Wife-Beaters
As usual, Joe over at Evangelical Outpost hits it out of the park, this time with a great post on the “culture of critique” that we’ve developed in evangelicalism.
The Wife Beaters: Evangelicalism and the Culture of Critique
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drink the Kool-Aid - to accept an argument or philosophy blindly.
This phrase comes from the 1978 "Jonestown massacre" in which most members of the Peoples Temple cult, blindly following their leader Jim Jones, committed suicide by drinking cyanide-laced Kool-Aid.Radically Tolerant - of all people, irrespective of race, faith, circumstance. As a person, you will be treated with the respect and dignity you deserve as an individual created in the image of God.
Radically Intolerant - of slipshod reasoning, emotion without intellectual substance, bad ideas, lazy thinking, cowardly ad hominem attacks, the preposterous notion that 9/11 is some government conspiracy (proceed directly to the Loony Bin; do not pass "Go"; do not collect $200), the designated hitter, and the Dallas Cowboys.
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3 Responses to “Wife-Beaters”
Good article. May lead one to believe that if one is NOT being criticized, one must be either irrelevant or dead.
Mark Merritt ~ Aug 23, 2005 at 10:56 am
Isn’t this also a critique of sorts? That we, as an evangelical church, are too busy critiquing? What makes it wife-beating?
Matt ~ Aug 24, 2005 at 3:22 pm
Well, certainly, Matt, but without the critique of the critiquing, might not the critiquing, having gone uncritiqued, accelerate? My head is spinning…
Byron ~ Aug 31, 2005 at 10:08 pm