity—what we have baptized as “identity politics,” which represents . . . Continue reading →
Indy Reformed: What Is The Covenant Of Grace?
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Virtuous Pedophiles (Do They Call Themselves Side B)?
Gary is a member of an online community of people who feel this “sexual attraction, which we did not choose”. According to Gary and others in the community, just as a heterosexual or homosexual person is drawn to people of a particular . . . Continue reading →
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The Middle Ages Are Back
DiAngelo instructs us there is nothing to be done here, except “strive to be less white.” To deny this theory, or to have the effrontery to sneak away from the tedium of DiAngelo’s lecturing – what she describes as “leaving the stress-inducing . . . Continue reading →
Office Hours: What Steve Baugh Has Learned After Thirty Seven Years Of Teaching The Greek New Testament
Steve Baugh has been teaching Greek and New Testament at Westminster Seminary California since 1982. When he enrolled as a Master of Divinity student in 1982, the campus was located in San Marcos, CA, in an office building. We did not move . . . Continue reading →
Academic Freedom And The Tiger
Academics who take advantage of their temporary ideological superiority in the university to suppress the freedom of expression of their ideological opponents are like those who, after setting loose a wild tiger, are surprised when it finally turns on them.
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Fredrick Douglass: America Is Not Irredeemable
Where Douglass may have raised a few eyebrows was in his conclusion where he challenged the common northern abolitionist belief that the U.S. Constitution itself was pro-slavery and should be discarded. When Douglass initially escaped slavery, he had accepted this view, but . . . Continue reading →