That is the implication, and I’m sure it’s deliberate. Relevant Radio has a very conservative Catholic listenership, to the point when a host expresses an opinion that this entirely in line with Catholic doctrine, but sounds like something a liberal would say like, you know, helping the poor and sick, they get a bunch of angry phone calls.

CM (and Warren), what sort of theology is this?

Again, we have to agree to disagree about Galbraith.

Friedman did correctly note that it was the Fed’s tight money monetary policy in the 1930s that prolonged the Great Depression. A cursory review of economics shows that tight monetary policy during recessions and depressions is the not the thing to do. And Monetarism itself is nothing new, but rather dates back to the 16th century.

I has mentioned gravitational lensing (Einstein Ring), Eddington’s observations in 1919, and the LIGO data as examples of experimental verification of relativity. Here is a famous one I had posted on his website:

https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/potw1506a/

I am not sure what view of creation Wade ascribes to, and I think his insistence is more do buying into conspiracy theories involving Tesla.

That’s what he said in his show (video c.1:55). I suspect he put up some posts with misinformation and they were taken down.

Unfortunately, those archives do not include any scrubbed comments.

I have used the “wayback machine” to archive Wade’s posts. Even if he removes them from his own blog site, they are available.

https://web.archive.org/save/https://www.wadeburleson.org/2019/12/silence-those-who-disagree-and-lose.html

https://web.archive.org/web/20200526064940/https://www.wadeburleson.org/2020/02/earths-natural-catastrophes-and-ancient.html

https://web.archive.org/web/20200515125432/https://www.wadeburleson.org/2020/05/dr-judy-mikovits-deserves-our-respect.html

https://web.archive.org/save/https://www.wadeburleson.org/2020/05/nikola-tesla-and-common-good-in-year.html

Oh, and then there’s this very pertinent article Wade wrote in 2018 about criticising Christian leaders:

https://www.wadeburleson.org/2018/04/four-reasons-why-every-christian-should.html

Actually I have. He is well known economist, big proponent of Keynesian economic theory and later Post-Keynesian economics (of which I am not a fan in general). The main economist and proponent of 20th century liberalism (again not a fan).

While he was very influential, it does not make him infallible and his works and ideas are not immune from criticism. Noted liberal economist Paul Krugman has this to say about Galbraith:

In Peddling Prosperity, Krugman places Galbraith as one among many “policy entrepreneurs”—either economists, or think tank writers, left and right—who write solely for the public, as opposed to those who write for other academics, and who are, therefore, liable to make unwarranted diagnoses and offer over-simplistic answers to complex economic problems. Krugman asserts that Galbraith was never taken seriously by fellow academics, who instead viewed him as more of a “media personality”. For example, Krugman believes that Galbraith’s work, The New Industrial State, is not considered to be “real economic theory”, and that Economics in Perspective is “remarkably ill-informed”.

Galbraith was never awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics. Paul Krugman, Milton Friedman, F.A. Hayek, Lawrence Klein (a noted Keynesian as well) are all Nobel laureates.

As always, I do appreciate the response and discourse.

Yes I have. In hindsight I think that Wade has panicked a bit on this. He didn’t need to contact the police. I’ve just received a stern email from him warning me never to contact them again and so on.

In the last hour I have spoken to one of my church elders so that they are informed of the situation. I have also emailed a reply to Wade to give him contact information for my church in case he needs to send a formal complaint.

I do not believe that I am in the wrong here. I do not believe that I have sinned by doing this.

I felt that the only course of action open to me was to contact members of his own church to let them know what Wade was saying, especially those to whom Wade is accountable to. It was right of me to rebuke him personally, and then to speak to those who know him, as per the requirements of Matthew 18.

Wade views this action as a personal attack. Well it is, in a way. I disagree with Wade – as do you – and believe that this issue reveals deeper problems with Wade’s role as a Christian pastor. That is the nature of the complaint that I have leveled against him via communicating to his church members.

For what it is worth, I have liked and respected Wade for over a decade. He has done a lot of good in the SBC, even though we disagree over the complementarian / egalitarian debate.

I’m saddened that Wade has responded in this manner – though, as I point out before, there are extenuating circumstances.

I do not know if Wade has sinned against me by his reaction. But I will leave that to those in his church whom he is accountable to. If he has sinned against me, I forgive him.

Did you read what he said in his blog about this and his take on things?

Also, it looks like he pulled my comments and reported them as well. Since I never contacted anyone in Wade’s circle other than comments on Wade’s website, it will be interesting to see how links to pictures of gravitational lensing confirming Einstein’s Laws of Relativity and other reference links is some sort of cyberbullying. Unless phrases saying that maybe he should get a clue or take some physics courses or ask a physicist is cyberbullying.

As for the publicly available emails of his small group leaders, well maybe Wade should fire his church’s web page guru. Of course that won’t happen since I am sure Wade had previously approved posting them. But that oversight has now been fixed. In any case, I suspect the elders and small group leaders of his church are just as clueless about physics as Wade (if not more so). But Wade knows more of the jargon, so in the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.

It is no use trying to correct Wade or his brain addled fans on his website and the bloggers who enable and support him. What one can do is not give his site (or his blogger enabling friends’ sites) the added popularity and improved rankings due to web hits. If anyone asks you for a good Christian site, even ones regarding church abuse simply recommend other ones. At some point Wade will post something so outrageous that that it will really bite him in the rear.