Tautology Club
Q: What is the first rule of Tautology Club? A: The first rule of Tautology club. Q: What Tautology Club’s favorite aphorism? A: It is what it is. Q: What is Tautology Club’s core religious belief? A: The axiom of sola scriptura
Month: November 2023
Manosphere Q&A
Recently I was asked (paraphrasing): At first glance this does seem to be a contradiction. In fact, it sure looks like “white knighting.” But it isn’t. The answer is rather simple. Christian Patriarchy and feminism are both false philosophies and they are not opposites. That they twist the truth in …
Why Is Disproving Arguments So Hard?
See this index. On Making an Argument One of my skills is being able to clearly see the axioms—underlying baseline metaphysical assumptions—that people do not know, or admit, they hold. This isn’t especially difficult, but it is fairly uncommon. In the case of proponents of Christian Patriarchy, I understand their …
On Women, Part 3
See this index. After I wrote “On Women“, I was most pleased to get a lengthy comment in response. Then I continued the discussion at Spawny’s Space for many days. I’ve decided to respond to the first comment and a few others entirely in one post. This is going to …
Paul Addressed Wives
This is part of a series on patriarchy, headship, and submission. See this index. The word for wives in Greek is the same as the word for women. It is my assertion that 1 Corinthians 11:3-16 is addressed to husbands and wives, not all men and women. So I switched …
On Women, Part 2
See this index. After I wrote “On Women“, a commenter and I got into a discussion at the Spawny’s Space blog. There, he mentioned that Origen believed that the Image of God was given to Adam and Eve, but was lost at the fall. It was not until Christ restored …
Luke 23:43 and Sheol
The Placement of a Comma Luke 23:43b can be translated in two ways: Truly I tell you, today you will be with me in paradise. …and… Truly I tell you today, you will be with me in paradise. The placement of the comma changes the meaning completely. This is somewhat …
Hair, Veils, and Authority
This is part of a series on patriarchy, headship, and submission. See this index. The ancient meaning of the word kephalē, literally ‘head’ in our English Bibles, connoted preeminence, priority, exaltedness, elevation, firstness, until the 4th century when the word began to connote leadership. The connotation of ‘head’ referred to …
Regulating Marriage
In 1996, federal lawmakers successfully passed the Defense of Marriage Act into law to ban same-sex marriage. A majority of states passed similar constitutional amendments regulating marriage by banning homosexual unions. Then the Supreme Court enshrined the federal Constitutional right to same-sex marriage: While DOMA would eventually be repealed in the “Respect for …
The Wisdom of the Masses
In the 2013-2014 football season, Philadelphia Eagles starting quarterback Michael Vick went down to an injury. Backup quarterback Nick Foles stepped up to lead the team. He had such great success that he won NFC Offensive Play of the Week, NFC Player of the Month, and set an NFL record as the first …