Hierarchy & egalitarianism, mission & marriage, and an OPC pastor doesn’t like our book

In a world of equals some equals become more equal than other equals. —George Orwell

Some people misunderstand what this statement is communicating. It does not mean that some people are actually of greater value than others. That’s an asinine view which Orwell was critiquing, as becomes clear if you read Animal Farm:

No one believes more firmly than Comrade Napoleon that all animals are equal. He would be only too happy to let you make your decisions for yourselves. But sometimes you might make the wrong decisions, comrades, and then where should we be?

The issue is not of ontology, nor of worth, but of rank and station. The professed egalitarians claim with one one side of their mouths that any kind of hierarchy is unjust because it entails inequality…but then out of the other side of their mouths they can’t help advocating for hierarchy. They take the existence of higher and lower rank as indicating the existence of higher and lower worth, and demand that we eliminate it. But they are…