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Sunday, February 22, 2004
 | A Goof but no Admission
Over on the FFF, a reader asked how the Calvinist War on Secret Radio ended: who won? To my surprise (and disappointment), the IFB-KJVO preacher named PappaBear (who believes that Grace Jovian and I are the same person) wrote, "Considering the fact that the author of it is a pretty vocal dyed-in-the-wool Calvinist, which direction do you honestly think she will throw it?" Now if you've read Secret Radio, you know that the Calvinists not only lost the war, they came off looking incredibly stupid into the bargain. And Secret Radio, fiction or not, levels at least one grievance against Calvinists for not honestly interpreting the Scripture when it doesn't suit them to do so. |
So PappaBear was rebuked for having rendered a verdict when it was obvious he never read the account at all. When he was rebuked for this, PappaBear pulled a classic switcheroo and blamed the story for depicting two people drinking scotch. Of course, he didn't get away with such a blatent attempt to cover his blunder of having rendered a verdict of something he knew nothing about. Ultimately, when he was not allowed to get off the point, he bowed out (at least for now).
I'm disappointed in him. I know that I classify IFB-KJVO preachers as a bunch of blowhards who always talk about topics they have never studied, and then they cover up by acting like blowhards who have a right to be blowhards. You catch one of them with his foot in his mouth (as PappaBear was caught), and he responds by preaching at you for your alleged sin or condemning something you have done or believe. But I had a certain respect for this one. But in the end, he acted true to form. He made a verdict about something that he had not checked, and then when he was challenged on it, he resorted to bluster and accusation, rather than just admitting he didn't know and letting it go by. And, by the way, he preached at Grace Jovian for a scene depicting a married couple drinking scotch and he yammered that alcohol leads to molestation, but I have not yet seen him preach against the actual molestation that we know about that has gone on in IFB-KJVO pulpits.
