The Court Martial of Captain Obvious: A Response to Mr. Wedgeworth
“When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.” -Maya Angelou “Fool me once: strike one. But fool me twice…strike three.” -Michael Scott In my rebuttal to Steven Wedgeworth's Mere Orthodoxy piece , I leveled several serious accusations against him, including that he employed an " irenic tone and [a] desire to constructively engage" and that he "had charitable motives." In Wedgeworth's recent rebuttal to my and Ron Belgau's rebuttals, he goes a long way toward proving himself innocent of my charges. Besides being insulting and condescending, he complains that I am "dismissive," despite that I took time and attention to engage with his arguments. That isn't dismissiveness. Calvin wrote, " The pastor ought to have two voices: one, for gathering the sheep ; and another, for warding off and driving away wolves and thieves." In my first response to Mr. Wedgeworth, I spoke as if to a sheep, for I be
