Christian Tan

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[Dead to Sin ✞ @deadtosin610]

This comedian hilariously explains why atheism makes no sense.

[Don Ceder @DonCeder]

Afgelopen week kwam in de Fonteinkerk in Rotterdam voor mij met een langgekoesterde wens uit:

Kerkleiders die met in gesprek gaan met elkaar om te kijken of kerken die gebouwen hebben groeiende kerkgemeenschappen kunnen helpen.

Nederland telt circa 6.900 kerkgebouwen, waarvan inmiddels één op de vijf niet langer in religieus gebruik is. Tegelijk groeien juist veel migrantenkerken en jonge geloofsgemeenschappen sterk, vooral in de grote steden.

Mede naar aanleiding van het manifest ‘Ruimte voor kerken’ en mijn gesprekken daarna met de SKG (Stichtelijk Kerkelijk Geldbeheer) kwam het idee voor het initatief kerkgezocht. nl tot stand. Met als doel om vraag en aanbod bij elkaar te brengen. Ik steun het inititiatief van harte en hoop dat ze veel kerken bij elkaar kunnen brengen.

Afgelopen week werden kerkleiders met elkaar gematched om te kijken wat ze voor elkaar kunnen betekenen.

Ik blijf dit belangrijke thema aanjagen. En ook de overheid zowel landelijk als lokaal stappen te zetten.

Want een samenleving en overheid die geen ruimte maakt voor kerken, verliest plekken van hoop, ontmoeting en zorg.

Ik pak de handschoen daarom graag op. #kerkgezocht

[SK Tedeschi @skedeschi]

I'm a middle eastern historian. My own family were made refugees. And this is my honest view of the Nakba (“catastrophe”) - the displacement of around 700,000 Palestinian Arabs during the 1947–49 war surrounding the creation of Israel.

A thread. 🧵

[Shahriq Khan @RealShahriqKhan]

As an Ex-Muslim, let me explain Muhammad and “The Satanic Verses” in the Quran. 

This will shock you.

was a good prophet until he wasn't. I wanted to believe he was sincere, that maybe he was just misunderstood, maybe he repented later on in his life. 

But the more I studied the timeline of his ministry, the harder it was to ignore the shift.

Early Muhammad in Mecca preached peace, talked about one God, and tried to win over Jews and Christians. But later in Medina, that’s when it changed.

Suddenly, it transitioned to power and polygamy and violence, and revelations started sounding a lot like personal convenience. Then there’s a part nobody really wants to talk about in apologetics - “the Satanic verses.”

Ibn Ishaq, Islam’s earliest biographer, says Muhammad delivered verses that glorified pagan idols and then blamed it on Satan. And you tell me, how does a prophet mistake a demon’s voice for God’s?

Imagine if Paul or Peter did that.

Imagine if Jesus said, “oops, that part was from the devil.”

You would never trust that message again. But with Muhammad, there’s a double standard where you’re not allowed to question. Even when he married a child, took extra wives, and had people killed, you’re told to submit.

And that’s when I knew.

A real prophet doesn’t serve himself.

He sacrifices himself to serve others.

Only one man in history never changed under pressure and still laid down his life.

And that’s Jesus Christ.

[Christian Tan @kryztan]

@gogobethebanana @RadioGenoa And correction: catholicism seems to be growing as well among young people

[Christian Tan @kryztan]

@gogobethebanana @RadioGenoa Church planting is accelerating and young people converting at higher rate than before. The old churches are dying because of liberalism but the new pentecostal and evangelical ones growing quickly.

[Christian Tan @kryztan]

@StarGJ69 @RadioGenoa @grok Yes, real, every pentecost! We’re there every year.

[Christian Tan @kryztan]

@holland_tom Lille (Rijsel) is Flemish 😅🇧🇪

[Terrible Maps @TerribleMaps]

If we could just raise sea levels by 150 meters we get a backup Strait of Hormuz

[Ryan Burge 📊 @ryanburge]

Conservatives who attend church weekly are the least likely to have ever been diagnosed with a mental health condition.

Liberals who have low attendance are the most likely to have a diagnosis.

[Ibrahim S. Amin @Ibrahim_S_Amin]

The Quran mixes up the Exodus and Purim stories, and depicts Haman as working for Pharaoh. Those stories are supposed to be set many centuries apart, but Mohammed apparently didn't know that and hence refuted Islam itself by making that error in its supposedly infallible book.

[CBN News @CBNNews]

This is amazing! Megachurch Pastor Josh Howerton did something a little unorthodox to achieve an orthodox outcome.

Howerton, who leads Lakepointe Church in Dallas, preached a sermon last month, “3 Things That Will Kill Your Marriage,” and, at the end of the message, he invited cohabiting, unmarried couples to get married.

“If you’re living with somebody that’s not your spouse, you’re sleeping with somebody that’s not your spouse, or you’ve actually already started a family and had kids with somebody that’s not your spouse, and you right now are coming under the loving conviction of the Holy Spirit that you need to honor God, bend your knee to Jesus,” he said.

HERE'S WHAT HAPPENED NEXT! https://t.co/Wcy7rWp4He

[Terrible Maps @TerribleMaps]

How to be a bad neighbour

[Konstantin Kisin @KonstantinKisin]

The arguments about Iran are so polarised that no one wants to admit that several things are true at once:

You'd be a fool not to have serious reservations about the idea of a regime change war, especially in the Middle East.

You'd also be a fool to allow terrorist-funding lunatics to develop nuclear weapons.

Neither the people condemning these strikes, nor the people cheering them on know how this is going to work out.

So far, Trump Administration interventions have been extraordinarily successful in achieving valid objectives within a highly limited scope.

The strikes on Iran during the 12 day war achieved destruction of several nuclear facilities.

The Venezuela operation decapitated the hostile regime and replaced Maduro with a non-hostile leader.

Both also achieved significant "don't fuck with us" deterrence globally.

However, it is not remotely clear at this moment in time whether something similar can be achieved in Iran.

I understand and fully empathise with the people who think regime change is not going to work in Iran and you'll end up with the same as what you had or worse.

And I understand just as much the people who celebrate an evil dictator being killed and Iran's nuclear and military assets being degraded further.

The thing we do not know, and the thing that will determine whether this has all been worth it, is what the future leadership of Iran will look like. This seems to me to be the biggest risk Donald Trump has taken at any time in his first or second term. If it pays off, the reward both domestically and globally will be huge. If it doesn't and things go south, it could derail his Presidency and define his legacy like Iraq did for Blair and Bush.

Very few people have any idea which of these scenarios is more likely and one thing is for sure: none of them are talking about it on social media because they're all sitting in command bunkers, not on X.

I hope the people of Iran are released from living under tyranny. I hope the peoples of the Middle East can live in peace.
I hope the takeaway for any would-be terrorist is the realisation that October 7 might not have been such a good idea.
I hope that with the Middle East stabilised, the US can turn its attentions to the theatres that really matters to the security of the West: Russia and China.

Whether any of that happens remains to be seen and it seems the hardest thing for anyone to do is to not express an opinion before the smoke has cleared.

[GodlyVibez Studios @GVStudios_TV]

🚨Indonesian football club worships Jesus in locker room, lifting their voices in the hymn "Jesus Loves Us All"🔥

[Kosher @koshercockney]

Watch 🎥

This should be shared EVERYWHERE.

This is what happened when 20 random westerners sat down to watch what Palestinian kids are taught in UNRWA schools.

[Ka Sha Mi @ConstantPolaris]

The truth about Nigerian Muslims is worst than you think. 

October 11, 1991, a German evangelist named Reinhard Bonke planned a large Christian crusade in the northern Nigerian city of Kano.

Christians were excited about the event, and the hype was widespread.

Many Muslims did not like this, and they opposed it, believing that Kano belonged to Islam and that Christians should not hold such a crusade there.

Fearing that Christianity was becoming too popular in Kano, members of the so-called "religion of peace" then took to the streets and began rioting. 

Within hours, they started lynching innocent Christians, burning their homes, churches, and businesses.

Christian Children, women and men alike.

Christians were lynched, raped, impaled, butchered, and burned alive.

This targeted violence against Christians continued for days. Many Christian families disappeared, never to be seen again.

Entire Christian neighborhoods became empty, with homes and businesses seized by Muslims after the owners were killed.

By the time the army finally intervened and stopped the killings, hundreds of Christians were dead, thousands were injured, and hundreds of thousands had been displaced.

The military government underreported the death toll as about 100 to 200.

However, survivors and other accounts claim that more than 500 Christians died.

These acts were not carried out by Terrorists, they were carried out by everyday Muslims that knew the people they were killing, the type of Muslims you call your friends.

The crusade was canceled, and the victims never received any justice or compensation.

Today, some of those who carried out the killings, or their children, can be found online proclaiming that Islam is a religion of peace and accusing others of being Islamophobic and saying there is no Christians genocide in Nigeria 

Don't ever let anyone massacre your people and then come online to gaslight you.

[Martin Sedra @MartinSedra_]

Heaven for Muslims is a brothel?

In Islam, men are promised 72 virgins as a reward for following Allah.

This doesn’t sound like heaven to me; it sounds more like a brothel. Is God’s presence not enough that you need to be promised 72 virgins?

In Christianity, we await the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ. We are not awaiting a brothel; we are awaiting seeing our King face to face and worshipping Him for eternity.

Jesus said to the criminal on the cross, “Today you will be with Me in paradise.”

Maybe Muslim men need to reconsider why they are following Islam.

I can’t wait to see my King Jesus! 🙏👑

[Pato Bonato @patobonato]

🇵🇸 Nayib Bukele: “Como salvadoreño con ascendencia palestina, estoy seguro de que lo mejor que le podría pasar al pueblo palestino es que Hamás DESAPAREZCA por completo.

Esas bestias salvajes no representan a los palestinos. Cualquiera que apoye la causa palestina cometería un gran error al ponerse del lado de esos criminales.

Sería como si los salvadoreños nos hubiéramos puesto del lado de los terroristas de la MS13, sólo porque compartimos ancestros o nacionalidad.

Lo mejor que nos pasó como nación fue deshacernos de esos violadores y asesinos y dejar que la gente buena prosperara.

Los palestinos deberían hacer lo mismo: deshacerse de esos animales y dejar que la gente buena prospere.

[Talk Church @churchtalkative]

“You Say You Don’t Believe in God?”💯✅