Evan McClanahan

Pastor, husband, dad, apologist, evangelist, conservative.

[Evan McClanahan @EvanMcC3]

We chose the one on the right over the one on the left.

[Mary Talley Bowden MD @MaryBowdenMD]

Thanks to improved sanitation and nutrition, measles deaths plummeted to 0.24 per 100,000 3 years before the measles vaccine became available.

[Evan McClanahan @EvanMcC3]

Indeed! Concussions aren’t the only way to achieve brain damage.

[Adam Ellwanger @2HereticalTruth]

@NFL expands commitment to damaging young men's brains, announces partnership w 3 new gambling sites.

[Handre @Handre]

Rome handed out free grain to 40,000 citizens in 73 BC. By 46 BC, Julius Caesar found 320,000 people lining up for their monthly ration. That eight-fold expansion happened in under three decades, and it shows you how welfare states actually grow.

No Roman senator stood up and announced a plan to addict a third of the city to government bread. It happened incrementally, through political competition. Each magistrate who wanted votes expanded eligibility. Each expansion normalized the next one. The citizen who once considered the dole shameful eventually expected it, then demanded it, then organized politically to protect it.

This is the core mechanism free market thinkers have identified across every era: once you create a transfer program, you create a constituency for that program. Recipients vote. Administrators build careers. Grain merchants who supply the state develop a stake in keeping the contracts flowing. The political economy locks in.

Caesar, to his credit, actually cut the rolls back to 150,000 through verification audits. It was one of his more economically coherent moves, though the Senate still murdered him. His successors quietly let the numbers climb again.

What did the dole require? Massive grain imports from Sicily, Sardinia, and Egypt, organized through state logistics at state expense, funded by taxation and conquest. When the conquest revenue dried up, the obligation remained. Rome had written a check against future military success, and future military success eventually failed to arrive.

The lesson is not complicated. Distribute a benefit and you distribute dependency. Distribute dependency and you distribute political power to whoever controls the distribution. The grain dole didn't weaken Rome overnight, but it made every subsequent reform politically impossible.

[Evan McClanahan @EvanMcC3]

We don’t treat our help bad in America. We honor the for their labor and skill.

[Jack Posobiec @JackPosobiec]

Meghan Markle’s 'snobbish and rude' behavior made it hard to hire housekeepers in Santa Barbara area: report

https://t.co/2AHUyGBe2l

[Evan McClanahan @EvanMcC3]

The Left: "Healthcare is a human right."
Also the Left, via abortion: "But life is not a human right." Makes no sense.

[Phil Labonte 🇺🇸 @philthatremains]

"The far left just wants to give you free health care"

[Dustin Kittle @dustinkittle]

HERE’S THE BEEF 🇺🇸 || THE GREAT COMPROMISE

Few things have harmed the American farmer and rancher more predictably than government manipulation of agricultural markets, especially when that manipulation relies on foreign imports.

And believe me, I understand that families are feeling the pinch of grocery prices. It is unquestionably a difficult policy dilemma.

But it would be naive to pretend this approach will not affect America’s cattle producers; the very people being asked to rebuild a dwindling national cow herd — and particularly when the express purpose of this policy is to import more foreign beef to undercut our domestic market.

So I’d ask this compromise of President Trump:

Pair the announced beef-import policy with a commitment to restore Mandatory Country-of-Origin Labeling (MCOOL) and use the full weight of your Administration to get that deal done.

Give American ranchers the opportunity to compete.

MCOOL would tell consumers whether their beef comes from cattle born, raised, and harvested in the United States or from foreign imports. That allows the consumer, not Washington, to decide.

Families who place a higher value on beef raised by an American rancher would have that choice. Families for whom price is the deciding factor would have that choice as well.

Politics requires a lot of give and take. But American farmers have been on the losing end of far too many government interventions.

Let this be an opportunity to restore some balance — not by telling consumers what to buy, but by telling them the truth and trusting them to make the best decision for their families.

#SaveOurFarms 🌾

[Evan McClanahan @EvanMcC3]

@evocatus17 Yes, at this point the Left supports as de rigeur many points of view that are fundamentally at odds with Christianity. Start with abortion and euthanasia. Many more after that.

[Evan McClanahan @EvanMcC3]

The pressure to align faith with specific political parties, like insisting Christianity requires supporting George W. Bush, can alienate people. This focus on temporary political issues risks pushing individuals away from the faith itself. #FaithAndPolitics #Christianity

[Jackie Chea ⚖️ @Fair_and_Biased]

I don’t think people are making too big of a deal out of Candace’s “legion” statement: “This is how we grow. This is how we are legion.”

Since any biblically literate Christian knows the Legion reference, it seems to me that there are 3 options:

1.) It was unintentional & Candace is biblically illiterate.

2.) She did it on purpose as bait.

3.) She was demonically inspired to use the phrase.

Christians certainly might mention a legion in concept (“God will send a legion of angels,” “There was a legion of men,” etc.), but I’ve never heard a Christian call HERSELF “legion” bc of the obvious association.

“Then Jesus asked him, ‘What is your name?’
‘My name is Legion,’ he replied, ‘for we are many.’”
- Mark 5:9

[Evan McClanahan @EvanMcC3]

Is healthcare a right, but life itself isn't? The debate over 'healthcare as a right' quickly gets complex when defining 'healthcare' and 'right.' From elective surgeries for sports to weight-loss medication, where do we draw the line? #HealthcareDebate #Ethics

[Evan McClanahan @EvanMcC3]

It’s not that the word Legion was used, but the phrase we are Legion, or you are Legion. If it was just the word legion and maybe she is talking about a group of Roman soldiers.

[BensBrows @AemaMedia1776]

Well.... Matthew 26:53 when Jesus tells Peter he could pray to His Father to provide 12 "legions" of angels during his arrest.

Joseph - you are a clown.

I provided pictures from my personal Bible of the passage AND the footnotes for better understanding of how dumb you are.

I think you should probably get a copy yourself before running your mouth online.

[Evan McClanahan @EvanMcC3]

So...she is either admitting that she is, like, a demon, a leader of demons, or she is, like most pretend Christians so ignorant of the Bible that she has no clue that it is demons that said, "We are Legion." I despise this woman, either way.

[Anna @VeritasSola]

This is completely insane. Candace literally said "We are Legion."

I don't know how it can possibly be more obvious at this point.

H/T @ryanmauro

[Foundation to Abolish Abortion @AbolitionistFAA]

The shedding of innocent blood via abortion provokes the judgment of God on a nation.

[Evan McClanahan @EvanMcC3]

Let's just hope she can move the window!!

[Nick Sortor @nicksortor]

🚨 JUST IN: President Trump has nominated Dr. Heidi Overton to be the next FDA Commissioner

Dr. Overton stood next to President Trump in the Oval Office just days ago, CELEBRATING Trump’s order reworking the childhood vaccine schedule

TRUMP: "Today I am honored to nominate the wonderful Dr. Heidi Overton, MD, PhD, as our next FDA Commissioner. Dr. Heidi has been a ROCKSTAR in my Administration, where she has worked directly with Secretary Kennedy, Dr. Oz, and team, to deliver on the MOST TRANSFORMATIVE Health Agenda in History. She is known to take on the HARDEST issues, and bring me solutions that work best for the Country. Heidi is “ALWAYS RIGHT,” Secretary Kennedy recently said in the Oval Office! We need her leadership at the FDA now to ensure that the U.S. remains the WORLD LEADER for Scientific Discovery and CURES.

Dr. Overton was a prestigious White House Fellow in my First Term, is a Board-Certified Physician in Public Health and General Preventive Medicine, and holds a Ph.D. in Clinical Investigations from the Johns Hopkins University. She is SMART and RESPECTED by all! Dr. Heidi will work with Secretary Kennedy and Dr. Oz to RAPIDLY deliver on my priorities of FASTER Cures, INCREASED American Innovation, MAJOR Clinical Trial Reforms, LOWER Drug Prices, and even more MAHA WINS!

Dr. Overton will continue putting AMERICA FIRST, and creating a HEALTHY AMERICA. Congratulations to Dr. Heidi Overton! President DONALD J. TRUMP"

[Evan McClanahan @EvanMcC3]

Yeah Lutherans are annoyingly provincial and have an unnecessary hatred of Calvinism. Small minded. They just need to relax.

[☧ Raising Dragon Slayers 🐗 @TheNotoriousRDS]

I found the good Lutheran

[Evan McClanahan @EvanMcC3]

@nypost If only she had more eyelashes

[Evan McClanahan @EvanMcC3]

Yeah he’s a friend. It should be an option! But I think he visits churches and finds many of them are kind of lifeless or inwardly focused. Which superficially can appear to be the case or can really be the case. I do my best through evangelism, apologetics to hold onto the best of Lutheranism but also take it into the world unapologetically, no pun intended.

[Sean Russell 💾 @SeanRussellBook]

@EvanMcC3 Fair points.

The guy who initially tagged you was definitely critiquing Lutheranism as an option based on these cultural aspects though. He is also using your post as an example of proving his point of Lutheranism not being an option.

[Evan McClanahan @EvanMcC3]

Yes, incredibly nice and passive people who never want to offend are absolutely ripe for the taking.

[David Negley @david_negley]

@EvanMcC3 This explains how Minnesota was conquered so easily.

[Evan McClanahan @EvanMcC3]

I'm definitely not critiquing Lutheranism as a theological system. I'm proudly Lutheran. But as former ELCA now NALC, I have witnessed the decline of Lutheranism my entire life. Other than mergers which gave Lutheranism the appearance of success in 20th century America, once the immigrants stopped coming, Lutheranism declined. My own church was a German immigrant church started in 1851. We had our hey day. Now I'm basically a landlord to survive as a church. It's hard. I actually really appreciate German and Scandinavian sensibilities...like...a lot. And there is some real zeal in our history. Missionaries, like our own, did come out of Basel, for example. But a lot of European Christians came out of a model where an entire continent was simply Christian by default. They never really had to work for it. And there were incentives for new Americans to keep their head down and fit in. So Lutherans did exactly that in America. Their theology doesn't provide for a lot of evangelism. Their modesty couldn't compete with revival/awakening culture. They never liked Calvinists. They longed for the culture they left behind (language, food, song, worship, etc.). And they didn't like people from other countries even if they were also Lutheran. That's why you still see two Lutheran churches in a small town in the Midwest, one being formerly Swedish and the other formerly Norwegian. In short, they just think small. They are not ambitious. They are rule followers. They are about the last people who will break stuff and take risk. Which is admirable in many ways. But it is fair to critique us for not trusting in God a bit more.

[Sean Russell 💾 @SeanRussellBook]

Putting aside that critiquing a theological system according to the cultures who adopt it is backwards, this is resonating with people and I want to attempt to find why.

I am both Lutheran and racially Scandinavian, though I grew up Baptist and didn't know my heritage as a kid.