💯 Spot on 💯
To Him who is able to [carry out His purpose and] do superabundantly more than all that we dare ask or think [infinitely beyond our greatest prayers, hopes, or dreams], according to His power that is at work within us... Eph. 3:20 Amplified
@Josiah_B_Bates@justin_perdue Repent and believe’ is law in what it commands, but gospel in how it’s fulfilled. God commands it, and then grants it. The call exposes our need; grace supplies the response.
Brings to mind the Augustine quote: “Give what You command, and command what You will.”
I don't think the Democrat politicians believe 99% of what they say. (Except for the ones who are indeed really that ignorant.)
But they know that 70% of their constituents have a very low IQ and are in love with the idea of getting something for nothing. Plus, this is in keeping with their primary philosophy to keep people divided. In this case, it has to do with wealth disparity (the wealthy are evil in every way) and necessarily cultivating envy in the name of social justice.
@TullianT The takeaway I got from your message yesterday, which was excellent, was that I just need to forego the crutch right away and just recognize that I need the stretcher. And…, that it's not advisable to order the stretcher with the morphine drip.
I'm told the Washington Post FINALLY has a long expose' on Tulsi Gabbard and her life-long relationship with a guy named Chris Butler and his "Science of Identity Foundation" in Hawaii.
If you've followed me here for a while you know I have always been critical of Gabbard and posted repeatedly that she is not who she has always presented herself to be.
Butler and the SIF were located not far from where I live in Hawaii for 20+ years. He runs a Hindu cult, and Gabbard became part of its through her parents. Butler founded the "Hare Krishnas" in California, and his followers treat him as if he is a semi-deity who is in contact with the Hindu God Krishna.
Butler's initial goal was to have SIF members elected to state and local offices in Hawaii and become a "player" in Hawaii politics through them.
Tulsi Gabbard became a "Golden Goose" when she ran for and won a seat in the Hawaii House of Representatives at age 22 -- following her father's footsteps, an elected GOP politician in Hawaii.
Over a decade she became more prominent - taking a period of time away from office to join the Hawaii National Guard and was deployed with her unit to Iraq.
But when she defied the Hawaii State Democrat party and beat the Honolulu Mayor for an open House set in 2012, she became Butler's "printing press" for money. Her staffs -- including her Campaign staff -- were almost all SIF members. So most of her Congressional budget and campaign spending could go to SIF members, who in turn paid large amounts to SIF and Butler.
I've written about these entanglements a dozen times or more.
Start here and then just do your own basic online research to get a better feel for what she has ALWAYS BEEN ABOUT.
https://t.co/09fU5INYhE
Classical Marxism failed because the working class refused to revolt. So the left did something far more effective - they abandoned the working class entirely.
One of the most significant developments in modern leftist thought was the shift from traditional Marxism to Critical Studies - an approach built explicitly around group identity and the demand for active political struggle. It is the dominant intellectual framework in much of today’s academia, media and corporate culture.
At its core, it is an extension and radicalisation of the Critical Theory developed by the Frankfurt School in the 1930s. Critical Theory argued that Western society maintains its power not primarily through economics, but through culture, ideas, language and institutions that shape how people think. Since the spontaneous revolution Marx expected didn’t arrive, it would have to be actively forced through the systematic critique and dismantling of these “oppressive structures”. Revolution, in other words, became something that must be consciously engineered.
This approach exploded in the 1970s and 80s with the rise of Critical Legal Studies. Scholars argued that law was not neutral but an instrument of power used by the dominant class to maintain control. That opened the floodgates. Soon came Critical Race Theory, Critical Gender Studies, Critical Pedagogy. All of them share the same core project: identifying hidden systems of oppression based on race, gender, class and sexuality, and demanding active intervention to achieve “equity” (equality of outcome) rather than mere equality of rights. We now call this "woke".
That the revolution must be forced to happen is why modern critical theory is so explicitly activist. As Ibram X. Kendi put it: “It is not enough to not be racist; we must be actively anti-racist.” Passivity is seen as complicity. Neutrality is impossible. Education, under Critical Pedagogy, is no longer about teaching knowledge but about turning students into political activists who view society through the lens of power and oppression.
Critical Studies’ deeply anti-individual core replaces the idea of the sovereign individual with group identity and collective guilt. It rejects objective truth, merit and colour-blind liberalism in favour of power analysis and enforced equity. What began as a marginal academic project has become a powerful ideological machine that now dominates government policy, corporate hiring and education systems across the West.
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Anyone who actually believes that they are loving (doing for) their neighbors (which includes everyone, including those we can't stand) in the same way that they love (are doing for) themselves, is delusional.
I don't know of a better way to put it.