If you want to read something incredibly stupid, make sure to check out Mark Tooley’s dreck, “Mennonite Takeover.” This lovely piece of “writing” wonders if the malignant Neo-Anabaptists of today will someday repent of all the mean things they say about “traditional American Christianity,” you know, since mainline Christians have apologized profusely for killing all those Anabaptists back in the day it seems only fair. . .
On the other hand if you want to read something incredibly good, check out the second part of K.J. Swanson’s three-part article critiquing the politics of gender in evangelicalism and the Twilight series.
Halden, Tooley’s article was the dumbest piece of tomfoolery I have read to date (outside of anything written by Massa Milbank.
How did you even find the Tooley article? I can’t imagine you frequent that site.
Charlie sent it to me.
The American Spectator is a reliable source of incredible stupidity. I love this article from last week:
http://spectator.org/archives/2010/09/27/coons-i-will-bring-yale-divini
This is quite possibly even worse than the Tooley article.
If you don’t know what “womanist theology” is, and can’t even bother to google it before publishing, then you really are a dumbass.
The comments on the article are perhaps even worse than the article itself. One poster suggested that “If we can prevent Christians or future converts to keep from “being eaten by lions” in the arena, didn’t we do good?”
Because apparently using coercive force to prevent persecution is the goal of Christianity.
Yes…the comments. I was just going to post that when I read yours. Blech.
Actually, The American Spectator article is very helpful in exposing Mark Tooley’s real agenda. The Institute on Religion and Democracy has always sold itself as a defender of theological orthodoxy against liberals in mainline churches. But here we can see that when theological orthodoxy (what could be more traditional for a Mennonite than pacifism?) clashes with neoconservative politics, politics will win, every single time.
I got a kick out of this snippet:
“…and, in their more dedicated forms, Amish.”
Apparently the rest of ya’ll are just half-assed.
Well, the article was effective…I mean, after reading it, I was ready to put aside my pacifism so that I could slap the hell out of him.
In Mormon circles, less dedicated saints (read backslidden) are called Jack-Mormons.The less dedicated anabaptists are Jack-Amish.
Perhaps this throws some light on the noun, “jack shit.”