PugnaciousPilgrim

A look at the world, from a Christian point of view.

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@Joseph_Spurgeon @Mike36650199 NETTR (but he'll block you).

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@bonhoefferchild @douglaswils

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@bonhoefferchild @douglaswils That was facetiousness and it's strange and a bit ridiculous that a man of your intelligence couldn't pick that up.

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@bonhoefferchild @douglaswils He neither "protected" the abuser nor did he "blame" the victim. He handled the situation, the way he thought was right and reasonable...and he did so under plurality of eldership. Criticize their oversight as you please. Just don't be lazy in those efforts.

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@bonhoefferchild It's such a lame & lazy move to call these men jerks. Several players have done what they did, without mob-outrage or labels being tossed at them by cowards. These men aren't heroes or martyrs. They're just Americans exercising their God-given, constitutionally protected, rights.

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@bonhoefferchild @douglaswils And his kids are still smiling. Imagine that. They laugh about it together, because they all understand the satire, hyperbole, and ultimate and eternal good of a father's loving discipline (Heb. 12:5-7).

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@bonhoefferchild @douglaswils Literally!!! (but not literally).

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@bonhoefferchild @douglaswils I won't defend him. He has done plenty of that on his own. I will defend honest and charitable representation and you are doing neither. I appreciated Thabiti's approach (and he and GC are not fans of Wilson).

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@bonhoefferchild @douglaswils Again, you're loosely quoting him. I'm not sure if it's on purpose or laziness. Wilson has, favorably, said that America (and the world) was already trending towards emancipation. The Civil War was the short cut, causing a great deal of collateral damage, & cost America dearly.

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@bonhoefferchild @douglaswils He, literally, didn't say either; in the most literal sense of the word literally. He touched on both things, but said something very different than what you're asserting.

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@bonhoefferchild @douglaswils That's the problem. You gladly run interference for TBIG, but it isn't the book you've described. If it were, it wouldn't give teens instructions on how to hookup with adult perverts on Grindr. Just because people don't like [CN] doesn't assign the book an inherent evil.

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@bonhoefferchild @douglaswils Das Kapital isn't a math book either & just because it's sold doesn't mean the distributors subscribe to the ideology it promotes. If Wolfe turns out to be the man you assert he is, what should Wilson do? Ignore it? Nope. He should call him to account as he does.

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@bonhoefferchild @douglaswils Again, publishing is not endorsement. It never has been. Wolfe promotes an ideology. Like all others, it gets vetted by those who critique him, watch him, and see the fruit his his ideology produces. Ideas & ideologies get tested all the time. Maybe his book is gay, too?!?!?

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@bonhoefferchild @douglaswils There actually is. Mein Kompf, Das Kapital, and This Book is Gay are all still published. Where's your outrage? Publication is not endorsement of every idea a person has or will have. You don't like A Case for CN, because you see it as evil. That doesn't mean it is.

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@bonhoefferchild I wouldn't have wanted ALL that Hitler did to fail OR succeed. Same with Moscow in 1929, America in 2009, 2017, 2021, or 2025. There are 2 kinds of people who are bad for America. Those who think Trump can't do anything right & those who are convinced he can't do anything wrong.

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@bonhoefferchild Then do it—without partiality—or you're no different than the evil you supposedly stand against.

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@bonhoefferchild +12 for being honest, but your displaced hope clouds your judgement. The same holds true for #MAGA & #NeverTrump. This isn't a novel concept. It is a moral trap (Prov. 17:5, Prov. 24:17-18, Rom. 12:14).

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@bonhoefferchild I've lived there too & you're right, it isn't whether but when. It's fitting for D.C. actually. #NeverTrump wants anything and everything TRUMP touches, to fail. Anything they can use to "show that failure"—whether it's 86-47 or algae in pool destined for algae—is a success.

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@bonhoefferchild "Pool technicians note that a dark, contrasting base can actually create a sharper, more mirror-like reflection of the sky and monuments than the traditional gray".