Looks like things are getting a little rough up in Moscow, Idaho, USA. Of course, it hasn’t dulled Doug Wilson‘s wit any. He writes the following about the Intoleristas, those self-titled pluralists, who are anything but. Oh well… I’ve been praying for the work that Rev. Wilson has been doing up there, and while persecution is not necessarily a sign of God’s blessing, Christ did tell us that that the world will persecute as. They’ll persevere, and be stronger for it.

They have been telling themselves (for a long time now) that backwater conservative hicks have a narrow and truncated vision of the world while they, listeners of NPR, are urbane, hip, sophisticated, and all the rest of it. They are latitudinarian, they draw circles to include, they dialogue with others, they do not run with scissors. It soothes the soul for them to think of themselves this way. They subscribe to Mother Jones, Rolling Stone, and The Nation, and they drink coffee the beans of which were picked in a way that didn’t involve any corporations (and hopefully no profit for anyone). They embrace, with enthusiasm, a sort of scratch and sniff diversity. They are the poseurs of diversity. They want just a whiff. Their idea of multi-culturalism is sampling spicy foods at an international potluck, nodding sagely whenever someone refers to the best Thai restaurant they ever heard of. They have living rooms just like the rest of us, but have a little plug-in aroma dispenser that smells as though somebody somewhere, on the other side of the world, might believe and live differently, and “isn’t it wonderful?” Yeah, wonderful there. They have a CD player that has the murmuring forest noises of indigenous peoples around the globe living and believing differently far, far away. They have a ten thousand dollar slate shower that makes them feel like they are in touch with the rhythms of the earth, and this authentic shower provides them with a deep bond of solidarity with the peasants of Central America. Whereas an actual Central American is more than likely to be a Pentecostal Trinitarian who washes his face from a tap at the back of the house.