Being Perceived Despiser

Please stop perceiving me.

[Being Perceived Despiser @AvoidPerception]

@HansFiene Pr. Wendorf helped a woman divorce her husband without any justification, then issued her a call as a DCE after she was excommunicated from her home congregation. He refused to speak to her husband. He was just re-elected as Area C VP of the Texas District.

[Being Perceived Despiser @AvoidPerception]

@AndyRowell @JohannesFlacius This is not a refutation of anything I have said. That some emotion might be expressed better through art than through propositions does not prove that it’s appropriate for worship.

[Being Perceived Despiser @AvoidPerception]

@1776_Storm @StChad_1517 Here’s how our confessions answer the question.

https://t.co/5gUrzaLoKr

[Being Perceived Despiser @AvoidPerception]

@AndyRowell @JohannesFlacius It may be true God wants to engage with a wider range of emotions, but not all belong in worship. It is good to engage in intimacy with your wife, but not in public. The object of worship is not to produce art, but to receive God’s gifts and to return thanksgiving and praise.

[Being Perceived Despiser @AvoidPerception]

@AndyRowell @JohannesFlacius No, we don’t need to argue for the strawmen you set up in our place. Some worship is acceptable to God, and some is not. Two characteristics of acceptable worship are reverence and awe, which contemporary worship as a rule substitutes with familiarity and intimacy.

[Thomas Lu'ay @thomas_luay]

Our concern with contemporary worship is not that there is any novelty at all, it is that contemporary worship seeks to 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗳𝗲𝘀𝘀 novelty as opposed to continuity.

They ask, “How many things can I break before you get mad?”
We ask back, “Why are you trying to break things?”

[Stefan @vedabenerabilis]

"What constitutes a break?"

...why are you trying to break things?

[Andy 🦬 @andythegrate]

This guy says the liturgy is handcuffing people, and I'm calling on LCMS leadership to decide whether he should be able to remain a rostered member of the synod.

[The Refined Populist @RefinedPopulist]

My local library runs a reading event similar to the old Pizza Hut BOOK IT! program.

I looked through their reading list of over 100 novels, and virtually every entry was feminist/racial propaganda or some other variety of woke slop.

No Hatchet. No Percy Jackson. No Alex Rider. No Ender’s Game. No Diary of a Wimpy Kid. No Captain Underpants. No Superfudge. No Holes. No Magic Tree House. No Johnny Tremain. No Hobbit.

You know, the books that got generations of boys to actually ENJOY READING.

So I confronted the head librarian about why there wasn’t a single thing on the list for my sons to read.

This woman had the audacity to lecture ME about how my boys needed to “broaden their horizons.”

After a rather aggressive screaming match and several threats of a lawsuit, she finally, and rather sheepishly, pointed me toward a couple of books about “sports.”

I looked them up. The Hero Two Doors Down was actually about racism, Ghost was about parental abuse. “Sports” was just a convenient excuse to Trojan Horse social conditioning down my children’s throats.

These people are so consumed by their ideological garbage that they can’t even conceive of a little boy reading a book for the sheer pleasure of it. EVERYTHING has to be an opportunity for indoctrination. EVERYTHING has to advance their political agenda. And then these same idiots have the audacity to wonder why boys are falling behind in reading, when they’ve done everything in their power to make reading absolutely miserable for them.

I’m increasingly convinced that we need to burn down the entire rotten educational establishment and rebuild it from first principles. Because apparently teaching a little boy to LOVE reading is less important than making sure he reads the right propaganda.

[Being Perceived Despiser @AvoidPerception]

@potamopotos @TheConsistory The life-saving injection looks and feels like a scorpion to the child.

[Being Perceived Despiser @AvoidPerception]

These kinds of “Christians” will not be raised until everlasting life, but rather unto everlasting fire, unless they repent of this rejection of Christ.

[Harmeet K. Dhillon @HarmeetKDhillon]

So many times over the last few years, my Christian brothers and sisters have prayed over me. And I have gratefully accepted their love and their hands on me and said “amen” because I believe in their sincerity and in one God. They didn’t hate me or try to define me as a demon worshipper. Earlier today I had lunch with two Christians and we said a prayer together. What is this hatred? I don’t recognize it. In my faith of Sikhism, we respect other people of faith.

Literally the only kind of person that makes me suspicious and concerned — is someone who does not recognize a higher power, does not recognize God. Otherwise, I have respect for all people who have the humility to believe there is a God above and that we are subject to God’s will.

The fact that “Christians” are directing hateful messages toward me, is frankly alien to me. All my friends believe in God and have been so gracious and kind to me over the years. We didn’t have to share the same faith to hold hands and pray together to a higher power who gives us strength and guidance.

I am a lifelong and flawed Sikh. But I respect all people of faith.

[Fredman 🦃🥧🍗 @Fred_Butler]

Dear Muslim

As Thanksgiving and Christmas are fast approaching,

Please avoid driving cars through crowds, blowing innocent people up with pipe bombs, and going on stabbing sprees.

[Being Perceived Despiser @AvoidPerception]

@lueyee @aria12006 Literally the first words spoken.

[Being Perceived Despiser @AvoidPerception]

@wylfcen The reason:

[Dusty Deevers @DustyDeevers]

Young men, I spend a lot of time with you. I have three married children aged 18–21, pastor a church with many young couples and singles, and talk with many of you in my public office. Many faithful young men work full-time, live carefully, and struggle to afford a home and support a family. Others want to marry, raise children, serve their churches, and put down roots.

These are good desires, and you shouldn’t be dismissed as entitled chumps playing the victim and unwilling to work. (Sure, there are bad actors on either side.)

Being told to work harder by someone who hasn’t bothered to understand your circumstances wears thin. So does being asked for your vote by people who show little interest in whether you can build a life afterward.

You inherited serious problems you didn’t create, and you deserve an honest accounting from the men who helped hand them down. Those of us who are older ought to be willing to hear hard things without treating every criticism as dishonor.

And we ought to understand and help. If we want young men to become faithful husbands, fathers, providers, and leaders, we should use our time, experience, resources, and influence to lift them up.

Proverbs 13:22 commends the man who leaves an inheritance to his children’s children. We ought to give our children both a passive inheritance when we die and an active inheritance while we live, training/discipling them, helping finance their start, and working beside them.

Scripture also commands, “Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord” (Eph. 6:4).

We can’t demand the honor owed to fathers while neglecting the duties God gives fathers. We should open our homes, teach useful skills, make introductions, and put our resources and wisdom to work. They ought to see us own and repent of our own sins and labor to repair what our generation has damaged.

Young men need to know older men stand beside them, love them, and will put their strength and resources toward helping them faithfully build and carry the load.

As older and younger men build together, we ought to conserve what our fathers did faithfully, correct what they did wrongly, and create what our children will need. We inherited churches, families, a country, and the fruit of sacrifices we never witnessed.

“Honor your father and your mother” still binds us (Exod 20:12; Eph 6:2). We can tell the truth about our fathers’ sins while remaining grateful for their sacrifices and caring for them in their old age. We will need our children to do the same for us.

My hope is to see fathers and sons doing this work together, as so many have, under the lordship of Christ, with enough humility to receive correction and enough courage to shoulder the duties before us.

And we have every reason for glorious optimism. Christ is on His throne. He leads us in His triumphal procession (2 Cor 2:14). Our labor in the Lord is not in vain (1 Cor 15:58).

Young men, I want to see you marry, raise children, build homes, strengthen churches, and govern faithfully. I want your children to inherit the good fruit of your obedience.

Those of us who are older have work to do to help you. You ought to be able to count on us.

[Being Perceived Despiser @AvoidPerception]

“CNs never evangelize! They don’t care about making Christians!”

Young Christians espouse basic Christian Doctrine.

“This is evil!”

[Joel Berry @JoelWBerry]

This is tragic.

Harmeet has been a champion for the civil rights of young white Christian men. No one has done more than her to crush the DEI regime that targeted them.

And this is how she is repaid by the very people she fought for.

These young fools—ignorant, arrogant Nick Fuentes acolytes—are trying to make the Right a “Christians only” party while simultaneously making Christianity look as repulsive as possible. It’s electoral suicide.

[Bo French @bofrench]

Stephen Miller should make sure we end every foreign visa program now. No more delay.

[Being Perceived Despiser @AvoidPerception]

@ion_eyes Usually the type of guy who got talked down to for opposing our participation in making LBW.

[The White House @WhiteHouse]

It is the official policy of the United States government that there are only two genders: male & female.

[Being Perceived Despiser @AvoidPerception]

1) A miscarriage is not an abortion, you’re just a liar.

2) Yes, I would absolutely roll the dice that not murdering my child has a 1% chance to kill me. I would accept the odds even at 100%.

[Buns @SuperButterBuns]

If there was a 1% chance that 9 month after having sex your penis could explode and kill you, and your doctor could stop it, but the government says no, you really wanna roll the dice on those odds?

[The married man @marriedmn]

Go sit for one day in a divorce court. You will never look at love the same way again.

You will hear numbers. "How much is the house worth?" "How much is in the account?" And then look at the men. Broken. Quiet. Hands shaking. Eyes empty. Still in love.

While the woman he built his entire life around is sitting with a lawyer calculating his life like a business transaction.

A woman will take the house, the savings, the kids and his future, then make herself the victim.

A man in love will lose everything and still be worried about her.

Choose wisely. The wrong relationship can cost you everything.