Sometimes people ask me why I feel the webpage formerly known as Slice of Laodicea is so dangerous. Today is a perfect example. I’ve been traveling the last few days so “today” may not actually be today but when I got home tonight I checked my email, scanned a few pages and then went over to CRN. Chris Rosebrough has an excellent post up on the whole “Lost Tomb of Jesus” debacle.

But then there’s this post by Dwayna. I had to read it five times to figure out what she was trying to say. By the way, Ms Lutz if you would like to email me and tell me what it is you’re saying I’d be thrilled. If I read your take correctly, Mosaic is Satanistic because they use things that God created as core values? You cite the “father of Satanism” as evidence?

This is silly. It’s beyond ludicrous. I know a guy who wrote a book about the ability to move out of your body around the world. It doesn’t make it fact.
But let’s be charitable and assume that what he wrote is true. Does that mean that the Church can’t use those elements? Do the Satanist suddenly get all proprietary rights to those elements? In fact, should we be surprised that Satan counterfeits something that God created and called good? I’m used to reading posts over there and scratching my head but this is a new low.

Beyond a new low, it is dangerous because people will read it and see it next to a Chris Rosebrough post and think it is done with the same scholarship when obviously it is not. It reminds me of a truth about a little leaven ruining a whole batch. The problem here is the leaven isn’t little.