“One of the reasons American Christians have lost any real concern for beauty is because they do not know how to connect beauty with salvation, and so they believe there is no connection. This belief is entirely quixotic, though, because very few Christians have ever heard a real proposal about what the connection might be. Nonetheless, we are certain that any attempt at explaining the connection must either be snobbery or legalism. Salvation is exclusively to be understood as a divine-legal judgment and every honest court of law must be indifferent to beauty. In fact, a court aims to move beyond mere appearances and get to the truth. Besides, “Man looks on the outward appearance, but God looks on the heart,” “Beauty is only skin deep,” “You can’t judge a book by its cover,” and “Beauty is fleeting, but a woman who honors the Lord deserves to be praised.” So quit your pretentious whining about how bad Thomas Kinkade’s art is. Turn up that Kid Rock album and bust out the Yellowtail Shiraz. I like an ice cube with mine. Not refined, just forgiven.”
-the rest of my latest article for The Classical Teaching Institute is available here
There are still faint glimmers of civilization left in this barbaric slaughterhouse that was once known as humanity. 