I admit, that’s a terrible way to begin a letter. Tends to shut down communication. Just the same, there’s really no other way for me to express a proper giant eye roll, the kind that just groans, seriously? Are you people really as pathetic as you appear?
Never ask that question, I think the universe just takes it as a challenge.
I speak of the recent blogging bro-mance between Dalrock and Pastor Wilson. For those who don’t remember, Dalrock is a red pill and Pastor Wilson, well, he is just kind of like a blind and stupid pharisee. Anyway, for those blessed to be completely uniformed, the two have had a falling out. Dalrock now accuses Pastor Wilson of not hating on women enough and Pastor Wilson accuses Dalrock of being disoriented.
Isn’t that a bit like just stamping your feet and declaring, I do too hate women! I hate them just fine! You’re just disoriented!
Ai yi yi.
So why do I follow either of these fools? Well, at one point I really thought that perhaps Pastor Wilson would hear me, I thought he would get it. I thought, the man is a Christian, and a pastor no less, so surely if I just explain the problem with the red pills who follow him, his fans, with the way his teachings are being perverted, being used to justify outright abuse of women, that something would click. I thought, if nothing else, at least his antenna would go up.
Like, Hey, Pastor Wilson, see there’s this thing called Alt Christianity, the red pills, and they seem to be using your book, “How to Exasperate Your Wife,” as biblical justification for how to batter your wife and bang hot Asian teens on the side. So Pastor, here’s a whole bunch of lost boys really needing some ministry. Why don’t you just bop on over there, and you know, preach the actual gospel……
Of course, I did that before I knew Pastor Wilson’s very real history and evident hostility towards victims of abuse. Than I wasted an incredible amount of time trying to defend the observable fact that there is strong correlation between Pastor Wilson’s teachings and the red pills. It was very challenging since nobody ever reads those sites….the same sites they seem to know everything about. Amid never ending accusations of being delusional and bearing false witness, that truth is the truth and still remains somewhat obvious to anyone willing to see it.
Unfortunately, Pastor Wilson’s primary concern seems to be that Dalrock and the red pills might be mistaking him for a feminist. His second concern seems to be wallowing in self pity, feeling maligned and misjudged by both sides. He says, “The feminists ignore my insistence that a husband must be the kind of head that Christ was—one who sacrifices himself. The Dalrock option ignores my insistence that the husband is the actual head of the home. Both do it for the same reason—they can’t make the two things fit together in their heads, so I must not have said one of them.”
No, you self absorbed and overinflated, pharisitical windbag, the issue is simple. Right is right and wrong is wrong. I don’t care whether you subscribe to husbands being the head of the home or you’re pajama boy dancing on the bed in his underoos, it is always, always wrong to wallow in bitterness towards women, and to use the bible to cloak your sins as if scripture somehow justified and advocated for violence towards women.
Dalrock and the red pills do that every single day all over the internet, and it’s not just some little microaggression or something.
Also Pastor Wilson, your Christian sisters, victim advocates, many women married for decades, many who actually believe in headship, have invested a great deal of time in trying to bring our concerns to your attention. If you’re incapable of caring about women, the least you could do is try to care about our faith and how the red pills are maligning the name of Jesus Christ. Also, if their treatment of women doesn’t bother you, their frequently stated goal of dismantling the church and destroying Western civilization, should at least give you some pause.
I plan to kick this dead horse until some light bulbs come on.
See, there's this thing called biology... 
I am blessedly uninformed…and from what I often read that you write regarding these individuals…well, ignorance is perhaps bliss…I’m still figuring out this pill business you speak of…
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I often ponder, how in the heck do I explain the red pills in just a few short sentences?
Wikipedia, gives us, “The red pill and its opposite, the blue pill, are a popular cultural meme representing the choice between:
Knowledge, freedom, adversity and the brutal truth of reality (red pill) Falsehood, security, happiness and the blissful ignorance of illusion (blue pill)”
Take that mindset over into faith and what red pills are is those who claim to be Christians and yet they refuse to believe in the alleged “falsehoods,” of truth, beauty, love, happiness. Anything that is good in the world must be false, an illusion, a deception. Their “brutal truth of reality” is actually just nihilistic, self serving. Only they are smart enough to see through the deception, everyone else is blue pilled. What they promote, what they try to live out, is our God without love, without mercy, without grace, without the resurrection. A God of pride, arrogance, violence, and death.
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Just a real human mess—thankfully Grace, Mercy and Hope were once again made manifest to our earthly remembrance found in the Resurrection— May we be more mindful of such the other 364 days throughout the year and may I remember to be void of colorful pills!!
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I too have thought about wandering over that site to take a sneak peak but then thought to myself, “Self…Ain’t you got something better to do, like picking your toe nails or something?”
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LOL! Well said, Patrick. I sometimes compare myself to my dog who has just had a bath and now wants to go roll in some dead, stinky thing. Like, “no, drop it and leave the dead bird alone.” Then there are the other times when God says, don’t you dare walk away from this. Somethings matter, somethings are worth fighting over.
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Think I’ll just Walk On,,
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So. Dalrock continues the feud,
“Wilson is shrewd enough not to try to defend this theology on his blog either. How could he possibly defend something like this? The bits of Wilson’s theology that I referenced in my two posts are the theology he writes in his books.”
https://dalrock.wordpress.com/2018/04/02/wilson-deflects/
“How could he possibly defend something like this?”
Dalrock is vile, but he makes a valid point. Pastor Wilson is trying to stand in the lukewarm muck of moral ambiguity, as if he can condone abuse while not condoning abuse. He is teaching things in a way that promote the mistreatment of women, while trying to claim that is not what he is doing at all. Utter baloney.
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OK, they both seem to me to be making things harder than they should be. Is it as important to define roles and make sure we know who’s the head or the leader or the one who calls the shots as it is to actually work as a team to do what God’s called you to do?
Obviously anyone who believes the Bible knows that the husband is the head, but the Bible doesn’t define that more than saying He’s to be like Christ. Did Christ go around saying, Now you know I’m the leader here, and don’t mistake that to mean servant-leader (even though I did wash the feet of my disciples). You really just have to stop asking questions and do whatever I want.
No, that was not Christ. So why don’t they stop pontificating and just present Scripture?
I couldn’t read the other posts Dalrock mentioned. I just think he’s out on a limb that’s about to break off and he doesn’t know it.
Becky
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I don’t know…the whole Alt-Right and Alt-Fill in the Blank thing, I’m not feeling it…not really interested personally. What little I do see I’m not necessarily a fan of at all. Super cautious about the whole thing…
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