@DavidAFrench@richvillodas This demonstrates, in my opinion, that Trump has Narcissistic Personality Disorder. He fits all of the diagnostic criteria. He has elevated himself to being God. He sees himself as being all-powerful.
You would think christian nationalists would be fighting for a "christian" nation that takes care of their poor and homeless, provides healthcare to its citizens and strongly regulates a predatory financial industry. Instead they want more guns, and think poor people are lazy.
It's telling that so many conservative Christians could not recognize a statement ("obedience to God's law can be a way to rebel vs God") that expresses the classic law-gospel distinction, that obedience can be one of the two ways to reject the gospel- legalism and antinomianism.
I'm for Christian internationalism: recognizing that God's people come from every tribe & tongue & nation & their goal is not political power, but spreading the good news of Jesus which (according to Jesus) is especially good news for the poor & oppressed (Luke 4:16-21).
@DrLoritts Acceptance and Commitment Therapy teaches the ubiquity of pain and normalizes the experience of pain rather than attempt to rid people of it.
To my American friends, remember, democracy only works if your elected officials respect the outcomes of an election and are committed to the rule of law.
Here’s some history for you, Marjorie. Russia was part of the Soviet Union.
The Soviet Union was Communist.
Putin was a member of the KGB.
Communism & KGB = bad.
America won the Cold War.
It was a great victory for freedom.
Now you stand with Putin against freedom & America.
One of the saddest phenomena of the online right is the absolute fury at those of us who supported COVID vaccines and continue to support COVID vaccines. The death toll of vaccine refusal is simply staggering and heartbreaking. Here's January 1, 2021 until April 30, 2022:
As a Republican, I am appalled watching many in my party use the terrible attack of Paul Pelosi to spread conspiracies or score political points.
Shame on them.
@Ayomas8@mbird12 I wonder though if secularism simply allows for a polite 'wink' at religious interaction with public life (i.e. political discourse), but sneeks atheism in the back-door as it were, minimizing the truth-claims of each, since no truth-claim is valid in respect to another.
Paul goes on: "Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience" (Eph 5:5-6).
This is one example among many. We can't abandon Christian sexual ethics in the name of unity. This is not love. (3/3)
Discipleship is, in large part, the education of our desires—desiring the glory of God and desiring the full flourishing of our neighbors, even as we desire this shalom for ourselves.
Deception becomes systemic when we use our collective power to protect what we desire to be true rather than face the destruction and the pain that accompanies the actual truth.
Asking African American Christians to embrace so called Christian Nationalism, is tantamount to asking Jewish people to embrace Nazism. In both cases you’re asking minority groups to embrace the very ideologies that sought to wreck havoc among the people groups they represent.