The White Badger Inn

Witch Hunting
A Rant On Why The White Badger Avoids Scandals & Stories

Ever picked up a Christian Magazine or Newsletter with lines pasted across the cover-page reading: Secrets Shopping Malls Aren't Telling You! ?
Like an edition of The Enquirer, yet smeared with a veneer of religion, these heresy-hunting magazines do nothing but spread emulation and divide the brethren.
Let me pause here and note two things:
First, we at the White Badger Inn are strongly in favour of standing on one's doctrinal convictions. We hold to the London Baptist Confession of Faith, and do not waiver in the face of those who differ from us. This does not mean, however, that we condemn others who vary on minor issues, or issues of liberty.
Second, an article of this sort is rare, since we would be defeating the purpose of standing against heresy-hunters, if we constantly bashed them. We'd end up become the same thing ourselves.
All this being said:
We understand the need to warn. We understand the need to critically examine; however, we also understand the need to be gracious.
...Not tolerant; gracious.
But I must point out the grave difference between this sort of action (slandering men and woman, many of whom are truly children of God), and the actions of - say, John Calvin (who was known to be stern and sober) is primarily this: Calvin approached those whom he had an issue with, and dealt with the problem Biblically.
Is it not Scriptural to approach a brother if you have ought against him?
Then why oh why do the Heresy-hunting folks who produce so many of the fundamentalist-style papers slander and libel others who differ from them, without truly addressing the perceived problem?
However, while this is a great Biblical issue which gets me heated...the real issue that irritates me the most is just getting sick and tired of how they complain about everything. Everything is - to them - a sin. Everything is wrong. The world is coming to an end. Bush is the Antichrist. The U.S. is the new Rome. Bill O'Reilly is Satan.
I have sworn off these Witch-hunting papers. I will not pick one up. And though the cover of one may tempt me to peek within the pages and ridicule the author, I will not. I have stopped keeping them on the back of the commode (yes, I really did), and I think I am going to take up something more calming.
Perhaps Rhinoceros hunting, or fishing. Maybe a trip to Salem...
Or not.