daniel shepherd

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If there is only one personality trait I share with Christ without effort, it is a desire to be understood exclusively by the right sort.

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@katymorganwx @FOXNashville Even sexier in the Matrix in ‘99.

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@NoahCRothman I heard it’s mostly in Latin. And that Noah now speaks in 24 languages just by associating all the Latinate vocabulary he deploys on podcasts.

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@thedispatch And Kevin Williamson is a Bond villain.

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@KSPrior All I’m hearing is that your husband has been bearing a quiet and humble burden.

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@BrooksPotteiger Step 2:

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@BrooksPotteiger “Oh, make yourselves glad with this thought, that when you have been forgetting Him, and have thought of Him, it is He that is calling you.” — George Macdonald

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@reclaim_rainbow @BrooksPotteiger Seems Jesus is playing with the Deeper Magic. A magic we should all affirm theologically even while we defend ourselves violently with much fear and trembling, as opposed to boastful memes or callous threats from the White House and trading “defense” for “war and war fighting!”

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@reclaim_rainbow @BrooksPotteiger Hm. Too technical for me. That Jesus was a post-violence warrior, lion and lamb, temple and sacrifice, was the “stumbling block to the Jews” who expected violent regime change from messiah. Just war is not Holy War any more than cleaning a wound is perfect health, as such.

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@BrooksPotteiger Hey, and no bad blood here, I have great friends at Pilgrim Hill and enjoyed my Sunday there. Though it would take me most of a year to crack those hymn melodies.

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@BrooksPotteiger Sure. He loses me with the John Lennon bit at the end. I hope popes and crusaders will wrestle with the tensions though. David was banned from building the temple for being a man of war, who shed much blood on earth… at God’s own bidding. The inherent unholiness of war is there.

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@BrooksPotteiger How can Jesus both arm his disciples in Luke 22 and then disarm them a few verses later in Gethsemane? Why does Jesus fundamentally raise the status of the self only to ask us to die to it? Why does Jesus say he’s coming to bring a sword, and then go like a lamb to slaughter?

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@JohnathanBi Jesus as Girardian model — be empowered to be like me being like the Father. Lionize (weaponize) first in order make lambs.

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@JohnathanBi It’s fascinating. And yet, Jesus tells disciples to buy swords in Luke 22 and calls out Peter later in Gethsemane. Does he arm them only to theatrically disarm them? In the same way he reveals the human self as divine only to say die to it? Ye are gods/warriors - now be slaves.

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@CoffeewClassics Yes. Same. The planet narnia book was instrumental in getting me into Lewis’ mission to baptize paganism, and then the strangeness of the whole series opened up. After that, the allegorical bits seemed small by comparison. It’s all in Plato! And Dante.

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@BrooksPotteiger I appreciate this sentiment. Why not go so far as to say you “hope the Lord burns all of it to the ground until he repents?” as you said of another media personality’s empire for their sin of hosting a gay couple on a home improvement show?

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@thedispatch @stephenfhayes @stephenfhayes — The George Clooney of conservative discourse.

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@charlescwcooke Mike Johnson — “I’m not following all the twists and turns of that.”

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@BrooksPotteiger “In a Protestant Republic, the public spaces would belong to Christ,” he says. — In a resurrection reality, they already do. The rest is mimetic noise. Mirrors within mirrors since Doug conceded to adopt the CN label chosen for him by his worst critics. “It’s all in Girard, man.”

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@michaelbd Michael, I’m Anglican, let’s have Eucharist. My place or yours?

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@ericweinstein It’s also “not safe” that the companies are running gain of function experiments on them. Many of these techs speak of their AI like children, yet no good parent would train their child in the wrong way on purpose just to see what this baby can do.