Fighting Baptists and Fussy Presbyterians

Baptists still know how to fight. I am a Presbyterian, but I sometimes think that all the fighting Presbyterians were killed in the American War for Independence. Modern Presbyterians are unparalleled at writing histories of battles, and three-inch thick theologies of surface-to-air missiles. So credit where credit is due. John Frame once wrote about the problem of “Machen’s Warrior Children,” but I sometimes think that should have been called “Machen’s Bean Bag and Powder Puff Brigade.” But that reminds me. Machen was a dude and he knew how to fight, and he fought the right enemy. But he died three quarters of a century ago. I think Frame was identifying a very real problem, but it had more to do with quarreling, whining, and fussing and less to do with being “warriors.” Warriors is too dignified a name for fussers. – Douglas Wilson