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“Or how much curious and loving attention was expended by the first man who looked hard enough at the insides of trees, the entrails of cats, the hind ends of horses and the juice of pine tree to realize he could turn them all into the first fiddle. No doubt his wife urged him to get up and do something useful. I am sure that he was a stalwart enough lover of things to pay no attention at all to her nagging; but how wonderful it would have been if he had known what we know now about his dawdling. He could have silenced her with the greatest riposte of all time: Don’t bother me; I am creating the possibility of the Bach unaccompanied sonatas” (Robert Farrar Capon, The Supper of the Lamb, p. 19 HT to Doug Wilson

May 24, 2006

With a Million Apologies to Monty Python

We’re Knights of Reformed Orthodoxy,
We criticize when ere we’re able,
We do photoshops to vent our spleens
Our theology is impeccable.
We dine well here in New Geneva,
We eat Wright and Driscoll and iMonk a lot.
We’re Knights of Reformed Orthodoxy,
Our fanboys are formidable,
But some trackbacks, we feel are wack
Those are quite unlinkable.
We’re J-Mac mad in New Geneva,
We shoot down other bloggers…
a looooooot.
In war we’re tough and able,
Quite indefatigable,
Between our shrills with electronic quills,
We like to impersonate our friend Van Til.
It’s a busy life in New Geneva,
I have to push the heretics a lot.

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2 Comments

internetmonk.com » Blog Archive » The Passion of the Haggard Part II said,

November 4, 2006 @ 12:15 pm

[...] 1. It’s remarkable that among some of the so-called defenders of reformed orthodoxy this is being reported as a failure of doctrine. Yes sports fans, that’s right. Among the Knights of Reformed Orthodoxy there are now multiple posts saying this happens, partially, because Haggard is an Arminian and a Charismatic, and implying it wouldn’t be as likely to happen if he were a good Calvinist. At the very moment the discussion should be that Christ died for our sins (thanks, Frank), or that we are totally depraved- the most obvious truths of the Gospel- we find ourselves on some irrelevant side road. [...]
Sacred Journey » Blog Archive » MilePost 5 said,

November 4, 2006 @ 9:25 pm

[...] With a million apologies to Monty Python, Matthew Johnson gives us The Knights of Reformed Orthodoxy. (HT: iMonk) [...]

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