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Ep 3: The Immobile Moderate

Blog & Mablog

Canon Press

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.81.4K Ratings

🗓️ 1 July 2019

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

"My point is that extremism used to be easy to identify by virtue of being, you know, extreme. But who is an extremist today? He is identified as someone who continues to hold to the plain old vanilla positions he was taught as a lad in the sixties. He was taught these things by his mom, his nurse, the public school system, and by “these things” I am including stuff like that XX and XY business."

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Welcome to blog and May blog, Theology that Bites Back, from Doug Wills.com.

0:09.7

This audio is brought to you by Canon Press. The Mobile, moderate. The Immobile Moderate Modernate

0:25.0

Monday July 1st 2019 by Douglas Wilson

0:30.0

So I would not describe myself as a radical conservative.

0:35.0

It would be more accurate to say, as I did recently on Twitter,

0:39.0

that I am not a radical conservative, but rather a moderate who failed to move with the times.

0:46.6

And failure to move with the times is a mortal sin these days.

0:50.3

You can't be too careful.

0:52.3

Imagine a modern day Rip Van Winkle going to sleep in 1958,

0:57.0

when sodomy was a felony in all 50 states,

1:00.0

and waking up just yesterday,

1:02.0

that day being a fair day in June, when Google was snarling

1:05.2

rainbows at absolutely everybody, exhorting us all to get with the anal program.

1:11.2

I here use the definition of exhort provided by Ambrose Biers when he said that such an activity

1:16.5

consists of putting the conscience of another upon the spit and roasting it to a nut-brown

1:22.0

discomfort.

1:24.0

I mean think about it.

1:25.0

When Obama was first elevated to his seat at the resolute desk,

1:29.0

he did so as an opponent of same-sex mirage.

1:33.5

There was one saving grace in this for him,

1:36.1

and that everybody knew he was lying.

1:38.9

But he took that position because it seemed like a moderate one

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