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

Theological Deployables, Monday, June 6, 2022.

Introduction.

Let me begin this thing with a little story that is somewhat off topic, but it does illustrate

the point that I will be making more broadly.

One time I had the occasion to debate the head of the American Humanist Association.

We were debating at Liberty University, and so it was on Christian turf, which helped

set the situation up.

We were debating whether or not scripture should serve as the foundation for our laws,

and he of course was maintaining the negative.

One of the points he made in the course of our debate was that the Bible could not be relied

on as a foundation for our laws because the Bible prohibited the eating of shellfish.

I replied that it was quite true that according to our worldview at one point in our history,

God's people were prohibited from eating shellfish.

In contrast to this, I said, your worldview holds that all of us used to be shellfish.

This naturally got a laugh, but it was his reaction to that laugh, which provides me with

my illustration.

He was entirely discomforted by it.

He was already an unbeliever in a roomful of Christians, which would have been bad enough,

but which he came to the event expecting.

The thing that was unanticipated was that he, an educated and sophisticated member of

America's Erbain and Elite set, got laughed at on a university campus over Darwin.

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