Christian Apologetics and Public Theology; https://teapaw.org/t.co/ZsiJikekWA; graduate of @DukeU & @denverseminary; DMin. student at BTS
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What a surprise it is to find out that surgically removing the healthy body parts of young people and giving them drugs doesn't make them into the opposite sex but rather causes permanent harm. Who could have foreseen this? 🙄
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Totally agree, @POTUS! I’m writing the bill right now.
We must stop taxpayer money from going to insurance companies and instead give it directly to Americans in HSA-style accounts and let them buy the health care they want. This will increase competition & drive down costs.
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Join Tony Costa and me this Thursday at 4:30 Pacific / 7:30 Eastern as we discussed Old Testament violence vs. Islamic jihad.
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This is exactly correct.
During the press conference on the resolutions, I was asked by a journalist—charitably, I’ll assume in good faith—whether the omnibus Resolution #5, which calls for overturning Obergefell, was grounded in a theocratic or so-called “Christian Nationalist” agenda, as though we are attempting to impose Christian doctrine upon the nation.
I responded by noting that while the truths articulated in Resolution #5 undeniably flow from a Christian moral vision, they are by no means truths accessible only through Christian revelation. These are moral realities that cultures across history and across the globe have recognized. Consider this simple fact: of the world’s roughly 8 billion people, only about 1.5 billion live under legal regimes that recognize same-sex marriage. Roughly 81% of nations still retain the natural understanding of marriage. The same global pattern holds true regarding the laws and customs that honor the embodied nature of human beings and the priority of the natural family.
In other words, what Western progressivism now requires active ideological coercion to overturn is, in fact, a moral order that is both broadly recognized and deeply rooted in natural law and human nature. The Christian moral witness aligns with these “self-evident truths”—to borrow the language of our own Declaration of Independence—not because Christianity is an arbitrary imposition, but because it faithfully testifies to the way the world actually is.
This is the enduring beauty of Christian morality: it is not a parochial morality, but a true morality. To speak of “imposing” a Christian understanding of marriage and family is no more an imposition of sectarian dogma than it would be to say that gravity imposes itself upon us. It is simply truth doing what truth does.
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This is the response of the great scholars of Islam when a Muslim is disturbed by the horrific behaviors of false prophet Muhammad.
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Yes! Women don't want their purpose to be bringing a man his slippers whenever he barks out the order. We were designed to be led spiritually and morally, to be leveled up and equipped to have an impact for good, to be a partner in being fruitful and making disciples. A man who leads that way (esp. in the context of marriage, as God designed it) is in for an adventure of fun, respect, trust, and an amazing sex life.
I just came up with a new way to say it! Again!
Every time I do this, there's 2 seconds where I feel like "this is the last thing I'll ever need to say about this and everyone will get it and we can finally all start acting right..."
...and then I realize "no, everyone has to hear it in a different way and not everyone can reach understanding through the same thing."
Anyway.
You know how sometimes you think about the vastness and emptiness of life, and what does it all mean, and what should you do, and what's the purpose of it all, and you have to figure out something to fill that void? And you create meaningful actions for yourself to take?
Women want you to do that FOR them. They LOVE that.
That's what they mean by "leading." Not "boss me around and make me wash laundry." More like "play a song that makes me love being alive. Make a plan for us that I can have faith in." THAT kind of leading.
That's why everything's so fucked! The whole civilized world went and taught its men that leading makes you naughty and you have to be a good little "it's just my opinion but" guy or else you did the holocaust or slavery or whatever.
That's spiritual castration. They taught you NOT to fill women's lives with meaning, and instead ask them permission to have an opinion. That's the spiritual form of sexual union that they taught you was MORALLY WRONG to do. And now no one's having kids! Economics also play a part obv.
Anyway go be cool enough to make a girl change her beliefs.
"I would like to have an opinion if it's OK with all the ladies and doesn't make anyone sad" UGH
I'm planning to do my dissertation on natural law as a biblical foundation for objective moral truth and human flourishing. My favorite author on this topic so far is @andrewtwalker who I'm hoping will give me feedback on my contributions at some point.
Walker writes in "Faithful Reason":
"Christian natural law ethics from start to finish is an act of grace. Even the character of goodness...is itself of grace. That God creates human beings and lets even fallen human beings experience moral goodness reflects God’s common grace and his creational bounty to his creatures. The goodness that humans can experience is a goodness that reflects God’s own being. Such an approach to Christian ethics is understood within a natural law teleology: In His divine wisdom, God has seen fit to design a universe and a field of moral action consistent with his own nature. God orders creaturely activity to be consistent with the universe he has designed. To the extent we obey God and fulfill what he demands of us within this moral order, we pursue God’s glory by recognizing his authority and majestic creatorship. But we also, simultaneously, pursue our own good as we align ourselves with the Creator’s intentions for our flourishing. All qualities of the 'good,' then, are reflections of God’s own nature since God could not impart anything less than a measure of himself in ordering the moral world." (p. 29-30)
If there was any doubt about the foolishness of open borders, the 300,000 missing children should settle those doubts.
If there was any doubt as to the Biden admin's evil intentions, their indifference toward these children and their unwillingness to find them should make it all clear.
BREAKING: Harris Faulkner from Fox News reportedly stated that the @realDonaldTrump administration has located between 75,000 and 80,000 of the over 300,000 missing migrant children. Confirmation from officials or more details to come.
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De-banking people due to their beliefs is absolutely evil and will destroy a civilization.
De-banking is being used as a political weapon:
"Melania Trump, a former First Lady of the United States, had her long-standing bank account shuttered—a decision her family claims was tied directly to her last name. Even more absurdly, her son Barron was reportedly denied the opportunity to open an account for the same reason. These incidents are not anomalies; they are part of a broader pattern.
Indigenous Advance Ministries, a faith-based organization that aids Ugandan orphans, saw its account of eight years summarily closed. The reason given? The group’s mission no longer aligned with the bank’s “risk tolerance.” This cryptic language has become a catch-all justification for political bias in financial decision-making.
The National Committee for Religious Freedom, founded by former Kansas Governor Sam Brownback, experienced similar treatment when JPMorgan Chase shut down its account without a clear explanation. Such actions belie claims of impartiality and reveal the banks’ growing alignment with progressive cultural and political agendas."
To be gender-affirming means to recognize that whether God created you male or female, you are created in the image of God and have inherent value, dignity, and worth. It means recognizing that whatever your sex--male or female--you have an important purpose and a valuable role in the Kingdom of God and on His Earth.
Cutting off someone's healthy breasts or genitals, chemically castrating them, and dressing them up as the opposite sex is the opposite of gender-affirming care. Parents, teachers, lawyers, judges, and everyone else in society who is not vocally against such practices are morally confused, depraved, and sick.
To the degree that we allow depraved activists to define our terms, we harm young people, dishonor God, and eat away at our civilization.
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My response to the fools who think Only Fans is a fine career choice for women because it's an expression of capitalism 👇🏼
The main difference between conservatives and libertarians is virtue. Libertarians say, "Everyone do whatever you want. Live and let live. Destroy everything as long as you do it autonomously." Conservatives recognize that virtue matters, decency matters, we are all impacted by one another's decisions, and so when a generation of young women decides to become prostitutes, the whole society suffers. Men have few options for marriage. Children are raised without fathers and grow up to be undisciplined, self-centered criminals, schools deteriorate, cities burn, and civilization crumbles. Every law is based on someone's morality, so yes, some of us are going to advocate for virtuous, objective morality.
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When I was growing up, devoting oneself to family was so out of vogue. Worse than that, it was considered a sure path to misery. In a thousand different ways, I got the message that a successful and respectable life was defined by one's career success, earned income, and international fame. Children were a drain on all that is important in life, and usually they came about by accident. Fortunately, technology had advanced to "take care of it." True happiness was now attainable for women as well as men.
I don't know that anyone specifically articulated these lies to me, at least not this directly, but they were so embedded in the culture that they were, essentially, the air we breathed.
The more I've read and studied, the more I've realized that these lies are a necessary--and probably sufficient--precondition for the destruction of a civilization. They are antithetical to the Scriptures, to historical thriving, and to common sense. This is probably the reason the Bible condemns selfish ambition, which I believed to be an admirable value.
I can't go back in time, but I can certainly fight for the integrity and thriving of families today. I can help disciple the children in my church, neighborhood, and martial arts school. I can read and share information, and advocate for good marriage and family policy. I can warn parents and grandparents of the consequences of not pouring themselves into their family, even at the cost of other ministries, job opportunities, and personal pleasure.
It's not enough to birth children, cart them around to sports and music practices, and hope that paid school teachers raise them well. They won't! Parenting is a full-time job that consists of intentional discipleship, selfless sacrifice, and constant equipping, both of ourselves and of our children; after all, we can't give what we don't have.
Crystal Mangum, the drug-addicted stripper who falsely accused three Duke lacrosse players of gang rape in 2006, has admitted 18 years later that she lied about being raped.
This case set numerous dangerous precedents. In the words of Casey Johnson, a professor of history at Brooklyn College and co-author of a book on the case "Until Proven Innocent":
“[The behavior we saw from the Duke faculty] was unprecedented. I can't think of another instance in modern higher education in which faculty members essentially chose to exploit their students’ distress to advance a campus pedagogical agenda, to push their own ideological vision, and to abandon any pretense of supporting fairness, due process, or the dispassionate evaluation of evidence.”
This was the beginning of the "believe all women" ideology that has since permeated America and destroyed the lives of many innocent young men. This was the first case I'm aware of in which we were encouraged from all sides (a major reputable university, the District Attorney, the community, the NY Times, and other media) to assume white males from wealthy families must be guilty before a single piece of evidence is shared.
This represented an open abandonment of our biblical and national founding principles of due process and impartiality.
Today, many young men are watching their income, parental rights, and freedom taken away as they are commanded by radical judges to give everything to the wife who is abandoning them, to trans their children, and to go to jail if they refuse. (My claims here do not just come from the news but from intimate knowledge from personal friends who are experiencing this).
Other young men are watching this happen and deciding to abandon dating, marriage, and children. I don't endorse that response, but I certainly empathize with these young men.
We need to return to our biblical roots of impartiality, innocent until proven guilty, and objective evaluation of the evidence. Unfortunately, many young people today will never experience the joys of marriage and family because we, the older generation, have poisoned the well from which they must drink. It's time to start reversing the trends.
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See entire thread. Then do the Trump dance as the DoE gets disbanded.
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This teacher admits she doesn't know when America was founded. She also says she doesn't teach her students the curriculum, but instead teaches about protesting anti-racism, activism, and Black Lives Matter.
So....Let's talk about the Department of Education.
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This would be YUGE indeed!
https://teapaw.org/t.co/jrIZDIyzOf I'm thinking of @dr_owenanderson while watching this. If Trump could pull this off it would be... in a word... YUGE
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It's fascinating to see so many 20-somethings who've never worked a real job, never been responsible for paying their own bills, and couldn't pass a basic economics quiz if their life depended on it making videos in which they lecture and scold the rest of society for voting for Trump. This is what happens when everyone gets a trophy, a degree, an A, and heaps of praise just for participation. The lack of humility is astounding.
One of many reasons Christians (and everyone else) voted for Trump
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