Geoff

This is a remarkable bit

A christian isn't bothered by inhumanity done to brown people in God's name, a christian doesn't examine himself for how he uses the word "christian" to mean white values or "God Bless America" to signal conservative ideology. A christian defends his top donor: AIPAC.

yup

christ died so they don't have to suffer

my college son sent it to me last yr. A high altitude summary: he explains how the family used to get by on one income, banks made getting access money easier, women went into workplace, our lives were supposed to get easier, now 2 incomes is a necessity, even 3 with a side gig.
America is in denial

economist Richard Wolfe talks about how we got here and this also excellent.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0lP...

right, political power wasn't an option for the early church; and when they got it, it became coercive

In America, Blacks have not held nearly equal power except for a decade around 1870 and 1960 and they governed with an even hand. There is no basis for maga fear that they will reciprocate in kind

Thanks! Ironic, my wife and I were talking last night about a pastor who used that Lewis quote to say 'there is a little Auschwitz in all of us'

But how many evangelicals would shun political power to not test it.

Such a good point that applies even more broadly to parenting conservatively vs liberally. Give them 'a big yard' and let them wander.

I love that. It's what I argue...that what is good & evil is common to all, and why evangelicals need to spiritualize it should draw attention to why that is necessary.

I know who he is, but not that quote. {looking it up}

It's never enough.

Amoral bigots elected an ostracized amoral bigot as president; no surprise amoral bigotry is normalized.

The best course to change the norm is voting. For all of us, will you overcome the personal and systemic barriers that prevented you from voting before, take care of business, and vote?

The accompanying image is amazing.

If, probably when, the union splits along cultural/religious lines it will be roughly along these borders. This map is ubiquitous in America.

I want to live in a seemingly imaginary world where good can choose not to interact with evil, certainly not compromise to evil for dollars.

And that's why I don't believe christians belong in politics.

I have a forboding that america is economicaly broken and the investor class is building the next thing which they hope will generate(suck) more life out of her human bones before she collapses.

militarized, for sale & gambling away in denial

Iran won their group to qualify for the World Cup but they ain't coming to play in the US this summer.

We need some more countries to say no to America.

same, and my personal opinion that it's going better than they expected and we'll always have them with us.

Republican farm bill criticized as agribusiness giveaway: ‘Pesticide industry wishlist’ Advocates say the bill weakens safety reviews, boosts industry influence and shields pesticide makers from legal liability

when business acumen (profit margin) is what matters most

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Ice, Moon and Tanker
Christopher Pratt
2007

I see it as very intentional. Boningo back in first term said "the only thing left for us is to mock them" Paypal stopped processing payments over something he said.

they love the reactions
they love to push the worst and settle on very bad
they can always say "relax, you're overreacting"

N. C. Wyeth (American, 1882-1945)
Dying Winter [Three Crows on a Fence], 1934
Oil on canvas
42 1/4 × 46 3/8 in. (107.3 × 117.8 cm)
Brandywine River Museum of Art

#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

I never thought my friends and family would still be supporting him. I thought they'd slink back to being normie after they got Roe overturned.

Elect a pathological liar with an ego only self-delusion could have built and this is what you get.

Anything maga posts is both an attempt to mock libs and their position on causing human suffering.

The irony that MAGA would make their bed with a task master as inhumane as Capitalism against creeping liberalism which is best at lowering their single voting issue and passes affordable healthcare against their efforts. It's too much. Is a genderless bathroom a reason to let the devil loose.

You what lame response I gave her? I said "I tell my wife I love her and sometimes I don't do the dishes when she's tired"

What people do is their own business, I don't want anyone telling me what's right&wrong, I will let you hurt yourself if you insist, but power used to hurt others, nah.

I defer to you bc I have no formal theological training

We can speak truth all we want but unless it's accepted it remains floating around in the air above us. Their power is in denying truth

I remember thinking as a young christian it's better to not know what I shouldn't do bc then I can keep it

Well, here's a real world example. I was banging away at some college friends... remain in the vine and bear good fruit and so on... Then the last person I would have expected said "Geoff, haven't you ever been intentionally hypocritical" my jaw dropped.

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b/ within evangelicalism, unlimited forgiveness is bedrock. That's probably the most enforced biblical principle. 54% of abortions went to christians, christians divorce as often as nones

Abortions go down under democratic administrations

I know I'm outside what's expected, but that is complicity

personally, I was the peacemaker curating truth to being people together.

I said no more, you're adults.

As a country, it's time they joined the team trying to make peoples lives better.

Do we have to kowtow to the same people who tell everyone else to pull up their bootstraps.

Ps2/ There is a theological answer as well. But they reject it. So we're back to race.

God in the OT couple Love you God & Love your neighbor into one commandment; Jesus reaffirms it as singular. Maga breaks them apart and forgets the second. Why? Race.