Ethan Harris

[Ethan Harris @ethaneharris]

@proginosko Here's a handy chart for folks wondering about the basic position:

[DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican]

Turns out that @LeaderJohnThune was totally projecting when he said the SAVE Act was an influencer campaign.

Senator John Thune is compromised by a company that literally exists to sell access to himself.

Pass it on.

[John A. Mapp, Jr. @mapp_john14664]

@Eamon_USA

[Ethan Harris @ethaneharris]

@Eamon_USA Oh, the Godmakers video. That's old are fairly accurate. The Jesus is Lucifer's brother teaching is not official LDS dogma though. tbf

[Ethan Harris @ethaneharris]

Yes.

I am a Christian in the Reformed tradition. As much as I might *still* have quibbles, some substantial (npi), with Catholicism, they are top to bottom Trinitarian. My dispy friends are as creedal or confessional as I am and I'm happy to fellowship with them.

However:

The LDS Church teaches there are many gods. That the god of the Book of Mormon was once a man. And that we (they) have the opportunity to become gods.

The Bible teaches there is one Being who fills that role. From all eternity without changing, without violating the laws He established in the created order.

I recommend LDS folks engage with the ethical argument in the book The Gospel According to Joseph Smith (2001, P&R Publishing). A god who is (so they say) "still learning in wisdom and knowledge" cannot be the basis of moral or philosophical absolutes. That god could potentially learn something tomorrow that throws the entire Book of Mormon into disarray. The God of the Bible will not violate his promises, nor will He learn something new, He is the basis of all absolutes.

Finally, we are made in His image. Any rights we have are founded in the truth of that order. A god who gains in wisdom or knowledge is a god of chaos, not order.

[Ethan Harris @ethaneharris]

@AHomelyHouse All of them are corporate PR fantasies. Each one more horrific than the other.

imo

[Glenn Beck @glennbeck]

Read Russia and Dugin's words for yourself. They want to destroy the West, not restore it. @ryanmauro put it all together in this article:
https://t.co/wSfdK7K1pQ

[Ethan Harris @ethaneharris]

Definitely. I thought you were PCA. I can't imagine the frustration of any presbytery right now with the 19th Amendment guys, Doug's CN guys, etc.

My time at Ligonier was a golden age, imo. The biggest issue we had was RC starting St Andrews. I loved being with RC, but remaining PCA while starting the church was a big deal. Caused a lot of grief.

[Glenn Beck @glennbeck]

Apparently, Russian media is now calling Candace Owens "the bridge" to the USA. This isn’t about Candace. This is about Putin and Dugin. And it proves everything I've been saying.

Putin and Dugin are right in their DIAGNOSIS of the West's problems. Our culture has embraced evil in many ways. But that doesn't mean their SOLUTION (to divide the "Antichrist" West with propaganda until it's weak enough to destroy) is correct.

[Josh Howerton @howertonjosh]

Christians have not recently been adept political thinkers. So, 2 things on this…

1) We should respect Mormons enough to be honest with them that, by their own self-identification, they are “not creedal Christians” (what Mormons THEMSELVES will say, bc they understand they disagree with many/most of the core doctrines of Christianity that are expressed in the earliest creeds)

2) Christians need to develop the ability to understand there are two overlapping but distinct realms: the church and the state (Jesus, 1 Peter, Augustine)

Therefore, there will be some people that are on a DIFFERENT TEAM spiritually (not Christians), but on the SAME TEAM culturally (aligned in almost all political / cultural goals).

If you don’t understand this, you will oppose people you should befriend in the political/cultural realm, and you will befriend people you should differentiate from in the church/spiritual realm.

[SGM Mike Vining @ Blasting Through Official @BlastingThrough]

For those of you who’ve recently been awarded a leadership position, congratulations. Continue to earn respect by mentoring every day. People still ask me to mentor, and I’m always honored to do so.

[James Lindsay, anti-Communist @ConceptualJames]

Several things to say about this idiotic agitprop.

First, it's a political impossibility to repeal the 19th Amendment in the United States. It's very unpopular, except in niche online communities that aren't representative or big. Further, two thirds of both House and Senate would have to ratify (including a lot of Democrats plus all Republicans), and then three fourths of the states, half of which vote Democrat. Zero left-leaning states and at most half of right-leaning states would ratify, at best.

That means raising the issue has other purposes, and the most obvious political one is to make the right look like anti-woman extremists in order to motivate the left-wing female and feminist vote in opposition. Another purpose is more divisive agitprop against our otherwise unifiable movement.

Second, that divisive agitprop is a real thing either way. The message trains people, especially men but also some women, in the target messaging demographic to blame their problems on an external locus of control, women voters (who skew left). This furthers unhealthy, divisive, and Woke politics (on both sides) and disunifies our movement and country further.

Third, it's likely a grifter alt-media game to assess support for an agitation position the grifter might then adopt. Being thought-led around by edgy but soulless grifters with no principles who act like political weathervanes for clicks and ratings is killing us as a population.

Fourth, in polls, native support for repealing the 19th is definitely under 25% and likely under 20% overall in the US overall, plausibly lower if the rubber hits the road, so it's not a popular-vote initiative at all, but something else, including wielding state power in pursuit of political outcomes. This isn't "we, the people"; it's something else.

Fifth, even in the subpopulations where it is more popular, like traditionalist right-wing religious conservatives, it still only polls at about 40% organic support, so it's a fringe issue being presented like it's significant. But this raises a big question.

Last, Tim's poll is returning ~78-80% "yes," which doesn't match polling in any relevant political population, suggesting his audience is either badly not representative (big audience capture implications) or (very likely) botted to manufacture the appearance of niche and trendy popularity for an unpopular issue.

So, why this? Why now? Why from him? Who benefits?

[C3 @C_3C_3]

Ready to have your mind blown?

Read this very slowly…

Reid Hoffman pays Roberta Kaplan to represent EJ Carroll against Trump.

Reid Hoffman funds Indivisible via ActBlue for their “Tesla Takedown” campaign after Elon and DOGE expose NGO fraud like SPLC.

SPLC funds fake racism for Charlottesville operation.

Roberta Kaplan represents Charlottesville victims.

Joe Biden uses Charlottesville operation as reason for running for President.

Joe Biden appoints Matthew Graves to prosecute J6.

Matthew Graves wife Fatima Graves sits of Indivisible Board.

Roberta Kaplan and Fatima Graves start “Times Up Legal Defense Fund” together.

Fatima Graves and Indivisible run “No Kings” protests.

A tangled web…

[Ethan Harris @ethaneharris]

@vega_holdings @HoffmanTactical Love it. Simple. Clean.

[SaltyPsych @saltypsych]

We desperately need more leaders in Reformed churches speaking out against this. Another problem is that there are probably many leaders who are just unequipped to deal with this because they're living ordinary Christian lives offline and do not yet recognize the extent of the problem. But I would bet many churches have one or two or more congregants who are being influenced by this stuff yet keeping it under the radar, so easily avoid any kind of church discipline. So many of these accounts are anonymous.

[Ethan Harris @ethaneharris]

@CynicalPublius That last line. Great speech. I think it was Branaugh that I saw perform it. Powerful.

[Rep. Anna Paulina Luna @RepLuna]

After I questioned Secretary Rubio on Code Pink and their ties to the CCP, their organization followed me out, berated me, and then their head person here in DC smacked me.

I will be filing charges.

[Ethan Harris @ethaneharris]

@Dave51256694215 Richie Cunningham.

[Ethan Harris @ethaneharris]

Some, including me, see James as NT wisdom literature. It's how a Christian should think and live. It isn't a place to exclusively develop doctrine.

The book explores duty and responsibility, among other things. Its purpose is to show the redeemed believer how to think and how to live as a follower of Christ in a fallen world.

James paints a picture of authentic faith that is necessarily active, obedient, and persevering. It is filled with exhortations to wisdom, patience under trial, integrity in speech, care for the poor, self-control, and prayer. It's not a how-to as much as it is a now-what.

[Gad Saad @GadSaad]

I feel such a sense of existential glee that we'll be moving to the US in time to celebrate its 250th birthday. Cosmic alignment has been achieved.

[Ethan Harris @ethaneharris]

@BiggerTruth FWIW, that's a Russian award, the Order of the Patriotic War.

It's a WW2 victory badge, essentially.

https://t.co/qVEsofyTK1