Targeting Dr. Seuss

We are all presuppositionalists now! Taking the Bill Craig approach to apologetics is to answer the wrong questions of culture. People are not looking for more scientific evidence for the existence of God, they are looking for scientific evidence that their lives share some ingredient of significance. The problem with so-called arguments for God’s existence–however noble and good–is that often if it succeeds it only brings humanity a mile or two from Calvary. But as Dr. Seuss’ racist uncle would say, “even an inch from Calvary is not enough.”

The goal here is not to criticize apologetic methodology, but to go directly to the heart of the Dr. Seuss’ scandal of 2021. The problem with “McElligot’s Pool,” “On Beyond Zebra!,” “Scrambled Eggs Super!,” and “The Cat’s Quizzer” is that it assumes too much that should no longer be assumed by the populace. It assumes that the habits of Asian people with a comical hat are too insensitive to the Asian culture. Stereotypes are dangerous. Or, to remember that racist, St. Paul, who said, “All Cretans are liars!” What a scoundrel.

At the heart of the issue is that I, as a Brazilian, am guilty of loving futebol too much and churrasco. But don’t you dare assess my humanity on the basis of my love for Ronaldinho or garlic steak cooked rare. I am more than that. All Brazilians are birthed through dancing rituals! All Mexicans eat pozole! Racist! Green eggs and ham assume too much about the color of the egg. Racist!

That philosophy, my dear friends, does not stem from a lack of grasp of the cosmological argument for God’s existence; it stems from a fundamental misunderstanding of reality which has been trampled harder than the rice I ate at the Vietnamese restaurant. You cannot go against the “grain” of the “field” unless you see the tamales for what they are: too dry. The culture of the leftists is going after Dr. Seuss because any attempt to undermine nature–which is inherently self-validated by habits and customs–is to assume that things have inherent meaning. But for “cancel culture” nothing has inherent meaning. Everything is up for grabs. Re-invention of what is permanent is the name of the game. Therefore, if your little kid reads a book about fictional characters that convey ideas that are too normal, they will react and say that “We are the ones that define fiction, and for us, fiction is reality.” Seuss, for them, is an attempt to interfere with their ethics navigation system.

My lesson from this little discourse is that racism is bad, but you know what’s worse, acting as if reality does not exist and inventing acts of racism like that Chinese Buffet invented that weird dish. What these moronic despots are trying to achieve with their cancelation of everything is the cancelation of their own ability to see and know the truth. And that being the case, there is no amount of evidence for the skull of John the Baptist that will make them content or convince them otherwise. What we need is for someone with greater maturity than these Philistines, let’s say my three-year-old, to tell these “reality-deniers” that your cancelation campaign is destined to cancel itself. Be sure your presuppositions will find you out. You have nowhere to go but to the delights of green eggs and ham, which I hear is a delicacy in some cultures.