The Meerkat Responds: Fake Threats
The other day, Mr David Thiessen of Theology Archaeology became so enraged by a factual statement, that he spoke of legal action against me. Well, he spoke of legal action against MM, not myself, for he remains too afraid of me to be professional, or honest.
I stated, over at Ark’s site, that Mr Thiessen holds women in contempt. I see no particular reason to retract my statement. Mr Thiessen’s attitude towards women has often been dubious at best. On the basis of Mr Thiessen’s comments, and indeed, spectacularly hypocritical actions, what reason do I have to reconsider my stance? He may wish to issue vague warnings, and speak of legal action, but first, he should check to make certain he is not holding a monkey’s paw. He has said, more than once, that women should not have bodily autonomy, even flippantly dismissing the risk of death to underage girls when they fall pregnant. He has repeatedly complained that ‘women lie’ regarding abuse and assault, yet also whined that women do not speak up about abuse and assault. He cannot seem to understand that his attitude – so readily casting doubt as to their motives – is a big part of why women do not come forward in the first place.
You need only look at his rage-fuelled rant about breast-feeding to get a clearer picture as to how he views women (one example of many). His fury that women might dare to act in the interests of their child, and not in his interests( hidden beneath claims of godly behaviour), is plain for all to see.
If he wishes to pursue legal action, then he ought to be aware that his dishonest implication I run a Nazi-esque comments policy will come under further scrutiny. Then there’s his false accusations here, where he claimed I was demanding things of him. I have the emails to prove otherwise. There are his repeated, yet always unsubstantiated claims that I distort his arguments. There was his strange, deceiving mileage he took from a very brief post I wrote when in a bad mood. There was the occasion that Mr Thiessen tried to imply I supported murdering Christians. Indeed, to quote him:
Yet he has no qualms about murdering or seeing murdered innocent Christians. He has totally lost it.
He apologised for this, but then removed that apology; by his own admission, apologising to me worked him into such a frenzy that he could not sleep! He claimed he did not recant his apology, but removing it would certainly imply a lack of sincerity on his part.
So, not only can I substantiate my claims, I can take Mr Thiessen to task for quite a few errant claims of his own, including some pretty serious assaults on my character. He is fortunate that he is not in an actionable set of circumstances, and fortunate that I am not particularly inclined to waste time and effort pursuing these matters.
Derrick Thiessen is a misogynist. His writing makes that clear over and over again.
I didn’t know Thiessen apologized to you. I’ve never seen him admit he was wrong.
I read his post before I read yours. I thought, “What did Ben say that warrants a threat of legal action?” I then read your post, chuckled, and said to myself, “This is it?” 🤣
His apology to me was a surprising moment, to put it mildly. What was less surprising is that he removed it. His strange claim that he didn’t recant the apology he nonetheless deleted doesn’t really go very to addressing all the abusive and dishonest remarks he’s directed to me, or indeed to you.
Grrrrrrrrrrrr … I didn’t know that level of misogyny still existed in this, the 21st century! Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr …
Every time that I think he cannot disappoint me still further, he finds a way.
It is mind boggling the push back this is receiving and more so that some of those defending Thiessen are women!
Insanity bytes stated openly there was nothing she disagreed with about Thiessen’s post regarding spousal abuse!
I truly am flabbergasted there are women who buy into this filth.
For the record, I have found myself regarding IB more fondly than a number of other religious people I have discussions with. I don’t agree with the assessment of anyone who would want a victim to stay with their abuser.
Years ago, I was the pastor of an Independent Fundamentalist Baptist (IFB) church in southeast Ohio. We joined together with other IFB churches to hold a joint weeklong preaching meeting. The speaker for the week was Pete Rice, a famous evangelist from the Rice family of preachers (John R. Rice, Sword of the Lord, and Bill Rice, Bill Rice Ranch — a youth camp.) One night, Rice preached on marriage. He said there were no grounds for divorce; that even if a husband abuses his wife, she should stay with him. Why? The abusive husband will see her godly submission and be won over to Jesus by her testimony.
I was livid. 🤬 That was the last night our church participated in the meeting. I made my objections known, but I was told I was “over reacting.” What shocked me the most was that I was the only preacher who had a problem with what he said. 😢
Rice’s message is certainly disturbing. It is easy to see how such defence of violence, coupled with what are often charismatic preachers, can lead to people thinking this is somehow acceptable.
She can come across as level headed and rational, however, her comment/s in open defense of Thiessen leave me gobsmacked.
To be fair, she doesn’t know Thiessen’s history and behaviour like I do. My most recent post might serve to be illuminating in that regard.
Not being aware of his history is no excuse for openly defending his assertion that abuse is not grounds for divorce.
I have no idea if she has daughters but imagine if this is the message she conveys to her own kids? In fact, by not condemning this archaic barbarism she is tacitly giving the nod of approval to any children, girl or boy, that such behaviour is okay as Jesus will sort it out.
I don’t agree with her position, and I do not agree with religious indoctrination, which is all I can say. I’m tired of going round and round in circles on this sort of thing. I’ve spent years dealing with aggressive, and indeed nasty people, who claim to be good, pious followers of their belief system. I do not want to reach a 10th anniversary with Mr Thiessen. I do not want to have my blog be held in a spiral of arguments and battles with people whose minds I am never going to influence. I will present my ideals and beliefs and arguments, but I want nothing more to do with tit-for-tat posturing. I just can’t handle it anymore.