Ronald D. Harrison, Jr., M.Div., Ph.D.

Ph.D. in educational psychology, theologian, middle/high school teacher, and lover of Jesus. Luke 4:18-19 - Jesus came for the destitute, poor, & rejected

[Ronald D. Harrison, Jr., M.Div., Ph.D. @FaithandMind1]

Using the majority to back a theological position is a horrible mistake. Do you know the majority of Americans at one time or other defended slavery, segregation, and abortion? How do you randomly choose an era by its agreement with your position?

[Megan Basham @megbasham]

Up until the early 90s the majority of Americans fully agreed with this position.

Because it’s right.

[Ronald D. Harrison, Jr., M.Div., Ph.D. @FaithandMind1]

Really? That’s your conclusion. Your reasoning ability is better than this. Does your extremist response really effectively counter this true anecdote? It should bring reality to the discussion, not urgent dismay and melodramatic hysteria.

[Megan Basham @megbasham]

Oh well, by all means, since one of those migrants who happened to become a citizen thanks to fortunate tourist timing turns out to be a good soccer player, let’s go ahead and throw out the country! Why should we even have a border! Who knows how many who come in illegally could turn out to be our next soccer star!!!

This is a good way to do policy and I am a very smart fellow for my open borders think tank!!

[Ronald D. Harrison, Jr., M.Div., Ph.D. @FaithandMind1]

@megbasham @JulieRoland4 Really? That’s your conclusion. Your reasoning ability is better than this. Does your extremist response really effectively counter this true anecdote? It should bring reality to the discussion, not urgent dismay and melodramatic hysteria.

[Ronald D. Harrison, Jr., M.Div., Ph.D. @FaithandMind1]

😆😆😆😆 Really, Lindsey?? Was Jimmy Carter a Socialist with his save energy initiatives?

[Lindsey Graham @LindseyGrahamSC]

First AOC tried to come for your steak and ribs and now the Socialist Democrats are coming for your AC.

This is the future that WOKE Democrats want not just for NYC but for South Carolina too!

[Ronald D. Harrison, Jr., M.Div., Ph.D. @FaithandMind1]

@LindseyGrahamSC 😆😆😆😆 Really, Lindsey?? Was Jimmy Carter a Socialist with his save energy initiatives?

[Ronald D. Harrison, Jr., M.Div., Ph.D. @FaithandMind1]

Maybe because you always only pick out blacks that talk like you do, mind-meld with you, and that have precious little to say about Black culture that the public can actually find of value—and that grasps less than well-to-do existence.

[William Wolfe 🇺🇸 @WilliamWolfe]

Woke Christians: “When a black person is talking, white people need to sit down, shut up, and listen. Do the work. Be the bridge.”

Clarence Thomas: “Birthright citizenship is unconstitutional, the decision upholding it is a disaster, and I agree with Thomas Aquinas that foreigners shouldn’t be allowed citizenship too soon or they will meddle with our affairs and hurt our people.”

Woke Christians: “Not like that!”

[Ronald D. Harrison, Jr., M.Div., Ph.D. @FaithandMind1]

@WilliamWolfe @AnnaGraceWood Maybe because you always only pick out blacks that talk like you do, mind-meld with you, and that have precious little to say about Black culture that the public can actually find of value—and that grasps less than well-to-do existence.

[Ronald D. Harrison, Jr., M.Div., Ph.D. @FaithandMind1]

@JarranSainsbury In that way, he reminds me so much of Eric Metaxas. He takes many opportunities to let us know how prominent and important he is. (One never needs to do that when the public lets you know how largely you actually do figure in the public square.)

[Ronald D. Harrison, Jr., M.Div., Ph.D. @FaithandMind1]

@MarkGrote That’s one of the several issues that provoked me to do some rethinking on the study.

[Ronald D. Harrison, Jr., M.Div., Ph.D. @FaithandMind1]

@WellsJorda89710 @sparkysgal7 Too bad the right isn’t giving us anything better to consider.

[Ronald D. Harrison, Jr., M.Div., Ph.D. @FaithandMind1]

My comment under this post (I’m hoping he can give some clarity 😉😎):

“Woke” is a long-recognized term used for slaves who finally realized that they were free when they thought they were still under slavery.

“Feminist” is primary a literary term for literature that is (finally) told from a woman’s perspective instead of her voice being merely in the background.

Which of those categories makes the Supergirl movie “trash”? I haven’t seen the movien, so some academic, intellectual clarity will help me understand the issue with the movie as to whether it deserves my attention or not. Have you seen it?

https://t.co/upMmzO3NXb

[Ronald D. Harrison, Jr., M.Div., Ph.D. @FaithandMind1]

@limexperience @GraceAloneSaved @Regan_Carter @megbasham @Selene_Mariposa I understand. When I get those, I jump on the thread and follow the conversation. (Sometimes it gets convoluted. Lol.)

[Ronald D. Harrison, Jr., M.Div., Ph.D. @FaithandMind1]

It’s important to realize that there is a major difference between being a Christian and Christianizing. And religiosity ≠ spirituality and worship. Sometimes the differences are subtle, but sometimes it’s stark. And sometimes it’s misapplication of Scripture that was originally written to a very different original audience.

[Ronald D. Harrison, Jr., M.Div., Ph.D. @FaithandMind1]

@limexperience @GraceAloneSaved @Regan_Carter @megbasham @Selene_Mariposa I think you’ve criss-crossed the responses. My response wasn’t to you but to @GraceAloneSaved, who made the assumption that neither you nor I know Jesus and needed him to preach at us with his venom. (Follow the thread.) 🙂

[Ronald D. Harrison, Jr., M.Div., Ph.D. @FaithandMind1]

@megbasham @AmericanAir As much as I disagree with your commentary on political and theological issues, I don’t revel in your battle with cancer. 🙏🏾🙏🏾 that you’ll be healed, by God’s grace.

[Ronald D. Harrison, Jr., M.Div., Ph.D. @FaithandMind1]

I post this for one reason:

We have it drilled into us how unpatriotic and non-supportive Democrats are. Let the message of the two juxtaposed images soak in.

Is it really Democrats that prefer activism and violence over support for one’s country?

[FightforAmerica @FightingforUS_]

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[FightforAmerica @FightingforUS_]

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[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

Let me tell you what just got reported, because you will not believe it until you see it laid out.

The Trump administration cut a billion-dollar tungsten deal with Kazakhstan. Tungsten is the metal we need for missile warheads, fighter jets, and computer chips. Trump himself got on the phone to close it. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick worked it from the inside, sending letters, leaning on the Kazakh president, lining up as much as $1.6 billion in federal financing.

Within weeks of those negotiations, investors tied to a firm partly owned by Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump took a 20% stake in an entity connected to the very same Kazakhstan project their father was negotiating. Around that same time, Cantor Fitzgerald, the firm run by Lutnick’s own sons, raised $210 million for a partner in the deal and pocketed the fees.

The fathers set the policy. The sons cashed in.

Six days after the Trump sons and their partners moved their money, Lutnick signed the final deal.

The reporting found one or both families have financial ties to at least 14 companies working with the government on critical mining deals.

The total federal funding flowing toward those companies tops $8.9 billion.

This is your tax money.

It is supposed to secure our supply chains and protect our troops, not pad the portfolios of the President’s children and the Commerce Secretary’s children.

This is the most corrupt administration in American history. It is not close.

We must keep digging, and keep asking the questions they do not want asked. Republicans in Congress are unwilling to lift a finger. Mike Johnson is running a protection racket.

Either we will end the corruption, or the corruption will be the end of us.

https://t.co/yFOl7zvOhC

[Ronald D. Harrison, Jr., M.Div., Ph.D. @FaithandMind1]

@USPoliticTheory @megbasham Amen, amen! Especially when those at the helm are thoroughly dead and beaten down in their sin.

[Ronald D. Harrison, Jr., M.Div., Ph.D. @FaithandMind1]

@GraceAloneSaved @limexperience @Regan_Carter @megbasham @Selene_Mariposa Since you don’t know me, one who’s been saved for 48 years and solidly trained in theology, exegesis, and interpretation, your small evaluation is at best meaningless—and worst, bound up in devilish nonsense.

[Ronald D. Harrison, Jr., M.Div., Ph.D. @FaithandMind1]

It’s a hyperbole possibly, but deists (the term he used frequently) are philosophical in their understanding of the divine and can be moralists, but generally they aren’t religious. A glimpse of Franklin’s diary helps us see this.

And since the Bible is principally an (ancient near-) Eastern text (even the New Testament is grounded in Old Testament context and truth), the best we do is attempt to find some principles. The Eastern context is largely lost in the attempted transfer.

As one who is thoroughly grounded in this stuff, I can say he’s much closer to the truth than not.

Caution: Many involved in that conversation—including those in this thread—have little to now training in these areas but must rely on politicized secondhand (or distant) interpretation. But that’s it.