Darach Conneely ﻦ ▼

An Irishman abroad, husband and dad, has strange idea Jesus cared about the poor and liked people.         Cuts & Sanctions cost the lives of the disabled▼

[Darach Conneely ﻦ ▼ @ConneelyD]

Here's my latest blog
What did Jesus mean by ‘the poor in spirit’?
https://t.co/oLv8PjhkvH

[Darach Conneely ﻦ ▼ @ConneelyD]

Please sign & RT this petition: https://t.co/rXcNMBVuLt via @38_degrees

[Darach Conneely ﻦ ▼ @ConneelyD]

@ReligionProf Biblical Worldview: Flat and standing on pillars?

[Darach Conneely ﻦ ▼ @ConneelyD]

@orthoheterodox1 Telling God how to exercise his sovereignty...

[Darach Conneely ﻦ ▼ @ConneelyD]

@garfishbama @ShaneClaiborne @NicJam25 not sure it was ever practised. People who have acquired land tend to want to hold onto it and have the political and economic clout to do so. The bible is full of complaints that judges aren't defending the poor especially during the divided monarchy.

[Ekklesia Network @Ekklesia_co_uk]

Why do people hate #refugees? Here @mrjamesob reads out Daily Mail front pages on @LBC. https://t.co/4UfDq0dm0T #StopFundingHate

[Darach Conneely ﻦ ▼ @ConneelyD]

@garfishbama @ShaneClaiborne @NicJam25 I was taught that as well. It does have spiritual implications too, but has Jesus abandoned the practical aspects of the Jubilee of justice for the poor, oppressed and prisoners? It doesn't sound like Jesus or what he preached.

[Darach Conneely ﻦ ▼ @ConneelyD]

@garfishbama @ShaneClaiborne @NicJam25 First century Jews would have understood Jesus reading from Isaiah "proclaim good news to the poor... liberty to the captives... proclaim the year of the Lord's favour..."and "Today this Scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing." Was Jesus inaugurating the Jubilee.

[Darach Conneely ﻦ ▼ @ConneelyD]

@ShaneClaiborne But they are Old Testament ...wait

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@pnumber628 Better than killing people and collecting foreskins.

[James F. McGrath @ReligionProf]

Christian publishing company owned by News Corp found guilty of significant fraud and destroying evidence https://t.co/adCT2cd8bU

[Darach Conneely ﻦ ▼ @ConneelyD]

@universitytimes They thought Ulcerative Colitis was 'psychosomatic' too, and they treated it it with lobotomies. I can understand how psychologists can speculate that a disease is psychosomatic if they can't find medical evidence, But we've had evidence of pathology for ME/CFS for 20 years.

[Newsweek @Newsweek]

Watch: Whitaker gets a fiery rebuke from Rep. Pramila Jayapal after admitting DOJ didn't track children separated from parents: "Do you understand the magnitude of that?"

[Darach Conneely ﻦ ▼ @ConneelyD]

@TheRaDR Yet even the Sabbath goes from because God consecrated the seventh day Ex 20:11 human to God, to interpersonal, because of God's heart for the most vulnerable and exploited labourers Ex 23:12 & Deut 5:14, the worlds 1st (as far as I know) labour law.

[Darach Conneely ﻦ ▼ @ConneelyD]

@theKevinGarcia_ @BrandanJR The writer of Hebrews certainly agreed with you:
Hebrews 1:1 Long ago, at many times and in many ways, God spoke to our fathers by the prophets,
2 but in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son...

[Pew Research Center @pewresearch]

Share of Americans who say:
▪️ "If America is too open to people from around the world, we risk losing our identity as a nation" 𝟐𝟔%
▪️ "America's openness to people from all over the world is essential to who we are as a nation" 𝟔𝟖%
https://t.co/2iBbQXC16L

[Darach Conneely ﻦ ▼ @ConneelyD]

@YaelSpeaks What is the world coming to when Punxsutawney Bill isn't the the most ridiculous climatological claim being made in the USA?

[Darach Conneely ﻦ ▼ @ConneelyD]

@MEActNetUK I don't know if it is relevant but I edited the pic in MSPaint, not to make myself prettier, but to make the sign more readable, putting a paragraph space between the message and the debate hashtag.

[Darach Conneely ﻦ ▼ @ConneelyD]

With 250,000 people in the UK suffering from ME/CFS, why is it so poorly funded?
There has been a flood of research worldwide showing #MECFS is a severe debilitating medical illness. We need funding for proper medical research to find a treatment that works #MEdebate

[Darach Conneely ﻦ ▼ @ConneelyD]

@MEActNetUK Oh dear... I look terrible in the pic, but that's probably the point.
I'd be hypocritical saying I'd march for ME/CFS but not be willing for my pic to be seen online... So... ok.

[Darach Conneely ﻦ ▼ @ConneelyD]

@RedLetterXians If God's greatest command is to love our neighbour as ourselves, then sin, falling short of that, isn't about a list of rules, but any time we use, abuse, hurt others and treat them as less than we are. God is offended because he loves them as much as he loves us.

[Darach Conneely ﻦ ▼ @ConneelyD]

@RevRichardColes Looking forward to the day after Jesus' birth, Boxing Day.