Heavenly Father,
Thank You for every fan who supported our boys this season. Though the playoffs were not in Your plan, we trust You are guiding them for a greater purpose. Bless our players, coaches, and community with Your strength and peace.
Amen.
The moment @AlabamaFTBL moved ahead of @NDFootball last week last Tuesday night we knew the FIX was in! Simple as that. You would have to be the naive person on the planet to believe otherwise! These Tuesdays night shows don’t need to take place. Simply put the FIX is in!
The press, even today, insists we do not know the shooter’s motive, despite the manifesto. This is in large part because the shooter hated life itself. He hated Jews and Christians and Trump and others.
I want to be charitable here and ask that you, for sake of argument, be charitable with me. Even insane people tend to have motives. They may not be rational motives, but they have them. And, in using the word “motive,” we are going for an understandable explanation that could be used in a court of law. A lot of the legal and police experts on television and talking to newspapers are cautious to ascribe motive in the twenty-four to forty-eight hours after a major crime like this. They want some precision.
I think it is understandable for them to want to wait even as we, on social media and with each other, process the information we have from the shooter’s manifesto in real time and conclude the shooter was mentally ill, if not demonically possessed, and attacked the church shoot that he had attended and that his mother had worked at as a way to punish Christians and people of faith for not embracing his transition. In the videos on YouTube, he appeared to use a picture of Jesus for target practice.
I understand the caution of the professionals, but this also isn’t rocket science.
Now, here is where charity can end and plain talk can begin.
If a shooter shoots up a synagogue, the media not only rushes to anti-semitism, but to “right coded.” If a shooter shoots up a mosque, the same thing happens. If the shooter is white, the media very often begins with presumptions of white supremacy. And if the shooter expressed any loyalty to Donald Trump, the conversations allowed by the talking heads on television rush to blaming MAGA and the reporters too fret with furrowed brow over Mr. Trump’s culpability due to his rhetoric.
It happens every time.
Only when the shooter kills Christians does the press insist on a lengthy period of time to assess motive and only when the shooter is transgender must we move on from discussion the shooter. When a transgender shooter kills Christians, motive is never ascertainable, thus only gun violence can be discussed. This is a pattern in the press and among the talking heads that shows their own biases.
Attacks on churches and Christians have skyrocketed not just around the world, but also in the United States. And a press and Democratic Party that sees nothing wrong with blocking Catholic Charities from charitable work, suing Christians to bake cakes, and constantly dragging nuns to court to force them to pay for abortions are two groups completely incapable of openly discussing leftwing secular violence against Christians. They cannot do it because they are, frankly, complicit. It is, after all, the Christian who is always the bigot for standing up for his beliefs. The Pope is only praised when he takes a left-wing position. He is otherwise ignored, if not maligned. The Christian voices mainstreamed by the press are those least likely to embrace orthodoxy or who have axes to grind against MAGA.
They cannot discuss motive, because the next logical conversation is where the person’s animus against Christians comes from.
In truth, neither side has a real solution. Politics has no solution for evil. No legislation solves spiritual problems. Guns will not be confiscated. Parents and states that support the transition of children will never admit they were wrong. Jesus weeps and the tribes argue over who has more blood on their hands and which laws should be enacted or not.
The church has the only real answer. But Americans have moved beyond the church and worship at the altar of politics now. Even many self-professed Christians prefer social media tirades to quiet prayer and commitment to seeking the welfare of their community. The people of God, in the moment of crisis, have the gospel to confront evil. It is the only solution and it is far better deployed in grace and love and truth that in political harangues as children lie dying, fallen in the path of evil.
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Not just “No Kings Day” to protest an elected leader who the unelected judges keep blocking. But the elected leader is term limited and the unelected judges have lifetime appointments. So who exactly are the kings?
Marcus Freeman said, "You waste time daydreaming about an uncertain future. Who cares?"
"The future is uncertain. So focus on being the best version of you today."
No one wins tomorrow.
They win today - one rep, one habit at a time.
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