Caleb Reichardt

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[Caleb Reichardt @calebreichardt]

Today’s the day I officially announce the release of my new book:

The End of Wisdom: For Those Who Want to Be Wise, Not in Their Own Eyes

You can learn more and get your copy here: https://t.co/tvHQPNH48h

[Caleb Reichardt @calebreichardt]

People will judge you for trying to do the right thing in what they perceive as the wrong way of doing it but will never judge themselves for not trying at all.

Imperfect action will always beat perfect inaction.

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Lest anyone think there’s a contradiction, how do we harmonize the fact that Jesus was famously tempted by the devil with the below verse in which it says, “God cannot be tempted”?

James 1:13: “Let no one say when he is tempted, ‘I am being tempted by God’; for God cannot be tempted by evil, and He Himself does not tempt anyone.”

God cannot be tempted in an internal sense by an indwelling sinfulness (which is what James is getting at in the next verse: “but each one is tempted . . . by his own lust”), but God can be tempted in an external sense as we see with Jesus in the wilderness by the devil (Matthew 4:1–11; Mark 1:12,13; Luke 4:1–13). So God cannot be tempted, truly tempted, in the deepest sense of the word in that there is potential to sin. Think of it this way: When Jesus was walking among us on this earth, there was nothing stopping someone from planting a naked lady in front of Him in the same way that a naked lady could be planted in front of the average Joe—both are presented with what we would call “temptation”—but only one of them has that internal pull which entices their eyes.

[Allie Beth Stuckey @conservmillen]

When my oldest was born, they refused to let me hold her because her oxygen levels were low. But I was persistent, and they eventually relented, allowing her to lay on my chest until the NICU nurse came to roll her away. When the nurse arrived, I asked that they check her oxygen levels one more time before taking her. They did. Oxygen: 100%. Perfect. The nurse shrugged and left. Our baby girl was healthy. She just needed me. My heartbeat, my warmth, my touch. She needed her mom.

Stories like this aren’t rare. Newborns need their moms to regulate their oxygen and heart rate. That’s why, when at all possible, most doctors and hospitals give baby to mom right away.

We know this when it comes to normal births, but when it comes to surrogacy - especially the kind when two men are purchasing a baby from a woman - the baby is immediately and intentionally taken away from his or her mom and given to two strangers. It is not surprising that these babies often undergo complications post-birth. Beyond that, we don’t fully know the physiological and psychological effect of robbing babies of their mothers at birth.

It’s worse treatment than we give puppies and kittens, but when it’s for “inclusion,” it’s celebrated.

Adoption is one thing - it redeems a broken situation. But surrogacy is another - it intentionally creates the broken situation.

Babies’ needs will always matter more than adults’ wants.

[Caleb Reichardt @calebreichardt]

@BuenoForMiami It keeps getting worse: defining a false equivalency in order to defend a false equivalency🤦‍♂️ Logic is lacking here.

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@BuenoForMiami 🤦‍♂️

[Caleb Reichardt @calebreichardt]

The Christian not only has a comfort in their mourning but an underappreciated reason for their mourning, which is itself a comfort. It’s one thing to mourn something; it’s a whole other thing to have something worth mourning, to not just mourn out of emotions which come and go but to mourn the loss of something, someone, with real, true value. It’s comforting to know that your mourning is not meaningless, with tears shed in vain. The reason for it does not merely exist in your troubled head or your sorrowful heart but exists truly in reality. A real loss has been realized, and your mourning is simply the inward response to that outward truth. It is for this reason that mourning is actually a proof, of sorts. A sad proof but a proof nonetheless. A proof of a reality outside ourselves and transcendent truths along with it.

If we are nothing but cosmic dust, I assure you, there’s nothing to mourn. You can care all you want, but the dust will not care in return. In fact there is something to mourn, only it’s yourself. If you’re just matter—I’ve got news for you: You don’t matter. But we are not merely cosmic dust but dust made alive—that’s the good news, and that’s just the beginning of it.

[Caleb Reichardt @calebreichardt]

The sad irony of Pride Month is not only pride in sin but also the celebration of the sin of pride.

[Caleb Reichardt @calebreichardt]

Evolutionists often romanticize their theory as a beautiful process from which we all came, though I don’t know what’s beautiful about a process where death is both the means and the end.

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@HonestYPTweets I like to say that it’s okay to vote like a partisan so long as you don’t begin to think like a partisan.

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“Money isn’t everything” is not a mere cliche and is not a cope. It’s perhaps a cope for the lazy, the foolish, the derelict, but mostly it’s just true. Money is not everything in life, and the love of it is actually a root of all sorts of evils and a thing to be rightly wary of.

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Theology is and always has been and always will be the base science, because you cannot go any lower, nor any higher for that matter, than God; He is not only boundless but out of bounds; He is not like a molecule that can be measured within space and time but the one who measured out space and time as He pleased.

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@factpostnews People need to realize: The government offering you free stuff is not an example of their benevolence with their own resources but is almost always an example of their irresponsibility with yours.

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“The effective prayer of a righteous man can accomplish much,” God says to us. “The effective prayer of a righteous man can accomplish this,” we say back to God, “for I am that righteous man in Christ.”

[Caleb Reichardt @calebreichardt]

This is the Jordan Peterson approach, and I’m afraid it makes the Bible a muddled, incoherent, unsolvable puzzle.

We’re not to take the Bible literally but literarily (which will then of course at times necessitate taking it literally).

Yes, there’s glory in concealing, but there’s also glory in revealing, which is what revelation is.

[Caleb Reichardt @calebreichardt]

Read the Bible as it presents itself, just as you would any other book. Another way of saying it is to read the Bible naturally: history is history; poetry is poetry; prophecy is prophecy; etc. No need to over complicate it. That doesn’t mean there still can’t be interpretive challenges that arise, but starting with this framework will at least give you a fighting chance. To do otherwise will leave you hopelessly confused.

[Caleb Reichardt @calebreichardt]

Suffering either purges sin or intensifies it. The choice is yours. But just know that to double down on your sin is to double down on your suffering.

[Caleb Reichardt @calebreichardt]

The “love is love” crowd often loves to hiss hate.

[Caleb Reichardt @calebreichardt]

Moral superiority is a hell of a drug. This is why, for instance, you can find endless videos online of guys chasing pedophiles around with cameras and confronting them in public. Not to defend the pedophiles who are unquestionably indefensible, reprehensible, and deserving of the highest forms of punishment (up to and including capital punishment), but I’d be willing to bet that a large percentage of the guys chasing them are a moral mess themselves, yet they’ve latched on to this one vestige of virtue which in their mind supersedes the rest.

The formula goes something like this: Find the most socially unacceptable thing there is, oppose it vehemently, and therefore you are now virtuous. But it doesn’t work like that. That is not virtue. That is called virtue signaling, and virtue signaling is the prime symptom of this drug. It works on the flip side too: Find something acceptable in your social circle—whether that circle be political, religious, etc.—and support it with the same vigor, and boom, you are virtuous. But again, it doesn’t work like that.

This moral superiority, this virtue signaling, shows up not only in guys chasing pedophiles, but in the rainbow-colored corporate logos which desecrate our eyes every June, in the weak-willed men who “support a woman’s right to choose,” in the vaccine evangelists who lambast any dissenters from their rule of faith—the list goes on and on, and it goes on in you and me too, to one extent or another. Where do you feign morality? Perhaps it’s something as simple as hopping on the gossip train, participating in the pile-on of a person who’s done something stupid or shameful when in fact you have done the same thing yourself.

This drug of moral superiority can even possess people to go to extremes, to go so far as to assassinate in cold blood the likes of Charlie Kirk for his faith or former UnitedHealthcare CEO, Brian Thompson, for his business practices. They must show the world that they are taking matters into their own hands, to do what needs to be done—it’s pathetic and almost comical, for they’ve murdered their way to “virtue.” Again, such acts are merely a signaling of virtue, but to signal virtue is to signal a lack of it, as we tend to signal that which we do not have.

The only antidote to this deadly drug—and make no mistake, it will kill you eventually—is Christ. You solve your sense of moral superiority by coming to terms with your actual and utter moral deficiency. This is the way. He is the way. The only way. The only way to go from morally deficient to perfectly sufficient. And here you will not find a high, a fleeting self-satisfaction swamped in delusion; here you will find a true and lasting peace.

[Caleb Reichardt @calebreichardt]

God Almighty becomes Mother Nature. Divine creation becomes Darwinian evolution. Pro-murder becomes pro-choice. Men become women and women become men.

They suppress the truth—professing to be wise, they become fools.

[Mike Winger @MikeWingerii]

This is the most dystopian thing I’ve ever seen.

Two gay guys have someone’s baby.

He asks the baby who he wants.

Baby says, “mama”

He tells the baby “there is no mama.. you have dada or pop”

Baby cries.

There is no mama.