Joey in Geneva

Student and teacher of Bible and Literature in Reformation City. Restoration of the church in Europe. Transformation of the world through the gospel. 聖書の福音が救える。

[Joey in Geneva @JoeyGeneva]

@apologiajohn I think this cannot pass at the Supreme Court... we'll see what battles ensue.

[Mike Winger @MikeWingerii]

Last night my small group from church was discussing when to assign the label “demonic” to something. I hesitate to overuse the term out of fear I’m being presumptuous. But failing to use it at all can be blinding.

That said… This is demonic and the activity of Satan.

[Maksimologija @maksimologija]

This is a good example of fake antiquity being used as an apologetic for Orthodoxy.

What you are hearing in this video is not “the sound of eternity” or “ancient hymns”. 🧵

[Brivael Le Pogam @brivael]

On a réussi le plus gros scam idéologique du XXe siècle : coller Hitler dans la case « extrême droite ».

Prenez l’intégralité du programme économique nazi (pas les citations sorties de leur contexte) :

- contrôle des prix et des salaires
- planification industrielle massive
- nationalisations et étatisation de pans entiers de l’économie
- stigmatisation des « profiteurs » et des « capitalistes » comme boucs émissaires
- obsession du contrôle de la localisation du capital et de la production

Remplacez quelques mots et vous avez exactement la même logique que celle d’un Bernie Sanders ou de n’importe quel socialiste qui veut « reprendre le contrôle » sur l’économie au nom du peuple contre les élites.

Le national-socialisme n’était pas « de droite » parce qu’il était autoritaire et raciste. Il était socialiste dans sa structure économique et dans sa méthode : désigner un bouc émissaire, concentrer le pouvoir, et planifier.

Appeler ça « droite » a permis à la gauche de se laver les mains de tout totalitarisme économique pendant 80 ans. Et c’est exactement ce qui pourrit encore le débat politique aujourd’hui.

[Joey in Geneva @JoeyGeneva]

Really good post, worth reading. I think I had and am having something similar, starting around 38, when I started taking classes to get a Master's in Theology and Brazilian Jiu-jitsu.

[Sahil Bloom @SahilBloom]

https://t.co/5XlFZaoXBZ

[Joey in Geneva @JoeyGeneva]

@OpStCyprian The Christmas theory cracked me up... but it's so true!

[Anthony Bradley @drantbradley]

I’ll add that kids have also become reduced to actors in their screen plays of their parent’s social media lives.

[NPRG @CptHastings1916]

No teacher ever talked to me about mental health, gender, anxiety, politics or the need to carry a water bottle.

Also my school's boundary wasn't marked by seven foot tall metal spikes and you didn't have to be "buzzed in" like you were accessing a bank vault.

[Douglas Wilson @douglaswils]

The Sum of All
“Worshiping God is not a means to another end. Worshiping God is the highest calling that any human being has, or that the entire human race has. It requires no other justification. Whatever we do, it should drive us to this great end. Whatever you do, it should culminate here, in the glorification of God. There is great wisdom in the first question of the Westminster Shorter Catechism here. This is our chief end” (Let the Stones Cry Out, p. ix).

[Joey in Geneva @JoeyGeneva]

@DrJustinbass That 2021 C.S. Lewis film-monologue was so disappointing. Shadowlands all the way.

[Joey in Geneva @JoeyGeneva]

@simplepastor Absolutely. I remember a time Jeff Vanderstelt said something like "and maybe in God's sovereignty his plan is for the whole thing to fail and you have to deal with that"... Tough, but still good because it's from God. The warning was more to those who just aren't ready.

[Joey in Geneva @JoeyGeneva]

When people tell you that church planting is difficult... believe them. Make sure it is your calling, because you do not want to waste years of your life. Thank God, even that can be redeemed.

[Joey in Geneva @JoeyGeneva]

The Apostles were already doing textual criticism with THEIR copies of the Old Greek LXX, Hebrew and other more recent Greek corrections to the LXX. So one of the major "traditions" that formed in the Catholic church was based on some serious misinformation, not from the apostles

[Joey in Geneva @JoeyGeneva]

Study the LXX and its history, and you'll realise that the Roman Catholic "tradition" argument is even worse that you thought it was. From 2nd to 5th century, most church fathers believed an embellished legend about the Greek OT. Did Jesus tell his apostles to repeat it? 🧵

[Joey in Geneva @JoeyGeneva]

If there was a tradition that was so important, as in "which Bible we use"!!! you'd think that Jesus would have told his disciples and that would have been fixed. The Orthodox still use the LXX; for them it is THE BIBLE. The problem with that is...

[Joey in Geneva @JoeyGeneva]

@JeremyTate41 If you know how to read, write, synthesise ideas and make decisions based on principle and wisdom, you're good to go.

[Melissa Chen @MsMelChen]

To understand just how irredeemably messed up academia is, compare the differences in how Cambridge treated Jason Arday and how Harvard treated Roland Fryer.

One is a black sociologist; the other is a black economist.

At this point, we are all very well acquainted with Jason Arday’s insane fabrications, plagiarism, and less-than-stellar research record. Yet he became the youngest black professor in Cambridge’s history at 37.

Now look at the case of Roland Fryer.

He produced rigorous, data-driven research, published extensively, and ran a major institute (EdLabs) at Harvard.

He doggedly pursued the truth on one of the most charged questions in American public life. His landmark 2016 study titled “An Empirical Analysis of Racial Differences in Police Use of Force” examined millions of encounters and officer-involved shootings.

It found that there were no racial differences in the raw data or after controlling for circumstances. In some datasets (notably Houston), blacks were actually less likely to be shot once the encounter was underway.

As you know, this finding directly contradicted Black Lives Matter’s core orthodoxy that police systematically and disproportionately kill Black men out of racial animus. It was not only in vogue at the time; it was literally religion.

Roland Fryer and his data were guilty of blasphemy.

Harvard launched investigations into allegations of verbal sexual harassment and a hostile work environment in his lab. The process produced a two-year unpaid suspension, the permanent shutdown of EdLabs, and severe restrictions on his ability to advise or supervise.

All this was investigated by a kangaroo court under Title IX. The recommendation for his alleged failings was sensitivity training, yet a faculty panel escalated it into career-crippling punishment. Fryer has said he was unfairly targeted because of the political inconvenience of his results.

The contrast between how the academy treated these two men shows you how deep the moral rot is.