This is because the anti-capitalist left is not actually against people being crazy rich. They're against certain types of people being crazy rich.
Artists and athletes make sense to them because they've played music and sports and because their success can be explained by "luck" and "talent". Messi's wealth is not offensive to them because they understand Messi is much better at football than they are.
But when it comes to business, the anti-capitalist leftist has no framework for understanding why Jeff Bezos might be super rich since 99% of them have never ever created a product, business or service that was of value to other people. They've never taken entrepreneurial risk. They've never employed people and felt the burden of responsibility that comes with that. They've never pick up a business and given it a play in the way they've picked up a ball or a guitar.
They *literally* don't understand wealth creation. They think there is a fixed amount of money and the only thing a business does is split it unfairly.
It's why they rage at Elon and other successful business leaders. Because they genuinely don't understand why they're wealthy.
Also, and this is just as important, athletes and artists are disproportionately young, attractive, "diverse", left wing etc. Business leaders are "evil" middle aged white men whose success offends the average anti-capitalist leftist because they don't understand a) what it is they do and b) that Elon Musk has the same talent advantage on them as Messi does, it's just harder to measure.
I usually don’t care about the opinion of Political Beth Moore, because I don’t like hearing the Daily Wire twice.
But here’s a fun fact: Had the Jews spit on a Christian pilgrim in front of their assigned Janissary guard under Ottoman Rule- like what regularly happens today in Jerusalem - they’d have been beaten within an inch if their life, and if they survived, fined. By comparison, Israel doesn’t prosecute it because “it’s a cherished ancient Jewish custom.”
The Ottomans conquered a Palestine with 20% Christians, and 400 years later, there were 20% Christians. The Status Quo they established was adopted by Europe and preserved even after their reign ended. The Millet system protected them from Jewish violence, land confiscation, and property forfeiture. It exempted them from military service and exempted the elderly, disabled, widows, and children, and churches from taxation. It emphasized Holy Site preservation, established their legal protection, and on occasion, chipped in for repair.
All facts.
Outside Palestine, and outside that era, they were brutes, and perhaps - in certain eras - just as violent as the IDF is today. None of that excuses or diminishes their atrocities.
Meanwhile, after 77 years of Jewish rule, the Israelis have managed to accomplish what 400 years of Muslim rule could not - the utter collapse of indigenous Christianity in Palestine.
In Gaza, the IDF has murdered FAR more Christians than Hamas. In Lebanon, they’ve killed FAR more than Hezbollah. They bombed churches the Ottomans protected. They taxed congregations to whom the Ottomans gave protected status.
When Israelis defend their genocide, they point at Hitler. When Israelis defend bombing churches, they point at Nagasaki. When Israelis defend Lehava and La Familia burning down Jewish churches, beating Christian clergy, and intimidating nuns, they point at Boko Haram in Nigeria.
Thing is, my taxes don’t fund Boko Haram’s militia, Hitler is dead, and God will deal with the U.S. dropping a nuke down the chimney of the church headquarters in Asia. None of that can be stopped by an act of the U.S. Congress.
Sadly, there are brainless twits auditioning for a guest spot on the Jeremy Boreing Israeli Infomercial Hour who don’t give a single heartless damn about persecuted Christians going extinct in the Holy Land. Whether or not Jesus’ followers “have a right to exist” will not be on the questions list.
After reminding the church that believing Gentiles are the real children of Abraham, and that only Christians inherit God’s promises, Paul tells them to bear the burdens of their fellow Christians (Galatians 6:2).
Not Jews. Not Muslims. Not Buddhists. CHRISTIANS. We shoulder THEIR burdens, and God will one day hold us accountable for funding the nation that has made Christians an endangered species in the Promised Land.
When Christian churches are burned down by Jewish settlers, they don’t complain.
When Israel refuses to investigate and prosecute, they speak not a word.
When churches are told - out of the blue - the properties they’ve held for millennia will be confiscated if they don’t cough up millions in “back taxes” they’ve gone 17 centuries without being charged, they don’t speak up.
When the same churches are bombed 2,3,4 times for no discernible reason, they look the other way.
When nuns in a full habit are sniped in the head with a .308, they don’t care.
When Bethlehem is surrounded and squeezed on three sides to bankrupt and starve its Christian inhabitants, they don’t notice.
And when the Indigenous Christians who were there when the first Israeli prime ministers were still on Europe’s Most Wanted terrorist lists, tell us in official statements through their Patriarchs that they had it better under the Ottoman Millet System, then suddenly they get very interested in Christian persecution in other eras, times, and places to distract you from the reality of that cold, hard, immovable fact.
That’s crazy because I graduated high school and undergrad with a 4.0+ then went on to work in my career. Met my husband in college, worked up until I was 8 months pregnant while working on my masters, then quit working because I wasn’t going to let strangers raise my children. My husband runs two businesses, provides for us while I support him at home any way I can and now we’re working on baby #2. No regrets at all and I guarantee I have a higher IQ than this woman.
Thank you!
I appreciated your interview with Carlson for bringing the topic of dispensationalism to the forefront. It promotes a flawed, politicized interpretation that undermines the New Covenant’s unifying work in Christ. As a Baptist it’s been hard to help steer individuals away from it after it’s been so baked in to the culture.
God bless.
Sure if you mean Jewish by ethnicity but in no sense in any relation to Rabbinic Judaism.
“The book” was written by Christian Jews and “the book” is the gospel of universal salvation for Jews and Gentiles alike THROUGH Christ. To say it was for the benefit of Jews just doesn’t capture the essence of salvation. Maybe read Galatians.
We worship an ethnic Hebrew who preferred to go by an intentionally universal title, “Son of Man,” who decreed the destruction of the Jewish Temple (Matthew 24:2), personally ended kosher law (Mark 7:19), retired the Old Covenant and gave us a new one in His own blood (Hebrews 8:13, Luke 22:20), called the founders of modern Judaism ‘sons of the devil’ (John 8:44), said that anyone who denies Him rejects Moses (John 5:46-47), and their Synagogue worships the devil (Revelation 2:9, 3:9).
Then His hand-chosen Apostles taught that God no longer sees people as Jews or Gentiles (Galatians 3:28, Colossians 3:11), that believers in Jesus are children of Abraham (Galatians 3:7), that unbelieving Jews are not (Romans 9:6-8), and referred to the Church as the circumcised (Philippians 3:3), as His chosen nation (1 Peter 2:9), and as the ‘Israel of God’ (Galatians 6:16).
The Book was written by the Holy Ghost (2 Peter 1:21), with multiple books written by non-Jewish hands (Luke/Acts), for the benefit of all men (2 Timothy 3:16-17). And the BIG REVEAL of the whole Book is that Jesus came to save the goyim (Ephesians 3:6).
Stop trying to turn the Son of God into your tribal bush deity and some simp mascot for a desert war cult. He’s the King of Kings. Have some respect.
Theologian JD Hall on the corrupting lie of Christian Zionism.
0:00 What Is Christian Zionism?
2:50 What Is Dispensationalism?
20:40 What Is Jesus Christ's Role in Dispensationalism?
26:26 Who Killed Jesus?
35:45 The Scofield Bible and How Dispensationalism Was Used for Political Gain
42:42 How Zionism Took Hold in the West
45:31 How Does the Secular State of Israel Fit Into This Theology?
47:25 Israel's Persecution of Christians
53:19 What Is the Muslim View of Jesus?
58:45 Israel's Propaganda Campaign on Christians
1:10:04 Israel's Evil AI Targeting Programs
1:14:23 Is Modern Judaism the Jewish Religion of the Old Testament?
1:21:08 What Are Mike Huckabee's Motives?
1:24:22 Are Christians Waking Up?
1:39:16 Can Christians Support War in Iran?
I don’t ever want to hear @charliekirk11 claim he is pro-Trump ever again. After this weekend, I’d say he has revealed himself as political opportunist and I have had a front row seat to witness the mental gymnastics these last 10 years.
Lately, Charlie has decided to behave like a charlatan, claiming to be pro-Trump one day while he stabs Trump in the back the next.
TPUSA was only able to thrive thanks to the generosity of President Trump.
On the one year anniversary of the assassination attempt on Trump’s life, Charlie hosted @ComicDaveSmith at @TPUSA’s SAS conference where Dave Smith was able to speak to a bunch of conservative youth at an organization that claims to be Pro-Trump.
3 weeks ago, Dave Smith called for President Trump to be IMPEACHED and REMOVED from office over his decision to blow up Iran’s nuclear facilities.
Charlie played both sides of the Iran issue on his show as we all saw, because he wants to play to both sides of the aisle.
The honorable thing to do is to have a position and actually defend it to the death instead of flip flopping.
Smith said all of MAGA “should turn on Trump” and abandon him. He said this 3 weeks ago.
See the clip below. 👇🏻
TPUSA is definitely not pro-Trump. If they were, they certainly aren’t anymore.
Out of all of the incredible pro-Trump voices out there who support the President, Charlie decided to host Dave Smith?
It really is shameful. And I am honestly just disgusted by the nonstop flip flopping on the right.
still don’t understand what’s so special about Elon Musk’s money that his $1 trillion dollars would solve every problem on earth, but the $7 trillion dollars the US government spends annually hardly solves the problems in America
Girl I follow on Instagram who said Sydney Sweeney’s jean commercial was “promoting eugenics” is now defending the down syndrome abortion couple
Do I tell her
If a Chinese paper wrote a story about how a primary race in Kentucky was the most consequential race for China after pro-China donors poured $35 million in the race
What’s would that mean?