One of the most curious facets of feminism is that many of its icons are fraudulently famous. It isn’t that women have never had major accomplishments, but that feminists usually promote the frauds over the genuine article. This only serves to perpetuate the stereotype that women are not concerned with …
On May 25, 2020, George Floyd, a 46-year old Black American man died while being arrested by Derek Chauvin, a 44-year-old White police officer. A trial found Chauvin guilty of murder. The social impact of this case and its outcome has been broad and does not need further explanation. There …
This is part of a series on patriarchy, headship, and submission. See this index. Agency in the Greek Language In my post, “On Divorce,” I briefly discussed how the biblical Greek language handles men and women differently when it came to certain moral actions. The cultural notions of agency are …
I write a lot about censorship. In the battle for freedom of speech, too many people who “fight” against censorship are perfectly willing to censor views they personally find objectionable. This moral inversion is on display in this Reddit group who, in an attempt to publish banned books (many of …
Yesterday, in “The Cancer of Political Bias“, I demonstrated how political activism leads to bias by placing the message over truth. The activist cannot comprehend that their own policies might be bad, let alone attribute the negative effects of those policies to the policies themselves. And so they mock their …
The Tweet above has proven to be quite influential as a meme. It humorously and effectively captures the notion of people voting for harmful political policies without ever expecting that they themselves would experience this. This is why, for example, people who say they oppose censorship are more than happy …
This is part of a series on patriarchy, headship, and submission. See this index. Mnemonic Devices In English we have many linguistic structures that help us remember the content of a piece of writing, especially when it is read out loud. These mnemonic devices are literary devices include acronyms, rhyming, …
A Discerning Heart In “Learn to Discern” (2023-08-12), Gunner Q writes that he agrees with the following statement: “We must always refer to the Bible, but nothing is more difficult than interpreting it and applying it to a particular situation without falling into fundamentalism. God relies on our intelligence to …
This is part of a series on patriarchy, headship, authority, and submission. See this index. In John 17, Jesus prays for his disciples. In doing so, he prays about sanctification in a rather curious way. “Sanctify them by the truth; your word is truth. As you sent me into the …
This is part of a series on patriarchy, headship, and submission. See this index. When I wrote “The Context of Genesis 3:16”, I looked at how the context of Genesis 3:16 could be combined with that of Ephesians 5 and 1 Peter 3. Regarding the submission in Ephesians 5, I had …