Dr. David Tee, whose real name is Derrick Thomas Thiessen, recently sent me a guest post. While I initially agreed to publish his post, I regretted doing so after reading it. After a day of contemplation on the matter, I decided not to make his post available to the readers of this blog. His vitriol towards LGBTQ people in general, and specifically transgender people, was enough for me to pass on publishing his post. You can read the post on Thiessen’s blog, TheologyArcheology: A Site for the Glory of God.
In his initial email to me, Thiessen demanded:
Hello,
I have attached the document to this email, The instructions are the same as before. Do not let your editor or anyone touch the content or make changes. The content has already been through two spell and grammar checks.
It is written the way I want it to read.
DDavidT
I’ve been blogging for seventeen years. Scores of people have sent me guest posts to publish. Not one person has made demands of me as Theissen does with his post. Most people appreciate a professional editor going over their writing. Contrary to what Theissen says, his submission had numerous grammar, punctuation, and word usage errors. And Thiessen knows this. He just published his post on his blog. I used comparison software to compare what Theissen sent me and what he published on his site. Numerous changes were made to the text. So much for the text he sent me not needing an editor.
Since he was unwilling to allow Carolyn, my editor, to edit his post to make sure it meets the publishing standard for this site, I decided not to publish it. Both the content and the quality of the post were sufficient for me to say “no thanks.”
While waiting for me to publish his post, Thiessen said the following on several blog posts:
On another note, BG is asking for people to write guest posts. We figure he is getting sicker and it is harder for him to maintain his writing schedule. We submitted one a few days ago and are still waiting to see if it will be published.
We told him not to let his editor touch the content as we wrote what we wanted in the post. we have checked for several days now to see if it will appear and if it doesn’t,. we will place it here.
BG has often claimed that we do not write like a doctor so we did a post leaning towards an academic style of writing to satisfy his complaint. So we shall see. If he does not want to post it, he should send us an email so we can post it here.
Anyways, if anyone wants to write a comment below, use our initials DT, we are not upset if anyone does.
BG has failed to post our guest post. We wrote it because he made the offer and opened it up to everyone and on any topic. We see that he has made his own posts since we submitted it, so it is not like there is a long line of authors trying to publish something on his website.
We will give it one more day, and if it doesn’t appear, we will post the content here. We do not care where it is posted as long as it gets published. He may not like the concluding remarks, as those do not bode well for him and his LGBTQ friends.
Our initial thought for his delay is that he got very afraid to publish it, but we do not know the real reason.
Author’s note– This is the guest post we sent to BG in response to his offer to publish a guest post by anyone on any topic. We simply got tired of waiting for him to post it. If he eventually does, we may take this one down so there is no duplication.
Thiessen thinks his post is so incendiary that I am “afraid” to publish it. Child, please. When I read this post to my partner and read the line from Theissen that said, “Our initial thought for his delay is that he got very afraid to publish it,” Polly started laughing hysterically — rightly so.
Frankly, I am tired of Theissen refusing to use my name when he mentions me on his site. Why should I post anything of his if he can’t even bother to call me or Ben Berwick by our given names? Instead, he uses the initials BG and MM. Further, he refuses to properly link to our content when he uses it. I always use his proper name and link to his content when mentioning him on this site. That’s what professional, respectful writers do– which Thiessen is neither.
Finally, reader interaction is welcome on this site. I read every comment and try my best to respond, if warranted. Thiessen doesn’t want to participate in this process on this site. Comment on a post of his on this blog, and instead of replying, he turns it into a blog post on his site. And if you try to leave a comment on his blog, Thiessen will likely give it a one-sentence answer or delete it. If a guest writer is unwilling to interact with the fine readers of this blog, why should I bother to publish his writing?
Bruce Gerencser, 67, lives in rural Northwest Ohio with his wife of 46 years. He and his wife have six grown children and sixteen grandchildren. Bruce pastored Evangelical churches for twenty-five years in Ohio, Texas, and Michigan. Bruce left the ministry in 2005, and in 2008 he left Christianity. Bruce is now a humanist and an atheist.
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I’ve read Tee’s article and I can understand why you’d be reluctant to allow it to be posted here, albeit I’m referring more to its content than to his refusal to allow it to be edited. As with all such claims that morality is objectively the word of god his post is littered with paradoxical inconsistency. He disparages the existence of ‘rights’ which he says are just a subjective response to the consensus of the prevailing culture. Then he distinguishes rights from ‘right vs wrong’ (indeed that’s pretty well the title of his article), the latter which he claims fall to be judged objectively.
This, of course, is nonsense, made especially silly by the fact that his entire article is just one big opinion piece, and a poorly argued one at that. As I say every time on the subject, how can morality possibly be objective even if you believe implicitly that the bible is God’s word and you are acting in accordance with it? The second you introduce the word ‘believe’ you are making a subjective case. It doesn’t matter how many times something is written down, or where it is written, or whom it is quoting, it is your choice to abide by it, or reject it, and in so doing you act subjectively. Right and wrong are important considerations in the moral debate and rights arise as a result of how we view these, but to claim that they can be objective is to be completely ignorant as to the meaning of the word.
This is Thiessen’s response. If you don’t want to read it, let me sum it up for you: BRUCE IS A LIAR. 😈🤣🤣😈
So much for any integrity or character on the part of BG. He not only broke his word but also lied about the interaction. But what do we care, people lie about and to us all the time, and have done so for over 60 years.
As we read his ‘post’ he misrepresents everything about the entire transaction and the article itself:
Dr. David Tee Demands to Know Why I Didn’t Publish His Guest Post Submission
We didn’t demand anything. We will quote it for you:
This is the guest post we sent to BG in response to his offer to publish a guest post by anyone on any topic. We simply got tired of waiting for him to post it. If he eventually does, we may take this one down so there is no duplication.
Our initial thought for his delay is that he got very afraid to publish it, but we do not know the real reason.
No demand is present, and we do not care whether he posted it or not. I believe we said that in our article Observations, #2:
BG has failed to post our guest post. We wrote it because he made the offer and opened it up to everyone and on any topic. We see that he has made his own posts since we submitted it, so it is not like there is a long line of authors trying to publish something on his website.
We will give it one more day, and if it doesn’t appear, we will post the content here. We do not care where it is posted as long as it gets published. He may not like the concluding remarks, as those do not bode well for him and his LGBTQ friends.
No demand or negative comments were made about him in that post either. But people like BG cannot help but lie. Especially when it is about someone they do not like. His comment
While I initially agreed to publish his post, I regretted doing so after reading it. After a day of contemplation on the matter, I decided not to make his post available to the readers of this blog. His vitriol towards LGBTQ people in general, and specifically transgender people, was enough for me to pass on publishing his post.
The door was left open for us to write about any topic, and we asked him if he had a preference. Unbeknownst to him, we kept the emails. Not for any particular reason, but keeping them in our inbox has proven to be the right move. Our initial email to him:
Message:
I am game to write another one for you and I will avoid you as a topic. Do you have any special topic preferences that I could consider? I am off topic as well.
As you can see, we were not going to write one if he refused. Notice we kept both him and ourselves off the topic list. We were not going to insult or do him any injury, nor would we open ourselves up to the same thing. His answer was;
Your choice on subject.
Thanks.
Bruce Gerencser
He really has no leg to stand on and shows that he has no integrity or character, and we could say he is not a man, as a man keeps his word.
In his initial email to me, Thiessen demanded:
He did publish our email, but there was no demand in that as well. His comment there ignores one keyword
I have attached the document to this email, The instructions are the same as before. Do not let your editor or anyone touch the content or make changes. The content has already been through two spell and grammar checks
When we wrote a guest post for him once before, he had no problem with these instructions. Since he didn’t like the topic, he now creates a problem and lies about our words and communication.
Yes, we use two spell checks when we use the Word program, and even they cannot catch all the mistakes. Plus, the instructions were to protect our content from an unbeliever who does not understand what we wrote and would freely use her interpretive skills to change our content.
We are not opening our content up to that treatment. When we did not spot our guest post on his website, we sent a second email that was very friendly:
Hello BG
If you are not going to publish my guest post, let me know please and I will publish it on my site.
We were not going to post the content on our website as duplicate material on different websites can cause SEO problems. We were looking to avoid that situation. But does he ask or clarify our intent? No, he immediately went to lying about us.
He just published his post on his blog. I used comparison software to compare what … sent me and what he published on his site. Numerous changes were made to the text. So much for the text he sent me not needing an editor.
There were not many changes. It is a funny thing. Grammarly installed on our computer does not always agree with Grammarly that is on WordPress. The latter found some word problems, which we corrected. They were minor changes only. But BG can only lie.
The BG post goes on and on with more false representations, and why he does not ike a nickname with initials is beyond us. Like we said in a recent post, he and MM are the only two who have a problem with it.
There is no point in addressing any of the content after the last quote because it is useless to get involved in a discussion, debate, or conversation with a known liar who is so narcissistic that he has to make others look bad and himself the victim all the time.
He can’t help it as he does it in every post, especially with those he does not like. In all the years he has posted, about the only time he does not mention himself and his years as a pastor and Christian is when he publishes guest posts.
That is why he is never in the top 100 of all websites. He is boring, like MM, and repeats information ad nauseam that was covered in one web page on his website.
We just want to keep the record clear and not let his lies do us any harm.