This last week, I have been posting a few of the letters from mothers and fathers from around the nation concerned that Andrew Sandlin, a preacher who specializes in Christian worldview, would launch a diatribe of belittlement against mothers by calling them “baby machines,” would create a straw man linking advocates of biblical patriarchy to Roman wife -beaters and mafia kingpins, and would seek to lecture our Christian youth with a vision of cultural dominion based on “exotic marital sex,” cacophonous music, and martini mixing, as per his proclamation quoted below:

We here know that Christians won’t win back the culture by sad-sack “quiet times,” funeral-dirge “worship services,” fifth-rate apocalyptic fiction, tofu Sunday school socials, and Little House on the Prairie bonnets, but by boisterous invocations of the Almighty God, ear-blasting steel guitars, full-bodied Napa Merlots, exotic marital sex, and God-drenched avant-garde teenagers. We won’t win the culture until we get over being embarrassed by our robust, world-affirming Bible. Embarrassed by Song of Solomon’s stunning eroticism. Embarrassed by Israel’s worship dance and loud musical instruments. Embarrassed by Jesus’ water-to-wine miracle (WWJD should really mean, “What Would Jesus Drink?”) ... So crack open the Bible, fire up a Cohiba [cigar], mix the martinis, and crank up the latest Coldplay CD [a British rock group]. (“Those World-Affirming Dudes — crack open your Bible, and mix a martini” by Andrew Sandlin, October 16, 2002, published at RazorMouth.com.)