I have long thought of Albert Mohler as a sort of benchmark for pious lunacy, an exemplar for the intellectual damage done by Christianity when somebody gets sucked into taking it seriously.
What do you know? Mohler isn’t crazy enough for the Pulpit and Pen crowd. His offense? He’s not unreservedly enthusiastic about John MacArthur’s refusal to obey California’s lockdown order.
I'm not there yet, but I could be in another six months…
I fear that the Churchill scholar is almost playing the role of Neville Chamberlain as regards the most consequential issues facing his school and the SBC.
— Brandon Vanderford (@Totally_Brandon) August 3, 2020
Neville Chamberlain, who returned from a conference with Adolf Hitler proclaiming that he’d found “peace for our time”? Mohler is just like that Neville Chamberlain because he seems to think that churches ought to cooperate with efforts to control the spread of a deadly pandemic?
This is why Covid-19 isn’t coming under control; the evangelicals’ relentless attacks against science and expertise have borne fruit.
We know the feeling.
— Miguel L. Llenas (@miguelLlenas) August 3, 2020
Right. It is s-o-o-o distressing when a safely-crazy Holy Man occasionally makes worldly sense.
None of which is to suggest, at all, that I feel kind of sorry for Mohler; I do not. He has devoted his life to the degradation of other human beings and the disparagement of science, and it tickles me to see him on the receiving end. I just wish he were being eaten by educated people rather than even bigger ignoramuses.