J. Chase Davis, co-pastor of The Well in Boulder, Colo., went beyond merely muddying the waters for Basham and plunged head-long into a well of falsehoods. Davis, in “Shepherds for Sale Turns up the Heat on Gavin Ortlund,” accuses Ortlund of “trading on his family name,” thinking “he is above being questioned,” displaying “typical passive-aggressive pietistic contempt” and a “staggering level of naivete.”
These are simply baseless insults. Further, in a laughable act of projection, Davis claims the reviews, like those above, have refused “to engage with the ideas and factual claims and instead have resorted to character assassination in order to signal to others that she should not be trusted.”
As we’ve seen, it’s not possible to make a statement more opposite of the truth. He repeats the debunked Basham claim about Ortlund, “The only reason evangelicals don’t care (about climate change) like he does is because they are motivated by politics.” In actual fact, Ortlund says people may come to a different conclusion than him.
Davis cites John West, vice president of the Discovery Institute, who issued a series of long posts attacking those reviewing Basham, thus creating a self-referencing circle of mutually endorsing but baseless sources. So, enter Timon Cline.
J. Chase Davis, co-pastor of The Well in Boulder, Colo., went beyond merely muddying the waters for Basham and plunged head-long into a well of falsehoods. Davis, in “Shepherds for Sale Turns up the Heat on Gavin Ortlund,” accuses Ortlund of “trading on his family name,” thinking “he is above being questioned,” displaying “typical passive-aggressive pietistic contempt” and a “staggering level of naivete.”
These are simply baseless insults. Further, in a laughable act of projection, Davis claims the reviews, like those above, have refused “to engage with the ideas and factual claims and instead have resorted to character assassination in order to signal to others that she should not be trusted.”
As we’ve seen, it’s not possible to make a statement more opposite of the truth. He repeats the debunked Basham claim about Ortlund, “The only reason evangelicals don’t care (about climate change) like he does is because they are motivated by politics.” In actual fact, Ortlund says people may come to a different conclusion than him.
Davis cites John West, vice president of the Discovery Institute, who issued a series of long posts attacking those reviewing Basham, thus creating a self-referencing circle of mutually endorsing but baseless sources. So, enter Timon Cline.