I gotta have my orange juice.

Do not give your strength to women,
​​Nor your ways to that which destroys kings. (Proverbs 31:3, NKJV)

It struck me reading this today: how much more and greater could Solomon have accomplished if he had but one wife?

And, how much is the one-woman-man who is greater than Solomon going to accomplish?!

Ken Meyers describes culture as “a system that has the power to make you feel guilty.” Although this is partly tongue in cheek, I think he is right. Culture is the cultivation of a standard of goodness, truth, and beauty, and it is inescapable. This means that Girardian systems are inescapable. It is not a question of whether there is guilt or even a question of whether you deal with it by scapegoat, but who is your scapegoat.

My friend Dave notes that premillennialism makes the exact same error as second temple Judaism: it expects that the mission of God’s people will fail but Jesus will make up the difference by means of the physical sword.