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Bloggers Who Love Talking to Themselves
One unhappy reader provided the title critique of the present blog (link):Let’s quickly investigate, expose, and discard his ad hominem.1) “Francis Turretin’s blog joins the many not worth reading with his recent performance,”Notice the suggestion that it previously was worth reading. Interesting, eh?2) “which is not publishing a single Orthodox response to his misapprehensions about…
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Helpful Template for Response to a Weak Ad Hominem
Suppose that someone points out that your otherwise very upright pastor watches too many violent movies, or the deacons overspent on the paint that they bought when painting the church, or some other minor quibble regarding something otherwise excellent, you can now use as your response: “That’s like the title of this post (link) compared…
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Letting the Author Clarify Himself
I think more than a few folks can relate to the situation illustrated here (link). If people around you both misinterpret what you write, and refuse to accept your clarifications of what you write, what chance is there that such people are going to understand what you wrote? A similar phenomenon happens in the reading…
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Does Doug Wilson Get it?
In two recent posts, Doug Wilson seems to express frustration that (his friend?) Steve Wilkins is the focal point of charges brought against the Lousaiana Presbytery of the PCA. (link) (link) In essence, the way the situation is this: 1. the LA presbytery has a duty to exercise godly discipline; 2. Wilkins’ promotion of heretical…
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Does Religion Matter?
Is it underhanded to point out that a political candidate is member of a cult? According to the candidate, yes (link). Oh, and apparently we need to be able to figure out who has been pointing that out, and make the stop. Apparently, his “freedom of religion” should be bigger than their “freedom of speech.”…
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Response to McBee on John 3:16
Introduction With respect, I think that Mr. McBee (aka “SDM”) seems to have misidentified the point I was trying to make. Perhaps this is because I was too brief. I certainly do not believe, and do not wish to suggest, that Mr. McBee intentionally misrepresented me. On the other hand, each time Mr. McBee wrote…