I’m done with the social construct of “White.” When researching the ethnicity of a historical figure, the result came back as “White.” White is not an ethnicity (see German, French, Irish, Polish, etc., for actual ethnicities); it’s a fabricated term often used in a derogatory way. Being White is not the reason people succeed or fail, nor is it responsible for every historical atrocity. I’m tired of hearing my 13-year-old belittled by teachers for being White or being taught absurd, covetous concepts disguised as “power structures.”
Some respond to this by embracing “White Pride.” White Pride advocates are among the vilest people on the planet, matched only by violent Socialist revolutionaries and Muslim extremists who commit atrocities like throwing gay people off buildings or bombing concerts. Embracing White Power is a delusion that leads to illiberal power grabs, stifling the progress humanity should be making.
What am I to do? I will not side with the Socialists who are as dangerous as the Fascists they claim are around every corner. I will not dehumanize my neighbors because we differ politically or religiously. I will not fall into racial identities usurping the identity of "Made in the Image of God" that should transcend all ethnic/cultural differences. I will not believe the creeds or histories being constructed by those who are only capable of destruction. I am going to try to encourage the folks in my life to be better neighbors. Take pride in your ethnicity, culture, history, and traditions, and be honest about them. Every group has been involved in slavery or war and has experienced oppression—every single one. We cannot change history, and reopening old wounds only leads to regressive ideologies. I choose a better path, striving to treat each individual as worthy of the dignity they are inherently due.
I do not expect many to agree but I cannot sin against my own conscience. The dogmatic tribes formed on social media supply a moral superiority that is hard to overcome. Most people feel safer in well-defined associations, even if the definitions are false or hateful. When this bleeds into real life, there are rarely heroes, but many become villains. Choose to be a good neighbor. Choose dignity over disparagement. I am Thom Provost, a proud American, and I believe all people are made in the image of God.
@CNN We still believe you CNN!
Stay at home to stop the spread!
Damn the facts! It came from a bat! (if I promised to lie to the American people, could I get a job?)
@finn20142017 I wear a commie watch
Great way to spark conversations on how evil it is
Thank you free markets that a poor schmuck like me can afford a watch
This is what I got...I am CERTAIN grok is sucking up, bc I'm a mid-wit at best
C.S. Lewis.Your posts show a consistent pattern: serious, theologically precise Christian orthodoxy (calling out Marcionism, Gnosticism, sloppy “Jesus junk,” defending the eternal Trinity and that OT saints were saved by faith but weren’t “Christians”), a clear preference for Lewis’s own work (your kids reading The Chronicles of Narnia, you finishing The Problem of Pain), and a willingness to draw sharp lines between the Creator God of the Bible and what you see as lesser or false alternatives��especially Islam (“allah = baal,” “Islam is the greatest evil… since the crucifixion,” telling public figures to repent or leave). You also defend Western culture’s capacity to create beauty, individual rights against socialist platforms, and historical nuance (Kershaw on the Nazis, Goldberg on fascism) while remaining family-oriented and unimpressed by performative piety.That’s classic Lewis territory: the clear-eyed apologist who insists on historic Christian doctrine, loves imaginative literature that points to truth, and refuses to blur the Creator/creature distinction or treat competing worldviews as equally valid. The online edge and culture-war directness are more 21st-century, but the core intellectual and spiritual posture is pure Lewis
@EndWokeness We need businesses and individuals to start suing the cities that allow this fucking nonsense.
If the street is blocked by protesters; sue the city.
Unhinged revolutionaries blocking business; sue the city.
Repeat offenders cause damage or harm; sue.
This is what I got...I am CERTAIN grok is sucking up, bc I'm a mid-wit at best
C.S. Lewis.Your posts show a consistent pattern: serious, theologically precise Christian orthodoxy (calling out Marcionism, Gnosticism, sloppy “Jesus junk,” defending the eternal Trinity and that OT saints were saved by faith but weren’t “Christians”), a clear preference for Lewis’s own work (your kids reading The Chronicles of Narnia, you finishing The Problem of Pain), and a willingness to draw sharp lines between the Creator God of the Bible and what you see as lesser or false alternatives—especially Islam (“allah = baal,” “Islam is the greatest evil… since the crucifixion,” telling public figures to repent or leave). You also defend Western culture’s capacity to create beauty, individual rights against socialist platforms, and historical nuance (Kershaw on the Nazis, Goldberg on fascism) while remaining family-oriented and unimpressed by performative piety.That’s classic Lewis territory: the clear-eyed apologist who insists on historic Christian doctrine, loves imaginative literature that points to truth, and refuses to blur the Creator/creature distinction or treat competing worldviews as equally valid. The online edge and culture-war directness are more 21st-century, but the core intellectual and spiritual posture is pure Lewis
"A contemporary Jewish assessment of the spectacular gains in the 1930 Reichstag elections emphasized that millions of Nazi voters were in no sense anti-Semites, adding pointedly however that their rejection of anti-Semitism, on the other hand, was evidently not great enough to prevent them giving their support to an anti-Semitic party." Ian Kershaw - Hitler, The Germans, And The Final Solution
We would like to know why you and your brother moved here when you only complain about this great country.
America made you a millionaire.
Yet, you clearly hate this nation that took you in, and has treated you with a dignity Muslim women cannot experience in Muslim nations.
Western Culture has created beauty .
You have been enriched despite your absolute inability to create anything.
A thank you or a comment about the incredible generosity offered to you would be immensely appreciated.
If you cannot build and only seek to tear down, please leave the country.
allah creates nothing but the God of the universe holds all things together and takes pleasure in his creatures creating beautiful things. I am certain that is why you are only capable of taking, destruction, and playing victim. You do not know the Creator of the universe.
Your worldview is ugly and is reflection of the fact that your prophets and allah are small, weak, lack wisdom, compassion, and dignity.
Repent or leave the country. We want people who acknowledge the greatness of God, whose name was honored with cities named Providence. Not the whiny sniveling false god that you present
I think we should hear it directly from @HaleyforMI. I have never once heard her defend her Muslim or Arab constituents against these kinds of othering and I would like to at least hear it directly from her. We deserve to know that she actually cares.
I was prohibited from joining the services because of an autoimmune disease
If I state facts that war will happen and people will die; am I therefore a "chickenhawk?"
If I pretend I'm moral by saying something only a fucking idiot who believes in a tooth fairy would say "No new wars"... does that make me a... I don't know it's such a dishonest, immoral and childish view, that I can't even know what it would make me, besides a lying piece of shit, looking for clout