#  @GShaneMorris Shane Morris
Shane Morris posts on X about ai, culture, this is, twitter the most. They currently have [-----] followers and [---] posts still getting attention that total [-----] engagements in the last [--] hours.
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### Top Social Posts
Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours
"@ScrawnyBeast @bendellwerry Read up. It's not a healthy dynamic. It effectively assumes women's baseline is sinlessness"
[X Link](https://x.com/GShaneMorris/status/1674573709711998980) 2023-06-30T00:20Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@matt_ecton96 @9Marks @SEBTS "The fact that Rome and EO teach infant baptism does everything proves our doctrine that adult baptism does nothing" has to be one of the weirdest things I've ever heard claimed into a microphone"
[X Link](https://x.com/GShaneMorris/status/1677465951430639617) 2023-07-07T23:53Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@colinsmo "The fact that Rome and EO teach infant baptism does everything proves our doctrine that adult baptism does nothing" has to be one of the weirdest things I've ever heard claimed into a microphone"
[X Link](https://x.com/GShaneMorris/status/1677475890278612995) 2023-07-08T00:33Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
""The fact that Rome and EO teach infant baptism does everything proves our doctrine that adult baptism does nothing" has to be one of the weirdest things I've ever heard claimed into a microphone"
[X Link](https://x.com/GShaneMorris/status/1677730108499435520) 2023-07-08T17:23Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Rightly understood the Reformed doctrine of the Lord's Supper is supposed to restore the mystery to the act of eating Christ not divest the Sacrament of Christ. Any articulation that obscures this is an abject failure"
[X Link](https://x.com/GShaneMorris/status/1678435369321201665) 2023-07-10T16:07Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"This lines up with my cynical reading. Republican voters have not gotten Trump out of their system yet. The mythology is canonized and anybody who tries to fight it is probably ruining his political career"
[X Link](https://x.com/GShaneMorris/status/1678438169472114691) 2023-07-10T16:18Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
""To the extent that any vision of nontoxic masculinity is proposed it ends up sounding more like stereotypical femininity than anything else: Guys should learn to be more sensitive quiet and socially apt seemingly overnight.""
[X Link](https://x.com/GShaneMorris/status/1678491208048422912) 2023-07-10T19:50Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"There's this bizarre idea modern 1st world white people have that they're owed a challenge-free life. That their default state as human beings is mimosas at brunch a stock photo career therapy & yoga in the park & anything interfering w/this ideal is an aberration. 1/x"
[X Link](https://x.com/GShaneMorris/status/1679157943843844101) 2023-07-12T15:57Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"This is how you get breathless threads like this about the life-destroying horrors of parenting.a thing literally the majority of the human race has always done mostly w/ MUCH greater difficulty than we face. Life is challenging. Passing on life is one of those challenges. 2/x"
[X Link](https://x.com/GShaneMorris/status/1679157946800918529) 2023-07-12T15:57Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"This is not an aberration secret or shocking surprise. It is the NORM. You are not owed a life of elysian ease or personal actualization. And yes parenting is hard. Like literally everything else or all of history outside our affluent automated media-curated bubble. 3/x"
[X Link](https://x.com/GShaneMorris/status/1679157949581631488) 2023-07-12T15:57Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"If the mere presence of children in your life is experienced as a crippling and unusual burden this is almost certainly a commentary on your fragility and unrealistic conception of what "normal" life looks like not something to bravely announce on Twitter"
[X Link](https://x.com/GShaneMorris/status/1679157952047972353) 2023-07-12T17:15Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"This essay is monumental. David Brooks is approaching some very deep truths that could rewrite his worldview and the destiny of the modern world"
[X Link](https://x.com/GShaneMorris/status/1681736833162412032) 2023-07-20T00:35Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Virtually all young men are born w/ a burning question: "What does it mean to be a man" You can stick your head in the sand of modernity & pretend "being a man" isn't a real thing distinct from "being a good generic human unit" but you're only ensuring your own irrelevance"
[X Link](https://x.com/GShaneMorris/status/1688631600546770944) 2023-08-07T19:22Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"This is impressive. I'm not entirely sure what I think but anyone who embraces a general narrative of blue collar decline and victimization by elites certainly needs to grapple with these facts"
[X Link](https://x.com/GShaneMorris/status/1691535657254912000) 2023-08-15T19:41Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"It's remarkable how many casual references to religion there are in pop culture from just [--] yrs ago vs. now. Kids & I re-watched the first Tobey Maguire Spider-Man feat. the Lord's Prayer "suffer the little children" "Godspeed" etc. These would be lost on a 2020s audience"
[X Link](https://x.com/GShaneMorris/status/1693680272674283751) 2023-08-21T17:43Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@bendellwerry There was a great article somewhere years back about the choral music in Harry Potter and how Hollywood essentially adopted the entire aesthetic of sacred music from the church and now uses it to evoke majesty.meanwhile the church is playing bad pop"
[X Link](https://x.com/GShaneMorris/status/1696565997589721510) 2023-08-29T16:50Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Why does every woman who does these "I'm so happy I don't have kids so I can get drunk and watch Netflix" rants look so obviously and deeply sad Who are they trying to convince 1/4"
[X Link](https://x.com/GShaneMorris/status/1698837421301903850) 2023-09-04T23:16Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Jordan Peterson said something I'll never forget: you don't grow up until you're no longer the most important person in your life. Parenthood is historically the main way this transition happens. 2/4"
[X Link](https://x.com/GShaneMorris/status/1698837424355344514) 2023-09-04T23:16Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Line from the new book "The Great DeChurching": "Anecdotally we know of almost no parents over the age of fifty who dont have at least one adult child who is dechurched." Neither my family nor my wife's fits this description. Nine adult kids between them. Are we in a bubble"
[X Link](https://x.com/GShaneMorris/status/1698897715747336410) 2023-09-05T03:15Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@Particular_Drew One baptism for the remission of sins What is this heterodox nonsense"
[X Link](https://x.com/GShaneMorris/status/1699161938121658428) 2023-09-05T20:45Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"BreakPoint cold take on last month's viral hit: political outrage anthems glorify a low-agency victim mindset on the right. https://breakpoint.org/what-rich-men-north-of-richmond-gets-right-and-what-it-misses/ https://breakpoint.org/what-rich-men-north-of-richmond-gets-right-and-what-it-misses/"
[X Link](https://x.com/GShaneMorris/status/1699439834257834085) 2023-09-06T15:10Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"I guess my answers at present would be: 1.) Compared to what *gestures toward Pope Francis* 2.) This is a statistical artifact of our historical moment in which *virtually every institution* liberalized. 3.) Protestant conservatives keep on spinning off and restarting stuff"
[X Link](https://x.com/GShaneMorris/status/1699800970299924770) 2023-09-07T15:05Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Why is this app suddenly crawling with Only Fans bait accounts liking random posts (often comically posts condemning various forms of sexual immorality)"
[X Link](https://x.com/GShaneMorris/status/1700184315491959235) 2023-09-08T16:28Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
""Every 2000-year-old social teaching of Christianity I don't like was invented by white American evangelicals in the 1980s" sure is an unbelievably prolific book genre these days"
[X Link](https://x.com/GShaneMorris/status/1700247572730847621) 2023-09-08T20:39Z [----] followers, 14.9K engagements
"On today's episode of "How Will My Gay Marriage Hurt You""
[X Link](https://x.com/GShaneMorris/status/1700577053051932776) 2023-09-09T18:28Z [----] followers, 12.7K engagements
"It has become an article of faith on the right that the common man is the guardian of decency tradition faith morality etc. But one of the things interviewing social science types has taught me is that nobody is giving up faster on marriage and church than the working class"
[X Link](https://x.com/GShaneMorris/status/1701284338589934009) 2023-09-11T17:19Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"I'm convinced Hell is just highlighting large amounts of text with a laptop trackpad for eternity"
[X Link](https://x.com/GShaneMorris/status/1701726802652111317) 2023-09-12T22:37Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"The real problem with the idea that Mary was sinless isn't that it makes her into a secondary savior. It's that if God could preserve people ordinarily conceived from Original or actual sin by mere fiat.why was Jesus or the cross necessary at all (Aquinas agrees BTW)"
[X Link](https://x.com/GShaneMorris/status/1701751114041831689) 2023-09-13T00:14Z [----] followers, 15.2K engagements
"Whats one movie you hate but everyone else seems to like A: The "you're not allowed to grieve the evil of divorce because your parents' expressive individualism comes first" apologetic with Robin Williams in drag"
[X Link](https://x.com/GShaneMorris/status/1702361292541989020) 2023-09-14T16:38Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@FoundationDads Or living sexually degenerate consumerist lives while citing [--] Cor [--] as if that's what Paul meant"
[X Link](https://x.com/GShaneMorris/status/1702697632127144438) 2023-09-15T14:55Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Periodically progressives will reverse engineer healthy sexual behavior and act like theyve discovered Atlantis. -Auron MacIntyre"
[X Link](https://x.com/GShaneMorris/status/1703891075780255877) 2023-09-18T21:57Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Getting an inexplicable error message from the Samsung TV and days into work-related Microsoft cloud crap not working and honestly I'm waiting for the AI that solves otherwise intractable dumb IT problems instead of drawing people with too many fingers"
[X Link](https://x.com/GShaneMorris/status/1703956985572421904) 2023-09-19T02:19Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Yes. I have a deep deep appreciation for Peterson. His books and lectures attuned me to aspects of reality to which I was largely deaf. They helped me even as a Christian through suffering. But his Twitter account is just unhinged and bizarre"
[X Link](https://x.com/GShaneMorris/status/1705379189401260471) 2023-09-23T00:30Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"If this is not a bot designed to flawlessly personify everything Carl Trueman's "Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self" criticizes right down to terms and phrases then color me impressed. Behold modern man your gospel: self-actualization"
[X Link](https://x.com/GShaneMorris/status/1706779861853880613) 2023-09-26T21:16Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Jordan Peterson has the best response:"
[X Link](https://x.com/GShaneMorris/status/1707041826262163871) 2023-09-27T14:37Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"This ongoing battle between Twitter Red Pill Gal and a Christian sociologist re: marriage and men is revealing. Yes modern marriage is feminized and a legal joke. But statistically it's still amazingly better for men than remaining single and being "high value.""
[X Link](https://x.com/GShaneMorris/status/1707062674142466232) 2023-09-27T16:00Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Joshua Harris's ex-wife's memoir is out & wow. Full deconstruction. Six years ago I said the backlash against "purity culture" was mostly a cover for rejecting Christian sexual morality + the household. Ppl had all kinds of more nuanced takes. I'm satisfied w/ how mine has aged: As an adolescent @racheljwelcher naively read Boy Meets Girl the tale of Joshua and Shannon Harriss courtship as a love story. Decades later holding Shannons memoir I can practically feel the weight of her untold stories in my hands. https://t.co/fppREa4pfj As an adolescent @racheljwelcher naively read Boy Meets Girl"
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1708613184829972710) 2023-10-01T22:41Z [----] followers, 158.5K engagements
"Those who want to double down & say "Of course these folks rejected Christianity purity culture ruined it for them" should pay attention to what these exvangelical authors mean by "purity culture." They're quite clear: original sin chastity traditional gender roles the home"
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1708615318862467405) 2023-10-01T22:50Z [----] followers, 11.5K engagements
"There's rly only so much mileage you can get morally out of your youth pastor using a bad analogy for sex in [----]. Grow up. Read the church fathers. Look at how harsh Christians have been re sexual sin for 2k years. "Purity culture" didn't ruin your faith. You rejected Jesus"
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1708620349946900591) 2023-10-01T23:10Z [----] followers, 59.8K engagements
"@CanEvangelical For real. It's not as if all this apostasy corresponded with the broader culture losing its marbles on sex and gender and the rise of therapeutic victimhood as social capital or anything"
[X Link](https://x.com/GShaneMorris/status/1708630256922321168) 2023-10-01T23:49Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@KirkMiller_ Most don't seem to be able to hold both thoughts in their heads at the same time actually"
[X Link](https://x.com/GShaneMorris/status/1710254054905983339) 2023-10-06T11:21Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Clearly she's been reading David Bentley Hart"
[X Link](https://x.com/GShaneMorris/status/1713926907681525878) 2023-10-16T14:36Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"It seems to me Israel-Gaza is one of the few major news events lately that Twitter culture warriors have struggled to code as left-right. It seems like the more middle/level-headed folks on both sides agree on one take and the crazies off in both directions agree on another"
[X Link](https://x.com/GShaneMorris/status/1714727857958625714) 2023-10-18T19:39Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Weve been culturally conditioned at nearly every turn to put other things ahead of marriage and children. We believe that marriage and family will just happen when its time. But these things rarely do just happen in our culture"
[X Link](https://x.com/GShaneMorris/status/1716829946201718833) 2023-10-24T14:52Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"I had a dream last night that I was walking & chatting w/ my paternal grandfather Marcus Morris who died in [----]. He was a big part of my childhood & a dedicated Christian man who led a simple life + worked w/ his hands. I often think about how honored I am to carry his name"
[X Link](https://x.com/GShaneMorris/status/1717989517829734584) 2023-10-27T19:39Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"New Atheism is collapsing in large part because it depended on an unacknowledged patrimony of Anglophone Protestant sensibilities and optimism about life and science and it turns out when people without that background reject God they mostly become mystics or totalitarians"
[X Link](https://x.com/GShaneMorris/status/1720158679121396035) 2023-11-02T19:19Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"We gather at Thanksgiving to enjoy food count our blessings & praise the Giver. But is it possible to enjoy God's gifts TOO much This week I welcome @joe_rigney author ofThe Things of Earth to explain how to treasure God by enjoying our blessings"
[X Link](https://x.com/GShaneMorris/status/1727014547675120065) 2023-11-21T17:22Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Watching China mandate one child for [--] years crash its fertility & now try to compensate is like watching a driver swerve back & forth overcorrecting eventually flying into a ditch. The West's pop is stagnant but at least we didn't have a generation of forced abortions"
[X Link](https://x.com/GShaneMorris/status/1727344580591251886) 2023-11-22T15:13Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Here a girl who literally spent her childhood sailing around the world with her parents to tropical islands recasts her life as a victim narrative. This is what sells now. Don't forget that when you hear the next anti-religious sob story"
[X Link](https://x.com/GShaneMorris/status/1728900572332605479) 2023-11-26T22:16Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Early New Year's resolution: never to condemn anything someone loves that isn't an outright sin. God's world and image bearers are varied and wondrous and the world is better for containing many different tastes. Except fruitcake"
[X Link](https://x.com/GShaneMorris/status/1730793127340863882) 2023-12-02T03:36Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Things I think are screwed up and awful: The expectation and pressure among college-educated Christians that moving across the country and building a new life far from parents and siblings is normal or even ideal. 1/3"
[X Link](https://x.com/GShaneMorris/status/1731723969642774873) 2023-12-04T17:15Z [----] followers, 73.1K engagements
"God bless those big fat multicolored 1980s Christmas lights. I love their wholesome childlike energy. All these tiny white lights popular today smell of cat moms Chardonnay and below replacement birth rates"
[X Link](https://x.com/GShaneMorris/status/1731899787836809713) 2023-12-05T04:54Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Everyone wants to call C. S. Lewis's Space Trilogy "The Ransom Trilogy" which fine. It's better than a title obviously invented by a publisher who didn't read it. But I am still holding out for "Cosmic Trilogy" which is a runner-up. Or even better "Deep Heaven Trilogy.""
[X Link](https://x.com/GShaneMorris/status/1732549437216465171) 2023-12-06T23:55Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@johnehrett Good review as usual. I just have to say tho this excerpt reads like something ChatGPT would spit out if I asked it to parody you"
[X Link](https://x.com/GShaneMorris/status/1734275482957291755) 2023-12-11T18:14Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@RichardHanania Ah post hoc ergo propter hoc my favorite argument"
[X Link](https://x.com/GShaneMorris/status/1734377154064920733) 2023-12-12T00:58Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@lauriewolpert26 No it's just your position stated simply and literally without euphemisms like "medical care" and "value structure." What you mean is killing babies who don't meet a eugenic standard"
[X Link](https://x.com/GShaneMorris/status/1734929658141954056) 2023-12-13T13:33Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"It's the smart phones. They're breaking teenage brains. It's really not nuanced at all it's just that"
[X Link](https://x.com/GShaneMorris/status/1734934239253082566) 2023-12-13T13:52Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@lauriewolpert26 Doctors in Canada and the Netherlands help people kill themselves every day. A physician coming up with a motive does not make murder okay"
[X Link](https://x.com/GShaneMorris/status/1734975792390471876) 2023-12-13T16:37Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@lauriewolpert26 You seem to be laboring under the assumption that "the pro-life cause" is something other than stopping legal killing of babies. Pragmatic politics is one thing but ethics is another. You seem to believe that murders cease to be murder when they're politically convenient"
[X Link](https://x.com/GShaneMorris/status/1734991561253949603) 2023-12-13T17:39Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@suzania The thing that strikes me is what a vast array of ideas and people they're grouping under this "Christian nationalism" label. It's especially odd when juxtaposed with reverent footage of King's civil rights efforts which were unquestionably an appeal to Christian nationhood"
[X Link](https://x.com/GShaneMorris/status/1735009660631929164) 2023-12-13T18:51Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Everyone is still alluding to TGC's Taylor Swift article but goodness are you folks seeing National Review's dueling think pieces about whether T Swizzle is a genius"
[X Link](https://x.com/GShaneMorris/status/1735023759742939539) 2023-12-13T19:47Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Yes. Disney is to this day suffused with themes and morals none but a Christ-haunted culture could produce. The expressive individualism and underdog storytelling speak to people for reasons they don't fully understand. Even if the ideology has lately eclipsed the art"
[X Link](https://x.com/GShaneMorris/status/1735701100710257051) 2023-12-15T16:39Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Do they want more Trumps forever Because this is how you get more Trumps forever"
[X Link](https://x.com/GShaneMorris/status/1737566242997714977) 2023-12-20T20:10Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Once you realize how much social justice playacting of this variety depends on Christianity you're ruined. So far as I know no civilization in world history has believed stronger people have a duty to curb their strength for the sake of a weaker people.except Christians"
[X Link](https://x.com/GShaneMorris/status/1738240750511427608) 2023-12-22T16:51Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Harvard just announced Claudine Gay's replacement as president and this time it's an award-winning academic with an impeccable track record of success and originality in his field:"
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1742648678756585752) 2024-01-03T20:46Z [--] followers, [----] engagements
"You have never seen a piece of AI art or read AI writing. It doesn't exist. It's a more advanced way of saying you can have a conversation with a rock"
[X Link](https://x.com/GShaneMorris/status/1742946332057244138) 2024-01-04T16:29Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@DrJustinbass @crwiley1962 Or an uneducated one. From God in the Dock:"
[X Link](https://x.com/GShaneMorris/status/1744393570524488163) 2024-01-08T16:20Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"The liturgical repetition of some variation on "the world is going to hell" has become a feature of conversation with anyone born since the 1980s. Why The simple answer is that these people perceive the world almost entirely through smart phones and social media. The teen mental health crisis was not caused by reality getting worse around [----]. Their material and physical health improved steadily. To paraphrase Epictetus: "It is not events which disturb teens. It is the device through which they interpret all events." https://t.co/BDbawhqQQW The teen mental health crisis was not caused by"
[X Link](https://x.com/GShaneMorris/status/1744441604096598468) 2024-01-08T19:31Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"This is odd and troubling considering North America has enjoyed almost the exact opposite trend: In my lifetime most of our raptor species among them the iconic bald eagle have undergone an impressive recovery. What's different about Africa Dozens of African raptor species have suffered declines over the past [--] to [--] years with more than half either more endangered than previously thought or now meet criteria for being threatened with extinction a study found. https://t.co/BGHydqrF2t Dozens of African raptor species have suffered declines over the past [--] to [--] years with more than half"
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1744466145288040869) 2024-01-08T21:08Z [--] followers, [---] engagements
"Has someone written the book yet documenting how every dire prediction conservative evangelicals made on social issues for the last [--] years has basically come true It seems like this would be a very useful if gloomy bit of historical record-keeping and analysis"
[X Link](https://x.com/GShaneMorris/status/1745906688257884239) 2024-01-12T20:32Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"I'm pretty idealistic politically but a very pragmatic take I have is that if I were a younger up-and-coming Republican politician say the governor of the fastest-growing state there's no way I'd subject my burgeoning career to the meat-grinder that is Donald Trump"
[X Link](https://x.com/GShaneMorris/status/1745978007515222050) 2024-01-13T01:16Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@CTIronman Fair I just think some things shouldn't be ventured. I wish DeSantis were ahead in the polls believe me"
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1745989271234674694) 2024-01-13T02:00Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"Is he going to rethink the great ages of the antediluvian patriarchs to maximize our witness Mosaic authorship of the Pentateuch The reality of the Exodus All of these are very much in disfavor w/modern scholarship and could be said "damage our witness.""
[X Link](https://x.com/GShaneMorris/status/1747322282404409496) 2024-01-16T18:17Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Another argument that has never impressed me: "Lots of orthodox faithful Christians hold this view." I mean fine I get what you're doing. I like C.S. Lewis too. But this ignores the defining-down of orthodoxy that always happens when ppl want to jettison a doctrine/reading"
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1747327218286477653) 2024-01-16T18:37Z [--] followers, [---] engagements
"@JonahDispatch Also already hedging another general election loss as the fault of those dreaded Never Trumpers doesn't exactly ooze confidence"
[X Link](https://x.com/GShaneMorris/status/1747338458559918468) 2024-01-16T19:22Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@theophysicus @SolaChristus7 That's always my question: If the author of Genesis (who was Moses BTW let's go ahead and out those who are more deconstructed) had intended to convey a global flood how would he have written Genesis 6-9 differently"
[X Link](https://x.com/GShaneMorris/status/1747360145686864330) 2024-01-16T20:48Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"I've seen this Disney World commercial twice in [--] hours once at the gym then on Facebook. The thing you notice about it Not a single child appears. They know their new demographic"
[X Link](https://x.com/GShaneMorris/status/1747640285662716167) 2024-01-17T15:21Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"It's very instructive how the author of Hebrews straightforwardly groups Abel Enoch Noah Abraham Isaac Jacob Joseph Moses Rahab through David and Samuel together as faithful historical figures. He knows nothing of some transition from mytho-history to history in Gen 12"
[X Link](https://x.com/GShaneMorris/status/1747819697561571654) 2024-01-18T03:14Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Jesus: Have you not read how David took the show bread from God's house when he and his men were hungry Modern seminary students: SMH DEscription in the Old Testament is not the same as PREscription Jesus"
[X Link](https://x.com/GShaneMorris/status/1749576978468937739) 2024-01-22T23:37Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@tompawnbadil Big agree with Ben. Javert is supposed to be an uptight law-and-order guy. He's not Andrea Bocelli. Crowe has a cool take on the character. I just wish they hadn't done the live recording thing. Everybody sounded off"
[X Link](https://x.com/GShaneMorris/status/1749848599502963078) 2024-01-23T17:36Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"It is [----] a Bicentennial Man programmed with Joe Biden's uploaded consciousness meanders onto the debate stage. He is confused. the ground rumbles as an Arrakeen sand worm with Trump's transmogrified face emerges behind a podium. They are our only candidates forever"
[X Link](https://x.com/GShaneMorris/status/1750590292775047514) 2024-01-25T18:43Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Scrivener emerges from the four here (unsurprisingly as the only Christian) wi/the best understanding: "human rights" are not universal or obvious. They were midwifed by Christianity. BUT that is only because the world is estranged from God. Christ gave us back our humanity. A thread to summarise the human rights conversation involving @harari_yuval @holland_tom and @jordanbpeterson. Harari thinks rights are as fictional as the biblical stories that birthed them: https://t.co/XE7UgNQYDV A thread to summarise the human rights conversation involving @harari_yuval @holland_tom and"
[X Link](https://x.com/GShaneMorris/status/1750603296723652807) 2024-01-25T19:35Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"In that sense "human rights" or if you prefer treating everyone as beings with intrinsic worth and dignity really are natural to us. We were created upright but have sought out many schemes. Salvation is the restoring of our real nature. It's all in Bavinck"
[X Link](https://x.com/GShaneMorris/status/1750603968814674035) 2024-01-25T19:38Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"One of the simplest arguments against theistic evolution is that it posits: [--]. current animal behavior is normal [--]. we came from animals. Thus much of what we call "sin" is actly "natural" to us. This undermines the biblical sense that for ex murder or rape are aberrations"
[X Link](https://x.com/GShaneMorris/status/1750608020147462201) 2024-01-25T19:54Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Over-medicalization of the human condition is real but Walsh flies into the opposite ditch. Clinical depression is real as is bipolar generalized anxiety etc. You either haven't observed them or are an idiot if you deny this. But humans aren't mere brains. The soul matters. The psychiatric industry has turned every negative human emotion and behavior into a disease. I'm going to keep talking about this problem no matter how mad the outrage mob gets. https://t.co/J7Ex1reH2k The psychiatric industry has turned every negative human emotion and behavior into a disease. I'm going to keep talking"
[X Link](https://x.com/GShaneMorris/status/1750667420493083071) 2024-01-25T23:50Z [----] followers, 146.5K engagements
"@MattWalshBlog I watched Matt. You denied that depression (& presumably other mental health conditions) can be classified as diseases. Does that mean they have no heritable component You against medication I'd love to directly dialogue w/you on this as I happen to know otherwise firsthand"
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1750692831117595040) 2024-01-26T01:31Z [--] followers, [---] engagements
"@MattWalshBlog For anyone interested in a better informed Christian perspective on mental health here's my interview with Matthew LaPine author of "The Logic of the Body: Retrieving Theological Psychology.""
[X Link](https://x.com/GShaneMorris/status/1750694340249149909) 2024-01-26T01:37Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Materialism is incompatible w/ human rights quite simply because it obliterates the distinction btwn "is" and "ought." There is no point in saying an animal ought to behave differently than it does. It evolved that way. If humans are merely animals then no rights. You need God. In this video I talk to the irrepressible Dr Paul Blackham about Human Rights Yuval Noah Harari Tom Holland and Jordan Peterson. SUCH a stimulating conversation https://t.co/psPO1rEQYr In this video I talk to the irrepressible Dr Paul Blackham about Human Rights Yuval Noah Harari Tom Holland and Jordan Peterson. SUCH a"
[X Link](https://x.com/GShaneMorris/status/1750940210639307149) 2024-01-26T17:54Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Not strictly scientific but man is there truth here. Most annoying theological subgroup on Twitter: Most annoying theological subgroup on Twitter:"
[X Link](https://x.com/GShaneMorris/status/1754608471230587091) 2024-02-05T20:50Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Part of the reason there's a whole thing about hating Taylor Swift (the usual procedure with pop stars whose music you don't care for is to ignore them) is this relentless insistence that we love Taylor Swift for some reason *other than* her pop music. Like she's done something"
[X Link](https://x.com/GShaneMorris/status/1755267074945958115) 2024-02-07T16:27Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"A fun game is take every opinion piece and headline about Taylor Swift being an icon of empowerment and feminist values or inspiration to girls and substitute "Elton John." If you like the music fine. But don't act like these people are deep thinkers or role models"
[X Link](https://x.com/GShaneMorris/status/1755270319651098805) 2024-02-07T16:40Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@zugzwanged @OwenEdwards So where are the British evangelical leukocytes swarming this mockery gay weddings women's ordinations etc Where's the fever other than the heat Calvin Robinson feels"
[X Link](https://x.com/GShaneMorris/status/1756402196449472618) 2024-02-10T19:38Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Exactly. Read a book recently whose message was essentially: "write with the assumption that nobody will read most of it." Keep catering to the lowest common denominator and your whole civilization will keep sinking lower. I have said it before but I am absolutely convinced that if the only thing a student did during their high school education was to read great books they would be immeasurably better off than their counterparts whose days are filled with reading mediocre excerpts and performing I have said it before but I am absolutely convinced that if the only thing a student did during"
[X Link](https://x.com/GShaneMorris/status/1758247044085354533) 2024-02-15T21:48Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"A master class in natural law reasoning. That time Barack Obama was rebuked by Alan Keyes on same-sex marriage using Natural Law. This debate was held on October [--] [----] when both were running for office to be a State Senator in Illinois. https://t.co/lcP2xno8jg That time Barack Obama was rebuked by Alan Keyes on same-sex marriage using Natural Law. This debate was held on October [--] [----] when both were running for office to be a State Senator in Illinois. https://t.co/lcP2xno8jg"
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1759995439078637579) 2024-02-20T17:36Z [----] followers, 23.5K engagements
"@aox4gcs16 It literally does though. Doesn't necessarily have to be a good future. But past a certain not too distant point in time demography is destiny by itself. And countries develop especially when their economic competition is senescent"
[X Link](https://x.com/GShaneMorris/status/1760318147104493917) 2024-02-21T14:58Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@aox4gcs16 No I just don't think India Africa and the Middle East are irretrievably and perpetually stuck in the 20th century"
[X Link](https://x.com/GShaneMorris/status/1760450937917755568) 2024-02-21T23:46Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"In the end this is really not that hard & shouldn't be controversial. Stop pedestalizing women. It's not chivalric Christian or traditional to teach men that women's reactions are barometers of their holiness. The female half of fallen humanity is not made of finer clay. There's this common misfire conservative male preachers and writers still make where they slam men as failures to launch or cads or sissies and assume that if they just manned up great women would flock to them. 1/ There's this common misfire conservative male preachers and writers still make where they slam men as failures"
[X Link](https://x.com/GShaneMorris/status/1762201264144707850) 2024-02-26T19:41Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@Adversor122 Half of appearing wise without doing the work is knowing on which side your bread is buttered"
[X Link](https://x.com/GShaneMorris/status/1762202541545128209) 2024-02-26T19:46Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Watch this video of President Biden stammering and mumbling through a press conference on Israel-Palestine. It should enrage Americans that his family his party and his staff are putting him through this. What a display of disrespect and cynicism"
[X Link](https://x.com/GShaneMorris/status/1762568538496147487) 2024-02-27T20:01Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Every time the populist right gushes over Trump's conservative court appointments and immediately trashes Mitch McConnell we get a useful list of people who don't know how the US government works and are not serious adults. Mitch McConnell has been the most successful and consequential conservative legislative leader in our lifetimes. Was he perfect or immune from criticism Of course not. But most of his populist enemies routinely engage in ahistorical fan-fiction in their indictments. Mitch McConnell has been the most successful and consequential conservative legislative leader in our"
[X Link](https://x.com/GShaneMorris/status/1763272250067763495) 2024-02-29T18:37Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Someone recently suggested to me that some of this is likely struggling papers deliberately courting hate-clicks so they can show high numbers to potential advertisers and now I can't stop thinking about it. Just totally baffling the Washington Post is bleeding readership and dollars when they have such awesome columnists. https://t.co/MndFzUX2K0 Just totally baffling the Washington Post is bleeding readership and dollars when they have such awesome columnists. https://t.co/MndFzUX2K0"
[X Link](https://x.com/GShaneMorris/status/1763376952742654189) 2024-03-01T01:33Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"One thing I simply don't understand is how Trump has become the nominee for a third time in a row with no apparent discussion on how this won't be a repeat of [----]. What was resolved What has changed If you think the election was stolen why won't it be stolen again Silence"
[X Link](https://x.com/GShaneMorris/status/1765441392535310685) 2024-03-06T18:16Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@suzania It's simpler than "it's good that some things are hard" though. It's a question of what art and writing *are.* What's the definition Are intention and mind involved or does transistors plagiarizing Google images count"
[X Link](https://x.com/GShaneMorris/status/1765983128089190527) 2024-03-08T06:09Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Reading Harry Potter to the kids. [--] underratedly wholesome things about Rowling's series: 1.) It is relentlessly pro-family. Harry's deepest longing is for his mom and dad. The poor & fecund Weasleys are celebrated Arthur is shown as good & wise. One hero is a godfather. 1/"
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1773044538933694854) 2024-03-27T17:48Z [----] followers, 420K engagements
"I don't disagree w/the critique being attempted here but Auron's whole genre of viral doomism just gets on my nerves. If civilization is "over" why the hell are you tweeting & podcasting bro Everyone eagerly RTing this.why Action is founded on hope not cathartic fatalism. Once men and women become political interest groups your civilization is over The Total State is the politicalization of every aspect of society and nothing demolishes social coordination faster than introducing this into the sexual dynamic and family formation Once men and women become political interest groups your"
[X Link](https://x.com/GShaneMorris/status/1773402105442627753) 2024-03-28T17:29Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Just objectively not even from a Christian perspective the Democrat Party is not even trying to disguise the fact that it is a faction at a kind of open war with a very large segment of the American population. Outrage as Biden proclaims Easter Sunday as 'Trans Day of Visibility' - as White House BANS children from submitting religious-themed Easter egg designs at annual event for military families https://t.co/p4EXgD64fn https://t.co/XQZCYiv6SI Outrage as Biden proclaims Easter Sunday as 'Trans Day of Visibility' - as White House BANS children from submitting religious-themed Easter egg"
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1774121312220299731) 2024-03-30T17:07Z [----] followers, 19.6K engagements
"Everyone wants to be an eclipse prophet till it's time to do prophet stuff as prescribed in Deuteronomy 18:20"
[X Link](https://x.com/GShaneMorris/status/1775922787607064618) 2024-04-04T16:26Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@NateDaNative War and civil government within your own nation whose constitution explicitly guarantees the God-given right to life as well as due process are not comparable at all"
[X Link](https://x.com/GShaneMorris/status/1777788270069399876) 2024-04-09T19:58Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@JSMilbank Lewis has a great little remark about this in "God in the Dock.""
[X Link](https://x.com/GShaneMorris/status/1777822146481246455) 2024-04-09T22:13Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"C. S. Lewis had a similar and charming reflection on the goodly nature of the body compared with the soul that appears in "God in the Dock." Before his death St Francis begged forgiveness of the body he had mistreated Brother Donkey I ask you for forgiveness if I have mistreated you so perhaps theres something in this after all Before his death St Francis begged forgiveness of the body he had mistreated Brother Donkey I ask you for forgiveness if I have mistreated you so perhaps theres something in this after all"
[X Link](https://x.com/GShaneMorris/status/1777822637042905465) 2024-04-09T22:15Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@robinjeanharris Right so how does that single out women "Providing for the home" assumes the husband/father role. So what's the complementarian vision for men who aren't husbands and fathers and how is it that vision/lack thereof not eliciting the same complaints from you"
[X Link](https://x.com/GShaneMorris/status/1778265155077382238) 2024-04-11T03:33Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@suzania So the gender hierarchy is.unenforced When a woman wants her husband to submit there's no recourse When a lady wants to be priest no one says "no" How does this work practically If it doesn't then it just strikes me as so much "thank God I'm not like.""
[X Link](https://x.com/GShaneMorris/status/1778463087953109411) 2024-04-11T16:40Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@AStratelates @suzania Why My kids seeking to take control of the household is contrary to the fundamental ontology of the family. My correction takes the form of enforcement. Sounds like an excessively precious distinction with little or no difference"
[X Link](https://x.com/GShaneMorris/status/1778466594185675076) 2024-04-11T16:54Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@SinnerSaved45 @AStratelates @suzania"
[X Link](https://x.com/GShaneMorris/status/1778475069552951504) 2024-04-11T17:27Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"GOP is pivoting to an openly pro-abortion party before our eyes. It may have always been so in fact but now it's out in the open. I understand the importance of this election but Im not going to lie. This is clearly a pro-choice video. It makes the same argument the choice side has always made. https://t.co/BJE5zbUPwy I understand the importance of this election but Im not going to lie. This is clearly a pro-choice video. It makes the same argument the choice side has always made. https://t.co/BJE5zbUPwy"
[X Link](https://x.com/GShaneMorris/status/1778785184533385284) 2024-04-12T14:00Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@thoughtsonholi1 Nothing in that para is my argument. Just straw. Try again"
[X Link](https://x.com/GShaneMorris/status/1782497488907153630) 2024-04-22T19:51Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@matthew_loftus It seems like this exchange has consisted of me pushing back against careerism & you saying "No there's a less extreme solution we just have to remake the Western household into Guatemala." Which don't get me wrong could be awesome. But it's not exactly a modest proposal"
[X Link](https://x.com/GShaneMorris/status/1784411507595296880) 2024-04-28T02:37Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@NeilShenvi @jamesrwoodtheo1 I dunno sounds like a blue collar paraphrase of "professing themselves to be wise they became fools" which I've often seen used to indict the lack of commonsense and classical wisdom in modern academia medicine philosophy etc"
[X Link](https://x.com/GShaneMorris/status/1784428116288442753) 2024-04-28T03:43Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@matthew_loftus This is out of touch. Just finished up Jonathan Last's book. He cites examples as non-Western as the prime minister of Singapore outright paying mothers to stay home full time to increase fertility. Every hour worked outside home is a % fewer kids. This is kind of axiomatic"
[X Link](https://x.com/GShaneMorris/status/1784622342519296251) 2024-04-28T16:34Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"The richer a country is the stronger the association between workism & women having fewer kids. This suggests the problem is not a lack of resources but a simple prizing of career over family in the West. It's an alternate vision of the good life. https://ifstudies.org/ifs-admin/resources/reports/ifs-workismreport-final-031721.pdf https://ifstudies.org/ifs-admin/resources/reports/ifs-workismreport-final-031721.pdf"
[X Link](https://x.com/GShaneMorris/status/1784631566473236699) 2024-04-28T17:11Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"There are few things stranger than the sight of leftist women who believe passionately in equality of the sexes free speech women voting LGBT rights etc. wrapping themselves in the garb and symbols of repressive Islamist regimes that beat ppl like them with car antennas"
[X Link](https://x.com/GShaneMorris/status/1785505663663124603) 2024-05-01T03:04Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"We need to normalize doing things like going to church and getting married without having Cartesian certainty that it's the right move. Do your due diligence. But in the end the most important decisions are always leaps of faith and you become a different person in the process"
[X Link](https://x.com/GShaneMorris/status/1786056078733500489) 2024-05-02T15:32Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
""Would you rather be alone in the woods with a bear or a man" False choice. The bear and the man are both there. The man is St. Seraphim of Sarov ascetic and friend of all woodland creatures"
[X Link](https://x.com/GShaneMorris/status/1786164996369494063) 2024-05-02T22:44Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@NeilShenvi @ibmmiller "People shouldn't call for demons unless they really mean what they say.""
[X Link](https://x.com/GShaneMorris/status/1786418110179717556) 2024-05-03T15:30Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"All progressive university students currently embracing Islam should brush up on its origins. Here's a handy video on it plus Mormonism for extra credit. https://www.youtube.com/watchv=w7bukaRhbI0 https://www.youtube.com/watchv=w7bukaRhbI0"
[X Link](https://x.com/GShaneMorris/status/1786443510620578286) 2024-05-03T17:11Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Mental health is a mockingbird singing his soul out all afternoon on the other side of your office window"
[X Link](https://x.com/GShaneMorris/status/1786449487843536905) 2024-05-03T17:35Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Another key point. Carney and Last both describe increasing numbers of places in America that are essentially playgrounds for adult hipsters complete with doggy daycares and spas and children are all but outlawed. Since [----] in the US adults in their prime are now more likely to be single and childless than they are married with children. That will have serious cultural consequences in the years to come. If you think youve experienced a family unfriendly society already just wait https://t.co/DKjF6P5whp Since [----] in the US adults in their prime are now more likely to be single and childless"
[X Link](https://x.com/GShaneMorris/status/1786755353864020456) 2024-05-04T13:50Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"One of the dumbest popular myths that props up chronological snobbery is this notion that "people for most of history lived to the ripe old age of 30." This is only true if you're factoring in childhood mortality & speaking in averages. The Psalmist knew adults lived to 70-80"
[X Link](https://x.com/GShaneMorris/status/1787242963627913328) 2024-05-05T22:08Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"I have never understood the purpose or utility of an Apple Watch. It seems like one of those expensive devices whose marketing creates the "problems" it solves. I don't need a tiny screen to tell me what's happening on my slightly larger but also within reach screen"
[X Link](https://x.com/GShaneMorris/status/1788212488267235776) 2024-05-08T14:20Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@lymanstoneky I have always thought it was notable that by the time the NT begins what's left of Israel seems to have gotten over their idolatry problem. If anything it seems to have contributed to their rejection of Jesus. Not sure they get enough credit for that"
[X Link](https://x.com/GShaneMorris/status/1788213411936891040) 2024-05-08T14:24Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Very online Catholic or Orthodox convert who vocally believes the documentary hypothesis doubts whether Moses existed is sure that humans evolved from lower apes but also that Jesus teleported out of Mary so she remained ever virgin. Internet religion is weird"
[X Link](https://x.com/GShaneMorris/status/1790031247701426420) 2024-05-13T14:48Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Why you're crazy to give children or even young teens smart phones w/ social media. They're almost perfectly engineered to assimilate your child into a post-Christian post-virtue expressive individualist culture.right under your nose"
[X Link](https://x.com/GShaneMorris/status/1790198658635268294) 2024-05-14T01:53Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Screens have been such a civilizational disaster. And we just keep discovering new ways they've screwed us up. We traded the entire heritage of literate society for a mess of ephemeral entertainment depression and increased car accidents. The smartphone has lobotomized us. Academics across the country are talking about how students struggle with reading: Many have weak vocabulary are unable to analyze complex texts or understand different points of view. Here's what they're seeing and what may need to change. https://t.co/4dBUGsRs2x https://t.co/Wvco4DgckL Academics across the country are"
[X Link](https://x.com/GShaneMorris/status/1790386795307250087) 2024-05-14T14:20Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Ok part of what's annoying about Taylor Swift is the lyrical fixation for almost [--] yrs on the earliest stages of mating-and-dating endlessly repeated. And it's autobiographical. She's my age but never stopped feeling like [--]. This arrested development gets caught by fans"
[X Link](https://x.com/GShaneMorris/status/1790409244627325093) 2024-05-14T15:50Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@PhilCotnoir It has been done. But it's much more niche. I can't get enough of it. https://www.youtube.com/watchv=BzGbBxfpoGw&ab_channel=BenRector https://www.youtube.com/watchv=BzGbBxfpoGw&ab_channel=BenRector"
[X Link](https://x.com/GShaneMorris/status/1790415857643921586) 2024-05-14T16:16Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Writing a thing about artificial intelligence and man it pleases me so much that the average ant exhibits vastly greater generalized intelligence and problem-solving capabilities than the most advanced AI systems. O Lord how majestic is your name in all the earth"
[X Link](https://x.com/GShaneMorris/status/1790426007490404482) 2024-05-14T16:56Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"One of the most steadying intellectual exercises is to watch someone use rhetoric & cleverness to make something you absolutely know to be true sound ridiculous. Kind of like British zoologists mocking the guy who first described the platypus. Reality truly can be unbelievable"
[X Link](https://x.com/GShaneMorris/status/1791146158305194126) 2024-05-16T16:38Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
""we need more children therefore producing them by any means including means that kill like [--] unique individuals per live birth are acceptable." Bro where did you get your degree in moral philosophy a McDonalds happy meal Apparently the American fertility rate is still too high for some folks Apparently the American fertility rate is still too high for some folks"
[X Link](https://x.com/GShaneMorris/status/1792728841603154311) 2024-05-21T01:27Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Yep. Higher education has turned into a system for getting young women deeply in debt and wasting years of their lives for degrees of highly questionable economic value. They are then confused and angry to find there are no men waiting "across or up" from them socially. This trajectory isnt sustainable and works against a family-friendly ecosystem. This is part of the reason women are struggling to find men to marry. It isnt just the ladies being too picky or the dudes lacking ambition. There are many structural dynamics. https://t.co/J4j7kzDc6i This trajectory isnt sustainable and works"
[X Link](https://x.com/GShaneMorris/status/1792946364927693200) 2024-05-21T15:51Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"When you fall down the rabbit hole about how developed countries suffer way more autoimmune diseases because we've eliminated childhood intestinal worms"
[X Link](https://x.com/GShaneMorris/status/1792950745051934893) 2024-05-21T16:09Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@verditude It's a technically possible interpretation but the problem w/ Francis again is if you're giving a [--] Mins interview you don't allude darkly to some scholastic distinction ab ontology esp while giving examples of good and bad morals"
[X Link](https://x.com/GShaneMorris/status/1792991438352867369) 2024-05-21T18:50Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Bless Esolen. Why is it so hard for so many other Catholics to just say "yeah we're [--] years into this guy putting his foot in his mouth with the media he catastrophically obfuscates even basic answers better luck next conclave" @NatePyle79 No I'm afraid that won't do. We ARE image-bearers of God. But what he said was "There are some rogues and sinners" as if they were the exceptions. They are the universal rule. What he said sounded like "I'm OK you're OK." But that's not true. @NatePyle79 No I'm afraid that won't do. We ARE image-bearers of God. But what he said was "There are some rogues"
[X Link](https://x.com/GShaneMorris/status/1793009173896081746) 2024-05-21T20:01Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"There's a pony somewhere under all this horse poo but the fact is the qualitative difference between caffeine and cocaine is so vast as to render tweets like this facile. Its amazing how caffeine really is the only drug that has achieved this level of social acceptance. Imagine someone saying : the first line of cocaine in the morning is one of my favourite things in life or without my morning joint I cant function Its amazing how caffeine really is the only drug that has achieved this level of social acceptance. Imagine someone saying : the first line of cocaine in the morning is one of my"
[X Link](https://x.com/GShaneMorris/status/1794076366901514316) 2024-05-24T18:41Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"AI has advanced by leaps and bounds raising questions about freedom privacy truth and what it means to be human. Is the future utopian or dystopian I asked Dr. John Lennox author of "2084: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Humanity." Listen: https://colsoncenter.org/upstream/will-ai-enslave-us-or-deify-us-john-lennox https://colsoncenter.org/upstream/will-ai-enslave-us-or-deify-us-john-lennox"
[X Link](https://x.com/GShaneMorris/status/1795881394410848449) 2024-05-29T18:14Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@danitreweek But nobody thinks that Dani. Who thinks the family just is the church If nobody thinks it why tweet against it What's the point of your OP if not to imply opposition and replacement by the heavenly "household""
[X Link](https://x.com/GShaneMorris/status/1795890024677769281) 2024-05-29T18:48Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@danitreweek Earthly nations are not the eternal kingdom in the exact sense that my oldest son is not our whole family. My point is that you seem to think family nationality friendships etc. are somehow transient. My point is they're taken up and glorified"
[X Link](https://x.com/GShaneMorris/status/1795891716907475099) 2024-05-29T18:55Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@danitreweek So what does confusing the ontology of the natural family and the kingdom of God look like exactly What are some examples"
[X Link](https://x.com/GShaneMorris/status/1795918307909902827) 2024-05-29T20:41Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"A sight we won't see many more times. World War II will soon become as intangible to the living as the Civil War. Passengers stopped in their tracks @DFWAirport The parade of heroes begins. Off to France for the 80th anniversary of DDay. What a tremendous send off for these heroes @CBSNewsTexas https://t.co/Q0UdD3Nbwy Passengers stopped in their tracks @DFWAirport The parade of heroes begins. Off to France for the 80th anniversary of DDay. What a tremendous send off for these heroes @CBSNewsTexas https://t.co/Q0UdD3Nbwy"
[X Link](https://x.com/GShaneMorris/status/1796893340325011682) 2024-06-01T13:15Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"What the hell Elon X announces pornographic content will officially be allowed on the platform https://t.co/vcud0dsCww X announces pornographic content will officially be allowed on the platform https://t.co/vcud0dsCww"
[X Link](https://x.com/GShaneMorris/status/1797708936507978225) 2024-06-03T19:16Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Man is this a perceptive analysis of an awful trend. Wicked women will try to sabotage other women's marriages. This happens on a cultural not just an individual level. https://www.thefp.com/p/does-divorce-make-you-hotterutm_source=direct&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&triedRedirect=true https://www.thefp.com/p/does-divorce-make-you-hotterutm_source=direct&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&triedRedirect=true"
[X Link](https://x.com/GShaneMorris/status/1798419316783894808) 2024-06-05T18:19Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
""It's a deeply personal choice" isn't an argument for or against the merits of anything whether getting married or having kids or sex reassignment or getting an abortion or going on vacation to Tahiti. It's weird how many instinctively think that line ends the conversation"
[X Link](https://x.com/GShaneMorris/status/1799081640565833876) 2024-06-07T14:11Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Posts like this are so stupid. Zero science or zoology involved. Pure social media retardation. Koalas are herbivorous marsupials. They do what God made them to do not what some rando with a Twitter account subjectively wants them to do. And they're amazing at it. Log off. I have to share this again: Koalas are fucking horrible animals. They have one of the smallest brain to body ratios of any mammal additionally - their brains are smooth. A brain is folded to increase the surface area for neurons. If you present a koala with leaves plucked from I have to share this again: Koalas are fucking"
[X Link](https://x.com/GShaneMorris/status/1799275883947241894) 2024-06-08T03:02Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Lewis's desire to "see through" everything. It takes real courage to stand on a piece of ground and say "this is true and right and I believe it." Any coward can nihilistically sneer at/be flippant about sincere belief. The desire not to be & especially not to seem to be a naive moralistic milksop is a major political passion. It's prob more powerful than thumos in some. The moment when a slightly older young man said "wait you didn't believe all that rhetoric did you" with a small smile The desire not to be & especially not to seem to be a naive moralistic milksop is a major political"
[X Link](https://x.com/GShaneMorris/status/1800242931887968536) 2024-06-10T19:05Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@RedemTheTimes @JonathanMcK1647 Meh I grew up Baptist now I'm Presby I make way less adjusted than my dad did at my age. You can go on calling that a class move up but at some point it just becomes a wax nose that means whatever you want it to mean. The creed is good and Christian actually. Here I stand"
[X Link](https://x.com/GShaneMorris/status/1800687372381954269) 2024-06-12T00:31Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@lymanstoneky 1.) How much Haunted Cosmos have you listened to besides this selective soundbite 2.) Do you understand that tons of it is tongue-in-cheek banter 3.) None other than C. S. Lewis thought the gender of angels was an interesting question and dealt w/it in Perelandra"
[X Link](https://x.com/GShaneMorris/status/1800919991874965894) 2024-06-12T15:56Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@ericmparker @jonahmsaller Yes and we could just as easily post any dumb thing Pope Francis has said and caption it "read this slowly and spot the problem with papal primacy.""
[X Link](https://x.com/GShaneMorris/status/1801308486426370269) 2024-06-13T17:39Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"I can't imagine what "fundamentalism" means here. The SBC has moved away from fundamentalism in my lifetime as indicated by increased support for historical Protestant theology and less for Dispensational biblicism. Must just mean "to the right of me & my enlightened friends." The SBC's decline corresponds with the shift towards fundamentalism and away from evangelicalism. What was a big-tent conservative group is becoming a narrow fundamentalist group. I do not anticipate the SBC changing course any time soon. Thus declines will continue. #SBC24 The SBC's decline corresponds with the shift"
[X Link](https://x.com/GShaneMorris/status/1801707529434763331) 2024-06-14T20:05Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Let me let you in on a little secret about 1990s nostalgia: you don't miss Blockbuster or dine-in Pizza Hut. You miss analog life with other people who weren't distracted and were really present to enjoy mundane moments with you. Millennials would never understand https://t.co/q8yFol8aBh Millennials would never understand https://t.co/q8yFol8aBh"
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1801708145191878891) 2024-06-14T20:07Z [----] followers, 5.6M engagements
"@NathanaelDSnow But in George Yancey's telling (which it turns out is the understanding Sam has in mind) that social identity is about *which beliefs you think are worth enforcing/dividing over.* So either it's actually about a belief set or every Christian in history was a fundamentalist"
[X Link](https://x.com/GShaneMorris/status/1801722033543491752) 2024-06-14T21:03Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@suzania Both are profoundly infantilizing. You're right to go full Mel Gibson"
[X Link](https://x.com/GShaneMorris/status/1803107125037568055) 2024-06-18T16:46Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"One of the weird parts about being [--] and married for [--] years with [--] kids and a bunch of working class church friends doing the same is listening to the world scream non stop that what we do every day is literally impossible"
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1803220278643687610) 2024-06-19T00:16Z [----] followers, 47.6K engagements
"College-educated men are now more likely than college-educated women to attend church--a major historical oddity. The leftward secular lurch we've seen among women in the last [--] yrs is tough to overstate. This has huge implications for ministry dating and more. Whoa: 🚨Relationship between gender & religious attendance has flipped for (college-educated) men🚨 Used to be that women attended church more in general. But now. ✔ 32% of college-edu men attend weekly VS ✔ 27% of college-edu women New research by @ryanburge: https://t.co/jd5mADxd9M Whoa: 🚨Relationship between gender & religious"
[X Link](https://x.com/GShaneMorris/status/1803855602105380942) 2024-06-20T18:21Z [----] followers, 105.5K engagements
"A couple of likely takeaways: Christian men who say "there are too few good women" seem to have a lot of stats on their side. The mental health crisis among women is going to get so much worse before it gets better. College-educated men are now more likely than college-educated women to attend church--a major historical oddity. The leftward secular lurch we've seen among women in the last [--] yrs is tough to overstate. This has huge implications for ministry dating and more. College-educated men are now more likely than college-educated women to attend church--a major historical oddity. The"
[X Link](https://x.com/GShaneMorris/status/1803857889536127081) 2024-06-20T18:30Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"What kind of deal did the Jedi have with the Republic that a term-limited politician could appoint Anakin to their high council We're not talking the King of England appointing a bishop here. We're talking Joe Biden putting a random monk he likes on the College of Cardinals"
[X Link](https://x.com/GShaneMorris/status/1805350664387596599) 2024-06-24T21:21Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"I've noticed when someone whose opinion I value changes their profile pic on here it takes a couple of weeks for the little dopamine spike I get when I see them like my tweet to return to normal"
[X Link](https://x.com/GShaneMorris/status/1805623154913489083) 2024-06-25T15:24Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Abortion advocates have no arguments. Only euphemisms. Translate Hathaway's flimflam ("choice" "women's rights" "healthcare" "reproductive destiny") into plain English ("I should be able to kill my baby to achieve my career goals") and it's obviously monstrous. BREAKING: Anne Hathaway just gave the clearest reasons why Donald Trumps overturning Roe v. Wade is devastating to millions of Americans. The only way to end this is by electing President Biden & a democratic Congress. Retweet so all Americans see this.https://t.co/sMnAra3Q2x BREAKING: Anne Hathaway just gave the clearest reasons why"
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1805991245157724202) 2024-06-26T15:47Z [----] followers, 69.9K engagements
"@lauriewolpert26 I do not disagree and I'm not sure why you imagine I do"
[X Link](https://x.com/GShaneMorris/status/1806055006405116391) 2024-06-26T20:00Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@lauriewolpert26 Pejorative as opposed to what Substantive That's exactly what they are but you dismissed arguments as useless too. So I gather your standard for effective communication on the issue is "gives me good feelings." That won't be my standard sorry. I don't mollycoddle on murder"
[X Link](https://x.com/GShaneMorris/status/1806127382686036213) 2024-06-27T00:48Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@lauriewolpert26 "I don't think you can argue people out of abortion" "listen to somebody like Anne Hathaway argument" "Argument" here is a synonym for emotion replacing truth. That's why only one side is allowed to use it"
[X Link](https://x.com/GShaneMorris/status/1806132295713050709) 2024-06-27T01:07Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"It really is worth taking a moment to appreciate how cruel it is that Joe Biden is in the position he's in right now and how unlikely it is that he is entirely or even mostly at fault. It would have been so easy to end his career on an elegant high note. Instead this"
[X Link](https://x.com/GShaneMorris/status/1808579655596740953) 2024-07-03T19:12Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"🧵Imagine Rubio's words but instead of unborn babies it was black people. E.g. "The reality is that the voters in each state now get to decide whether and to what degree lynching will be restricted." 1/ I gotta say. This is really disappointing. Senator Marco Rubio comes out in favor of watering down the GOP platform on abortion. The current platform contemplates federal measures to preserve the sanctity of human life and to ensure that the unborn child has a fundamental https://t.co/DOuDZostlt I gotta say. This is really disappointing. Senator Marco Rubio comes out in favor of watering down"
[X Link](https://x.com/GShaneMorris/status/1810323763721834618) 2024-07-08T14:43Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"It is perfectly possible & respectable for Republicans to say "SCOTUS has given this issue back to the people & their representatives. I believe justice demands that state and federal laws uphold the right to life for all human beings but I can't make Dems vote for that law."3/"
[X Link](https://x.com/GShaneMorris/status/1810323766745903149) 2024-07-08T14:43Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Instead we have this throwing up of hands and relativizing adopting a "personally pro-life" position that's barely distinguishable from Joe Biden's. But this is the Trump Party now. This is what you get when you vote dutifully for the lesser of two evils: more evil. 4/4"
[X Link](https://x.com/GShaneMorris/status/1810323768092266756) 2024-07-08T14:43Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"The pragmatic problem with lesser-of-two-evils voting has always been that it broadcasts ahead of time that your party doesn't need to take any of your policy demands seriously because you'll loyally pull the lever no matter how bad the deal gets"
[X Link](https://x.com/GShaneMorris/status/1810335891484733804) 2024-07-08T15:31Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@suzania Joe Carter slams these pro-life orgs by name in his TGC piece. The whole movement is fracturing before our eyes over Trump. Permit me to feel grimly vindicated after being told for eight years I was helping Dems win and killing babies by not puling the lever for the Trumpster"
[X Link](https://x.com/GShaneMorris/status/1810716656445882469) 2024-07-09T16:44Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"You can see the truth of this when you ask what this Republican Party really stands for at its core. Little more than a slightly earlier stage in the disintegration of American society. On social and moral issues especially it is now well to the left of Bill Clinton's Dems. A Republican voter dropped into this moment from [----] would conclude the Republican Party was brutally defeated surrendered unconditionally and was rebuilt into a pliant proxy for the Democrats. A Republican voter dropped into this moment from [----] would conclude the Republican Party was brutally defeated surrendered"
[X Link](https://x.com/GShaneMorris/status/1813067763520262303) 2024-07-16T04:26Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Give this trajectory a couple more election cycles and I wouldn't be surprised to see openly transgender speakers at the RNC. This is what negotiating total cultural defeat looks like"
[X Link](https://x.com/GShaneMorris/status/1813068837283328033) 2024-07-16T04:31Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"This the party all the Christian nationalists are telling me to vote for or was there a footage mix up with a Democratic convention Harmeet Kaur Dhillon @pnjaban performs an Ardaas at the Republican National Convention for the prosperity and Chardikala of the American people and for President Donald Trump after an assassination attempt this weekend. Sikhs for Trump⚔ https://t.co/bY5GFV3Jmb Harmeet Kaur Dhillon @pnjaban performs an Ardaas at the Republican National Convention for the prosperity and Chardikala of the American people and for President Donald Trump after an assassination attempt"
[X Link](https://x.com/GShaneMorris/status/1813211120657633310) 2024-07-16T13:56Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"If only a large contingent of evangelicals had vocally warned everyone eight years ago that the character and beliefs of a lifelong liberal godless nominee would come to redefine the party forever. Alas we had no warning. The GOP has effectively abandoned evangelicals for barstool populism or exposed that the contemporary sociological category of evangelicals is largely coterminous with barstool populism The GOP has effectively abandoned evangelicals for barstool populism or exposed that the contemporary sociological category of evangelicals is largely coterminous with barstool populism"
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1813218404402094551) 2024-07-16T14:25Z [----] followers, 126.5K engagements
"Social conservatives to Christian nationalists last night:"
[X Link](https://x.com/GShaneMorris/status/1813224659577348325) 2024-07-16T14:50Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@OriginalA_the_P The idea that a decision made possible in part by Bush appointees and decades of work by groups like the Federalist Society mystically materialized solely because Donald Trump was in office is truly one of the more dewy-eyed political fantasies I've encountered"
[X Link](https://x.com/GShaneMorris/status/1813238114304815333) 2024-07-16T15:43Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Seeing this pattern play out w/incredible speed before my eyes. Christians saying we need to set aside unborn lives & natural marriage to deal with more pressing matters. Humans become what we pretend to be. A lot of people pretending to be [----] Dems rn are about to realize that. if this is never expressed while you continue to offer endorsement you all but guarantee that those issues especially if unpopular are never picked back up; you will be left with no party options on those issues and you will rationalize yourself into caring less about them if this is never expressed while you"
[X Link](https://x.com/GShaneMorris/status/1813259281111916721) 2024-07-16T17:07Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@NateAFischer @William_E_Wolfe With wins like yours who needs losses"
[X Link](https://x.com/GShaneMorris/status/1813274853790695697) 2024-07-16T18:09Z [----] followers, 14K engagements
"@William_E_Wolfe @NateAFischer Hold that ever closer to your heart next convention when a drag queen takes the stage brother. Hold it close"
[X Link](https://x.com/GShaneMorris/status/1813277793918050311) 2024-07-16T18:21Z [----] followers, 14.4K engagements
"It really isn't that complicated: The things I was told my whole adult life were Critical Reasons to vote for one admittedly imperfect party have been dropped. I believed what I was told in [----] [----] [----]. I still do. What do you believe in"
[X Link](https://x.com/GShaneMorris/status/1813303462584545694) 2024-07-16T20:03Z [----] followers, 16.2K engagements
"If people sneer at you often enough about "high horses" and "pearl clutching" and "virtue signaling" and "not getting your pure hands dirty" you begin to suspect their consciences are bothering them"
[X Link](https://x.com/GShaneMorris/status/1813340298019578161) 2024-07-16T22:29Z [----] followers, 15.5K engagements
"@NateAFischer You guys have singlehandedly created two pro-abortion pro-gay marriage parties with porn stars and pagan prayers at their conventions who think the murder of babies is a "spot on the basement wall." Please don't do me any more favors with your "political action." I beg you"
[X Link](https://x.com/GShaneMorris/status/1813398472667570303) 2024-07-17T02:21Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Solid analysis. The problem with styling yourself a political pragmatist is that you need a very consistent moral goal to pragmatically pursue. But if the goal you settle on has the same historical pedigree as K-Mart don't act like you're getting back to your classical roots. 🧵 on CNs speedrunning the reinvention of liberalism: I dont think theres anything wrong with political pragmatism. But if youre going to do a pragmatism you have to be very clear- at least to yourself what you are ultimately aiming at; what the non-pragmatic good is. 🧵 on CNs speedrunning the reinvention of liberalism:"
[X Link](https://x.com/GShaneMorris/status/1813620829311369505) 2024-07-17T17:04Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"I am very far from a neocon but I gotta say among the rationalizations I've seen for the GOP's collapse on abortion and marriage this week "It's okay because I'm still really mad about Iraq" has got to be the most desperate. 🧵Trump Neo-Cons and the RNC The removal of Christian morality from the RNC platform this week is a travesty that I fiercely oppose. But we must be realistic about what the previous platform really was. (1/17) https://t.co/ddQLWD4gv5 🧵Trump Neo-Cons and the RNC The removal of Christian morality from the RNC platform this week is a travesty that I fiercely oppose. But we"
[X Link](https://x.com/GShaneMorris/status/1813952855977697480) 2024-07-18T15:03Z [----] followers, 12.6K engagements
"One of the things that has always seemed transparently silly to me is the way presidential candidates try to take credit for or blame each other for the current economy esp after just [--] term. Economics is such a lagging indicator. We're still feeling Bush and Obama effects"
[X Link](https://x.com/GShaneMorris/status/1813995889918345253) 2024-07-18T17:54Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"If one more person says "abortion is up to the states now" as if Dobbs decreed it no longer a federal issue my head will explode. READ THE DECISION. Kavanaugh's concurring opinion explicitly gives the issue to "the people and their representatives in.the States or Congress.""
[X Link](https://x.com/GShaneMorris/status/1814339666528891246) 2024-07-19T16:40Z [----] followers, 32.4K engagements
"It's bizarre to me that we are at the point where it's considered a great dunk to repeat a thing someone has just explained to you is false in a very straightforward sense. This kind of Screwtapian flippancy is very similar to the way LGBTs dismiss reality-based objections"
[X Link](https://x.com/GShaneMorris/status/1814407810417152008) 2024-07-19T21:11Z [----] followers, 16.8K engagements
"Americans next Friday night at this rate:"
[X Link](https://x.com/GShaneMorris/status/1815441415398158484) 2024-07-22T17:38Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Part of me hopes this election will mark the end of the octogenarian takeover of the White House but given America's demographics that seems unlikely"
[X Link](https://x.com/GShaneMorris/status/1815455373710565810) 2024-07-22T18:34Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"In which Doug Wilson attempts (nobly) to gatekeep the ugly side of the online dissident right and is in the process of getting ratioed for it. Have some antacid on hand if you read the replies. A rejoinder to the antisemitic adjacent bros . . . https://t.co/AQxoAF6jFy A rejoinder to the antisemitic adjacent bros . . . https://t.co/AQxoAF6jFy"
[X Link](https://x.com/GShaneMorris/status/1815481457093021755) 2024-07-22T20:18Z [----] followers, 32.7K engagements
"My kids just discovered that Donald Trump is briefly in the [----] Little Rascals and reported this to me. I had entirely forgotten"
[X Link](https://x.com/GShaneMorris/status/1815520245160804403) 2024-07-22T22:52Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"She does deny in LWW that she has any children of her own but I chalk this up to her lying or else Lewis slipping. I believe Glimfeather when he connects the Queen of Underland with the White Witch"
[X Link](https://x.com/GShaneMorris/status/1816123881532367309) 2024-07-24T14:50Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Surprisingly insightful Deadpool and Wolverine ad on Spotify: "Join us in a world where grown men and women walk around in tights and act like it's not a giant cultural cry for help.""
[X Link](https://x.com/GShaneMorris/status/1816160870407307333) 2024-07-24T17:17Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"This is the most human thing Mark Zuckerberg has ever said. Mark Zuckerberg says you can't just separate intelligence from consciousness and upload a mind to the cloud because there's so much more that makes up a person https://t.co/DfaBtbrDL8 Mark Zuckerberg says you can't just separate intelligence from consciousness and upload a mind to the cloud because there's so much more that makes up a person https://t.co/DfaBtbrDL8"
[X Link](https://x.com/GShaneMorris/status/1816512875541979309) 2024-07-25T16:36Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@IVMiles What are you talking about Someone takes a shot at a presidential candidate. You are a reporter on scene. Your job is to: A.) Investigate and report the truth of what happened to the best of your ability B.) Something else"
[X Link](https://x.com/GShaneMorris/status/1816887842749948162) 2024-07-26T17:26Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
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Social Influence
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Top Social Posts
Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours
"@ScrawnyBeast @bendellwerry Read up. It's not a healthy dynamic. It effectively assumes women's baseline is sinlessness"
X Link 2023-06-30T00:20Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@matt_ecton96 @9Marks @SEBTS "The fact that Rome and EO teach infant baptism does everything proves our doctrine that adult baptism does nothing" has to be one of the weirdest things I've ever heard claimed into a microphone"
X Link 2023-07-07T23:53Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@colinsmo "The fact that Rome and EO teach infant baptism does everything proves our doctrine that adult baptism does nothing" has to be one of the weirdest things I've ever heard claimed into a microphone"
X Link 2023-07-08T00:33Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
""The fact that Rome and EO teach infant baptism does everything proves our doctrine that adult baptism does nothing" has to be one of the weirdest things I've ever heard claimed into a microphone"
X Link 2023-07-08T17:23Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Rightly understood the Reformed doctrine of the Lord's Supper is supposed to restore the mystery to the act of eating Christ not divest the Sacrament of Christ. Any articulation that obscures this is an abject failure"
X Link 2023-07-10T16:07Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"This lines up with my cynical reading. Republican voters have not gotten Trump out of their system yet. The mythology is canonized and anybody who tries to fight it is probably ruining his political career"
X Link 2023-07-10T16:18Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
""To the extent that any vision of nontoxic masculinity is proposed it ends up sounding more like stereotypical femininity than anything else: Guys should learn to be more sensitive quiet and socially apt seemingly overnight.""
X Link 2023-07-10T19:50Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"There's this bizarre idea modern 1st world white people have that they're owed a challenge-free life. That their default state as human beings is mimosas at brunch a stock photo career therapy & yoga in the park & anything interfering w/this ideal is an aberration. 1/x"
X Link 2023-07-12T15:57Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"This is how you get breathless threads like this about the life-destroying horrors of parenting.a thing literally the majority of the human race has always done mostly w/ MUCH greater difficulty than we face. Life is challenging. Passing on life is one of those challenges. 2/x"
X Link 2023-07-12T15:57Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"This is not an aberration secret or shocking surprise. It is the NORM. You are not owed a life of elysian ease or personal actualization. And yes parenting is hard. Like literally everything else or all of history outside our affluent automated media-curated bubble. 3/x"
X Link 2023-07-12T15:57Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"If the mere presence of children in your life is experienced as a crippling and unusual burden this is almost certainly a commentary on your fragility and unrealistic conception of what "normal" life looks like not something to bravely announce on Twitter"
X Link 2023-07-12T17:15Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"This essay is monumental. David Brooks is approaching some very deep truths that could rewrite his worldview and the destiny of the modern world"
X Link 2023-07-20T00:35Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Virtually all young men are born w/ a burning question: "What does it mean to be a man" You can stick your head in the sand of modernity & pretend "being a man" isn't a real thing distinct from "being a good generic human unit" but you're only ensuring your own irrelevance"
X Link 2023-08-07T19:22Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"This is impressive. I'm not entirely sure what I think but anyone who embraces a general narrative of blue collar decline and victimization by elites certainly needs to grapple with these facts"
X Link 2023-08-15T19:41Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"It's remarkable how many casual references to religion there are in pop culture from just [--] yrs ago vs. now. Kids & I re-watched the first Tobey Maguire Spider-Man feat. the Lord's Prayer "suffer the little children" "Godspeed" etc. These would be lost on a 2020s audience"
X Link 2023-08-21T17:43Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@bendellwerry There was a great article somewhere years back about the choral music in Harry Potter and how Hollywood essentially adopted the entire aesthetic of sacred music from the church and now uses it to evoke majesty.meanwhile the church is playing bad pop"
X Link 2023-08-29T16:50Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Why does every woman who does these "I'm so happy I don't have kids so I can get drunk and watch Netflix" rants look so obviously and deeply sad Who are they trying to convince 1/4"
X Link 2023-09-04T23:16Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Jordan Peterson said something I'll never forget: you don't grow up until you're no longer the most important person in your life. Parenthood is historically the main way this transition happens. 2/4"
X Link 2023-09-04T23:16Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Line from the new book "The Great DeChurching": "Anecdotally we know of almost no parents over the age of fifty who dont have at least one adult child who is dechurched." Neither my family nor my wife's fits this description. Nine adult kids between them. Are we in a bubble"
X Link 2023-09-05T03:15Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@Particular_Drew One baptism for the remission of sins What is this heterodox nonsense"
X Link 2023-09-05T20:45Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"BreakPoint cold take on last month's viral hit: political outrage anthems glorify a low-agency victim mindset on the right. https://breakpoint.org/what-rich-men-north-of-richmond-gets-right-and-what-it-misses/ https://breakpoint.org/what-rich-men-north-of-richmond-gets-right-and-what-it-misses/"
X Link 2023-09-06T15:10Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"I guess my answers at present would be: 1.) Compared to what gestures toward Pope Francis 2.) This is a statistical artifact of our historical moment in which virtually every institution liberalized. 3.) Protestant conservatives keep on spinning off and restarting stuff"
X Link 2023-09-07T15:05Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Why is this app suddenly crawling with Only Fans bait accounts liking random posts (often comically posts condemning various forms of sexual immorality)"
X Link 2023-09-08T16:28Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
""Every 2000-year-old social teaching of Christianity I don't like was invented by white American evangelicals in the 1980s" sure is an unbelievably prolific book genre these days"
X Link 2023-09-08T20:39Z [----] followers, 14.9K engagements
"On today's episode of "How Will My Gay Marriage Hurt You""
X Link 2023-09-09T18:28Z [----] followers, 12.7K engagements
"It has become an article of faith on the right that the common man is the guardian of decency tradition faith morality etc. But one of the things interviewing social science types has taught me is that nobody is giving up faster on marriage and church than the working class"
X Link 2023-09-11T17:19Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"I'm convinced Hell is just highlighting large amounts of text with a laptop trackpad for eternity"
X Link 2023-09-12T22:37Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"The real problem with the idea that Mary was sinless isn't that it makes her into a secondary savior. It's that if God could preserve people ordinarily conceived from Original or actual sin by mere fiat.why was Jesus or the cross necessary at all (Aquinas agrees BTW)"
X Link 2023-09-13T00:14Z [----] followers, 15.2K engagements
"Whats one movie you hate but everyone else seems to like A: The "you're not allowed to grieve the evil of divorce because your parents' expressive individualism comes first" apologetic with Robin Williams in drag"
X Link 2023-09-14T16:38Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@FoundationDads Or living sexually degenerate consumerist lives while citing [--] Cor [--] as if that's what Paul meant"
X Link 2023-09-15T14:55Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Periodically progressives will reverse engineer healthy sexual behavior and act like theyve discovered Atlantis. -Auron MacIntyre"
X Link 2023-09-18T21:57Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Getting an inexplicable error message from the Samsung TV and days into work-related Microsoft cloud crap not working and honestly I'm waiting for the AI that solves otherwise intractable dumb IT problems instead of drawing people with too many fingers"
X Link 2023-09-19T02:19Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Yes. I have a deep deep appreciation for Peterson. His books and lectures attuned me to aspects of reality to which I was largely deaf. They helped me even as a Christian through suffering. But his Twitter account is just unhinged and bizarre"
X Link 2023-09-23T00:30Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"If this is not a bot designed to flawlessly personify everything Carl Trueman's "Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self" criticizes right down to terms and phrases then color me impressed. Behold modern man your gospel: self-actualization"
X Link 2023-09-26T21:16Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Jordan Peterson has the best response:"
X Link 2023-09-27T14:37Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"This ongoing battle between Twitter Red Pill Gal and a Christian sociologist re: marriage and men is revealing. Yes modern marriage is feminized and a legal joke. But statistically it's still amazingly better for men than remaining single and being "high value.""
X Link 2023-09-27T16:00Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Joshua Harris's ex-wife's memoir is out & wow. Full deconstruction. Six years ago I said the backlash against "purity culture" was mostly a cover for rejecting Christian sexual morality + the household. Ppl had all kinds of more nuanced takes. I'm satisfied w/ how mine has aged: As an adolescent @racheljwelcher naively read Boy Meets Girl the tale of Joshua and Shannon Harriss courtship as a love story. Decades later holding Shannons memoir I can practically feel the weight of her untold stories in my hands. https://t.co/fppREa4pfj As an adolescent @racheljwelcher naively read Boy Meets Girl"
X Link 2023-10-01T22:41Z [----] followers, 158.5K engagements
"Those who want to double down & say "Of course these folks rejected Christianity purity culture ruined it for them" should pay attention to what these exvangelical authors mean by "purity culture." They're quite clear: original sin chastity traditional gender roles the home"
X Link 2023-10-01T22:50Z [----] followers, 11.5K engagements
"There's rly only so much mileage you can get morally out of your youth pastor using a bad analogy for sex in [----]. Grow up. Read the church fathers. Look at how harsh Christians have been re sexual sin for 2k years. "Purity culture" didn't ruin your faith. You rejected Jesus"
X Link 2023-10-01T23:10Z [----] followers, 59.8K engagements
"@CanEvangelical For real. It's not as if all this apostasy corresponded with the broader culture losing its marbles on sex and gender and the rise of therapeutic victimhood as social capital or anything"
X Link 2023-10-01T23:49Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@KirkMiller_ Most don't seem to be able to hold both thoughts in their heads at the same time actually"
X Link 2023-10-06T11:21Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Clearly she's been reading David Bentley Hart"
X Link 2023-10-16T14:36Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"It seems to me Israel-Gaza is one of the few major news events lately that Twitter culture warriors have struggled to code as left-right. It seems like the more middle/level-headed folks on both sides agree on one take and the crazies off in both directions agree on another"
X Link 2023-10-18T19:39Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Weve been culturally conditioned at nearly every turn to put other things ahead of marriage and children. We believe that marriage and family will just happen when its time. But these things rarely do just happen in our culture"
X Link 2023-10-24T14:52Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"I had a dream last night that I was walking & chatting w/ my paternal grandfather Marcus Morris who died in [----]. He was a big part of my childhood & a dedicated Christian man who led a simple life + worked w/ his hands. I often think about how honored I am to carry his name"
X Link 2023-10-27T19:39Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"New Atheism is collapsing in large part because it depended on an unacknowledged patrimony of Anglophone Protestant sensibilities and optimism about life and science and it turns out when people without that background reject God they mostly become mystics or totalitarians"
X Link 2023-11-02T19:19Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"We gather at Thanksgiving to enjoy food count our blessings & praise the Giver. But is it possible to enjoy God's gifts TOO much This week I welcome @joe_rigney author ofThe Things of Earth to explain how to treasure God by enjoying our blessings"
X Link 2023-11-21T17:22Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Watching China mandate one child for [--] years crash its fertility & now try to compensate is like watching a driver swerve back & forth overcorrecting eventually flying into a ditch. The West's pop is stagnant but at least we didn't have a generation of forced abortions"
X Link 2023-11-22T15:13Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Here a girl who literally spent her childhood sailing around the world with her parents to tropical islands recasts her life as a victim narrative. This is what sells now. Don't forget that when you hear the next anti-religious sob story"
X Link 2023-11-26T22:16Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Early New Year's resolution: never to condemn anything someone loves that isn't an outright sin. God's world and image bearers are varied and wondrous and the world is better for containing many different tastes. Except fruitcake"
X Link 2023-12-02T03:36Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Things I think are screwed up and awful: The expectation and pressure among college-educated Christians that moving across the country and building a new life far from parents and siblings is normal or even ideal. 1/3"
X Link 2023-12-04T17:15Z [----] followers, 73.1K engagements
"God bless those big fat multicolored 1980s Christmas lights. I love their wholesome childlike energy. All these tiny white lights popular today smell of cat moms Chardonnay and below replacement birth rates"
X Link 2023-12-05T04:54Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Everyone wants to call C. S. Lewis's Space Trilogy "The Ransom Trilogy" which fine. It's better than a title obviously invented by a publisher who didn't read it. But I am still holding out for "Cosmic Trilogy" which is a runner-up. Or even better "Deep Heaven Trilogy.""
X Link 2023-12-06T23:55Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@johnehrett Good review as usual. I just have to say tho this excerpt reads like something ChatGPT would spit out if I asked it to parody you"
X Link 2023-12-11T18:14Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@RichardHanania Ah post hoc ergo propter hoc my favorite argument"
X Link 2023-12-12T00:58Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@lauriewolpert26 No it's just your position stated simply and literally without euphemisms like "medical care" and "value structure." What you mean is killing babies who don't meet a eugenic standard"
X Link 2023-12-13T13:33Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"It's the smart phones. They're breaking teenage brains. It's really not nuanced at all it's just that"
X Link 2023-12-13T13:52Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@lauriewolpert26 Doctors in Canada and the Netherlands help people kill themselves every day. A physician coming up with a motive does not make murder okay"
X Link 2023-12-13T16:37Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@lauriewolpert26 You seem to be laboring under the assumption that "the pro-life cause" is something other than stopping legal killing of babies. Pragmatic politics is one thing but ethics is another. You seem to believe that murders cease to be murder when they're politically convenient"
X Link 2023-12-13T17:39Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@suzania The thing that strikes me is what a vast array of ideas and people they're grouping under this "Christian nationalism" label. It's especially odd when juxtaposed with reverent footage of King's civil rights efforts which were unquestionably an appeal to Christian nationhood"
X Link 2023-12-13T18:51Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Everyone is still alluding to TGC's Taylor Swift article but goodness are you folks seeing National Review's dueling think pieces about whether T Swizzle is a genius"
X Link 2023-12-13T19:47Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Yes. Disney is to this day suffused with themes and morals none but a Christ-haunted culture could produce. The expressive individualism and underdog storytelling speak to people for reasons they don't fully understand. Even if the ideology has lately eclipsed the art"
X Link 2023-12-15T16:39Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Do they want more Trumps forever Because this is how you get more Trumps forever"
X Link 2023-12-20T20:10Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Once you realize how much social justice playacting of this variety depends on Christianity you're ruined. So far as I know no civilization in world history has believed stronger people have a duty to curb their strength for the sake of a weaker people.except Christians"
X Link 2023-12-22T16:51Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Harvard just announced Claudine Gay's replacement as president and this time it's an award-winning academic with an impeccable track record of success and originality in his field:"
X Link 2024-01-03T20:46Z [--] followers, [----] engagements
"You have never seen a piece of AI art or read AI writing. It doesn't exist. It's a more advanced way of saying you can have a conversation with a rock"
X Link 2024-01-04T16:29Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@DrJustinbass @crwiley1962 Or an uneducated one. From God in the Dock:"
X Link 2024-01-08T16:20Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"The liturgical repetition of some variation on "the world is going to hell" has become a feature of conversation with anyone born since the 1980s. Why The simple answer is that these people perceive the world almost entirely through smart phones and social media. The teen mental health crisis was not caused by reality getting worse around [----]. Their material and physical health improved steadily. To paraphrase Epictetus: "It is not events which disturb teens. It is the device through which they interpret all events." https://t.co/BDbawhqQQW The teen mental health crisis was not caused by"
X Link 2024-01-08T19:31Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"This is odd and troubling considering North America has enjoyed almost the exact opposite trend: In my lifetime most of our raptor species among them the iconic bald eagle have undergone an impressive recovery. What's different about Africa Dozens of African raptor species have suffered declines over the past [--] to [--] years with more than half either more endangered than previously thought or now meet criteria for being threatened with extinction a study found. https://t.co/BGHydqrF2t Dozens of African raptor species have suffered declines over the past [--] to [--] years with more than half"
X Link 2024-01-08T21:08Z [--] followers, [---] engagements
"Has someone written the book yet documenting how every dire prediction conservative evangelicals made on social issues for the last [--] years has basically come true It seems like this would be a very useful if gloomy bit of historical record-keeping and analysis"
X Link 2024-01-12T20:32Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"I'm pretty idealistic politically but a very pragmatic take I have is that if I were a younger up-and-coming Republican politician say the governor of the fastest-growing state there's no way I'd subject my burgeoning career to the meat-grinder that is Donald Trump"
X Link 2024-01-13T01:16Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@CTIronman Fair I just think some things shouldn't be ventured. I wish DeSantis were ahead in the polls believe me"
X Link 2024-01-13T02:00Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"Is he going to rethink the great ages of the antediluvian patriarchs to maximize our witness Mosaic authorship of the Pentateuch The reality of the Exodus All of these are very much in disfavor w/modern scholarship and could be said "damage our witness.""
X Link 2024-01-16T18:17Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Another argument that has never impressed me: "Lots of orthodox faithful Christians hold this view." I mean fine I get what you're doing. I like C.S. Lewis too. But this ignores the defining-down of orthodoxy that always happens when ppl want to jettison a doctrine/reading"
X Link 2024-01-16T18:37Z [--] followers, [---] engagements
"@JonahDispatch Also already hedging another general election loss as the fault of those dreaded Never Trumpers doesn't exactly ooze confidence"
X Link 2024-01-16T19:22Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@theophysicus @SolaChristus7 That's always my question: If the author of Genesis (who was Moses BTW let's go ahead and out those who are more deconstructed) had intended to convey a global flood how would he have written Genesis 6-9 differently"
X Link 2024-01-16T20:48Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"I've seen this Disney World commercial twice in [--] hours once at the gym then on Facebook. The thing you notice about it Not a single child appears. They know their new demographic"
X Link 2024-01-17T15:21Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"It's very instructive how the author of Hebrews straightforwardly groups Abel Enoch Noah Abraham Isaac Jacob Joseph Moses Rahab through David and Samuel together as faithful historical figures. He knows nothing of some transition from mytho-history to history in Gen 12"
X Link 2024-01-18T03:14Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Jesus: Have you not read how David took the show bread from God's house when he and his men were hungry Modern seminary students: SMH DEscription in the Old Testament is not the same as PREscription Jesus"
X Link 2024-01-22T23:37Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@tompawnbadil Big agree with Ben. Javert is supposed to be an uptight law-and-order guy. He's not Andrea Bocelli. Crowe has a cool take on the character. I just wish they hadn't done the live recording thing. Everybody sounded off"
X Link 2024-01-23T17:36Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"It is [----] a Bicentennial Man programmed with Joe Biden's uploaded consciousness meanders onto the debate stage. He is confused. the ground rumbles as an Arrakeen sand worm with Trump's transmogrified face emerges behind a podium. They are our only candidates forever"
X Link 2024-01-25T18:43Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Scrivener emerges from the four here (unsurprisingly as the only Christian) wi/the best understanding: "human rights" are not universal or obvious. They were midwifed by Christianity. BUT that is only because the world is estranged from God. Christ gave us back our humanity. A thread to summarise the human rights conversation involving @harari_yuval @holland_tom and @jordanbpeterson. Harari thinks rights are as fictional as the biblical stories that birthed them: https://t.co/XE7UgNQYDV A thread to summarise the human rights conversation involving @harari_yuval @holland_tom and"
X Link 2024-01-25T19:35Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"In that sense "human rights" or if you prefer treating everyone as beings with intrinsic worth and dignity really are natural to us. We were created upright but have sought out many schemes. Salvation is the restoring of our real nature. It's all in Bavinck"
X Link 2024-01-25T19:38Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"One of the simplest arguments against theistic evolution is that it posits: [--]. current animal behavior is normal [--]. we came from animals. Thus much of what we call "sin" is actly "natural" to us. This undermines the biblical sense that for ex murder or rape are aberrations"
X Link 2024-01-25T19:54Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Over-medicalization of the human condition is real but Walsh flies into the opposite ditch. Clinical depression is real as is bipolar generalized anxiety etc. You either haven't observed them or are an idiot if you deny this. But humans aren't mere brains. The soul matters. The psychiatric industry has turned every negative human emotion and behavior into a disease. I'm going to keep talking about this problem no matter how mad the outrage mob gets. https://t.co/J7Ex1reH2k The psychiatric industry has turned every negative human emotion and behavior into a disease. I'm going to keep talking"
X Link 2024-01-25T23:50Z [----] followers, 146.5K engagements
"@MattWalshBlog I watched Matt. You denied that depression (& presumably other mental health conditions) can be classified as diseases. Does that mean they have no heritable component You against medication I'd love to directly dialogue w/you on this as I happen to know otherwise firsthand"
X Link 2024-01-26T01:31Z [--] followers, [---] engagements
"@MattWalshBlog For anyone interested in a better informed Christian perspective on mental health here's my interview with Matthew LaPine author of "The Logic of the Body: Retrieving Theological Psychology.""
X Link 2024-01-26T01:37Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Materialism is incompatible w/ human rights quite simply because it obliterates the distinction btwn "is" and "ought." There is no point in saying an animal ought to behave differently than it does. It evolved that way. If humans are merely animals then no rights. You need God. In this video I talk to the irrepressible Dr Paul Blackham about Human Rights Yuval Noah Harari Tom Holland and Jordan Peterson. SUCH a stimulating conversation https://t.co/psPO1rEQYr In this video I talk to the irrepressible Dr Paul Blackham about Human Rights Yuval Noah Harari Tom Holland and Jordan Peterson. SUCH a"
X Link 2024-01-26T17:54Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Not strictly scientific but man is there truth here. Most annoying theological subgroup on Twitter: Most annoying theological subgroup on Twitter:"
X Link 2024-02-05T20:50Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Part of the reason there's a whole thing about hating Taylor Swift (the usual procedure with pop stars whose music you don't care for is to ignore them) is this relentless insistence that we love Taylor Swift for some reason other than her pop music. Like she's done something"
X Link 2024-02-07T16:27Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"A fun game is take every opinion piece and headline about Taylor Swift being an icon of empowerment and feminist values or inspiration to girls and substitute "Elton John." If you like the music fine. But don't act like these people are deep thinkers or role models"
X Link 2024-02-07T16:40Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@zugzwanged @OwenEdwards So where are the British evangelical leukocytes swarming this mockery gay weddings women's ordinations etc Where's the fever other than the heat Calvin Robinson feels"
X Link 2024-02-10T19:38Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Exactly. Read a book recently whose message was essentially: "write with the assumption that nobody will read most of it." Keep catering to the lowest common denominator and your whole civilization will keep sinking lower. I have said it before but I am absolutely convinced that if the only thing a student did during their high school education was to read great books they would be immeasurably better off than their counterparts whose days are filled with reading mediocre excerpts and performing I have said it before but I am absolutely convinced that if the only thing a student did during"
X Link 2024-02-15T21:48Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"A master class in natural law reasoning. That time Barack Obama was rebuked by Alan Keyes on same-sex marriage using Natural Law. This debate was held on October [--] [----] when both were running for office to be a State Senator in Illinois. https://t.co/lcP2xno8jg That time Barack Obama was rebuked by Alan Keyes on same-sex marriage using Natural Law. This debate was held on October [--] [----] when both were running for office to be a State Senator in Illinois. https://t.co/lcP2xno8jg"
X Link 2024-02-20T17:36Z [----] followers, 23.5K engagements
"@aox4gcs16 It literally does though. Doesn't necessarily have to be a good future. But past a certain not too distant point in time demography is destiny by itself. And countries develop especially when their economic competition is senescent"
X Link 2024-02-21T14:58Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@aox4gcs16 No I just don't think India Africa and the Middle East are irretrievably and perpetually stuck in the 20th century"
X Link 2024-02-21T23:46Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"In the end this is really not that hard & shouldn't be controversial. Stop pedestalizing women. It's not chivalric Christian or traditional to teach men that women's reactions are barometers of their holiness. The female half of fallen humanity is not made of finer clay. There's this common misfire conservative male preachers and writers still make where they slam men as failures to launch or cads or sissies and assume that if they just manned up great women would flock to them. 1/ There's this common misfire conservative male preachers and writers still make where they slam men as failures"
X Link 2024-02-26T19:41Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@Adversor122 Half of appearing wise without doing the work is knowing on which side your bread is buttered"
X Link 2024-02-26T19:46Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Watch this video of President Biden stammering and mumbling through a press conference on Israel-Palestine. It should enrage Americans that his family his party and his staff are putting him through this. What a display of disrespect and cynicism"
X Link 2024-02-27T20:01Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Every time the populist right gushes over Trump's conservative court appointments and immediately trashes Mitch McConnell we get a useful list of people who don't know how the US government works and are not serious adults. Mitch McConnell has been the most successful and consequential conservative legislative leader in our lifetimes. Was he perfect or immune from criticism Of course not. But most of his populist enemies routinely engage in ahistorical fan-fiction in their indictments. Mitch McConnell has been the most successful and consequential conservative legislative leader in our"
X Link 2024-02-29T18:37Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Someone recently suggested to me that some of this is likely struggling papers deliberately courting hate-clicks so they can show high numbers to potential advertisers and now I can't stop thinking about it. Just totally baffling the Washington Post is bleeding readership and dollars when they have such awesome columnists. https://t.co/MndFzUX2K0 Just totally baffling the Washington Post is bleeding readership and dollars when they have such awesome columnists. https://t.co/MndFzUX2K0"
X Link 2024-03-01T01:33Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"One thing I simply don't understand is how Trump has become the nominee for a third time in a row with no apparent discussion on how this won't be a repeat of [----]. What was resolved What has changed If you think the election was stolen why won't it be stolen again Silence"
X Link 2024-03-06T18:16Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@suzania It's simpler than "it's good that some things are hard" though. It's a question of what art and writing are. What's the definition Are intention and mind involved or does transistors plagiarizing Google images count"
X Link 2024-03-08T06:09Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Reading Harry Potter to the kids. [--] underratedly wholesome things about Rowling's series: 1.) It is relentlessly pro-family. Harry's deepest longing is for his mom and dad. The poor & fecund Weasleys are celebrated Arthur is shown as good & wise. One hero is a godfather. 1/"
X Link 2024-03-27T17:48Z [----] followers, 420K engagements
"I don't disagree w/the critique being attempted here but Auron's whole genre of viral doomism just gets on my nerves. If civilization is "over" why the hell are you tweeting & podcasting bro Everyone eagerly RTing this.why Action is founded on hope not cathartic fatalism. Once men and women become political interest groups your civilization is over The Total State is the politicalization of every aspect of society and nothing demolishes social coordination faster than introducing this into the sexual dynamic and family formation Once men and women become political interest groups your"
X Link 2024-03-28T17:29Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Just objectively not even from a Christian perspective the Democrat Party is not even trying to disguise the fact that it is a faction at a kind of open war with a very large segment of the American population. Outrage as Biden proclaims Easter Sunday as 'Trans Day of Visibility' - as White House BANS children from submitting religious-themed Easter egg designs at annual event for military families https://t.co/p4EXgD64fn https://t.co/XQZCYiv6SI Outrage as Biden proclaims Easter Sunday as 'Trans Day of Visibility' - as White House BANS children from submitting religious-themed Easter egg"
X Link 2024-03-30T17:07Z [----] followers, 19.6K engagements
"Everyone wants to be an eclipse prophet till it's time to do prophet stuff as prescribed in Deuteronomy 18:20"
X Link 2024-04-04T16:26Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@NateDaNative War and civil government within your own nation whose constitution explicitly guarantees the God-given right to life as well as due process are not comparable at all"
X Link 2024-04-09T19:58Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@JSMilbank Lewis has a great little remark about this in "God in the Dock.""
X Link 2024-04-09T22:13Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"C. S. Lewis had a similar and charming reflection on the goodly nature of the body compared with the soul that appears in "God in the Dock." Before his death St Francis begged forgiveness of the body he had mistreated Brother Donkey I ask you for forgiveness if I have mistreated you so perhaps theres something in this after all Before his death St Francis begged forgiveness of the body he had mistreated Brother Donkey I ask you for forgiveness if I have mistreated you so perhaps theres something in this after all"
X Link 2024-04-09T22:15Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@robinjeanharris Right so how does that single out women "Providing for the home" assumes the husband/father role. So what's the complementarian vision for men who aren't husbands and fathers and how is it that vision/lack thereof not eliciting the same complaints from you"
X Link 2024-04-11T03:33Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@suzania So the gender hierarchy is.unenforced When a woman wants her husband to submit there's no recourse When a lady wants to be priest no one says "no" How does this work practically If it doesn't then it just strikes me as so much "thank God I'm not like.""
X Link 2024-04-11T16:40Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@AStratelates @suzania Why My kids seeking to take control of the household is contrary to the fundamental ontology of the family. My correction takes the form of enforcement. Sounds like an excessively precious distinction with little or no difference"
X Link 2024-04-11T16:54Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@SinnerSaved45 @AStratelates @suzania"
X Link 2024-04-11T17:27Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"GOP is pivoting to an openly pro-abortion party before our eyes. It may have always been so in fact but now it's out in the open. I understand the importance of this election but Im not going to lie. This is clearly a pro-choice video. It makes the same argument the choice side has always made. https://t.co/BJE5zbUPwy I understand the importance of this election but Im not going to lie. This is clearly a pro-choice video. It makes the same argument the choice side has always made. https://t.co/BJE5zbUPwy"
X Link 2024-04-12T14:00Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@thoughtsonholi1 Nothing in that para is my argument. Just straw. Try again"
X Link 2024-04-22T19:51Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@matthew_loftus It seems like this exchange has consisted of me pushing back against careerism & you saying "No there's a less extreme solution we just have to remake the Western household into Guatemala." Which don't get me wrong could be awesome. But it's not exactly a modest proposal"
X Link 2024-04-28T02:37Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@NeilShenvi @jamesrwoodtheo1 I dunno sounds like a blue collar paraphrase of "professing themselves to be wise they became fools" which I've often seen used to indict the lack of commonsense and classical wisdom in modern academia medicine philosophy etc"
X Link 2024-04-28T03:43Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@matthew_loftus This is out of touch. Just finished up Jonathan Last's book. He cites examples as non-Western as the prime minister of Singapore outright paying mothers to stay home full time to increase fertility. Every hour worked outside home is a % fewer kids. This is kind of axiomatic"
X Link 2024-04-28T16:34Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"The richer a country is the stronger the association between workism & women having fewer kids. This suggests the problem is not a lack of resources but a simple prizing of career over family in the West. It's an alternate vision of the good life. https://ifstudies.org/ifs-admin/resources/reports/ifs-workismreport-final-031721.pdf https://ifstudies.org/ifs-admin/resources/reports/ifs-workismreport-final-031721.pdf"
X Link 2024-04-28T17:11Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"There are few things stranger than the sight of leftist women who believe passionately in equality of the sexes free speech women voting LGBT rights etc. wrapping themselves in the garb and symbols of repressive Islamist regimes that beat ppl like them with car antennas"
X Link 2024-05-01T03:04Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"We need to normalize doing things like going to church and getting married without having Cartesian certainty that it's the right move. Do your due diligence. But in the end the most important decisions are always leaps of faith and you become a different person in the process"
X Link 2024-05-02T15:32Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
""Would you rather be alone in the woods with a bear or a man" False choice. The bear and the man are both there. The man is St. Seraphim of Sarov ascetic and friend of all woodland creatures"
X Link 2024-05-02T22:44Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@NeilShenvi @ibmmiller "People shouldn't call for demons unless they really mean what they say.""
X Link 2024-05-03T15:30Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"All progressive university students currently embracing Islam should brush up on its origins. Here's a handy video on it plus Mormonism for extra credit. https://www.youtube.com/watchv=w7bukaRhbI0 https://www.youtube.com/watchv=w7bukaRhbI0"
X Link 2024-05-03T17:11Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Mental health is a mockingbird singing his soul out all afternoon on the other side of your office window"
X Link 2024-05-03T17:35Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Another key point. Carney and Last both describe increasing numbers of places in America that are essentially playgrounds for adult hipsters complete with doggy daycares and spas and children are all but outlawed. Since [----] in the US adults in their prime are now more likely to be single and childless than they are married with children. That will have serious cultural consequences in the years to come. If you think youve experienced a family unfriendly society already just wait https://t.co/DKjF6P5whp Since [----] in the US adults in their prime are now more likely to be single and childless"
X Link 2024-05-04T13:50Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"One of the dumbest popular myths that props up chronological snobbery is this notion that "people for most of history lived to the ripe old age of 30." This is only true if you're factoring in childhood mortality & speaking in averages. The Psalmist knew adults lived to 70-80"
X Link 2024-05-05T22:08Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"I have never understood the purpose or utility of an Apple Watch. It seems like one of those expensive devices whose marketing creates the "problems" it solves. I don't need a tiny screen to tell me what's happening on my slightly larger but also within reach screen"
X Link 2024-05-08T14:20Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@lymanstoneky I have always thought it was notable that by the time the NT begins what's left of Israel seems to have gotten over their idolatry problem. If anything it seems to have contributed to their rejection of Jesus. Not sure they get enough credit for that"
X Link 2024-05-08T14:24Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Very online Catholic or Orthodox convert who vocally believes the documentary hypothesis doubts whether Moses existed is sure that humans evolved from lower apes but also that Jesus teleported out of Mary so she remained ever virgin. Internet religion is weird"
X Link 2024-05-13T14:48Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Why you're crazy to give children or even young teens smart phones w/ social media. They're almost perfectly engineered to assimilate your child into a post-Christian post-virtue expressive individualist culture.right under your nose"
X Link 2024-05-14T01:53Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Screens have been such a civilizational disaster. And we just keep discovering new ways they've screwed us up. We traded the entire heritage of literate society for a mess of ephemeral entertainment depression and increased car accidents. The smartphone has lobotomized us. Academics across the country are talking about how students struggle with reading: Many have weak vocabulary are unable to analyze complex texts or understand different points of view. Here's what they're seeing and what may need to change. https://t.co/4dBUGsRs2x https://t.co/Wvco4DgckL Academics across the country are"
X Link 2024-05-14T14:20Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Ok part of what's annoying about Taylor Swift is the lyrical fixation for almost [--] yrs on the earliest stages of mating-and-dating endlessly repeated. And it's autobiographical. She's my age but never stopped feeling like [--]. This arrested development gets caught by fans"
X Link 2024-05-14T15:50Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@PhilCotnoir It has been done. But it's much more niche. I can't get enough of it. https://www.youtube.com/watchv=BzGbBxfpoGw&ab_channel=BenRector https://www.youtube.com/watchv=BzGbBxfpoGw&ab_channel=BenRector"
X Link 2024-05-14T16:16Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Writing a thing about artificial intelligence and man it pleases me so much that the average ant exhibits vastly greater generalized intelligence and problem-solving capabilities than the most advanced AI systems. O Lord how majestic is your name in all the earth"
X Link 2024-05-14T16:56Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"One of the most steadying intellectual exercises is to watch someone use rhetoric & cleverness to make something you absolutely know to be true sound ridiculous. Kind of like British zoologists mocking the guy who first described the platypus. Reality truly can be unbelievable"
X Link 2024-05-16T16:38Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
""we need more children therefore producing them by any means including means that kill like [--] unique individuals per live birth are acceptable." Bro where did you get your degree in moral philosophy a McDonalds happy meal Apparently the American fertility rate is still too high for some folks Apparently the American fertility rate is still too high for some folks"
X Link 2024-05-21T01:27Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Yep. Higher education has turned into a system for getting young women deeply in debt and wasting years of their lives for degrees of highly questionable economic value. They are then confused and angry to find there are no men waiting "across or up" from them socially. This trajectory isnt sustainable and works against a family-friendly ecosystem. This is part of the reason women are struggling to find men to marry. It isnt just the ladies being too picky or the dudes lacking ambition. There are many structural dynamics. https://t.co/J4j7kzDc6i This trajectory isnt sustainable and works"
X Link 2024-05-21T15:51Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"When you fall down the rabbit hole about how developed countries suffer way more autoimmune diseases because we've eliminated childhood intestinal worms"
X Link 2024-05-21T16:09Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@verditude It's a technically possible interpretation but the problem w/ Francis again is if you're giving a [--] Mins interview you don't allude darkly to some scholastic distinction ab ontology esp while giving examples of good and bad morals"
X Link 2024-05-21T18:50Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Bless Esolen. Why is it so hard for so many other Catholics to just say "yeah we're [--] years into this guy putting his foot in his mouth with the media he catastrophically obfuscates even basic answers better luck next conclave" @NatePyle79 No I'm afraid that won't do. We ARE image-bearers of God. But what he said was "There are some rogues and sinners" as if they were the exceptions. They are the universal rule. What he said sounded like "I'm OK you're OK." But that's not true. @NatePyle79 No I'm afraid that won't do. We ARE image-bearers of God. But what he said was "There are some rogues"
X Link 2024-05-21T20:01Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"There's a pony somewhere under all this horse poo but the fact is the qualitative difference between caffeine and cocaine is so vast as to render tweets like this facile. Its amazing how caffeine really is the only drug that has achieved this level of social acceptance. Imagine someone saying : the first line of cocaine in the morning is one of my favourite things in life or without my morning joint I cant function Its amazing how caffeine really is the only drug that has achieved this level of social acceptance. Imagine someone saying : the first line of cocaine in the morning is one of my"
X Link 2024-05-24T18:41Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"AI has advanced by leaps and bounds raising questions about freedom privacy truth and what it means to be human. Is the future utopian or dystopian I asked Dr. John Lennox author of "2084: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Humanity." Listen: https://colsoncenter.org/upstream/will-ai-enslave-us-or-deify-us-john-lennox https://colsoncenter.org/upstream/will-ai-enslave-us-or-deify-us-john-lennox"
X Link 2024-05-29T18:14Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@danitreweek But nobody thinks that Dani. Who thinks the family just is the church If nobody thinks it why tweet against it What's the point of your OP if not to imply opposition and replacement by the heavenly "household""
X Link 2024-05-29T18:48Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@danitreweek Earthly nations are not the eternal kingdom in the exact sense that my oldest son is not our whole family. My point is that you seem to think family nationality friendships etc. are somehow transient. My point is they're taken up and glorified"
X Link 2024-05-29T18:55Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@danitreweek So what does confusing the ontology of the natural family and the kingdom of God look like exactly What are some examples"
X Link 2024-05-29T20:41Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"A sight we won't see many more times. World War II will soon become as intangible to the living as the Civil War. Passengers stopped in their tracks @DFWAirport The parade of heroes begins. Off to France for the 80th anniversary of DDay. What a tremendous send off for these heroes @CBSNewsTexas https://t.co/Q0UdD3Nbwy Passengers stopped in their tracks @DFWAirport The parade of heroes begins. Off to France for the 80th anniversary of DDay. What a tremendous send off for these heroes @CBSNewsTexas https://t.co/Q0UdD3Nbwy"
X Link 2024-06-01T13:15Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"What the hell Elon X announces pornographic content will officially be allowed on the platform https://t.co/vcud0dsCww X announces pornographic content will officially be allowed on the platform https://t.co/vcud0dsCww"
X Link 2024-06-03T19:16Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Man is this a perceptive analysis of an awful trend. Wicked women will try to sabotage other women's marriages. This happens on a cultural not just an individual level. https://www.thefp.com/p/does-divorce-make-you-hotterutm_source=direct&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&triedRedirect=true https://www.thefp.com/p/does-divorce-make-you-hotterutm_source=direct&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&triedRedirect=true"
X Link 2024-06-05T18:19Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
""It's a deeply personal choice" isn't an argument for or against the merits of anything whether getting married or having kids or sex reassignment or getting an abortion or going on vacation to Tahiti. It's weird how many instinctively think that line ends the conversation"
X Link 2024-06-07T14:11Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Posts like this are so stupid. Zero science or zoology involved. Pure social media retardation. Koalas are herbivorous marsupials. They do what God made them to do not what some rando with a Twitter account subjectively wants them to do. And they're amazing at it. Log off. I have to share this again: Koalas are fucking horrible animals. They have one of the smallest brain to body ratios of any mammal additionally - their brains are smooth. A brain is folded to increase the surface area for neurons. If you present a koala with leaves plucked from I have to share this again: Koalas are fucking"
X Link 2024-06-08T03:02Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Lewis's desire to "see through" everything. It takes real courage to stand on a piece of ground and say "this is true and right and I believe it." Any coward can nihilistically sneer at/be flippant about sincere belief. The desire not to be & especially not to seem to be a naive moralistic milksop is a major political passion. It's prob more powerful than thumos in some. The moment when a slightly older young man said "wait you didn't believe all that rhetoric did you" with a small smile The desire not to be & especially not to seem to be a naive moralistic milksop is a major political"
X Link 2024-06-10T19:05Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@RedemTheTimes @JonathanMcK1647 Meh I grew up Baptist now I'm Presby I make way less adjusted than my dad did at my age. You can go on calling that a class move up but at some point it just becomes a wax nose that means whatever you want it to mean. The creed is good and Christian actually. Here I stand"
X Link 2024-06-12T00:31Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@lymanstoneky 1.) How much Haunted Cosmos have you listened to besides this selective soundbite 2.) Do you understand that tons of it is tongue-in-cheek banter 3.) None other than C. S. Lewis thought the gender of angels was an interesting question and dealt w/it in Perelandra"
X Link 2024-06-12T15:56Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@ericmparker @jonahmsaller Yes and we could just as easily post any dumb thing Pope Francis has said and caption it "read this slowly and spot the problem with papal primacy.""
X Link 2024-06-13T17:39Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"I can't imagine what "fundamentalism" means here. The SBC has moved away from fundamentalism in my lifetime as indicated by increased support for historical Protestant theology and less for Dispensational biblicism. Must just mean "to the right of me & my enlightened friends." The SBC's decline corresponds with the shift towards fundamentalism and away from evangelicalism. What was a big-tent conservative group is becoming a narrow fundamentalist group. I do not anticipate the SBC changing course any time soon. Thus declines will continue. #SBC24 The SBC's decline corresponds with the shift"
X Link 2024-06-14T20:05Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Let me let you in on a little secret about 1990s nostalgia: you don't miss Blockbuster or dine-in Pizza Hut. You miss analog life with other people who weren't distracted and were really present to enjoy mundane moments with you. Millennials would never understand https://t.co/q8yFol8aBh Millennials would never understand https://t.co/q8yFol8aBh"
X Link 2024-06-14T20:07Z [----] followers, 5.6M engagements
"@NathanaelDSnow But in George Yancey's telling (which it turns out is the understanding Sam has in mind) that social identity is about which beliefs you think are worth enforcing/dividing over. So either it's actually about a belief set or every Christian in history was a fundamentalist"
X Link 2024-06-14T21:03Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@suzania Both are profoundly infantilizing. You're right to go full Mel Gibson"
X Link 2024-06-18T16:46Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"One of the weird parts about being [--] and married for [--] years with [--] kids and a bunch of working class church friends doing the same is listening to the world scream non stop that what we do every day is literally impossible"
X Link 2024-06-19T00:16Z [----] followers, 47.6K engagements
"College-educated men are now more likely than college-educated women to attend church--a major historical oddity. The leftward secular lurch we've seen among women in the last [--] yrs is tough to overstate. This has huge implications for ministry dating and more. Whoa: 🚨Relationship between gender & religious attendance has flipped for (college-educated) men🚨 Used to be that women attended church more in general. But now. ✔ 32% of college-edu men attend weekly VS ✔ 27% of college-edu women New research by @ryanburge: https://t.co/jd5mADxd9M Whoa: 🚨Relationship between gender & religious"
X Link 2024-06-20T18:21Z [----] followers, 105.5K engagements
"A couple of likely takeaways: Christian men who say "there are too few good women" seem to have a lot of stats on their side. The mental health crisis among women is going to get so much worse before it gets better. College-educated men are now more likely than college-educated women to attend church--a major historical oddity. The leftward secular lurch we've seen among women in the last [--] yrs is tough to overstate. This has huge implications for ministry dating and more. College-educated men are now more likely than college-educated women to attend church--a major historical oddity. The"
X Link 2024-06-20T18:30Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"What kind of deal did the Jedi have with the Republic that a term-limited politician could appoint Anakin to their high council We're not talking the King of England appointing a bishop here. We're talking Joe Biden putting a random monk he likes on the College of Cardinals"
X Link 2024-06-24T21:21Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"I've noticed when someone whose opinion I value changes their profile pic on here it takes a couple of weeks for the little dopamine spike I get when I see them like my tweet to return to normal"
X Link 2024-06-25T15:24Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Abortion advocates have no arguments. Only euphemisms. Translate Hathaway's flimflam ("choice" "women's rights" "healthcare" "reproductive destiny") into plain English ("I should be able to kill my baby to achieve my career goals") and it's obviously monstrous. BREAKING: Anne Hathaway just gave the clearest reasons why Donald Trumps overturning Roe v. Wade is devastating to millions of Americans. The only way to end this is by electing President Biden & a democratic Congress. Retweet so all Americans see this.https://t.co/sMnAra3Q2x BREAKING: Anne Hathaway just gave the clearest reasons why"
X Link 2024-06-26T15:47Z [----] followers, 69.9K engagements
"@lauriewolpert26 I do not disagree and I'm not sure why you imagine I do"
X Link 2024-06-26T20:00Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@lauriewolpert26 Pejorative as opposed to what Substantive That's exactly what they are but you dismissed arguments as useless too. So I gather your standard for effective communication on the issue is "gives me good feelings." That won't be my standard sorry. I don't mollycoddle on murder"
X Link 2024-06-27T00:48Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@lauriewolpert26 "I don't think you can argue people out of abortion" "listen to somebody like Anne Hathaway argument" "Argument" here is a synonym for emotion replacing truth. That's why only one side is allowed to use it"
X Link 2024-06-27T01:07Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"It really is worth taking a moment to appreciate how cruel it is that Joe Biden is in the position he's in right now and how unlikely it is that he is entirely or even mostly at fault. It would have been so easy to end his career on an elegant high note. Instead this"
X Link 2024-07-03T19:12Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"🧵Imagine Rubio's words but instead of unborn babies it was black people. E.g. "The reality is that the voters in each state now get to decide whether and to what degree lynching will be restricted." 1/ I gotta say. This is really disappointing. Senator Marco Rubio comes out in favor of watering down the GOP platform on abortion. The current platform contemplates federal measures to preserve the sanctity of human life and to ensure that the unborn child has a fundamental https://t.co/DOuDZostlt I gotta say. This is really disappointing. Senator Marco Rubio comes out in favor of watering down"
X Link 2024-07-08T14:43Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"It is perfectly possible & respectable for Republicans to say "SCOTUS has given this issue back to the people & their representatives. I believe justice demands that state and federal laws uphold the right to life for all human beings but I can't make Dems vote for that law."3/"
X Link 2024-07-08T14:43Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Instead we have this throwing up of hands and relativizing adopting a "personally pro-life" position that's barely distinguishable from Joe Biden's. But this is the Trump Party now. This is what you get when you vote dutifully for the lesser of two evils: more evil. 4/4"
X Link 2024-07-08T14:43Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"The pragmatic problem with lesser-of-two-evils voting has always been that it broadcasts ahead of time that your party doesn't need to take any of your policy demands seriously because you'll loyally pull the lever no matter how bad the deal gets"
X Link 2024-07-08T15:31Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@suzania Joe Carter slams these pro-life orgs by name in his TGC piece. The whole movement is fracturing before our eyes over Trump. Permit me to feel grimly vindicated after being told for eight years I was helping Dems win and killing babies by not puling the lever for the Trumpster"
X Link 2024-07-09T16:44Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"You can see the truth of this when you ask what this Republican Party really stands for at its core. Little more than a slightly earlier stage in the disintegration of American society. On social and moral issues especially it is now well to the left of Bill Clinton's Dems. A Republican voter dropped into this moment from [----] would conclude the Republican Party was brutally defeated surrendered unconditionally and was rebuilt into a pliant proxy for the Democrats. A Republican voter dropped into this moment from [----] would conclude the Republican Party was brutally defeated surrendered"
X Link 2024-07-16T04:26Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Give this trajectory a couple more election cycles and I wouldn't be surprised to see openly transgender speakers at the RNC. This is what negotiating total cultural defeat looks like"
X Link 2024-07-16T04:31Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"This the party all the Christian nationalists are telling me to vote for or was there a footage mix up with a Democratic convention Harmeet Kaur Dhillon @pnjaban performs an Ardaas at the Republican National Convention for the prosperity and Chardikala of the American people and for President Donald Trump after an assassination attempt this weekend. Sikhs for Trump⚔ https://t.co/bY5GFV3Jmb Harmeet Kaur Dhillon @pnjaban performs an Ardaas at the Republican National Convention for the prosperity and Chardikala of the American people and for President Donald Trump after an assassination attempt"
X Link 2024-07-16T13:56Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"If only a large contingent of evangelicals had vocally warned everyone eight years ago that the character and beliefs of a lifelong liberal godless nominee would come to redefine the party forever. Alas we had no warning. The GOP has effectively abandoned evangelicals for barstool populism or exposed that the contemporary sociological category of evangelicals is largely coterminous with barstool populism The GOP has effectively abandoned evangelicals for barstool populism or exposed that the contemporary sociological category of evangelicals is largely coterminous with barstool populism"
X Link 2024-07-16T14:25Z [----] followers, 126.5K engagements
"Social conservatives to Christian nationalists last night:"
X Link 2024-07-16T14:50Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@OriginalA_the_P The idea that a decision made possible in part by Bush appointees and decades of work by groups like the Federalist Society mystically materialized solely because Donald Trump was in office is truly one of the more dewy-eyed political fantasies I've encountered"
X Link 2024-07-16T15:43Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Seeing this pattern play out w/incredible speed before my eyes. Christians saying we need to set aside unborn lives & natural marriage to deal with more pressing matters. Humans become what we pretend to be. A lot of people pretending to be [----] Dems rn are about to realize that. if this is never expressed while you continue to offer endorsement you all but guarantee that those issues especially if unpopular are never picked back up; you will be left with no party options on those issues and you will rationalize yourself into caring less about them if this is never expressed while you"
X Link 2024-07-16T17:07Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@NateAFischer @William_E_Wolfe With wins like yours who needs losses"
X Link 2024-07-16T18:09Z [----] followers, 14K engagements
"@William_E_Wolfe @NateAFischer Hold that ever closer to your heart next convention when a drag queen takes the stage brother. Hold it close"
X Link 2024-07-16T18:21Z [----] followers, 14.4K engagements
"It really isn't that complicated: The things I was told my whole adult life were Critical Reasons to vote for one admittedly imperfect party have been dropped. I believed what I was told in [----] [----] [----]. I still do. What do you believe in"
X Link 2024-07-16T20:03Z [----] followers, 16.2K engagements
"If people sneer at you often enough about "high horses" and "pearl clutching" and "virtue signaling" and "not getting your pure hands dirty" you begin to suspect their consciences are bothering them"
X Link 2024-07-16T22:29Z [----] followers, 15.5K engagements
"@NateAFischer You guys have singlehandedly created two pro-abortion pro-gay marriage parties with porn stars and pagan prayers at their conventions who think the murder of babies is a "spot on the basement wall." Please don't do me any more favors with your "political action." I beg you"
X Link 2024-07-17T02:21Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Solid analysis. The problem with styling yourself a political pragmatist is that you need a very consistent moral goal to pragmatically pursue. But if the goal you settle on has the same historical pedigree as K-Mart don't act like you're getting back to your classical roots. 🧵 on CNs speedrunning the reinvention of liberalism: I dont think theres anything wrong with political pragmatism. But if youre going to do a pragmatism you have to be very clear- at least to yourself what you are ultimately aiming at; what the non-pragmatic good is. 🧵 on CNs speedrunning the reinvention of liberalism:"
X Link 2024-07-17T17:04Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"I am very far from a neocon but I gotta say among the rationalizations I've seen for the GOP's collapse on abortion and marriage this week "It's okay because I'm still really mad about Iraq" has got to be the most desperate. 🧵Trump Neo-Cons and the RNC The removal of Christian morality from the RNC platform this week is a travesty that I fiercely oppose. But we must be realistic about what the previous platform really was. (1/17) https://t.co/ddQLWD4gv5 🧵Trump Neo-Cons and the RNC The removal of Christian morality from the RNC platform this week is a travesty that I fiercely oppose. But we"
X Link 2024-07-18T15:03Z [----] followers, 12.6K engagements
"One of the things that has always seemed transparently silly to me is the way presidential candidates try to take credit for or blame each other for the current economy esp after just [--] term. Economics is such a lagging indicator. We're still feeling Bush and Obama effects"
X Link 2024-07-18T17:54Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"If one more person says "abortion is up to the states now" as if Dobbs decreed it no longer a federal issue my head will explode. READ THE DECISION. Kavanaugh's concurring opinion explicitly gives the issue to "the people and their representatives in.the States or Congress.""
X Link 2024-07-19T16:40Z [----] followers, 32.4K engagements
"It's bizarre to me that we are at the point where it's considered a great dunk to repeat a thing someone has just explained to you is false in a very straightforward sense. This kind of Screwtapian flippancy is very similar to the way LGBTs dismiss reality-based objections"
X Link 2024-07-19T21:11Z [----] followers, 16.8K engagements
"Americans next Friday night at this rate:"
X Link 2024-07-22T17:38Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Part of me hopes this election will mark the end of the octogenarian takeover of the White House but given America's demographics that seems unlikely"
X Link 2024-07-22T18:34Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"In which Doug Wilson attempts (nobly) to gatekeep the ugly side of the online dissident right and is in the process of getting ratioed for it. Have some antacid on hand if you read the replies. A rejoinder to the antisemitic adjacent bros . . . https://t.co/AQxoAF6jFy A rejoinder to the antisemitic adjacent bros . . . https://t.co/AQxoAF6jFy"
X Link 2024-07-22T20:18Z [----] followers, 32.7K engagements
"My kids just discovered that Donald Trump is briefly in the [----] Little Rascals and reported this to me. I had entirely forgotten"
X Link 2024-07-22T22:52Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"She does deny in LWW that she has any children of her own but I chalk this up to her lying or else Lewis slipping. I believe Glimfeather when he connects the Queen of Underland with the White Witch"
X Link 2024-07-24T14:50Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Surprisingly insightful Deadpool and Wolverine ad on Spotify: "Join us in a world where grown men and women walk around in tights and act like it's not a giant cultural cry for help.""
X Link 2024-07-24T17:17Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"This is the most human thing Mark Zuckerberg has ever said. Mark Zuckerberg says you can't just separate intelligence from consciousness and upload a mind to the cloud because there's so much more that makes up a person https://t.co/DfaBtbrDL8 Mark Zuckerberg says you can't just separate intelligence from consciousness and upload a mind to the cloud because there's so much more that makes up a person https://t.co/DfaBtbrDL8"
X Link 2024-07-25T16:36Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@IVMiles What are you talking about Someone takes a shot at a presidential candidate. You are a reporter on scene. Your job is to: A.) Investigate and report the truth of what happened to the best of your ability B.) Something else"
X Link 2024-07-26T17:26Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
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