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This audio is brought to you by, Cannon Press. Defend the Meta. The Meta, Monday, September 2nd, 2019 by Douglas Wilson.

Introduction

So while I was on vacation, another skirmish broke out between David French and some of French's critics, and so I thought that it would not be out of place if I entered the discussion, kind of, with some day-late $10 over observations. I say kind of because I'm not going to get into any of the

particulars of the dispute. What I want to do is remind every Christian involved in such a phrase

to remember the potency and inescapability of presuppositions.

Presuppositions by their very nature are rarely under the microscope.

For most people they are the microscope being used and not

the thing on the slide being looked at. But if we are going to make any headway in this

challenging hour, Christians have to learn how to look straight at the meta, and

then they must learn how to defend the meta.

What goeth on? Secularism is an epistemic Ponzi scheme, the kind of operation that

robs the older investors as a way of recruiting new investors. When you short the old-time investors, they become aware that you are bankrupt in principle,

but, as P.T. Barnum so memorably put it,

there's a sucker born every minute.

For a time, it appears that there will always be fresh meat.

All the new investors don't know about that,

and they have their money at the ready.

The only way they could find out about the record is to

study the record, and that resembles work a little too much.

For just one example, how else can you explain the allure of socialism?

Socialism is a series of smoking craters,

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