Read through 1 & 2 Samuel in the Bible recently. Originally, the Israelites had a prophet that received knowledge and instruction from God and the elders of all the tribes kept them organized. God led them and used the prophet as his voice. But that dynamic changed in 1 Samuel.
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C.S. Lewis was spot on:
"Where the tide flows towards increasing State control, Christianity, with its claims in one way personal and in the other way ecumenical and both ways antithetical to omnicompetent government, must always in fact (though not for a long time yet in words) be treated as an enemy. Like learning, like the family, like any ancient and liberal profession, like the common law, it gives the individual a standing ground against the State."
Hey guys, British police arrest people for praying silently outside of abortion clinics. They arrest people for social media posts that question the government's two-tier justice system. They arrested Henry Nowak after he'd been stabbed and laid on the ground bleeding.
They have continually proved themselves to be the enforcers of injustice against the British people. I don't think it's scandalous at this stage to bring up a right to revolution.
Have they reached that point? I think Jefferson would say they have.
@MikeNellis The same people who will tell you its perfectly ok to kill kids in the womb, want you to believe that the only way to feed kids is to give the government more control over their breakfast.
Imagine Dan Carlin or another popular history podcaster taking you through the Silmarillion and you’ll have a sense for what this is like. An enjoyable Saturday morning listen. I need more!
I've never asked people to share a Live Free episode before.
I would ask you to share this episode we did on @jamestalarico (that's pushing ~700k views across all platforms).
What he's doing requires a level of theological awareness to understand, which is why he's deceptive to a lot of Christians.
I was listening to the Council of Elrond chapter today on Audible and heard something I had completely forgotten about:
Tolkien wrote that Saruman’s robe changed to reflect his defection to the Enemy. It looks white to someone who is not paying close attention, but it’s really a multicolored robe.
Saruman proudly proclaims a new name for himself. No longer Saruman the White, he calls himself Saruman of Many Colors. Then he heaps scorn on his former title: White, the symbol of righteousness and purity. White was also the title given him by Eru Ilúvatar, the singular God of Creation whom Gandalf serves faithfully.
The real version of this scene is worse than the movie.
In the actual event from Kyle's autobiography, insurgents killed a combatant carrying an RPG. Someone came to retrieve the launcher. Kyle shot him too. Then they sent a child. Maybe 10 or 12 years old. Kyle had the kid in his scope and a legal right to fire. Rules of engagement at the time authorized lethal force against anyone holding a crew-served weapon on sight. No warning required.
He didn't shoot. In a TIME interview years later he explained it in nine words: "That day I just couldn't kill the kid."
Eastwood changed the scene for the film. In the movie, the boy wanders over and picks up the RPG on his own, Kyle whispers "don't you pick it up," and the kid drops it. Relief. Clean resolution. The audience exhales.
In reality there was no clean resolution. The combatants deliberately used the child as a retrieval tool because they'd watched Kyle kill two adults in sequence and calculated that a sniper wouldn't shoot a 10-year-old. They were right. Kyle called it one of the hardest moments of his career. Not because he almost pulled the trigger. Because he knew the kid would probably be sent back again tomorrow.
The film made $547M worldwide on a $58M budget, became the highest-grossing war film ever released, and beat Hunger Games as the top domestic earner of 2014. Bradley Cooper got an Oscar nomination. Kyle was murdered at a Texas shooting range in 2013 before the film opened. He was 38.
The scene that traumatized audiences was the version Eastwood made less traumatizing.
This is probably a long shot, but if anybody happens to be in DC this weekend and plans on visiting Arlington, I would love to see a fresh photo of my husband’s grave in Section 60.
SSG Alan W. Shaw
Section 60, Grave 8451
B Co 1/12 Cav, 1st Cavalry Division
November 10, 1975 - February 9, 2007
There’s just something about knowing people still stop by, still say his name, still remember. 🇺🇸⭐🇺🇸