All right, long 🧵 with at least 11 clips incoming. When I saw this dustup with Gavin Ortlund last week, I remembered he just released a book on "theological triage" or discerning what are the "right hills to die on" in various debates. Some thoughts...
Screenshots for the blocked. Ortlund was defending David French about something or other and then got into this bit of fearmongering about evangelicals/Deplorables. Implication is people who are on the right in current U.S. culture wars are a dangerous threat to the nation.
I'm gonna go through some highlights of an interview Gavin did with Remnant Radio about his book, where he nuances to death issues like Christians affirming gay marriage and universalism. The question is: how does such a Thoughtful Person fail to extend similar grace in politics?
Rev. Dr. Howard-John Wesley of Alexandria, VA's Alfred Street Baptist Church says Christians who don't wear masks are violating the commandments of God. His guest, Yale prof Obery Hendricks Jr, will go on to call them "anathema" and "antichrist."
"These folk are not fulfilling their gospel responsibility...What we see reflected in their attitudes and their actions and their pronouncements is what 1 John calls the spirit of antichrist."
"Franklin Graham, he's got a spirit of antichrist...I'm not saying that they're evil people. I'm saying, though, that they are in the thrall of evil discourse and evil actions, and we have to start calling evil by its rightful name."