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The Little Drummer Boy responds to Danny Burke, October 30th, 2023.

Introduction.

The elders of Ken Woodbaptist and Louisville recently publicized three classes taught at their

church by Jim Hamilton and Danny Burke, the point of which was to warn their members

against certain errors that they saw emanating from our Moscow project here.

The first two classes were taught by Jim Hamilton and addressed post-millennialism and theocracy

respectively.

These should be located in the doctrinal disagreement category.

The third class was taught by Danny Burke and addressed my use of the satiric bite and

the use of certain words alongside my repeated defenses of such usage.

The first class was ably answered by Jared Longshore or response you can find here.

It is my intention to respond to Danny Burke's critique here in this space, which you

can start reading if you just give me a minute.

The one on theocracy might have to wait a little while.

This is because while we are all in the middle of a hot debate over Christian nationalism,

the Baptistic anti-CN critics went and established a Christian princess speaker of the House

of Representatives, which I call a dirty move.

We trust that you will be willing to give us a moment to collect our thoughts.

We might need to regroup on that point.

Recommended background reading.

I have been answering objections on the topic of satire and language for about 40 years

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