And so is the typical conversation about Christmas in the Anglo-American conservative Reformed world.
But for needed corrective and even a chuckle, check out Jim Jordan on the menace of Chinese food.
It’s delightful.
–Originally posted 10:21 pm – December 14, 2005
ADDENDUM:
I just realized I must quote this:
There is still more. Few modern Christians have studied the classic exposé of Chinese food by Alexander Slipshod: The Four Babylons. Slipshod in his masterful work demonstrates beyond a shadow of doubt that Chinese food originated at the Tower of Babel. Nimrod and three of his cousins, descendants of the four sons of Ham and known as the “gang of four,” developed Chinese food as a subtle means of undermining the true faith. People would become addicted to Chinese food, they believed, and as they ingested the food, they would absorb the monistic philosophy. For instance, if they ate sweet and sour pork, they would become committed to the philosophy of yin and yang. This has surely proved to be the case! We must beware of eating demons hiding in Chinese food! (Slipshod’s book has, I am aware, not been well treated by reviewers. Its arguments, however, are obviously correct. Let the reader obtain a copy and find out for himself. The reviewers, obviously, are Chinese food addicts.)
And what most people don’t realize is that Alexander Slipshod has repented of what he wrote in the The Four Babylons. It would be nice if this reversal was more widely know. For confirmation go here(and scroll down to Q. 5).
Actually, I think “Slipshod” is a take on “Hislop.” Hislop wrote the 4 Babylons and Woodrow wrote a book based on and advancing the same cause. Woodrow repented.
And the book is actually called _Two Babylons_.
Actually, patera, that link refers to a change of mind by Ralph Woodrow, not Alexander Hislop.
I don’t know if Hislop still believes what he wrote in his book (or even if he’s still alive) but it always irritates me no end that he’s had as much success as he has with a book based entirely on the root fallacy and post hoc ergo propter hoc. The fact that so many people fall for it is someone’s fault other than his, I guess.