hikingcelt

politics, theology, pursuit of happiness, occasional wit

[TONY™ @TONYxTWO]

The National Anthem at the White House was absolutely epic!!! 🇺🇸🔥

Wait for the flyover!!!!

[Leslye ♥️ Texas @LMozisek]

As someone who’s been singing the National Anthem at rodeo events for over 20 years, I’ll just say….
There’s a way it was intended to be sung, without your own spin. This was 💯the way! Bravo!

[hikingcelt @hikingcelt]

@SamaHoole Great info. See also Dr Weston Price, Nutrition and Physical Degeneration

[hikingcelt @hikingcelt]

@infantrydort Fact!

[hikingcelt @hikingcelt]

@RupertLowe10 amen

[hikingcelt @hikingcelt]

@PirrelloCapital @Clint_Davey1 Have you been in combat?

[hikingcelt @hikingcelt]

@AlexHooper911 @LibertyCappy Yes Drill Sergeant! ;) Good one.

[hikingcelt @hikingcelt]

@jutisonministry @wignatmonster @ZacharyGarris this would be a very eye opening read re: your thoughts "christian nationalism"

[hikingcelt @hikingcelt]

the thought police are active. the reformed community spends endless time debating, analyzing, and censoring each other over these debates...which are in fact not even an option for our government or culture. How many of these men have spent countless hours in such fruitless debates rather than helping their neighbor, rolling up their sleeves and getting to work to actually DO something.

[hikingcelt @hikingcelt]

@skscartoon the UK has already lost its freedom by allowing citizens to be so thoroughly disarmed that now there's a public debate over what genre of knife can or should be banned next. Only the armed citizens are able to secure their liberty against tyrannical governments.

[🇯🇵SAIGOU🇯🇵郷田剛士🇯🇵 @oidonhagouda]

Bro, let’s stop pretending.

Muslims make up about 25% of the entire world’s population — over 2 billion people across 50+ countries.

Japanese people? About 1.4% of the world. One single country.

Shinto exists only in Japan.

So when people say “Japan should prioritize minorities and be more accommodating to Islam,” who exactly are we talking about?

The global majority is coming to one of the world’s smallest ethnic and religious groups and demanding that Japan change its culture, food, and traditions for them.

That’s not “protecting minorities.” That’s the majority trying to colonize a tiny minority.

Japan has every right to protect its own people and culture first.

If Muslims want to live under Islamic rules, they already have dozens of countries where they can do that. They don’t need to come to Japan and turn it into another one.

[Gad Saad @GadSaad]

The only thing that stops violent men from raping you and your society are other men who are equally willing to be violent in stopping the rapists. The West has decided that the highest virtue is to quietly comply with the destruction of your civilization because to do otherwise is bigoted toward the rapists. It really is that simple.

[hikingcelt @hikingcelt]

@DataRepublican @infantrydort Name a single republic in the history of the world that's ever been established or saved by civility.... Pence is simply evidence of a system created by better men, inherited by lesser men, broken by men who favor civility over a white hot devotion to truth and freedom.

[hikingcelt @hikingcelt]

@RealBababanaras Grok says...

[hikingcelt @hikingcelt]

@WallStreetApes Public school officials don't know enough to come in out of the rain... what else is new?

[hikingcelt @hikingcelt]

@TulsiGabbard @DataRepublican @ODNIgov Thank you for your patriotism and sacrifice for our great country. Blessings to you and your husband on this season of challenge in trial.

[hikingcelt @hikingcelt]

@JamesHu27192912 that's a pig pickin' waiting to happen. No need to call the conservation officer unless he's bringing side dishes or beer

[hikingcelt @hikingcelt]

Well said. Keen insight. Also, Westminster Confession of Faith, Chapter 5 (Providence) address this relationship of the will/agency to the created order . "Although, in relation to the foreknowledge and decree of God, the First Cause, all things come to pass immutably, and infallibly; yet, by the same providence, he orders them to fall out, according  to the nature of second causes, either necessarily, freely, or contingently." Human agency is a second cause. It is established, not denigrated or diminished, by His sovereignty.

I think you have put your finger squarely on the pulse of an idolatrous instinct - to attribute to God things which are squarely in our own agency. Done in a way as to deny or shield our fragile ego from accountability. This is at least part of the essence of taking His name in vain. Vanity in this context being the lack of awesome gravitas or weightiness that properly goes with the Divine. Or in shorthand, to make ourselves ego-centric lightweights and attribute it to God.

[hikingcelt @hikingcelt]

Such a great illustration of the character of our American people. Lee went on to serve as president of (then) Washington College and spent the balance of his life promoting reconciliation. The War Department adopted a policy of reconciliation - naming federal facilities in the respective states after the leading figures of that state...whether federal or (former) confederates.

[hikingcelt @hikingcelt]

Wow. Just pure evil. I am sorry this happened to you and to your family. Praise God that you have endured and transformed this arc of evil into a redemptive story.

The real sedition and subversion is on the other side of the barrier - the cabal of politicians who staged and planned this, their armed cronies in the deep state, the collaborators from the FBI who spent months infiltrating and acting as provocateurs, the weaponized judicial system who will happily prosecute their fellow citizens, and the evil judges who presided over this travesty. We are on the razor's edge of losing our country. It takes patriots to recover us from Animal Farm.