Stop Pretending, Muggles!

“War-with-the-world” college on Friendship Square. Give up the robes and dead languages. The real world is out there. You’ll do fine.

Don’t Cross the Man of the Cross

A great addition to personal piety would be resolving to give up intimidating local business owners, dissenters,  rape victims, and husbands of victims!

Food, clothes, and good medical care

Slavery as it existed in the South was not an adversarial relationship with pervasive racial animosity. Because of its dominantly patriarchal character, it was a relationship based upon mutual affection and confidence. There has never been a multi-racial society which has existed with such mutual intimacy and harmony in the history of the world. The credit for this must go to the predominance of Christianity. The gospel enabled men who were distinct in nearly every way, to live and work together, to be friends and often intimates. This happened to such an extent that moderns indoctrinated on “civil rights” propaganda would be thunderstruck to know the half of it.

Slave life was to them a life of plenty, of simple pleasures, of food, clothes, and good medical care.

Douglas Wilson, Southern Slavery as It Was, 1996

Maybe, for Lent, Doug should give up defending the ugliest parts of humanity.

Hey, have we seen this before?

Wait. Doug didn’t plagiarize anything. It was Steve Wilkin’s fault. Or was it Randy? Maybe it was Rachel Miller’s fault? Maybe, if you get caught doing something more than once, you should man up and take responsibility.

Maybe, for Lent, you can resolve to write your own damn books.

Ignorance craves supremacy

Duck, Jones, and Leithart, all chased out due to Doug (or Nancy) Wilson’s petty, small-minded insecurity. Wouldn’t it be fantastic if Doug gave up belittling more remarkable men for Lent?

Snippety

Doug says, “Real men do this,” or “real men do this other thing.” Maybe, instead of letting him subvert your own agency, you should figure out what to do, how to think, and where to go yourself.  Maybe, being a man means, at least in part, that you shouldn’t hand over all of your major decisions to a self-ordained pastor in Idaho.

Yuck Dynasty

“It’s the most familial-based societies where the sense of obligation is strongest, that breed the worst nepotism and cronyism.”
– Franklin Foer

Better yet

Great idea for Lent! With all your leftover time, you can do something better for yourself, like shoot heroin, or scrimshaw your fingernails with a rusty nail!

Warship

Maybe, for Lent, you could embrace the peace of God, instead of turning Church into a battlefield.

Bible fight!

Lent would be a GREAT time to stop having Jesus fights with other Christians!