Errors, Cartoons, Quotage.

Posted on By Chris Gale

The left are running scared, trying to regulate the internet. They let the genie out of the bottle, and now want it back in.

Because they hate being accountable.

Having initially cheered on the death of the “gatekeepers of information,” cultural elites are now scrambling to reinstall those barriers. Too late, they have discovered that people don’t always agree with them – and now they want to push that disagreement into the wilderness of the internet.

For a while online, authoritarian progressives forgot that vanishingly few people in the real world agree with their feverish and silly “hot takes” on current news and their bizarre ideas about racism and sexism. Now the whole population is tech-savvy enough to have their say, authoritarians are scrambling for a return to the era of broadcast news, in which viewers were left with calling up the station and ranting down the phone as their only means of robust criticism.

Speaking of accountability, One Tree Hill (I refuse to call it by its Maori name, used to have a tree on it until Smith — who is a self righteous prig at the best of times — cut it down. Because he protested that the same hill memorialized his people… when they were dying out.

They were rescued by the late Victorian and Edwardian Maori training their own doctors and nurses and suppressing the Tohungas (Faith Healers). But the work of that generation — Apiranga Ngata, Peter Buck, and the their helpers — is discounted because it does not fit the narrative.

Auckland is my home town. I remember that tree. I used to train around that hill. And the city council, 21 years later, remains gelded: they have not the courage to plant a tree to replace the one removed by that proto SJW.

And after talking about Vile Heresies yesterday, the American Protestants have taken this to a further step: implying that if a woman makes bad choices and destroys her family and faith it remains her husband’s fault, particularly if he tried to correct her.

The logic is as plain as it is absurd: If you wish to serve God, submit to your wife’s emotions in all things.

I realize that this stuff is so flat out ridiculous that some will suspect I’m making this up. I urge you to check the book out for yourself using Google Books or the Amazon “look inside” feature to see that this is accurate (barring possible typographical errors). Keep in mind that Joel and Kathy are writing about what they learned in Life Way International from Dr. Hegstrom, and that FotF urges your pastor to send men accused of abuse to this same place to learn Life Way International’s theology of marriage.

Prior to researching for this series of posts I thought that Joel and Kathy were on the fringe, expressing a theology outside the modern Christian mainstream. In researching these posts I’ve been surprised to learn that they are:

  • Even more absurd in their theology than I had previously understood. They take wife worship to a whole new level, far worse than I had ever seen before.
  • Teaching a theology that is well within the modern Christian mainstream. This isn’t as far as I can tell taught as overtly as Joel and Kathy do (yet).

We need an ilk. We need to confront those who teach errors, and call them out.

The weekly Vox day Cartoon. And the Ilk live at Dalrocks as well.

2 thoughts on “Errors, Cartoons, Quotage.”

  1. Smith destroyed the tree but he failed to cut it down. He jammed the saw. He wasn’t a bushman’s bum. I know kids on the Coast that would have had it on the ground and turned into firewood biscuits by the time the cops got there.

  2. Chainsaws are potentially dangerous tools in the hands of idiots but it seems not dangerous enough.

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