Back in early August, I introduced the good readers here at Not the Bee to a supposed minister, with a fancy doctorate no less, who had posted a series of mind-numbingly ignorant, ill-conceived, poorly reasoned tweets, and disseminated them to the masses. My challenge to readers at the time was to help me figure out if the man, Dr. Kevin M. Young, was a real guy or just some elaborate, and well-scripted parody account.
As I wrote at that time, Young appears,
an all-too-perfect caricature of how many of us tend to envision "deconstructed," politically progressive, "ex-vangelical" Christian voices. From the obligatory "Dr." in front of his name to the "he/him/rev" at the end, not to mention the "post-evangelical" and "avid lifter," it's all just a bit too on the nose to be real, right?
So now, nearly four months later, I'm back with two things to report:
- Amazingly, I think this is an actual guy, with an actual degree, that actually thinks he is following Jesus, who is just flabbergastingly foolish when it comes to interpreting and applying Scripture.
- He's at it again.
This last weekend, a Christian commentator named Ben Zeisloft ignited a powder keg of passions after criticizing Fox News contributor, Guy Benson, for using a surrogate mother to "have a baby" with his "husband." He wrote,
Personally, I think the furor that followed Ben's post is a harbinger of things to come for Christians. Both the political left and the mainstream right are totally given over on this issue. The propagation and normalization of "gay identity," of "gay marriage," and now of "gay surrogacy" have reached terminal velocity across the full breadth of the political spectrum. The only real holdouts are religious people. And even that number is dwindling.
I just wrote extensively about this very issue in my weekly Memo to Christians because the social costs of being a faithful believer are on the rise and we'd better be prepared. Progressive believers exchanged the truth of God for a lie on the issue of human sexuality long ago. We're seeing that same phenomenon unfold on the right now, with supposedly reasoned conservatives falling victim to what the Apostle Paul warned would be, "the fine sounding arguments of men."
Although, to return to the subject of this article, I can't say I think anyone is falling victim to Dr. Kevin M. Young's not-so-fine-sounding argument here:
Again, I find myself asking, "Is this guy serious?" He truly writes things like this that are so easily debunked, so embarrassingly skewed, so flagrantly obtuse, that even though I know in my head it isn't true, there's part of me that still believes he is a fabricated caricature of the prototypical progressive Christian. Someone is saying all these dumb things, creating all these straw men, just so true Christians can tear them down.
God "rented" Mary's womb? God created Mary's womb, man. He owned her, He owns you, me, everybody. He can do with and to each of us whatever He so desires, and we have nothing to say about it. He's God. We're not.
Secondly, even with the slightest thought, you see Young's point completely backfire. Mary wasn't just an incubator for Jesus who was, upon birth in the manger, ripped from her arms and thrust into the loving home of homosexuals. Mary was chosen to mother Jesus, and did so throughout His short earthly life.
Moreover, notice that when God sent His only Son to inhabit human flesh and live in the world He created from nothing, what did He provide for Him? Not a government program. Not a village. Not three uncles. He provided for His own Son a mom and a dad.
That's the model. That's the design. That's what works best. And therefore, that's what we should promote and strive to sustain. This really isn't hard.
