What you heard is true. I am deeply offended by the Will Suffice articles. I read parts of two sometime last spring and neither finished them nor have read any since. What follows is why I am offended and neither can nor will read them. Just so you know, "offended" here does not mean I am angry with you personally; I am angry such things are written and distributed for public consumption.

First, I can just hear a little voice saying, "free speech, free speech - the Snipe believes in free speech." I think you also believe in original intent. The liberals often holler "free speech" to justify a great many things that the founding fathers would never have countenanced. If Washington drummed homosexuals out of Valley Forge, I hardly think he'd put up with Will Suffice on the basis of the free speech ammendment. Don't buy in to a liberal loophole. You call yourself a conservative. Think like one.

Okay, now here's why I personally don't read the articles. I cannot read the articles because I have been bought with a price and am no longer my own. I Corinthians 6:12-20 says it best, so I'm writing it here so you don't have to interrupt the flow to go look it up.

" All things are lawful for me, but not all things are profitable. All things are lawful for me, but I will not be mastered by anything. Food is for the stomach, and the stomach is for food; but God will do away with both of them. Yet the body is not for immorality, but for the Lord; and the Lord is for the body. Now God has not only raised the Lord, but will also raise us up through His power. Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take away the members of Christ and make them members of a harlot? May it never be! Or do you not know that the one who joins himself to a harlot is one body with her? For He says, "The two will become one flesh." But the one who joins himself to the Lord is one spirit with Him. Flee immorality. Every other sin that a man commits is outside the body, but the immoral man sins against his own body. Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and that you are not your own? For you have been bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body."

I find it extremely difficult to glorify God in my body if I fill my mind with Will Suffice type material. For as a man thinks in his heart, so he is (Matt. 12:34b). As the saying goes, "Trash in. Trash out." Or as James says (3:11-12), "Does a fountain send out from the same opening both fresh and bitter water? Can a fig tree produces olives, or a vine produce figs? Neither can salt water produce fresh." If I fill myself with salt water, I cannot be a pure vessel for the Living Water. Now someone may say, "Yes Snip, but you just have a weak conscience, those articles don't constitute salt water." Oh, really? Again, what do the Scriptures say? "How can a young man keep his way pure? By keeping it according to Your word." (Ps. 119:9) So I can keep my way pure according to the Scriptures. Do the Scriptures speak to anything like this? I think they do.

Phillipians 4:8 says,"[. . .] whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is of good repute, if there is any excellence and if anything worthy of praise, let your mind dwell on these things." Ephesians 5:3-4 says, "But do not let immorality or any impurity or greed even be named among you, as is proper among saints; and there must be no filthiness and silly talk, or coarse jesting, which are not fitting, but rather giving of thanks." Or Ephesians 4:29, "Let no unwholesome word proceed form your mouth, but only such a word as is good for edification according to the need of the moment, that it may give grace to those who hear." Last, but not least, Christ Himself says," You have heard that it was said, 'You shall not commit adultery'; but I say to you, that everyone who looks on a woman to lust for her has committed adultery with her already in his heart." (Matthew 5:27-28)

So then, it appears from these Scriptures (and there are many others) that the battle to be pure is in the mind and by extension in our speech which flows out of our minds and hearts. I submit that the Will Suffice articles do not pass the Scriptural guidelines for pure thought and speech - and thus are detrimental to anyone attempting to keep their way pure.

So that's the main reason why I am offended by the articles. Other reasons include the extremely low view of human worth that they propagate in their base comments - particularly those on women. As to your question,"Anything I need to do about that?" I think that's entirely up to you since it's your site. I would suggest editing the offensive comments out, but there might not be anything but conjunctions and prepositions left.

Thanks for asking about this. I tried to bring it up one time, the subject got changed, and I didn't have the guts to try again. I should probably go read the Snip's letter about being bold for truth - it applies pretty well here.

In Christ,

The Snip