Flavius Iustinus 🌲

Reformed. Presbyterian. Byzantine Enjoyer. Christ is Lord.

[Flavius Iustinus 🌲 @MedievalProt]

Most of the serious political work here isn’t even being done by pastors—it’s informed laymen who’ve actually read the sources. The real issue in the PCA is pastors confusing ‘the Church’ (all her members + gifts) with the ordained office, then implying everything should stay inside the church walls rather than shaping public life as our forefathers taught.

[Daniel F. Wells @Danielfwells]

Should Pastors spend their time trying to develop a textbook level theory of Reformed political theory that better matches the context of the 16th-17th centuries, or should they disciple their people to live faithfully as exiles in our respective Babylons?

[Flavius Iustinus 🌲 @MedievalProt]

@tomascol

[Flavius Iustinus 🌲 @MedievalProt]

@MallardReborn “Nooooo! Not like that!”

[Flavius Iustinus 🌲 @MedievalProt]

@PerfInjust @Danielfwells I think the real question (especially for those in the PCA) is whether pastors should spend their time trying to censure people in their congregation who are trying to develop a faithful political approach especially when it’s in line with our forefathers

[Flavius Iustinus 🌲 @MedievalProt]

It took us 2K years to rediscover this hidden truth that the Bible has been teaching all along

[Stephen Wolfe @PerfInjust]

What a happy accident that the timeless politics of Jesus just happens to make the racist permanently unemployable but the drag queen a blessing of liberty.

[Stephen Wolfe @PerfInjust]

What a happy accident that the timeless politics of Jesus just happens to make the racist permanently unemployable but the drag queen a blessing of liberty.

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

In America, a stranger will rename you in a single breath, and you are simply expected to come when called.

I went to eat at a busy restaurant. A young man at the front asked for my name, to mark my place in line. I gave it the weight it has carried for eight hundred years.

"Nobunaga."

He smiled, nodded, and wrote it down with great confidence. Then he read it back to me, to be sure he had honored it correctly.

"Perfect. Banana, party of one."

Banana. He had heard my name, held it a moment, and returned to me something rounder and more cheerful. To refuse the name a host gives is to refuse his welcome. I bowed. I was Banana now.

Then he handed me a small black disc, said it would "light up and buzz" when my table was ready, and turned to the next guest as though he had not just placed a living thing in my hands.

I held it in both palms, the way one holds a small sleeping beast that may wake. I found a place to stand. I waited, ready.

It woke.

It screamed. It flashed red. It leapt and shook in my hands like a captured spirit demanding release. A lesser man would have dropped it. I did not. I gripped it, steady, looked into its blinking lights, and told it, in a low voice, that its time had come. Then I carried it back to the host with both hands, the way one returns a hawk to its master.

He took it without looking and shouted across the entire room.

"BANANA! Party of one, your table's ready!"

A hundred strangers turned. I rose. I crossed that floor as Banana, spine straight, chin level, a man answering to his name. A child pointed at me. I gave the child a small bow. He had recognized me.

All through the meal they kept me. "How's it tasting, Banana?" "More water, Banana?" The check, when it came, said Banana, and thanked me for visiting. By the end the whole staff knew me. They waved as I left. "Night, Banana!"

So tell me honestly.

For eight hundred years my clan answered to one name. Tonight I answered to a fruit, calmed a screaming relic in my bare hands, and ate among people who were glad I came.

When the little disc lights up, is the table truly mine, or am I only keeping it warm for the next Banana?

Because I have already decided to return on Friday, and to ask, very humbly, for the same disc.

[Eric Conn @Eric_Conn]

Many people need to hear this: Having a desire for a good thing does not mean you are "making an idol of it."

This is an old Tim Keller trick.

Ironically, the things that got labeled as idolatrous were the family, marriage, and children. Never the pet sins of the Left.

[bendell werry 🌲 @bendellwerry]

Imagine the God of the universe tells you you’re his rock guy and he needs you to push the rock and then being pouty because it doesn’t “mean” anything.

[Stephen Wolfe @PerfInjust]

In civil politics, the Christian represents King Jesus not as he is King over the church but as he is King over the state.

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

If you're worried about ticks, put up an owl box.

The animal driving most Lyme disease in the eastern US is the white-footed mouse. Ticks that feed on them are far more likely to come away infected than ticks that feed on other animals. The bigger the local mouse population, the worse the next year's tick year.

A single barred owl pair raising chicks can take hundreds of rodents in a breeding season. Owls also don't carry Lyme. The bacterium can't survive their digestive tract, so an owl that eats an infected mouse is a dead end for the disease.

Researchers at the Cary Institute, the leading lab on Lyme ecology, have been explicit about this: "Landscapes that support predators have reduced Lyme disease risk."

One owl box on its own isn't going to fix a tick year. But a yard with owls, foxes, bobcats, and weasels in it has fewer mice, and a yard with fewer mice has fewer infected ticks.

If you have woods or fields nearby, a properly sized barn owl or screech owl box (different species, different boxes) is one of the most useful single things you can do for tick exposure at the landscape scale. Match the box to the owl that lives near you.

The mouse is the problem, owls are the solution.

[Flavius Iustinus 🌲 @MedievalProt]

@chasedownleads Why didn’t I think of that

[Flavius Iustinus 🌲 @MedievalProt]

@PsalmWarfare @bendellwerry I don’t see “thinking they are superior” listed in Q 130. Must be some sort of mistake in the printing

[Flavius Iustinus 🌲 @MedievalProt]

Ah yes, this is “Christianity in the public sphere” at its peak.

[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.

[C.Jay Engel 🌲 @contramordor]

The modern historian Jack Rakove explains this quite well:

“When Jefferson wrote “all men are created equal” in the preamble to the Declaration, he was not talking about individual equality. What he really meant was that the American colonists, as a people, had the same rights of self-government as other peoples, and hence could declare independence, create new governments and assume their “separate and equal station” among other nations. But after the Revolution succeeded, Americans began reading that famous phrase another way. It now became a statement of individual equality that everyone and every member of a deprived group could claim for himself or herself. With each passing generation, our notion of who that statement covers has expanded.”

It is absolutely vital that we rethink the prevailing model of the Declaration. It is a constant trump card used to facilitate the liquidation of our heritage and our identity as a people. Even though it has no legal bearing at all, nobody’s allowed to interpret America except as a zone for individuals to do whatever they want. The eradication of our way of life and the recovery of our nation is built on this absurd Propositionalism.

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[bendell werry 🌲 @bendellwerry]

"It is difficult to get a man (or woman) to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it."

[C.Jay Engel 🌲 @contramordor]

Looks like Massie took the loss. I voiced my opposition to his opponent not on a positive enthusiasm for Massie, but on an opposition to AIPAC and the Israel lobby’s continued total domination of Republican politics.

But now it’s over and it’s time to move on from the race. I hope Ed is as America First as his advocates say he is. Ultimately Massie failed on the one thing Americans care about above all: immigration. And he was punished for that. It’s a due punishment.

[Flavius Iustinus 🌲 @MedievalProt]

“Officer, do you have a warrant to deliver that hot tasty meal?”

[Flavius Iustinus 🌲 @MedievalProt]

@5solas Lol, I guess you missed his discussion of the views of the ECF; so not exactly 2,000 years