A Comedic Look At Postmodern Speech

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1. Virgil Says:
   June 3rd, 2008 at 8:43 am

   Funny stuff, but it’s a caricature of postmodernism

   What happens if what you “speak with conviction” is wrong? Calvin killed a few people here and there in Geneva, over theological matters..spoke his mind, with conviction, never left any place for questions and discourse.

2. KG Says:
   June 3rd, 2008 at 9:02 am

   Interesting, when even the secular world of comedy is pointing out the terrible absurdity of much of postmodern thinking.

   I do agree with Virgil that people should be able to question and dialogue on matters. I am much more comfortable with the Greeks desire to interact with thought. For someone to proclaim, but also others to question that proclamation and discuss its implications.

   I think this is much different than much of post-postmodernism which never wants any one to come to conviction about anything.

3. ministerandy Says:
   June 3rd, 2008 at 9:05 am

   Virgil,

   This issue of Calvin may be a little overstated there. I know you do not buy the argument, but Calvin followed the laws of the land (which he helped to set up) and it was the heresy that condemned the men not Calvin speaking declaratively. Also, he did try to come to the aid of one of the men being sentenced to death as well. Regardless of that, the issue at hand is speaking declaratively, not sentencing men to death. That is several steps beyond. One can speak declaratively without acting out on capital punishment.

   However, your point is well taken. But what is the alternative? That is similar logic that people on juries use to not convict men when the facts are against them. I just don’t want to send an innocent man to prison, therefore I am willing to let many guilty men go free. We should not speak whimsically, but neither should we speak foundational biblical truth in a weakened way on the off chance that we are wrong. What does that say about the authority of scripture and the work of the Holy Spirit?

   Surely there is a time and place to speak on matters without making declarative statements, but our day and age seems to have limited acceptable occasions to speak declaratively. If we believe something with conviction and it dictates our life, we should speak so. This does not mean that we are mean in our speech or in our hearing of others. It simply means we have to stand on the truth the Spirit has revealed.

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