So. Why respond?
Because every ugly term, every snotty joke, every bigoted pronouncement, is a sin when spoken by a minister of the Gospel. Every example of public bad behavior deserves rebuke, not because, finally, after 487 times, it’ll cause him to change — but because, after 487 public calls for repentance and Offense Number 488 just a “send” button away, the danger to his soul at least won’t be made a reality because he never knew it was in peril.
It may seem — it may be — foolish of me to bother, to engage him at every offense, and to hope for repentance, but my foolishness is for Christ. If the silliness is mine, the shame is his.
Call it “heaping coals on his head,” one by one, in the hope of a true and lasting metanoia. I may get singed, but the flames are licking at him, fed by his every smug, self-important, testimony-be-damned, belligerant utterance.
I’ve been a fool for worse . . .
And, because ignoring cruel, ugly remarks is somehow the same thing has participating in them. Thank you for speaking out,and for holding Doug Wilson and his feckless toadies accountable.
Rose
Comment by Rose — September 10, 2008 @ 3:30 am