Chumps, dupes and rubes

Nine times out of ten it is the coarse word that condemns an evil, and the refined word that excuses it. —G.K. Chesterton

We’ve talked about the 11th commandment before, but it’s easy for people to think we’re building strawmen. So here is a great example of an 11th commandment rebuke from the horse’s mouth. We won’t name the commenter since what we have to say about this is not aimed at him specifically; this is just an example of a pattern we see repeatedly. Maybe it’s a false positive, just like there were a few people in Israel who had broken down walls and overgrown vineyards for good reasons—but Scripture still tells us that this is how to spot a sluggard. Similarly, here is how to spot a chump. Wisdom is pattern recognition:

As a believer who is not part of the SBC I would just like to say. You guys need to air your dirty laundry somewhere other than in public. If you have issues work them out among yourselves. If you want to speak out against CRT do so but don’t drag your conf. …