Author: Crowhill Report

How long will it be before we “cancel” the days of the week?

Tuesday is “Tyr’s day.” So who was this Tyr character? He’s best known for offering his hand to Fenriswolf when the gods were trying to trick the poor beast. This is clearly an example of toxic masculinity.

Wednesday is “Odin’s day.” Slaves were sacrificed to Odin.

Thursday is “Thor’s day.” I’m sure Thor wouldn’t hold up to modern scrutiny. (Although Loki might.)

So, while we’re ridding our culture of everything objectionable, why don’t we do something about this?

I suggest we rename the days one, two, three, etc.

Oh, and why seven days in a week? That’s obviously a religion relic that we have to abandon, right? Why not make it ten?

They’re going to call the team the D.C. Redskins, because Washington is too offensive.

Read this.

How can a society survive with this kind of ridiculous behavior?

Political suicides and assassinations are a normal part of human existence. They’re all over our history and literature. It would be extremely naive to think they aren’t going on today.

Power makes people both crazy and wicked.

If it’s true — and I give the concept good odds at being true — that Epstein and Maxwell recorded very compromising video on very important people, it follows that she’s in grave danger.

I predict she’ll be dead within a month.

I recently read Douglas Wilson’s Evangellyfish, which is the fictional account of a scandal in a mega church.

Pastor Wilson is a big fan of P.G. Wodehouse, and I tend to appreciate Wilson’s social commentary, so I was hoping for a combination of Wodehousian humor and biting social satire. It’s more of the latter than the former, in my opinion, although I will admit I was not in a very comic-friendly mood when I read the book. Others might find it funnier.

That’s not the real issue, though. My reaction to the book was similar to my reaction to the song “She’s an Easy Lover.”

Back in my Evangelical days, I knew some people who were in a rock band “ministry.” They would do some popular covers, mix in some Christian songs and say a few words about Jesus. That sort of thing. They sang the Philip Bailey / Phil Collins hit “she’s an easy lover,” and I said “what gives?”

(Philip Bailey was, at that time, a gospel singer, among other things.)

“It’s just Proverbs 9,” they told me. “It’s a warning about loose women.” (I suspect Bailey thought the same.)

I wasn’t buying it. Not everyone listens to song lyrics, and among those who do, few try to get the moral lesson. (Which is usually a good thing!) What they hear is, “she’s an easy lover,” and what they think is, “where is she?”

Evangellyfish is about a mega church that has a huge problem with fornication. The head pastor and half the “ministry team” are rampant offenders, and half the rest of them are complicit in the cover-up. It’s a sordid mess.

Pastor Wilson wants to point out the rampant sin and hypocrisy and expose mega-church-ism for what he apparently thinks it is — an excuse for almost-converted people to pretend they’re devout Christians.

I think people — or at least some people — will read it and think, “Gee, how come everyone else is getting so much? Am I missing out? I mean, obviously this sort of conduct is far more normal than I thought. It must not be such a big deal.”

Pastor Wilson would be horrified at such a result. And maybe I’m completely off base. Maybe I’m the only one wicked enough to have such thoughts.

But they say that when you sup with the devil, you need a long spoon.