The Left lectured us for the last decade about the dangers of violence from the Right
From the assassination attempts of President Trump
To Brian Thompson, the United Healthcare CEO, being murdered
Now to Charlie Kirk
The danger was actually on the Left
Can we interest you in some Treasury bonds? We’re currently financing two wars and need some liquidity.
Don’t worry about them losing their value, we’re backing them with the U.S. military.
Evangelical Christianity has largely devolved into a women’s social club.
It’s soft. It’s friendly. It’s accepting. It’s anxious. It avoids confrontation. If wants to be perceived as good because it perceives itself as good.
The only sin it recognizes is masculine sin. It is overrun with feminine sin, which it calls righteousness.
In this way it is essentially becoming Mainline Protestantism with drums.
Influence and popularity are not the same. Aiming to be popular is more about what you want ‘from’ people, aiming to influence is about what you want ‘for’ people. Popularity should be an unnecessary by product of influencing people for good.