Lutheran Leftist🦬🌹🇵🇸

Lutheran Political Realist. Marxian diagnosis, Augustinian prognosis. Any treatment is unlikely this side of the last day.

[Lutheran Leftist🦬🌹🇵🇸 @LutheranLeftist]

I don’t identify as Marxist anymore.
I still find Marx useful descriptively, especially concerning class and capital, but I’m more Augustinian about politics now. I think democratic socialism is better than the system we have now, but all systems decay. God judges all of them.

[Lutheran Leftist🦬🌹🇵🇸 @LutheranLeftist]

Our immigration policy values borders more than human life.

[Rogue POTUS Staff @RoguePOTUSStaff]

ICE took a 31 y/o Haitian asylum-seeker into custody, drove her 30 miles away to a Pittsburgh office, put an ankle monitor on her, then sent her out the front door with no way to get anywhere or contact her family.

She froze to death at a bus stop. It's now ruled a homicide.

[Lutheran Leftist🦬🌹🇵🇸 @LutheranLeftist]

@MetzUAC1530 Don't talk about Carey like that, he has enough to do when we're in the same building

[Lutheran Leftist🦬🌹🇵🇸 @LutheranLeftist]

@MetzUAC1530 This is why I never endorse anyone.

[Lutheran Leftist🦬🌹🇵🇸 @LutheranLeftist]

"But no man can tame the tongue. It is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison. With it we bless our God and Father, and with it we curse men, who have been made in the similitude of God."

Words matter. How we talk about people, especially those at enmity with us, matters.

[Lutheran Leftist🦬🌹🇵🇸 @LutheranLeftist]

@WmWeedon Yes, Soros is definitely thinking to himself "Take down those Lutherans."

[microplastics rectifier @facetedcarapace]

I wonder how quickly his feeling of satisfaction faded back into the dissociated numbness of addiction and alienation

[Lutheran Leftist🦬🌹🇵🇸 @LutheranLeftist]

When the rioters are Irish and anti-migrant many conservatives suddenly are like "Riots are the language of the unheard"

[Lutheran Leftist🦬🌹🇵🇸 @LutheranLeftist]

For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

[Lutheran Leftist🦬🌹🇵🇸 @LutheranLeftist]

@ArtGuy313578051 @WmWeedon Anders Breivik, the Norwegian mass murderer, in his manifesto recommended "everything by Robert Spencer" and cited him thoroughly to justify his terrorism. Spencer has also appeared alongside ethnonationalists in his political activism. So it's not just klanposting.

[Lutheran Leftist🦬🌹🇵🇸 @LutheranLeftist]

@WmWeedon You're right, disinviting someone for fear of offense would be a terrible idea. I don't think anyone besides CAIR is arguing that.

[Lutheran Leftist🦬🌹🇵🇸 @LutheranLeftist]

@ArtGuy313578051 @WmWeedon He is an anti-Islam polemicist, which ordinarily would be fine for a Lutheran conference, except he doesn't do theological critique. He's been associated with ethnonationalist movements and was cited as an intellectual inspiration by a NeoNazi mass shooter.

[Lutheran Leftist🦬🌹🇵🇸 @LutheranLeftist]

@WmWeedon "All things are permissible, not all things are beneficial," is also a Christian principle. Just because Issues Etc *can* platform Robert Spencer doesn't mean it's a good call.

[Lutheran Leftist🦬🌹🇵🇸 @LutheranLeftist]

@WmWeedon No one in the LCMS (regardless of what CAIR says) is saying you shouldn't read or evaluate the ideas of Robert Spencer. But platforming is a tacit endorsement. That's what I have a problem with. And "you can't tell me what to do" also applies to whether I can critique a speaker.

[Lutheran Leftist🦬🌹🇵🇸 @LutheranLeftist]

@AvoidPerception @RedProdigal Do you see the circular reasoning in your position? Leftism is fundamentally antichristian, therefore if there is a leftist economic program supported by Christians, then in your view either it must not be truly leftist or they must not be truly Christian.

[Lutheran Leftist🦬🌹🇵🇸 @LutheranLeftist]

@AvoidPerception @RedProdigal That's a heck of a claim. How do you explain the existence of liberation theology (with all its flaws), the Catholic Worker movement, distributism, and even Martin Luther's economic sermons against usury and predatory business practices?

[Lutheran Leftist🦬🌹🇵🇸 @LutheranLeftist]

@AvoidPerception @RedProdigal Yes, there have been anti-Christian sections of the Left. That's never been in dispute from my view. You seem to be implying that anti-religious sentiment is inherent to the Left. Is that your position? Because that's patently false.

[Steve Morris @stevemorris__]

They expect us to believe these results and not ask questions 🙄

[Lutheran Leftist🦬🌹🇵🇸 @LutheranLeftist]

@AvoidPerception @RedProdigal 3. Even if I pretended that Leftism had its start in an anti-religious revolution, that doesn't mean it is fundamentally anti-religious now. That's a genetic fallacy.

I'm not trying to misrepresent your position. Your claim that Leftism has anti-religion as its basis is false.

[Lutheran Leftist🦬🌹🇵🇸 @LutheranLeftist]

@AvoidPerception @RedProdigal 1. The terminology of left/right is based on the seating arrangement of French parliament, sure. The idea that Leftism as a movement draws entirely from the French Revolution is overstated.

2. Factions of the French revolution were anti-religious, but not all. 1/2