The Based Librarian

You can now read my piece for free🤗…the @ALALibrary IS the problem. rightbooks4kids.substack.com/p/not-your-mam…

@SWIM_likey Hm. I don’t think Bible is considered feminist literature. Because that’s where this whole redemption concept comes from.

@BasedLibrarian 🚨🚨🚨COVERT FEMINIST ALERT🚨🚨🚨

What are we doing here?

@MattWalshBlog Totally disagree. In my family, past sins were used as a lesson and which successfully prevented them being repeated. And I’ve seen others keep them from their kids who then did just the same or worse.

The truth is that your story of past misdeeds is only really a good teaching tool and cautionary tale, and therefore edifying, if your life is right now currently in shambles. But inevitably that’s not the case for most of these “testimonies.” Most of the time it’s someone who is very happy, living a wonderful and contented life, often financially stable if not wealthy, telling us how sinful they used to be. I’m glad things worked out for you. I truly am. But “I sinned a lot and now I’m happy and not suffering any significant consequences for my evil behavior” just isn’t a very useful moral lesson for most people, ESPECIALLY children. That doesn’t mean you should feel bad about being happy now. It just means that the world — and your kids — don’t need to know about your prior indiscretions. Keep it to yourself, give glory to God for rewarding someone so unworthy, and move on.

My take on the current discourse about the Christian man with the formerly “promiscuous” wife is that many of the comments towards the man and his wife have been uncharitable, cruel, and certainly un-Christian, but also that Christians these days often tend to be far too eager to tell the entire world about their past sins, which in most cases shows a lack of discretion and a certain lack of the sort of shame one should feel even for repented sins. Also, as a parent, I strongly believe that you generally should avoid telling your kids about your own wayward youth, because the kids will take such stories as an indication that they too can go off and have fun sinning and things will turn out okay, just as they did for you. Also you undermine your own moral authority when you instruct your children not to do the very things you have admitted to having done yourself. Finally, the man’s line about how his wife “is more pure than most virgins” is prideful and shows a kind of competitiveness and vanity that should simply not ever appear in any Prodigal Son style testimony. Imagine if the Prodigal Son had returned and announced himself not only repentant but “more pure” than the brother who stayed? It would kind of destroy the point of the story. So in summary I basically disagree with everyone on this.

@conservmillen @TrevorSheatz Thank you for saying this. I’ve been trying to figure out the problem here

@TrevorSheatz People are weird. I thought this was a great picture of the redeeming power of the gospel. Thanks for sharing!

My wife was formerly promiscuous. I was a virgin. She was then radically born-again. Committed to church, evangelized constantly, Puritan books in her bedroom, prayer journals, grief over past sexual sin, etc. We got to know each other well for over a year, dated for four months, engaged for two and a half, and didn't sin sexually with one another. Our first kiss with each other was at the altar on our wedding day (reaction pic attached!). We've been married for over five years now, and she's been the most wonderful and godly wife, mother to our three children, and homemaker you could imagine. She's more pure than most virgins, as biblical purity has less to with past sins (though they certainly matter) and more to do with one's current posture of the heart and daily decisions to honor the Lord (Matt. 5:8). We're far too quick to forget the story of the woman labeled as a known "sinner" (likely a prostitute) in Luke 7:36-50 who was washing Jesus' feet with her tears while kissing them too. The Pharisees were shocked that Jesus let a public sinner do this. Jesus responded with a parable about debts being forgiven and ended with this powerful conclusion: "Her many sins have been forgiven; that’s why she loved much. But the one who is forgiven little, loves little" (Luke 7:47). Everyone seems to highlight the benefits of virginity, and it certainly is a blessing. But we forget to highlight the benefits of being forgiven much as well. My wife knows the depths of Jesus' forgiveness more than most people, enabling her to more easily live out a life of passionate love for her Savior. A woman or man's past sexual sin matters. But what matters far more when it comes to deciding who to marry is if the person is truly born again, if their repentance is real, if they truly have a heart for Christ, if they truly follow Jesus and obey his commands. "God has chosen what is foolish in the world to shame the wise, and God has chosen what is weak in the world to shame the strong. God has chosen what is insignificant and despised in the world ​— ​what is viewed as nothing ​— ​to bring to nothing what is viewed as something, so that no one may boast in his presence. It is from him that you are in Christ Jesus, who became wisdom from God for us ​— ​our righteousness, sanctification, and redemption, — in order that, as it is written: 'Let the one who boasts, boast in the Lord.'" (1 Cor. 1:27-31) "Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has passed away, and see, the new has come!" (2 Cor. 5:17)

There’s a lot of this in the material for celebrating America’s 250th.

In the books being published about the U.S., the only good America is progressive America. You know, where people only hold up signs with leftist taglines.

And Stacey Abrams to teach us about the 15th amendment…

@momofnell 😂

Agreed. And I’m in it!😂

It’s so dramatic that it’s funny. A @TheBabylonBee parody would be fitting.

Always the victims.

No, thank you.

So under Trump, the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) has had to “refocus” its priorities to reflect American core principles, and I think it’s hilarious. They’re having to actually celebrate America. 😎🇺🇸

All just in 2026 so far

Hmm what’s the commonality here

YA is just riddled with this stuff. It’s seriously every other new book that comes out. This author writes about “queer, fat, geeky kids”.

But to be honest, so much of YA is explicit and never questioned. This one just happens to have an extra level of perversion.

You know it’s bad when even Kirkus Reviews changes the age group.

For girls ages 10-16. And don’t worry, trans women are included.

“Angry girls will get us through” aims to make kids mad about things like not being able to kill babies.