Thursday, August 9, 2007

Stiff Tonic 4 Spiritual Jellyfish

Master Lampoonist Phil Johnson continues to regale us with peerless posters. I vote this one the winner for "Best Abs-Buster." Frank Turk should market this @ his "junk shop." Hey, any conservative organization at all would be a fruitful market for it, because altho the poster specifically targets 3-Tism (Terrible Twos Theology, aka "Emergent/ Emerging Church"), it applies more broadly. I only wish I had owned a flashable wallet-sized version of this the many times in graduate school I encountered Whateverism (aka Relativism).

In the biblical-historical context, the verse that comes to mind is ROMANS 1:18 "...men who imprison the truth in unrighteousness." The Imprisoner (be he a Caiaphas, a Torquemada, a Stalin, a Hitler or a Reno) can not abide those who will not heel to the Procrustians. An O.T. passage already masterfully delineates this oppugnancy: "Let us lie in wait for the righteous man, because he is inconvenient to us and opposes our actions; he reproaches us for sins against the law, and accuses us of sins against our training...Let us test him with insult and torture, that we may find out how gentle he is, and make trial of his forbearance. Let us condemn him to a shameful death...." (W.o.S. 2:12 & 19)

Make no mistake about it: tho on the surface feigning a benign Anythingism, movements like 3-Tism ultimately issue in despotism with its henchmen-trinity of persecution, atrocities and massacres.