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Yehoshua never condemned homosexuality in the Gospels. If it mattered, he would’ve said so when teaching love your neighbor.
@LindseyGrahamSC Ted Cruz knew.
Rand Paul knew.
Nikki Haley knew.
Marco Rubio knew.
Kellyanne Conway knew.
Mike Pompeo knew.
Glenn Beck knew.
Rick Perry knew.
Susan Collins knew.
They all knew.
The Hollow Men
American capitalism is rotting from the head down. We have replaced the "Owner-Operator"—the risk-taker-with a new, parasitic class of corporate bureaucrat: The Risk-Free Insider.
By "Insider," I am not referring to a specific title. I am referring to the entire administrative state that has captured the modern corporation. This includes the Directors who exist solely to collect fees, the Executives who exist solely to collect bonuses, and the Managers who exist solely to hire consultants.
These are the hollow men of the boardroom. They are masters of PowerPoint. They wear the right suits. They say the right buzzwords about "governance" and "ESG." But they are mercenaries fighting a war with someone else’s ammunition.
In a functioning economy, authority is tied to liability. If you make a bad decision, you lose your own money. That fear of loss is the only thing that keeps a business honest. It forces you to cut waste, obsess over the customer, and stay late to fix what is broken.
Today, we have severed that link.
We have rigged the game so that heads, the Insider wins; tails, the shareholder loses.
If the stock goes up, the Insider collects a massive performance bonus. If the stock crashes due to their own incompetence, they are fired with a "Golden Parachute" worth tens of millions. They are gambling with the house’s money, and they never leave the table poorer than they arrived.
This looting starts in the boardroom.
We have normalized a "Country Club" culture where directors are selected based on social profiling rather than their ability to build a business. The modern board member is often a professional tourist—paid an average of $350,000 a year.
Let’s be brutally honest about what that number represents. The average director is paid nearly five times the GDP per capita of the United States. They earn more for attending four quarterly lunches than the vast majority of Americans earn in five years of hard labor.
And for what?
Most of these directors are "over-boarded," sitting on three or four boards simultaneously. They treat directorships as a gig economy for the elite. They fly in, rubber-stamp a compensation package they didn't read, and fly out. They collect checks from companies they do not understand, do not use, and certainly do not love.
They are not there to ask hard questions. They are there to be collegial. They are there to protect the other Insiders.
And what happens when these boards hire executives who also have no personal capital at risk?
We get the Delegation Economy.
When a Risk-Free Insider faces a crisis—bloated expenses, a broken supply chain, or a stale product—they do not roll up their sleeves. They hire a consultant. They pay a strategy firm millions of shareholder dollars to produce a 100-page deck telling them what they already know.
This is not management. It is intellectual money laundering.
They use shareholder capital to buy an insurance policy for their own careers. If the plan fails, they can blame the consultants. They delegate the work because they are terrified of the responsibility. They would rather preside over a slow, comfortable decline than risk a bold mistake.
While American Insiders are busy optimizing their severance packages, our global competitors are optimizing their products. They are not slowed down by bureaucracy. They are not waiting for a slide deck. They are outworking us.
If we continue to fill our C-suites with administrators instead of operators, we will lose our edge. We will see iconic American franchises hollowed out by fees, managed for the benefit of the Insiders, while the true owners—the shareholders—are left holding the bag.
The time for polite governance is over.
If we want to save the American economy from mediocrity, we must demand a return to the "Owner’s Mentality." We need leaders who treat shareholder capital with the same reverence they treat their own savings. The era of the Risk-Free Insider must end.
@bobgilbert42147@Truth_matters20 You're using a symbolic timeline, but where does the Bible itself teach these 15 weeks, 70 workers, and the connection between Issachar, Zebulun, 1897, and the Holocaust?
Are these explicit biblical teachings, or are they interpretations you've developed from biblical patterns?
@bobgilbert42147@Truth_matters20 History is full of wars, forced conversions, stolen lands, and suffering committed in the name of religion. That's why I ask questions. Understanding that history isn't an attack on Christianity; it's an attempt to learn from it.
@bobgilbert42147@Truth_matters20 And yes, Christians have bothered me—not because they are Christian, but because many have used Christianity to justify judging, persecuting, excluding, and condemning others.
@bobgilbert42147@Truth_matters20 It's interesting that you keep telling me to focus on Jesus and stop thinking about Paul, yet you're quoting Paul's words from Romans about "living sacrifices." If Paul isn't central to your argument, why keep citing him?
@bobgilbert42147@Truth_matters20 If Paul is irrelevant, why does so much of modern Christianity rely on his writings?
It's hard to "get Paul out of my head" when a large portion of Christian doctrine comes from him rather than from the direct words of Jesus.
Again Follow Yehoshua.
@bobgilbert42147@Truth_matters20 Oh, trust me, I found my peace a long time ago. What concerns me is how many Christians are eager to judge others when Scripture teaches that judgment belongs to God. I'm not here to condemn anyone—just to encourage a little more humility and a little less judgment.
@bobgilbert42147@Truth_matters20 Read the Gospels - Matthew, Mark, Luke and John books.
Also: Paul and Jesus: How the Apostle Transformed Christianity
By: James D. Tabor
Again why follow anyone after (Jesus), Yehoshua?
@bobgilbert42147@Truth_matters20 The biblical canon developed over centuries through debates about which books belonged, and books such as the Apocrypha were later removed from many Protestant Bibles during the Reformation.
Just MEN manipulating people. Follow Yehoshua not Paul.
@bobgilbert42147@Truth_matters20 Self Proclaimed Apostle Paul lived during Yehoshua's time yet he never met (Jesus) Yehoshua. Why?
The Gospels were written roughly 30–60 years after Jesus' death, making them the earliest written accounts we have of his life and teachings.
@bobgilbert42147@Truth_matters20 "Pretty Smart" are the operative words. You probably did not even know (Jesus's) real name before I told you.
It's Yehoshua - God who saves.
@bobgilbert42147@Truth_matters20 Judas was replaced before Paul ever appeared on the scene, making Paul more like a later apostle than one of the original disciples who walked with Jesus.
Stop following Paul. Follow Yehoshua.
@bobgilbert42147@Truth_matters20 I find it incredibly astonishing that I was christened Catholic, baptized Baptist, and confirmed Lutheran, yet never learned that Paul was not one of the original Twelve Apostles.
@bobgilbert42147@Truth_matters20 It's not the BEST. Homosexuality was input in the 1946 for the 1st time as a way to keep the LGBT people down. It's always used to condemn us the opposite of what Yehoshua taught.
Best English version I have found is the New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition (NRSVue).
@bobgilbert42147@Truth_matters20 All of God’s 30 million Queer people in America are perfect just as they are.
Read Matthew 19:12. Yehoshua obviously sees other people outside the traditional norm.
"Born that way" - What does that mean to you?
"Made that way" - Usually forced castration
"Self-Chosen" - Priests
@bobgilbert42147@Truth_matters20 From affirming pews where love's the creed,
To "hate the sin" that plants the seed,
Down to cults and hate that breed despair,
Religion's ladder: climb with care!