Skinhead Flashbacks, September 10th, 2025.

Introduction.

In this next chapter, some of Caleb Campbell's motivations became a lot more apparent to me,

and it actually had the effect of generating some sympathy for him.

I will get to that in a minute. However, but the sympathy can wait for a minute. We still need to wade through a waste-deep slew of patronizing condescension. And this is what I mean. He wants to instruct the reader on how to minister to those who have, quote, internalized those deep feelings of fear, anxiety, and rage. Page 91. He wants to encourage the faithful to reach out to us, for are we not there mission field?

We are, quote, trapped, held captive by the lies of the evil one, page 94.

Things are really bad for us down here in our hole.

Quote, these beloved image bearers of God are ensnared in the grip of a mighty ancient evil power

that has been working since it distorted God's truth in the garden. Disarming Leviathan,

page 91. The chapter is an almost perfect jumble of good sense, wild assumptions, and serene

self-confidence. Many of the things he says would be quite appropriate and wise if you actually

were talking to someone in a cult.

That's the good sense. The wild assumptions would be the kind of thing that makes him assume that people who believe the Fed ought to be audited are somehow in the grip of the devil.

And the self-confidence, well, that is a sight to behold. Here's an example. He talks about what might happen if a true blue Christian nationalist began to worry.

Quote, what if my attitude toward immigrants is not what Jesus wants from me? Page 107.

Quote, she worries that if she brings up her concerns with her fellow American Christian nationalists,

she will be viewed as a threat. Maybe they'll say she is flip-flopped or gone woke,

and she'll be kicked out of the group.

Disarmine Leviathan, page 107.

Yeah, that might could happen.

But of course, plausibility structures being what they are, the same identical thing could happen

if a card-carrying member of evangelicals for immigrants galore started to have second thoughts about that after yet another subway stabbing.

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