Today the ethos is let’s break the rules of logic. Firstly, the SST has an article about Felicity Goodyear-Smith, who has a 20 year research career on abuse invalidated because (thirty years ago) her husband was a member of a commune.

Sorry guys. She did not do this work alone. She had supervisors. Her research has been critiqued internally at the University of Auckland, and externally… and because her past was known, she had to deal with quite a bit of suspicion along the way. This ain’t a scandal. The ACC approach to trauma — requiring that you disclose, and using counsellors of variable (highly variable) quality is a scandal.

The second is a precious petal who is offended that the orca said about men who have sex with men. The Orca is a muckraker. He is abrasive, and at times scabrously funny. He also has problems that he is open about. To disavow what he says because of is problem is… illogical (nihil ad hominem) and bad tactics. Orcas bite.

Anyway, in the Sermon of the Mount there is this teaching.

Matthew 5.

11″Blessed are you when people revile you and persecute you and utter all kinds of evil against you falsely on my account. 12Rejoice and be glad, for your reward is great in heaven, for in the same way they persecuted the prophets who were before you.

via Daily Lectionary Readings — Devotions and Readings — Ministries & Programs — GAMC.

We should thus be happy when people call us names. We have won the argument, and our reward awaits.