@RepJackKimble I am a single issue voter, who will be renaming the Atlantic and pacific oceans to both be called the American ocean. I am not alone and the choice is clear.
Pew finds that in 1990, 73% of US immigrants were Christians. In 2020, it finds 70% were Christians. So the overwhelming majority are Christians, and nothing has changed recently. Oh, and 62% of Americans overall are Christians, so they're making us more Christian.
@WordserviceDan@Ameen_HGA I think you are undoubtedly right insofar as what we are seeing is reactionary. If I pushed back too hard on your premise, it’s because so many of my family and friends have been excusing what cannot be excused by pointing to the sins of leftists.
@FiveEffs@profyancey@Ameen_HGA I understand French - like him I am a lawyer and I value the rule of law above any given election cycle - preserving the rule of law is what will allow us to remain free to practice our religious convictions in the end. Lose it, and we lose the tools to fight the culture war.
@thedavidwolcott@profyancey David French is better understood as a member of the conservative legal movement rather than an influencer/commentator, and his jurisprudence is solidly within the conservative legal mainstream. Lawyers like him value the rule of law above any given election cycle.
@WordserviceDan@Ameen_HGA Brother I implore you to take this more seriously. I saw your earlier reply and I get it - the left has called everything racist for years before Trump and you likely don’t interact with the followers of these actual racists. But they exist in shocking numbers on this website.
So some have argued that while there are problems from the right, the David Frenchs of the world are the bigger problem. First, having done research on real leftists, the idea that French, Moore, or Shenvi are woke leftists is laughable. On a large scale, these people are on the right. I do not agree with everything they say, but to say they are on the left reveals a shallow and narrow understanding of the political dynamics in our society.
Second, the people saying this do not understand the threat from the left more than I do. Having done research on atheists, white progressives, and anti-Christian bigotry, I fully understand that there are those on the left who want to destroy American Christians; I have studied their motivations and their justifications. I have written about them to expose them, and I will continue to do so in the future.
But let's be realistic. The people who complain the most about the woke are more likely to be influenced by heresies from the right than pressure from the left. They are more likely to fly a Nazi flag than a rainbow flag. The Christian who complian so much about the work have an audicence that is immune to the pressures from the left. It is not a brave thing for these leaders to call people woke. It is a brave thing for them to call out the racists in the article I posted yesterday. I see little of that bravery among them.
It is easier to prepare for outside pressures than the rot that can grow among us. I am all for being alert to progressive forces that may attack people of faith. But to ignore the internal poison that has inflitrated our churches is a misdirection that we must avoid. I for one will refuse to go in that misdirection.
@TheWorthyHouse Churchill absolutely focused on the horrors of Nazism. In fact, his single minded focus on the evils of that regime made him very unpopular in Chamberlain’s government.
Republicans wrecked the free market with tariffs and another stupid war and are now looking for government intervention and bailouts to fix the problem but the Democrats are communists.
This picture is a very important picture to look at. It’s what America has become. Screaming powerful dudes treating others as if they are their servant property. My heart is breaking for this young Marine One pilot. He doesn’t deserve this shit from trump.
Don’t leave Eric Conn off your list. Here’s some research on his stay at home daughters program that takes girls out of formal full time education at age 12 so girls can “learn to serve beside their mother in the home”. These guys are the christian Taliban and they’re not as fringe as people want to think. Doug Wilson’s writings about women aren’t much better and he preaches at the pentagon.
@ReformedSaxon@johnandrewwords Skin color isn’t what leads to criminality - poverty, lack of education, substance abuse, and above all childhood traumas are the typical ingredients. Hurt people end up hurting people.
@ReformedSaxon@johnandrewwords I’ve spent more than a decade working in the Oklahoma criminal justice system and I’ve seen more than my fair share of ugliness in my career at this point. I’ve seen the worst examples you can imagine of man’s inhumanity to man.
@hydromerchant@PresidentNSA Certainly milord business - the purity of your alpha manfulness has truly put me in my place. I was wrong to assume that you believed in effete beta male concepts like facts and evidence. From now on I swear to assume everything bad is a globalist conspiracy.
@hydromerchant@PresidentNSA I have literally been praying for this exact scenario. The Birchers have taken control and we’ve had no Buckley willing to step up because the President himself is an avatar of the Bircher mentality. Erickson isn’t perfect, but thank God someone has started the work.