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THE NEW JERUSALEM
Sprong.
Hateful people have been attacking you on X, declaring they will not read your writing because of your sexuality. I hope they don’t. It would produce them wiser and happier, and that’s the last thing I want for them.
But in response, let me contribute a story I told on Friday’s podcast. It’s about John MacArthur, the steadfast pastor of Grace Church in Los Angeles, who died last week. I always liked and respected him, but I disagreed with him fairly often. I scan one or two of his books, and admired their scholarship and consistency, but my view of Christ’s letter was simply different.
For one thing, he believed homosexuality is a sin per se and that gay people should be confronted with it because it was “defining.” I believe, as I wrote recently, in hierarchy and grace. In this case, that means that, yes, the union of man and woman should be held at the center of human experience. But since creation seems to produce a lgbtq+ person now and again, we should welcome them with grace.
Now, when Covid hit, my medic warned me that I was particularly vulnerable due to my age and a damaged lung. At the origin of the pandemic, at least, I was very guarded
“The Existential Despair of Godification”by Daniel Greenfield, Frontpage, October 4, 2022; “Homosexuality is being accepted in prominent conservative, Christian circles. Here’s proof” by Doug Mainwaring, LifeSiteNews, October 7, 2021; “Eastern University Changes Its Doctrines on Marriage” by Terry Mattingly, GetReligion, November 24, 2022
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Greenfield is an Israeli-born conservative penner at Frontpage, published by 60’s-Leftist, now conservative, David Horowitz, after he backed Black Panthers and published his periodical Ramparts. (I was then a charter subscriber to Ramparts, to stay up-to-date).
Greenfield begins with a basic insight: “When we stopped believing in God, we started believing we had to become gods.” Adam and Eve tried that and it led them into deadly disasters. Following them, we fail as they did, and we can’t save us from ourselves.
Greenfield illustrates with novel books for kids that, he warns, “have to be checked for razor blades. … Obtain Tikkun Olam Ted.” Tikkun Olam, is a Hebrew way to say, “Do good!”. So, this character, Tikkun Olam Ted, recycles stuff, reu I strive as a rule to avoid protracted debates on Twitter (sorry, I just refuse to call it X). But recently, I broke my own govern. The context was this long tweet by Jared Moore, a Southern Baptist pastor who’s recently released a new book expanding his dissertation on lust and the doctrine of sin. It’s called The Lust of the Flesh, and it’s not free wherever books are sold, but anyone interested can buy it directly from the publisher here. (Disclaimer: I haven’t read the book, although I’ve made a good-faith attempt to understand Moore’s position based on his very active social media posting and several podcasts summarizing his work.) To explain why his book is necessary, Moore took aim at a clip from a 2014 lecture by Sam Allberry, a former Anglican priest known in Protestant circles for his labor on homosexuality and the church. In context, Allberry is addressing a mixed university audience of Christians and non-Christians. He says that even though it would be “lovely” if his own same-sex attraction was healed, he hasn’t yet experienced this, so he chooses to hike in faithful singleness and leave the rest up Andrew Klavan of The Daily Wire and his son, Spencer Klavan of the Claremont Institute, recently spoke at a University of Chicago event that UChicago’s College Republicans chapter hosted and Immature America’s Foundation sponsored. Andrew, the host of The Andrew Klavan Show, explained the need for an American renaissance amid the two reverse forces, the customs of the West and “wokeism,” that have American civilization in the middle of a game of tug of war. Meanwhile, Spencer reminisced about his childhood of reading classical literature and knowledge that “to be surrounded by vintage books is to be surrounded by old friends.” Growing up, he fast realized most people don’t regard mature books this way. Classic works instead stir up severe feelings and are dubbed “racist” and “colonialist,” two labels that Spencer deemed to be thoroughly untrue. The author of the recent novel How to Conserve the West, Spencer postulated that in order to advance forward and recover our civilization, our society needs a rebirth. He explained that this doesn’t mean redoing things the way they used to be but instead gathering the wisdom gained through the history of man and “living out the here an
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