The Difficult Life of a Christian SJW

The Burden of Social Justice Purity

You know, you should have some sympathy for social justice warriors because their lives are very difficult. It must be exhausting to constantly be worried if you're getting behind the right cause, signing the right petition, making sure that your purity is intact at all times because nothing is more important to social justice ideology than complete purity.

You need to be on board 100 or you are not an ally. And so you need to be an ally, of course, if you're going to be a social justice warrior. Also making sure you've apologized enough for the other people, the sins of other people or sins of your identity group, because that's also very important to maintaining purity.

So you know, have a little sympathy for social justice warriors. They live, they live a tough life. And I'll say this, you know, recently Paige Patterson has become the target of a social justice mob for some jokes that he made a couple, probably like two decades ago.

Petition Politics and the Paige Patterson Controversy

Also, I guess he didn't recommend divorce fast enough for certain couples. So obviously he's a raging misogynist and nobody needs to be fired more quickly than a raging misogynist. We all know that. And so you would think that it'd be very easy, an easy decision to get behind the petition to have him fired or to have him resign at least.

You would think that for a social justice warrior, that would be a very easy decision to make. Not so, not so. This is why I think you should have some sympathy for him. Here is a tweet from Kyle J. Howard, and he's lamenting, he's worried about signing this petition because here's, here's what he says, the petition is addressed to women and invites other women to sign.

It doesn't invite men. I would be happy to sign it, but in honor of my sisters, I do not want to invite myself. They have to deal with it for too long. Men dominating or commandeering spaces that they are abounding in.

So you see, it's not so simple because if you're a man and you sign this petition, well, you might be a misogynist because you're trying to commandeer and dominate their space. I forgot my drink. I said space.

I'm sorry. So you see, it's not so simple. You know, this is obviously a cause that we, that as men, we, we need to get behind, but you can't do it unless you're invited in by the women because they are the ones who really have the power here.

A Separate Petition for Men

Now here's the thing. There is a solution. So, so fear not social justice warriors. Fear not. Oops. I'm sorry here. There's a solution. Here we go. Kyle J. Howard, can someone please get a petition going for the men in the SBC who want to stand with their sisters?

I don't feel like it's enough to simply retweet. I think we men need to put our names down as well. We need to be willing to allow our standing with our sisters to cost us. That's very true because if you sign this petition, I'm sure there are tons of people that are going to fire you and they're going to be mad at you, so it's going to cost you a lot.

It takes a lot of courage to be against misogyny. We all know that. So here's the solution. You know, we have to segregate our petitions that the petition that was already going around. That's only for women.

Don't you dare sign that you social justice warrior man, unless you're a misogynist. Are you misogynist? Here it is. We found it. A well done letter about Paige Patterson for men has just been released and Kyle J. Howard has heroically signed that petition.

He's not trying to validate his sister's voices because that would be misogynist and evil, but because they speak with the full authorities as saints in Christ, he stands with them. You see, this is good on Kyle Howard.

He navigated this so perfectly and you see his life is very difficult. You have to understand he, you know, he wanted to support them, but there was no petition for men, so he couldn't. And so he was able to navigate his way through exactly the perfect way for a social justice warrior to handle this situation.

You should give him lots of props because I'm sure that was very heart wrenching. That was very difficult to do, but he figured it out. And so as you can see, the life of a social justice warrior is not always as straightforward as it might seem.

You make one wrong move and pretty soon you're going to end up just like Paige Patterson. Now there's another example of this in the SBC. The SBC seems to be the perfect place to sort of draw these examples from.

The SBC Resolution Against Racism

Here is a heroic, heroic resolution that is going to be introduced at the June 2018 convention and you can read through this and you will see that what this is is a resolution that says that the Southern Baptist Convention is against racism.

Wow. In 2018, the Southern Baptist Convention is against racism and I think that we need to spend some time talking about this, discussing it, debating it, and making sure that everybody in the world knows.

Look, it even says here, we confess between the watching world. Wow. Racism is evil. That is, look at this. We declare our abhorrence of any SBC church that tolerates and advocates racism. Now that is shocking and courageous, I must say.

And here's the thing. I'm pretty sure that this kind of thing has been done many times before. You know, you got to make sure that you're making, you're repenting, you're apologizing enough for racism, making sure every, every year you kind of re-up your, your, your, your, all of your, your, your, I can't even get through this.

Oh man. Life as a social justice warrior must be hard because nobody was ever going to know that you're against racism unless you stand up every day and say you're against racism.