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				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 10, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
My experience is that UMC pastors didn't believe in hell thirty or more years ago, but I think it varied by region before the split with the GMC.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 10, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Okay, I am way out of my depth here.  But I nevertheless have a couple thoughts.




If somehow the gulf states unite and defeat Israel militarily, given the horrific deaths the Israelis would likely meet at the hands of an invading Arab army, …




I would not take this for granted.  I am sure that there would be atrocities regardless, but I think that some surrounding nations, were they running the show, would elect for an ethnic cleansing over a true genocide.




… I have little doubt that Israel would elect to glass the entire region.




This is possible, because there are those who treat the survival of Israel and the survival of the Jewish people as fundamentally the same thing, but I think it would be a straightforward mistake even from the perspective of self-interest.  If Israeli Jews were fleeing ahead of an Arab army, or being expelled by an Arab Palestinian state, any number of Western countries would be happy to take them in.  A retaliatory nuclear strike by Israel would threaten this in a way that few other things could.


Edit:  For the avoidance of doubt, I endorse neither ethnic cleansing nor genocide, in either direction.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 10, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


“Remove the wicked man from among yourselves.” I’m not sure that applies to disagreements over refugees and welfare.




I think that depends on details we’re not privy to.  Is anything he’s promoting sinful, or is it simply imprudent?  Is he presenting his views on these policies as God’s revealed will, speaking where God hasn’t spoken, or is he honest that they are his attempt to apply Christian principles however imperfectly?


But honestly that’s not where I’d start.  Blue tribe alignment isn’t the most important question, but it is often related to more important questions.  So I’d move past the tribal question and ask those.  It matters whether you’re dealing with Harry Emerson Fosdick or Tim Keller.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 3, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					




foid




I might be out of the loop there, but does this term actually have a more specific meaning or is it just "woman" with a layer of incel sneering ("woman (gross and stupid in the way women are)")?




My understanding is that it was originally a disparaging term for a woman in online incel culture, a contraction of femoid.  But then the very online relative normies started using it as ironically faux-self-deprecating humor – the joke being on the poster for using incel slang, not on the woman under discussion.  In many online spaces today it's a playful and informal term for a woman, the way I might use dudette, with no disrespect intended.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of July 27, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


Notice that author does not say that the student is violent, undisciplined or disobeying orders....




I think that corporal punishment has a role to play, when it's restricted to willful misbehavior and ordered to the well-being of the one who receives it.  But a passing awareness of nineteenth-century education should be enough to make it clear that no school modeling itself on Spartan methods should be trusted with that authority, whether it's a military school or a British public school.