Welcome to Douglas Wilson's blog and May blog, presented by Canon Press.

Straight from the pit, Monday, July 18th, 2022.

Introduction.

Last week in my post on David and Vashiva, I used an illustration to mark the difference

between a Christian view of the antithesis and a critical theory version of the antithesis,

the one that is plaguing us all now.

Is that illustration promises to be more than a little helpful to all of you guys?

As I see it, I want to develop that idea a bit more.

And because you've indulged me thus far, I think an only right that you continue reading.

Newton's first law and all that.

The illustration contrasted the biblical division of righteousness and unrighteousness, which

I represented with a vertical line and the critical theory division of these two categories,

which is defined by horizontal line or lines.

The former means that the line between righteousness and unrighteousness runs from the top of

every human society or organization to the very bottom of it, from the palaces to the

slums, from the throne to the gutters.

There is no privileged class of people as a class that is exempt from the law of God as

the definition of righteousness.

This is why the line has to be vertical.

The law of God applies to all.

As Wilson needs to put it, quote, the line separating good and evil passes not through

states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either, but right through every human

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