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Strength, Wisdom, and Kevin DeYoung's Review of 'The Case for Christian Nationalism'

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Megan Quinn published a rather fascinating article at YourTango.com last week, about a social experiment reality TV show from the UK, in which 10 boys and 10 girls were placed together in a house, in two separate instances, without adults present, except to monitor from outside, and the houses fully furnished, and stocked with food and cooking implements, and also toys and crafts.

The results were just as I would have predicted as a father of seven sons, that at the end of the five days the house of boys was a great big mess, and the house of girls was clean and tidy. In the former case, there was rough play, and lots of sugary food eaten, and also bullying. In the latter case, one girl immediately stepped up to coordinating the meal prep, and all the girls cleaned up after themselves and comforted one another when sad.

It would be fascinating to see another experiment run with girls and boys dropped off in the wilderness, with tools and weapons and survival training, but no shelter or food, having to build a place to live, and having to go hunt and forage, then turn the findings into food.

Nevertheless, such a study will not be had in our day, of that I am sure. And in the meantime, we can entertain ourselves well enough with ongoing debates about Stephen Wolfe's book, The Case for Christian Nationalism, which Kevin DeYoung recently wrote a lengthy review of for The Gospel Coalition.

Before getting into that, however, I should like to say a word or two about how manly strength is not a vice, and that we must try hard not to think of power as inherently corrupt, lest we get the mistaken notion that God being all-powerful, for instance, is a bad thing, or in some way diminishes His righteousness.

This is, not coincidentally, why I cheer a federal appeals court striking down the ban on "bump stocks" for modern sporting rifles, which still represents to my mind one of the biggest mistakes of the Trump administration, since the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is pretty clear, and it is proper for our government to remember and uphold that fact.

But Proverbs 24:5 comes to mind also, in all of the above, where it says "A wise man is full of strength, and a man of knowledge enhances his might," just going to show that it is virtuous for godly men as providers and protectors to get wisdom, knowledge, and strength all at the same time, to the end of being dependable for their families and friends.

On the other hand, there is a certain unmanly sensibility which has wormed its way into the American Christian conception of what a man who is following Jesus should look, sound, and act like, which Stephen Wolfe speaks to in his book, by the way, as quoted by DeYoung's review of it at TGC. And concerning all of the above, I think that it is true, all at the same time, that Wolfe's rhetoric could use a tune-up, even as the strongest detractors and targets of his work need a different kind of correction.

Caution about the consumption of vegetable oils is warranted, to be sure. But mocking manbuns and soy boys misses the forest for the trees if the real root of the problem lies in having internalized a distorted belief about strength, that admiring and encouraging it in others, or getting it for ourselves, is not the same thing as being envious of evil men, whatever violence they do with theirs.

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Megan Quinn published a rather fascinating article at YourTango.com last week, about a social experiment reality TV show from the UK, in which 10 boys and 10 girls were placed together in a house, in two separate instances, without adults present, except to monitor from outside, and the houses fully furnished, and stocked with food and cooking implements, and also toys and crafts.

The results were just as I would have predicted as a father of seven sons, that at the end of the five days the house of boys was a great big mess, and the house of girls was clean and tidy. In the former case, there was rough play, and lots of sugary food eaten, and also bullying. In the latter case, one girl immediately stepped up to coordinating the meal prep, and all the girls cleaned up after themselves and comforted one another when sad.

It would be fascinating to see another experiment run with girls and boys dropped off in the wilderness, with tools and weapons and survival training, but no shelter or food, having to build a place to live, and having to go hunt and forage, then turn the findings into food.

Nevertheless, such a study will not be had in our day, of that I am sure. And in the meantime, we can entertain ourselves well enough with ongoing debates about Stephen Wolfe's book, The Case for Christian Nationalism, which Kevin DeYoung recently wrote a lengthy review of for The Gospel Coalition.

Before getting into that, however, I should like to say a word or two about how manly strength is not a vice, and that we must try hard not to think of power as inherently corrupt, lest we get the mistaken notion that God being all-powerful, for instance, is a bad thing, or in some way diminishes His righteousness.

This is, not coincidentally, why I cheer a federal appeals court striking down the ban on "bump stocks" for modern sporting rifles, which still represents to my mind one of the biggest mistakes of the Trump administration, since the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is pretty clear, and it is proper for our government to remember and uphold that fact.

But Proverbs 24:5 comes to mind also, in all of the above, where it says "A wise man is full of strength, and a man of knowledge enhances his might," just going to show that it is virtuous for godly men as providers and protectors to get wisdom, knowledge, and strength all at the same time, to the end of being dependable for their families and friends.

On the other hand, there is a certain unmanly sensibility which has wormed its way into the American Christian conception of what a man who is following Jesus should look, sound, and act like, which Stephen Wolfe speaks to in his book, by the way, as quoted by DeYoung's review of it at TGC. And concerning all of the above, I think that it is true, all at the same time, that Wolfe's rhetoric could use a tune-up, even as the strongest detractors and targets of his work need a different kind of correction.

Caution about the consumption of vegetable oils is warranted, to be sure. But mocking manbuns and soy boys misses the forest for the trees if the real root of the problem lies in having internalized a distorted belief about strength, that admiring and encouraging it in others, or getting it for ourselves, is not the same thing as being envious of evil men, whatever violence they do with theirs.

--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/garrett-ashley-mullet/message
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