Wartburg watch
expresses their disdain and loathing for John Piper.
Apparently J.P.
expressed his belief that men are best suited to be policemen.
In today's
politically correct, feministic society, you can't say anything worse
then that.
The Wartburg
commenters let fly – per usual
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This was my impression as well. He seems
to be acting from some felt sense of insecurity–over women,
relationships, his own authority, the outside world represented by
normal workplaces, something like that.
Piper is legalistic, holds to believer’s baptism, and has a dim
view of women. The Reformed are in the camp of Carl Trueman (see
post)–no lists of rules to be kept, infant baptism and equality of
men and women. Also, Piper is a pontificater. He appears to think
he’s the Pope of evangelicalism.
Someone needs to check Piper’s computer and phone…something is
way off when he drift’s to say “It is true that there is
something sexually stimulating about a muscular, scantily clad young
woman pumping iron in a health club.”
Wonder what Mr.Piper has to say about the two women who just passed
Army Ranger training? He must be having a nervous breakdown!
I don’t understand why anybody gives Piper the time of day. He
strikes me as clearly a deranged idiot.
Agreed. I know Reformed folks who would never, ever want anything to
do with neo-Calvinism, let alone Piper’s bizarre sexual fantasies.
“Piper is a Fundamentalist in
Reformed clothing.” Nah. I am thinking the guy is ISIS.
*Conservatorship”
I’m thinking of one for John Piper.
Men and women are equal. In every way. End of story. There is NO
justification (biblical or otherwise) in any statements to the
contrary. Everyone’s entitled to their opinion and Piper might be a
nice guy in general but the statements are just plain whacked. No
matter what context you put them in.
I’ve spent some time in Bethlehem Baptist, I’ve watched Piper
preach, been to one of his big public events, was involved with a
parachurch ministry that met every Friday at Beth Bap. I’ve been
there also, and I think Piper’s deluded, pompous, destructive.
Frankly, he reminds me of people who do a
lot of drugs, including pot.
Has anyone checked to see if Piper had an
Ashley Madison account?
don’t understand why anybody gives Piper
the time of day. He strikes me as clearly a deranged idiot.”
I think its the hand waving and patented otherworldly stare, and
the crackle of the voice and the wincing in the spirit or the
bug-eyed revelatory wow. I think some may see him as an evangelical
version of Gandalf or Dumbledor. But dont be fooled he is no idiot,
this is his stage and he plays the role well.
I think I have heard similar absurdity before, likely in a locker
room somewhere, one of the more depraved places in existence.
Basically this is the type of silly thing non-adults say about the
other sex and is not treated seriously, apparently excepting Piper et
al. For a supposed adult to put theological trappings around such
goofiness raises the absurdity to a very high level. Anyone who then
treats Piper’s dispatches seriously raises absurdity to toxic
levels.
I don’t know if he is clinically deranged, but his theological
musings certainly are deranged. I do not think he is an idiot, but he
certainly uses idiotic ways of communication. I also think his
doggerel is worse than mine.
Put John Piper in a situation where he is
in desperate need of help then see if he is worried about ‘God’s
created order’.
Imagine the 911 call (000 here) – ‘I need urgent help but
don’t bother sending a women because that will ‘controvert God’s
created order’ and I would rather sacrifice myself then allow that
to happen’.
John Piper is nothing more than a ‘noisy gong’.
Above and beyond Piper’s wacko ideas, I keep wondering how he ever
became such an influence, as I’m told he is. I mean, I’ve read
some of his stuff, seen him on youtube, and he comes across as a
total fruit.
If he were in a fire, she would not be
able to rescue him, because it would involve stuff like direct
contact, possibly her using her muscles to pick him up and carry him
out.
Piper would probably rather perish in the fire than be saved by a
woman, because being saved by a woman fire fighter would, in his
view, compromise his masculinity.
(Plus, Piper would get “girl cooties” in the process, and he
can’t have none of that.)
The guy has got some very WEIRD behavior, talks (and Twitters) like
Merlin just unloaded the Curse of Babel on him, and generally acts
like a Class A Fool with an ego that sees himself as Perfect Without
Blemish. (There’s an infamous fanboy in local fandom like that, a
Legend in His Own Mind to himself, a laughingstock to everyone else.)
i observe Peeper as someone who waits
until things are quiet and then does something to cause everyone to
look over at him, something to deliberately draw attention to
himself, something that looks superspiritual. To highlight his
‘spiritual eliteness’, far & above all others in his midst.
all very calculated. he must be very needy
i get the feeling there’s some kind of
pleasure in this for him. like he’s appointed himself in charge of
gospel torture devices. to be administered to the enemy. this is
exactly how it seems to me.
Piper’s theology is driven by control and fear. That is not Kingdom
theology and sounds more like it is influenced by the enemy.
Men are from Mars. Women are from Venus. … Piper is from Uranus.
And so it goes at
Wartburg Watch where the loathing and disdain of conservative
evangelical males goes unabated.