@CENTCOM@brithume Finish the job! Finish off the regime! Justice for all our service members who suffered due to IRGC actions over the years.
Put the rabid dogs “down!”
I stand with my fellow Americans who are Jewish. (Please utilize your second amendment rights!)
I stand with Israel. It's (past) time to extirpate the cancer that is Hamas.
I stand with Ukraine. How is it that we Americans have forgotten what the Russian government are up to?
I will not be silent in the face of these evils. This is my (small) effort to say "Enough." I expect my government to stand with the side of freedom in these matters. Let's go.
@tedcruz@POTUS45@GregAbbott_TX
It's remarkable that this has to be explained, but the reasons Christians aren't supposed to be antisemitic lunatics obsessed with blaming Jews for everything are spelled out in scripture.
In the Book of Acts, we see that the Apostles still identified as Jews and lived as Jews. We see Paul take a Nazirite vow *25 years* after his conversion. James and Peter, by their own descriptions, obviously still kept the Mosaic laws as well, while understanding that the law *did not save them* and that Jesus was the only path to salvation.
But there was no such dramatic separation leading to hostility toward Jews (again, the Apostles still identified as Jews themselves), as claimed by a certain podcasting class today. For the Apostles, Jesus was a fulfillment of Jewish messianic prophecy, not the founder of a separate religion that wiped out all their customs and eliminated their Jewish identity.
Of course, for Gentiles like myself, that *did* mean a new religion that we call Christianity. But even then, the direction of the Apostles was not to ostracize and hate Jews. In fact, we see the opposite in Acts, with the Council of Jerusalem asking the Gentile believers to keep four Mosaic laws in order to maintain unity and avoid offense.
The posture was one of love and compassion toward one another, not the open hatred we are seeing today. That's not Christ-like. It's not Biblical. It's also counterproductive to the spread of the Gospel in that it puts up walls, contrary to Paul's urgings in Romans and 1st Corinthians.
And frankly, I'm a little tired of relatively new Christians fishing for online clout and engagement by pretending to be theologians on this matter. They do not speak for Christianity, actual Catholicism, or anything else but their own self-aggrandizement.
This story is now more than 25 years old and I have told it more times than I can count, but it hits very differently today.
I was anchoring SportsCenter one afternoon and Lou Holtz was on the show. I was quite excited to talk with him, he had been an icon all of my life.
He was very friendly, asking me all about myself as we walked toward the studio to record an interview. I told him: “Actually, Coach, it’s quite exciting, my wife and I are expecting our first child in the next few weeks.”
He stopped dead in his tracks and put a finger up near my face. And I’ll never forget what he said.
“Young man, the most important thing you can do for a child is make sure every day they know how much you love their mother.”
And, just like that, he started walking again.
Our daughter was born a month later, our son came two years after that. And I have thought about what Lou Holtz said to me that day about a million times since.
RIP Coach, thanks for the best advice anyone ever gave me.
I LOL’d at this.
But once this is over, I’d love to know what the regime’s files have to say. Who was aiding them, how’d it work, where’s all the dough?
Then I’d like to see all those networks rolled up. And I want it to be public.
There wasn’t a genuine public reckoning after The Wall came down (and that indirectly led to Putin.) The enablers of the butchers of Tehran should be punished.
We know how to fight street crime.
We know that Communism doesn't work.
We know that vaccines defeated many dread diseases.
We know that dividing up people by race is toxic.
We know that anti-Semitism is not just lethal, but also a foot in the door for many other pathologies.
We should not condemn ourselves to repeating the past's errors & forgetting its successes.