Prevailing Winds "For the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is there is freedom . . ." 2 Cor. 3:17, TNIV

In a spark of skylarking genius, the irrepressible Doug Wilson has decided to market some shirts and mugs with a monk-robed Barack Obama pictured as The Dalai Bama, mystically assuring folks that “We are the stardust we have been waiting for.” OOOOHHHHHH . . . Clearly, our puckish pastor doesn’t find Obama to be a man of real substance — just a whisperer of dreamy, fuzzy, nonsensical platitudes with a name that invites adolescent cleverness.

Wilson’s on a roll, warning his readers about “homo slowmo pomo,” or the slippery slope of homosexuality playing out in a post-modern world, and then castigates the post-modernist’s framing of the Gospel as “story” instead of doctrine. (This from a man who deflects criticisms of his Federal Vision theology with his own appeal to “the story” of God’s covenant people over what he sees as the “Hellenistic” influence of systematic theology. On the other hand, his recent indulgence in gastronomic theology seem to make consistency in cake batter more of a concern than consistency in argument). So, after skewing Obama as an empty suit (empty robe?), and after his brilliantly pastoral “homo slowmo pomo” wordplay, he hits us again. A few “Blog and Mablog” posts down, as part of his recurrent obsession with rich food, diets, and the “father-hungry” who worry over them, he notes the following quote from one of his favorite sources:

“It is in strudel dough that the glutinous properties of flour enter the new Jerusalem in a triumph of elasticity” (Robert Farrar Capon, The Supper of the Lamb, p. 118).

Well, duh.

I mean, I can’t really disagree with Bob here; no one can. This sterling example of rhetoric and substance dulls even the genius of “homo slowmo pomo” by comparison, and it sure beats the heck out of the silliness, the “dreaminess and stardust,” of uttering the words “hope” and “change” on the Presidential campaign trail. The clarity and wisdom revealed in “homo slowmo pomo,” the crystal-clear analysis of strudel dough and Jerusalem . . . yeah, that Obama guy IS a real nutcase. Glad to have Moscow’s most well-known pastor make the case for us. In the mind-boggling catalogue of Things Doug Wilson Is An Expert On, I’m happy to add “mindless, immature discourse.”