Civil Commotion

This is fun: The Wheaton College faculty have taken a stand in favor of Professor Larycia Hawkins, whom the college intends to fire over her claim that Muslims and Christians worship the same god. They are joined by more than 800 of the school’s alumni, and a majority of the students.

W-h-e-e-e-e …

Good for them. As I noted here, the sectarian academy is an innately dishonest enterprise; preach the company line — or go. The difficulty is that Biblical scholarship has dispositively established that the Christian narrative is false. It’s all settled; it’s not something that knowledgeable adults even debate any more. (They’re more likely to be debating whether or not the man Jesus ever really existed.)

But … what to do? Go out of business and sell the campus? It’s a good gig! So they instead try to constrict the sources of information and influence, and shutter thought, and recruit enough paralyzed minds to retire before the fund empties out. But they are all doomed.

You really can’t make this stuff up.

In Robocall, Pastor Promises Hell if You Don’t Join Church

What’s next? Robocalls from your church complaining that you haven’t been tithing?

Clear-thinking Christians are beginning to realize these guys are charlatans who misuse their holy book to squeeze as many nickels as they can from the pews.

Tom Rich

Someday, when most of us are dead, humanity will realize that it was a gay economist who wrecked everything!

“It will be interesting to know that a homosexual [John Maynard Keynes] ruined the world,” Swanson said. “Somebody will indeed write the story about this in the year 2060 or 2070, no doubt. This will be the great exposé of how the world economies came down all because of a homosexual who was promiscuous, who was perhaps one of the most wicked, flagrantly licentious men who has lived in the modern world and he becomes the grandfather of the modern economies, bringing them all down. It makes a lot of sense: Sexual nihilism, of course, will produce sexual burnout, and that must be tied to economic burnout and epistemological burnout as well when societies lose the will to live.”

Seriously: I don’t even know what that last sentence is supposed to mean, and I don’t think it can be compressed and ridiculed.