Recently, Eastern Orthodox cultural commenter Andrew Wilson criticized me as a virtue signaller who is too critical of political Christians like him that are actually trying to fix the culture.

Those people to me are like the lowest of the low of the low.

You know, reps like Trent Horn, people like this.

So in today's episode, I'll talk about where I agree and disagree with Andrew and the difference between being a strong, assertive Christian and a bad, overly aggressive one.

And to make sure I didn't misunderstand anything, I messaged Andrew and showed him this script.

So my reply incorporates some of what he wrote to me in our exchange.

First, let's take a look at Andrew's comments on the Patrick Bet David show.

Most of my criticisms don't actually come from leftist, though many of them do.

They actually come from a particular brand of Christian, virtue signalers, right?

They're always trying to signal their virtues.

And it's always like, oh, my God, you smoke, you smoke cigarettes or, ah, you drink beer.

Real Christians don't drink

like it's pet always petty criticisms but anytime there's controversy around me or a clip

taken out of context or something like this these are the first people to rush in and give me

universal condemnation mostly so that my enemies will look at them. And these are leftists, right? They want

leftists to look at them and think, you're the good Christians. Andrew may be speaking of critics

more generally here, but I don't have a problem with drinking beer or smoking. I have a hard time

justifying habitual smoking, but if other Christians want to smoke or drink, I'm not going to say

they're sinning. I do think smoking can come off as an embarrassing LARP when people lean into it as part of their identity as a Christian influencer.

And I think Andrew would agree that no one is above criticism. In a previous video, which I'll link to below,

I praised Wilson for using shrewd debate tactics that resulted in Matt Dillahunty rage quitting their debate.

In that debate, Andrew playfully kept calm and got Dillahunty to flip out by bringing up stuff that was personal to him,

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