A rhetorical conceit used by mockers of the end times

Federal Visionists (or Auburn Avenue Visionaries) use a common rhetorical conceit. An example in the realm of amateur (or amateur-level, or dilettante level) reviewing of classical music is when the reviewer seizes upon some portion of a work composed by a composer held by time and man to be universally great like Beethoven and pronounces the portion of the work to be "comically" bad (or some similar word). I.e., Beethoven may be considered great, but how great could he have been if he was capable of writing that. One of these types wrote a review of Beethoven's 7th Symphony and seized upon the trio of the third movement and in great exasperated, spit-take tones stated, as if it was obvious to everyone, how comically bad the trio section to that great symphony was. "Unbelievable!" As if anybody who thinks Beethoven's 7th is a great symphony is too sycophantish to acknowledge the truth of the comically bad portion of that symphony that the reviewer is unafraid to acknowledge in spades.

The only problem is the trio of the third movement of Beethoven's 7th Symphony, especially when paced in the manner a Furtwangler or a Klemperer paced it, is truly great and evocative music. Calling it comically bad is just blatant 'say anything' dishonesty. Something the mockers of the end times are very willing to engage in.

So you see this very same thing in the realm of theology where a mocker calling himself Federal Vision (or whatever) quotes a theologian who has been held by time and man to be rather on-the-mark and orthodox and discerning and then guffaws at the quoted excerpt saying things like "He must have been on drugs when he wrote that!" and writing it as if it is a given that anybody reading it has to see the obvious truth in what the mocker is saying and so on, when the quoted excerpt usually is just straight orthodox, five solas, doctrines of grace, Covenant, or Federal, Theology which the mocker hates because the mockers of the end times hate truth.