They talk slow for us because we're stupid

Why are there so many Christians on the internet who write things like this?

Sample paragraphs: "The reason why this debate is an important one is that it challenges a prevailing stream of consciousness regrettably found among many believers these days. Pinto, and similar individuals like him, have taught numerous, undiscerning Christians to live spiritual lives that are, for lack of a better term, conspiratorially driven.

They are being told that church history has been largely shaped by sinister, dark forces that lurk in the shadows. Whether they be the Illuminati, Jesuits, or whatever, those forces ceaselessly toil to disrupt God’s purposes and the lives of Christians everywhere. If Christians are just only made aware of those forces and the evil they attempt to perpetrate and learn to identify and avoid them, why the church in America would be in much better spiritual health."

The writer of the above words comes across as a juvenile intellectual who is merely masturbating his vanity by talking down to Christians like he is talking to five year olds. This really is the common element in these types. You see it in Michael Horton, in James White, in the John MacArthurites like this blogger, it's all over the internet.

One gets the sense that none of these individuals are fully developed adults. Certainly not fully developed Christians. One gets the sense that these people have never been against the world. They've never gone against the easy current of the world. They've always been going *with* the easy current of the world. They've never had to engage in spiritual warfare because they've never been on the spiritual battlefield. These people are pure examples of churchians.

Listen to the White Horse Inn. They talk to their audience as if it is an audience of Kindergarteners. And they get so much obvious pleasure in doing so. Listen to the silly MacArthurites (silly for among other reasons their Mormonish Dispensationalism that they have no clue MacArthur clings to because he's published 500 books and is too invested in it to come off it), they all have the same juvenile, half-angry, belittling attitude with a quick finger to ban and delete anybody who calls them on it. A very smug sense of being secure in the world and with attendant numbers to go along with that.

What does the Bible say about having numbers on your side? You don't need them. For battle anyway. Yet the churchians need them because to do what they do which is to mock and giggle and yank chains and engage in fallacious rhetoric and propaganda (they love to accompany their posts with mocking graphics) they have to have the world on their side. They need the world on their side to do it as smugly and easily and with the degree of juvenile pleasure as they do it with.