Adam Chebahtah

NELC Ph.D. student @UCLA; researching Israelite & Egyptian languages, literature, and religion. BA, MA x2 Biola University; ThM Wycliffe/University of Toronto

[Adam Chebahtah @AdamChebahtah]

For all of the Bible, ANE, and Egyptology peeps:
there are a number of FB groups dedicated to sharing digital copies of resources for as long as COVID restrictions are in place. This is a great opportunity to give and get help during COVID. Links below

[Alec Barrett-Wilsdon @Contextify1]

Habeas corpus is your Constitutional right to see a judge and have the government justify why it has detained you

Without it, the government can seize any person at any time without reason

[Heath Mayo @HeathMayo]

Psychotic.

Our country is being led by a bunch of dime store intellects and go-along shock jocks who aren’t talented enough to accomplish their agenda by actually passing a law—so they aim to just suspend it.

[Brennan McLachlan @EconBrennan]

Halfway done my PhD and I feel stupider than ever

[Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen]

If a random building in Colorado hangs a picture of him that he doesn’t like, he knows immediately and spends the day tweeting about it. But four dead Americans and he’s got no fucking clue.

[David Frum @davidfrum]

The most depraved and dangerous criminal is owed a hearing before he is punished, and we are all at risk if he doesn't get it.

[Arieh Kovler @ariehkovler]

So if you're a tourist visiting the US, and ICE decide you're a Venezuelan gang member, they can put you immediately onto a plane to El Salvador where you'll be locked in prison for a year with no charges, no hearing, no trial, no right to consult a lawyer, no phone call?

[Patrick Jaicomo @pjaicomo]

Due process is important, even if it protects bad people.

[Shabazz Stuart @ShabazzStuart]

Pretty sick stuff. They're just basically rounding up brown men with tattoos and sending them to a gulag. No trial, no hearing, no deportation proceedings. Not even accessible to a lawyer.

There are almost certainly many innocent people that are part of this group.

[David Moscrop @David_Moscrop]

The sooner we start using the word concentration camp to describe this, the sooner we start confronting reality.

[David Grossman @davidgross_man]

Damn it's so crazy that the CAMP AUSCHWITZ guy was given a pardon the same day a billionaire did a sieg heil at the inauguration. Good thing none of this was anti-Semitic

[rem @dontsayrem]

i love how you can tell this is just straight up racism because why do u need to change the name of a mountain named by native people

[Joshua Reed Eakle 🗽 @JoshEakle]

I’ve been reflecting on this over the past day or so, and I’ve come to a realization.

Many of my friends on the center-right who are upset with me for making what I believe to be very obvious observations aren’t necessarily angry at me—they’re angry at the implications of what I’m saying.

The idea that neo-Nazism has entered the mainstream, potentially influencing the White House, is so alarming and existentially terrifying that it's easier to lash out at the messenger than confront the reality.

If they accept this, it means that the political home they've invested so much of their identity in, the movement they've championed for years, has become something so morally repugnant that accepting it feels like breaking their own brain.

The cognitive dissonance is overwhelming.

What's striking to me is the selective outrage. Many of these same people are quick to call everyone communists, often with little more than circumstantial evidence.

Yet, when it comes to countless instances of glaringly obvious signs of fascism in their own movement, they either look away or attack those pointing it out.

[Rev. Benjamin Cremer @Brcremer]

If you’re upset by a woman prophetically speaking truth to power, let me introduce you to Jesus’ mom:

“God has brought down rulers from their thrones but has lifted up the humble. God has filled the hungry with good things but has sent the rich away empty.”

-Luke 1:52-53

[Zach W. Lambert @ZachWLambert]

When you worship power, a sermon on the love and mercy of Jesus sounds like “spewing hate.”

[evan loves worf @esjesjesj]

“It was an accident!! He’s autistic!!”

[Neil Renic @NC_Renic]

Academia isn’t about fame, or money, or approval. It’s about downloading as many pdfs as you can before you die

[Stephanie Lobdell 💙 @srdlobdell]

I wonder how it feels to be a Haitian kid showing up to school in Springfield, OH today. Rumors are not victimless.

[Mason Mennenga @masonmennenga]

caring for immigrants is one of the only things the bible is actually clear about so i never want to hear conservative christians claim their beliefs are biblical ever again

[Kristin Du Mez @kkdumez]

I have concepts of a completed manuscript.