Thao: "I did not commit these crimes. My conscience is clear. I will not be a Judas nor join a mob in self-preservation or betray my God."
Judge: "I was hoping for... less preaching"
A Minneapolis judge has sentenced Tou Thao, a former police officer who held back bystanders as other officers pinned George Floyd to the ground, to four years and nine months in state prison.
Yikes! So much idolatry! The safest thing to do is to be unmarried without children, not on speaking terms with your family, to be without any certainty or a sense or attachment to the people around you or your place in the world. What could go wrong?
Before white people came to this land, there were no jails, no homelessness, no laws against homosexuality or abortion. For thousands of years, Indigenous peoples emphasized health, housing, freedom to love who you love and the fact that we need Mother Earth. She doesn’t need us.
"Ackchyually, the phrase 'Jesus Christ is Lord' is a statement of Christian faith that can be found in numerous passages of the Bible. It is not antisemitic."
I'm sorry, but how are you not getting it yet?
There is a whole generation of American Christians who experienced negativity for being Christians on the grounds that they were square, goody two shoes, or at worst not as goody two shoes as they claim to be. Many responded with rock bands, half pipes, Jesus is "rad," etc..
I have run into quite a few "conservative" Christians who lament that hardly any of the great American theologians of the time were abolitionists. The reason is simple: most viewed the abolitionists as insane, fanatical leftists.
I saw a pozzed "Christian" say that not knowing Emmett till is the "perfect examples of evil incarnate" and "satanic." This as an entirely new religion and they look at black people like Hindus look at cattle.
The response should have been nothing, at least nothing so contrived. Now the new negativity comes and the same play is going to be made: "we aren't that bigoted" and proceed to show how they can be down with current thing in a Christianese way. This will backfire badly.
The truth is, early Christians behaved very much like a woke mob or Islamic extremists.
They demolished, vandalised, or melted down a staggering amount of art. Statues were routinely knocked down, defaced and defiled, torn limb from limb by frenzied fanatics. /1
Nayib Bukele did not wait for a revival in order for the gospel to change the hearts of violent antisocial drug gangs. He did his job as a magistrate and wielded the sword. If you want to schedule a revival, have fun, but there are easy political solutions if you have the will.
These Billie Graham and Nixon tapes are wild. At one point Graham was like "You know, Hitler went about it in the wrong way but... he kinda had a point... You should do something to address this problem, Nixon" and Nixon was like "I am too scared"
Step 1: enter a new country with sob stories about mistreatment in another country
Step 2: insult the people who welcome you in by calling a core article of faith "the most bigoted" and tell them to "delete" those articles of faith
Step 3: "wow antisemitism is on the rise"
This is one of the most bigoted tweets I have ever seen.
Delete it, Lizzie.
Religious freedom in the United States applies to every religion.
You have gone too far.
Well, that sucks that in a Christian organization in a Christian society that a Christian can't share the gospel because a Jewish congressman got mad, but at least there's a place for continuing Judaism, which is our top priority as a Christian society or so I recently learned.
Ohio Right to Life dismissed communications director Elizabeth Marbach after Ohio Republican Congressman Max Miller, whose wife sits on the entity’s board, rebuked her for sharing the gospel on social media.
Stop letting your church get away w/ ‘bc 1 Timothy 2-3’ instead of critically engaging scholarship about women in leadership. It is “intellectually unserious” & harmful.
Much stronger evidence is on the side of those who support women fully rather than those who don’t.
Paul writes a letter to people in their own language. They act upon that teaching. Over nineteen hundred years later some dude who speaks English as his first language takes some seminary courses and proceeds to tell us he understands Paul's language better than native speakers
I'm a Christian Nationalist. Why would I want a huge governing role for unbelievers who are hostile to Christianity and Christians? Why would I prioritize their concerns? Why would I make their sensitivities my sensitivities? What's the argument for this?
@PhilipDerrida
You just summarized your politics as “we could be a Christian nation if we did something about the Jews.” You’re showing yourself to be a person who can’t be taken seriously in politics, let alone theology.
Throughout history, the Jewish people have fought to make the world a better place. The principle of Tikkun Olam, or repairing the world, has guided Jewish communities everywhere to do what’s right.
One of the reasons I am so "skeptical" of even legal immigration is that you can take a guy like Carmine, get him on-board with the proposition, make him a Christian-Conservative, and after all that, they still won't get it. It will always be foreign and disposable to them.
Almost every society in the world up until recently would have looked at this as an unquestionable sign from some higher power. Our society just blames it on climate change.
I know this is uncomfortable to talk about, but the apostles didn't raise money for funeral costs for their persecutors, nor the early church for theirs, nor the Reformers for theirs. The idea wouldn't have crossed their minds. They wouldn't have let them be buried with them.
"Widows and orphans are so first century. Yawn. Paying for the dead janitor's funeral? Boring. Evangelicals need to spice things up a bit. Yeah, let's get real upside down kingdomy with our radical love."
There is nothing gayer than gay imperialism. Uganda has a right to self determination and they are under no obligation to listen to some country who doesn't even know what a woman is.
Jenna, not sure why you’re defending this barbaric Ugandan law.
It imposes life imprisonment for consenting adults who engage in gay sex. That’s ridiculous.
You or I may or may not agree with their choices, but consenting adults should not go to jail for what they do in their…
A long time ago a Christian King was shocked to find out all the disgusting and blasphemous teachings in the Talmud and proceeds to deport Talmud enjoyers.
American Christians today: "wow, that king was motivated by envy and Satan!"
These people who completely reinterpreted scripture to avoid offending uppity modern women have the audacity to look you in the eyes and say that they are following the bible and you are following worldly culture.
My biggest regret in 53 years of ministry is that I didn’t do my own personal exegesis sooner on the 4 passages used to restrict women. Shame on me.
I wasted those 4 yrs of Greek in college & seminary. When I finally did my proper “due diligence”, laying aside 50 years of…
Apologies for the hypocrisy. Apologies for the oversight. In order to be consistent we will happily cancel Mrs Doubtfire now. Thank you for pointing this out.
@kenzietuff
@theistinthought
I love my husband. We both agree that if we could go back in time and not have kids, we would. We can't wait until they leave, so it can be just the two of us again. Kids are relationship wreckers. They are a third wheel in a marriage.
Remember when that Jewish Republican guy got the communications director of Ohio Right to Life fired for saying only Jesus saves and the pro life movement there got nuked?
After being on the losing side of a revolution, the conservative ceases to be a conservative in the proper sense of the word. Instead, he either becomes a counter revolutionary or a collaborator.
It's crazy how civil rights law destroyed the old order between the sexes while allowing for a tiny Ministerial Exception in hiring practices (churches don't have to hire women pastors), and then within a few decades even "conservative" churches reinterpreted scripture to fit it.
1. Saying "Christ is King" (a three word encapsulation of the gospel) is PROCLAIMING the gospel
2. You are impugning motives
3. As for delivery, "Just don't want there to be any confusion over that" sounds kinda scoldy and off putting
As many of you have become aware, last week a display was erected at the Iowa Capitol by the Satanic Temple of Iowa. As I have responded to concerns from Iowans about the display, I wanted to share with you how the display came to be and my response.
How did it happen?
• The…
🚨New: President Trump delivers his Christmas message, “God sent his only son into the world to be the savior of all mankind. The birth of Jesus Christ is the true miracle we celebrate each Christmas. He is the ultimate source of our joy, hope and peace.”
This is why we shipped the Puritans off to the New World, isn’t it?
Just like the woke, they are always trying to cancel Christmas.
Puritanism is the original wokeness.
American Christians are probably prepared to deal with people saying "I hate you because I hate your Jesus," but I don't think they are prepared to be hated for being white with their faith being just a small extra detail in the reason they are hated.
This Uganda law is horrific & wrong.
Any law criminalizing homosexuality or imposing the death penalty for “aggravated homosexuality” is grotesque & an abomination.
ALL civilized nations should join together in condemning this human rights abuse.
#LGBTQ
Should it be illegal to be a Satanist in America?
If so, we don’t have genuine religious freedom in this country.
Our founders separated from England because that government was compelling its citizens to worship at a specific church in a specific manner.
I believe in the God…
"Wokeness" is the outgrowth of civil rights legislation is an infinitely stronger argument than "the Puritans did it" and much stronger than "the Frankfurt school for it"
The year is 2023, Biden just releases the most dangerous criminals into the American public. Christians object. Their leaders "wow, don't you guys know that the whole point of Christianity is that you were once imprisoned but Jesus died to set the captives free. SMH."
In an episode of King of the Hill, Hank was being chased in his car by a criminal and he intentionally slowed down so that the criminal would get caught at the red light but the criminal just went thru it and this shocked Hank.
Hank = Conservatives
Traffic laws = Constitution
A friendly reminder to the RW pagan guys critiquing the generic Christian for this that or the other: the generic pagan is a childless liberal bisexual gen-x woman who is passionate about climate change, hot topic, horoscopes, crystals, dream catchers, and hates her parents.
Oklahoma governor acknowledges Christ as king and Clark responds like this. Now, Clark would acknowledge that Christ is indeed king, but the problem for him and people like him is the actual act of asserting this truth in the real world.
I understand that this is an incredibly touchy subject and people get nervous about it being broached, but if we want our society to be more Christian we have to come to terms with the fact that organized atheists with Christian grandmas aren't the only ones blocking our path.
The church is captive to one of its worst public enemies, the Jews, and even its most orthodox leaders punish men for giving public warnings about them.
This will not end well, unless God grants us deep repentance for our cowardice.
The other night the leftist grandson of the guy who shot the teen went on Don Lemon and accused his grandfather of being racist and when asked for proof he just said he was a white evangelical so obviously he is the political enemy. Everyone gets it but our thought leaders.
I’m still thinking about that Tweet last week claiming that ”white evangelicals” are the last remaining hope for America.I was surprised by those who argued that this is a perfectly factual and obvious statement, because it’s based on poll data.
Okay time to make some more people mad:
If some of the behavior of the Covenant School parents seems strange, like something out of a Big Eva PR manual about Christian Ethics, it might surprise you to learn