Should Man Woo Woman?

Back in 2018 there was a discussion on Wintery Knight asking “Is it the Man’s Responsibility to Pursue the Woman, or the Other Way Around?” It was based on a discussion raised by Saint Dalrock and Messiah Cane Caldo, who suggested that women are supposed to woo men. Dalrock had …

Hypergamy is a Myth

One of the primary pieces of wisdom in The Red Pill is that women are desperately hypergamous, always going after the men that are out of their league. This leads to the belief that dating is a Pareto distribution: 80% of women chasing (and only getting) 20% of men. This, …

Too Slow To React In Time

Recently, I was watching this Dividing Lines podcast with James White. White has been saying for some time that the Roman Catholic pope Francis is at least an inclusivist (i.e. you don’t need explicit faith in Jesus Christ to be saved: any faith move towards God counts as implicit faith …

Sola Scriptura

Let’s look at those four things, shall we? But before we do that, let’s build start with question 0. Question 0 I start with this question because like all metaphysical presumptions, it’s more important than the four questions he explicitly asked. Recall what I wrote: John C. Wright claimed that …

Sacraments, Part 2: Tertullian

In “The Eucharist, Part 9: Tertullian” (2024-04-06), we discussed how Tertullian was the first early church writer to refer—in the first decade of the third century—to baptism and thanksgiving as sacraments. He did so a century before anyone else did, so his writings constitute the most important evidence. Consider the new …

Sacraments, Part 1: Divisions

Over at Anabaptist Faith, commenter Seeker gives the standard objection: We’ve heard this before: But regarding the question “what is truth?” this objection is a non-sequitur. All that the varied disagreement of denominations proves is that people will always try to disagree with each other, for whatever reason. This has …