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Christians Are Obligated to Give Offense and to Ridicule the Other Side

This means, following the many examples of Scripture, that there is a different kind of religious controversy, where the central point is to give offense.

In Douglas Wilson’s own words: 1 quote from 2010, from A Serrated Edge, cited to the source.

This means, following the many examples of Scripture, that there is a different kind of religious controversy, where the central point is to give offense. Failure in such controversy would be reckoned as a failure to give offense in the way Scripture requires, and for the reasons given in Scripture.

— Douglas Wilson, A Serrated Edge: A Brief Defense of Biblical Satire and Trinitarian Skylarking, Canon Press, 2010, Ch. 10 The Goal of Giving Offense