Where Dank Right Reviling goes, January 6th, 2025.

Introduction.

Coming straight to the point, right-wing reviling goes where all revilers do, which

is straight into the abyss.

Alexander Solstinitsyn once made the telling point that the line between good and

evil is a line that runs down the middle of every human heart. Corollary to this point is that the line

does not run down the line between my faction and the other guy's faction, such that anything I say

on my side of the line is justified, quote-unquote, because they are evil, and anything they say

is unjustified, quote-unquote, because they are evil.

Chesterton once made the same point when asked to submit an essay on what's wrong with the world.

He answered with a two-word submission, I am. Someone with this outlook can be a mighty force in

combating evil, as Chesterton was, but such a person will never descend into scurrilous abuse. He knows too much

about himself. One of the more astonishing things about the last several years has been how many

ostensible conservatives have simply abandoned their basic values in the name of fighting for the

survival of their basic values. I am no stranger to polemical combat and I believe for many years that the church has

needed a lot more of it. But what we most emphatically did not need was an infusion of boiling

dank right acrimonious pus, with much of it a sickly green, like antifreeze, and all covered over

with a thin glaze of hypocritical anonymity. At some point, most likely later on in this post, I'm going to

make a political point with all of this. But before I do that, I want to get off on the right foot

and make the spiritual point first. Before getting to the value of terms like woke right or

dank right or the worthlessness of such terms, or any of that, we need to address something else

first. How is it with your soul? We are going

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