Justin Smith

Christian, hubz, daddy, pastor, friend, wish I was casting over a rise, kiddos say I make the best pancakes in the universe, hair desnarler

[Mark Changizi @MarkChangizi]

— One of the Most Ridiculous Anti-Semitic Myths Ever Invented —

One of the stranger claims circulating today is that the Jews who fled Europe and helped build modern Israel had no real connection to ancient Judea. The implication is that they weren’t a people who had survived in diaspora for centuries - preserving their identity, traditions, language, religion, and communal bonds while scattered across the world. Instead, we’re told they were basically random Europeans who happened to adopt Judaism.

It’s worth pausing to examine what this theory actually requires.

No serious person disputes that Jewish communities, like every long-lived people, absorbed some outsiders over time. A local marries in. A convert joins. A family becomes Jewish generations ago and stays Jewish. Over centuries, this creates some genetic admixture. That’s normal.

Modern genetic studies confirm exactly this: Ashkenazi, Sephardi, Italian, Greek Romaniote, and other Jewish groups show varying degrees of mixture with surrounding populations. Expected. Uncontroversial.

But the anti-Semitic claim is far stronger. It insists European Jews were largely unrelated to ancient Israelites - that masses of Europeans converted en masse and essentially replaced the original population.

Think about how absurd that is.

For nearly two thousand years, being Jewish in Europe was one of the least appealing identities imaginable. Expulsions from England (1290), repeated expulsions from France, Spain (1492). Ghettos, quotas, forced conversions, pogroms, blood libels, and endless conspiracy theories about secret power and disloyalty.

And yet the theory asks us to believe that huge numbers of Europeans looked at this persecuted, restricted, and frequently massacred minority and said: “Sign me up.”

Even stranger: Judaism has never been a missionary faith. Unlike Christianity or Islam, it did not seek converts. Conversion was always possible but rarely encouraged. The process demands serious study, adoption of Jewish law and practice, vetting by a rabbinical court, and - for men - circumcision. Rabbis traditionally discourage prospective converts to test sincerity. It is not casual.

So the theory requires us to believe that, for centuries, Europeans in large numbers:

~ Voluntarily joined a despised, stigmatized group;

~ Adopted a non-proselytizing religion that wasn’t recruiting them;

~ Underwent a demanding, lifestyle-altering conversion process;

~ Did so in numbers massive enough to replace the existing Jewish population and erase its ancestry.

This becomes more ridiculous the longer you dwell on it.

Of course Jewish communities absorbed some outsiders. Every enduring people has. But the idea that millions of unrelated Europeans flooded in and transformed Jews into an entirely different people is one of the most implausible - and unintentionally comical - anti-Semitic fantasies ever invented.

The far simpler, evidence-backed explanation is the obvious one: Jews remained Jews. They mixed modestly with host populations, as all long-lived groups do. But they preserved historical and genetic continuity with earlier Jewish communities, who themselves maintained continuity with the people of ancient Judea.

[Thomas Sowell Quotes @ThomasSowell]

Hitchens: ”In 1786, when the United States was barely a country, it was having its sailors taken as slaves by the Barbary states, the states of the Ottoman Empire and North Africa. Ships stopped, its crews carried off into slavery.”

[Joel Berry @JoelWBerry]

A former skinhead describing how he recruited Neo-Nazis and it sounds virtually indistinguishable from Joel Webbon, Brian Sauve, and Eric Conn.

[Gates Garcia @GatesGarciaFL]

‼️MY REACTION TO @McJuggerNuggets TURNING HIS ABORTION DECISION INTO CONTENT:

The one thing missing from the discussion was the person.
The child.
The human being at the center of it all.
And I couldn't stop thinking about something.
What would a person with Down syndrome think reading that tweet?

Having children is one of the most selfless acts a human being can undertake.
You are voluntarily accepting uncertainty.

The entire journey of parenthood is an exercise in loving someone whose future you cannot control.
That's the deal.

But somewhere along the way we've started treating children like consumer products.
We ask whether the child fits our plans.
Whether the child matches our expectations.
Whether the child will provide the experience we envisioned.
And when a diagnosis arrives that changes those expectations, the conversation often becomes about whether the child still meets the standard.
That isn't parenthood.
That's consumerism.

And then there is one final thing I can't shake.
The need to announce it.
Not to close friends.
Not to family.
To the entire world.
To a bunch of strangers online.
Maybe that's the part that disturbs me most.
Because we've entered a strange moment in our culture.
Every private experience must become content.
Every tragedy becomes a post.
Every intimate decision becomes engagement.
Every deeply personal moment becomes public consumption.
And I found myself wondering:
Was today the day that aborting your child became content?

As Christians, we believe every person is made in the image of God.
Every person.

Join me tonight in praying for both this couple, and the sweet soul that they sent to Heaven way too early.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Before and after the dog park

[James Lindsay, anti-Communist @ConceptualJames]

Anyone who will lie, cheat, and steal to get power will only be further corrupted by the power they get. They will have absolutely no incentive to do otherwise and reinforcement that it works. They will therefore lie, cheat, and steal from those who supported them, and worse.

[Vince Dao @VinceDaoTV]

AIPAC has fought Thomas Massie for years, actually.

That’s a shock to his supporters who started following politics 2 seconds ago, but Google is free.

Notice how he didn’t lose his primary until he voted against funding ICE, grandstanding against Trump, and cozying up to third-world leftists.

But they insist he only lost because of the “Israel lobby.” Okay, and if the Israel lobby is omnipotent in politics, why didn’t he lose before?

Only the Retard Right made the election about Israel. For voters, it was everything else. Unlike you, voters actually don’t have their minds consumed by a foreign country.

Conservative voters — and even Trump himself — were happy to endorse him for years. He’s always opposed the aid. But it was only when he started acting like a retard that he alienated them.

You guys will do anything but admit that your brand of politics is genuinely unviable with regular Americans. It’s all excuse-making.

[James Lindsay, anti-Communist @ConceptualJames]

If you have turned against Israel since 2023, you have fallen for the next biggest psyop since Covid-19, and you're the guy in the mask running around screaming at people to get their next booster.

[Mark Changizi @MarkChangizi]

The Jew-hating Woke Right is being soundly rebuked. While we’re enjoying their being disgraced, here’s another reason they’re among the lowest IQs in politics: they learned nothing from COVID

[David Morrill @coconservative7]

"Dispensationalism is bad because it teaches ethnic exceptionalism for Jews. Also, whites are prophetically blessed by God and destined for civilizational dominance through Japheth."

Dude, pick one. No Christian has to deny obvious civilizational disparities or the historic greatness of the Christian West. God raises up nations and brings them low. That’s providence.
But there’s a world of difference between: "God greatly used Western civilization" and "Whites possess a special prophetic status." The irony, of course, is in the condemnation of Jewish exceptionalism while constructing a European version of the exact same thing. The New Testament does deal with sinful partiality by transferring covenantal centrality from Jews to Europeans. It recenters everything in Christ and a church from every tribe, tongue, and nation.

For Calvinists especially, this rhetoric is bizarre. Total depravity and sovereign grace are supposed to destroy human boasting, not relocate it to a civilization or bloodline.

"What do you have that you did not receive?"

[Hitler Hated Christ @not_our_guy]

Ray from Evangelical Dark Web on state funded Nazi institutes/organizations removing the Old Testament and sections of the New Testament from scripture:

"It's not like they said you couldn't buy a regular bible"

[Joel Richardson @Joel7Richardson]

Whenever the Church has embraced an "overly realized eschatology" (Kingdom now theology) it always ends up focusing on government, law, and ultimately, the sword, to establish "the Church." Every single time.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

You'll never look at your phone again after watching this

[Nathan Livingstone (MilkBarTV) @TheMilkBarTV]

The ultimate compilation of Tucker Carlson contradicting himself.

[James Lindsay, anti-Communist @ConceptualJames]

Nick Fuentes is a Democrat now because the Republicans don't hate Jews and Israel enough. It's a Leftist belief.

Therefore, I'm telling you again that if you're a conservative who recently turned against Israel or Jews, you fell for a Leftist psyop and are their useful idiots.

[Joel Berry @JoelWBerry]

“The term ‘gaslighting’ to describe psychological abuse and manipulation came into use 60 years ago which means no one ever gaslit anyone before then.”

“The word ‘Trinity’ didn’t exist until around 200AD which means the Trinity didn’t exist before then.”

I’m not sure if Auron is stupid, thinks you’re stupid, or if he’s actually fallen so far that he’s adopted the Leftist postmodern view of language.

Words don’t create reality, they convey reality.

The principles of America being founded on a “Covenant” or a “Creed” or the “Logos” is all over the writings of great Americans going back 250 years to the founders. It was borrowed from the Bible and the covenantal nation of Israel. It wasn’t invented by progressives in the 60s.

Again, I struggle to discern whether these people are stupid or sinister.

[James Lindsay, anti-Communist @ConceptualJames]

Woke Right gonna be really mad because they really want people to see America as a poorly defined ethnostate, or as a balkanizing collection of ethnostates.

[Mark Changizi @MarkChangizi]

Two key facts about Israel to remember:

(1) Israel only ever takes land when hostile neighbors make war.

(2) Israel returns land for peace:

~ Sinai Peninsula (to Egypt, 1979–1982): Full withdrawal of ~23,000 sq mi / 60,000 km² (captured 1967) via peace treaty. Largest concession.

~ Southern Lebanon Security Zone (2000): Unilateral withdrawal to the Blue Line (UN-confirmed), ending 18+ years of occupation in the south to reduce casualties and tensions.

~ Gaza Strip (2005): Unilateral disengagement—evacuated all settlements and forces (~140 sq mi / 360 km², captured 1967) hoping for calm.

~ West Bank portions (Oslo Accords, 1990s+): Transferred control of major cities and ~40% of area (Areas A/B) to Palestinian Authority; multiple partial pullbacks and near-full offers (e.g., Camp David 2000).

~ Minor border areas (e.g., to Jordan ~2019): Small leased lands (al-Baqura/Ghumar) reverted under 1994 treaty.

[Congressman Brandon Gill @RepBrandonGill]

Today I asked an abortion advocate what her favorite method of abortion is.

[Hitler Hated Christ @not_our_guy]

You are being played, goy