Words are not violence. When you pretend that views that oppose your own are violence, you are justifying the use of actual violence towards the speaker.
Gender ideology’s reliance on tropes and slogans like ‘words are violence’, its constant rationalisation and justification of using force against opponents and its preference for enforcing compliance through fear rather than permitting debate, are straight out of fascism’s playbook.
‘The function of propaganda is . . . not to weigh and ponder the rights of different people, but exclusively to emphasize the one right which it has set out to argue for. Its task is not to make an objective study of the truth, in so far as it favors the enemy, and then set it before the masses with academic fairness; its task is to serve our own right, always and unflinchingly.’
The words are Hitler’s, but I must have seen trans activists say the same thing, barely rephrased, a thousand times. Your movement seeks to remove rights from others. It is anti-truth and critical thinking, pro-violence, pro-dehumanisation of those who disagree with you, and you are so lacking in self-awareness you cannot see that you are precisely what you pretend to hate.
If you believe free speech is for you but not your political opponents, you're illiberal.
If no contrary evidence could change your beliefs, you're a fundamentalist.
If you believe the state should punish those with contrary views, you're a totalitarian.
If you believe political opponents should be punished with violence or death, you're a terrorist.
Most of yall aren’t ready for this but…
The Kings of Leon are one of the best Southern rock bands ever.
This is more obvious in their early records which had a raw, swampy edge like, Skynyrd, or Allmans, but through a garage rock, post punk filter.
man nothing will ever beat the feeling of spontaneously taking a trip up to the video store on a friday night with mom or dad and starting your weekend picking up a movie and a pizza. forever bummed my kids will never get to experience that too :(
A woman is an adult human whose body is organised to produce large gametes. One easy way to tell if you're a woman is to ask yourself: have I ever produced sperm? If, as in your case, the answer is 'yes', you are a surgically altered man enacting a male idea of femaleness.
I will never forget standing in the Garden of Gethsemane when I visited Israel, imagining the pain and agony Jesus Christ was anticipating as he contemplated crucifixion.
Amazingly, Psalm 22 prophetically foreshadows Christ's crucifixion 1,000 years before His death and many years before the invention of crucifixion:
"they pierce my hands and my feet. All my bones are on display; people stare and gloat over me. They divide my clothes among them and cast lots for my garment."
Christ knew this is what He faced, which is why He prayed so hard that He sweat drops of blood, asking God to "take this cup from Me" but ultimately saying "yet not My will, but Yours be done."
He willingly chose to die because that is how much He loves YOU!
His death paved the way for our salvation, completely justifying our imperfections to an all perfect God.
The Garden of Gethsemane represents the ultimate place of suffering, but the incredible part is that from the Garden you can see the Mount of Olives -- the place where scripture tells us that Jesus will one day triumphantly return.
In other words, from the place of ultimate suffering (the Garden), you see the place of ultimate redemption (the Mount)!
Today, on Good Friday, we contemplate Jesus' incomprehensible sacrifice, but we do it with the knowledge that Sunday is just ahead.
We will soon say, "He is Risen!" 🙏