| Pursuing: | justice, mercy, and humility. |
| Supporting: | love, joy, peace, patience, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, and sobriety. |
| Opposing: | secularism, humanism, anti-family sex, bigotry, institutionalized religion, autonomy, totalitarianism, and archism. |
I have often quoted that glorious passage in Ambrose Bierce’s Devil’s Dictionary, where a junior officer in the War Between the States was being reprimanded by the general for his unit’s reluctance to charge. “Sir,” the hapless lieutenant replied, “I am convinced that any further demonstration of valor on the part of my troops will bring them into contact with the enemy.”
The early Reformers were not like this at all. They were about the most un-gnostic bunch ever assembled in the history of Christendom. They were the most Christ-loving, world-affirming, money-making, beer-drinking, sword-wielding, music-making, kingdom-overthrowing, love-making, poetry-writing bunch of Christians the world had ever seen up to that point. And they kept it up, by and large, for several centuries.
- Doug Wilson, A Tornado With Boots
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