Mark Atkins

Passionate about supporting young people and sharing about Jesus. Schoolsworker @teamLFIS Husband & Father. “Be curious, not judgemental” #TraumaInformed

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If England score a few more they can let Mbappe get a hat trick, still win AND let him beat Messi to the golden boot as a final ‘stuff you’ to FIFA and Argentina 😂😂😂 #ENGFRA

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PROPER game of football this. #ENGFRA

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@samhailes Not sure they’ve got the voices correct…

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@lukeayling_8 A student I’m mentoring who mentioned how you’ve inspired him as he has a severe speech impediment & was encouraged by you sharing your own experience. He’s struggling with his mental health and it would be amazing if you could do anything to help a young fan! 👍🏼

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https://t.co/OO7UwD8MOW Warning: some fruity language.

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There’s a Stewart Lee sketch for that… #hugenots

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According to the ONS figures, London, Manchester and Birmingham are now all minority white cities.

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@NCrezz @silogramm @PoliticsJOE_UK Ideally, both would be treated equally. This is why it’s such a ridiculously complicated topic. And why it needs to be talked about with 100x more compassion than it usually is.

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@RichMountbasket @gracejessup_ @FewtonNaulkner @PoliticsJOE_UK When did I say I’d do that?

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@gracejessup_ @FewtonNaulkner @PoliticsJOE_UK Perhaps in my own echo chamber but the massive amounts of Christians I know who aren’t advocating ‘forced birth’ but campaign and choose to adopt/foster, support single mothers, work with severely traumatised children and young people, people with Down’s syndrome.

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@silogramm @alex__ross @PoliticsJOE_UK Seen this before, it’s great. The problem is he’s a hypocrite. I’ve had a number of folk on this thread lumping me with right-wing evangelical types who only care about hypothetical morality. I really think it’s important to have healthy disagreements and get talking deeper

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@alex__ross @silogramm @PoliticsJOE_UK Which is why my original tweet started I’m nota big fan of his!

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@silogramm @PoliticsJOE_UK I have friends traumatised by their abortions and others friends alive as a result of rape, all individual cases. The whole subject (especially on Twitter) needs loads more compassion and nuance. Which is why I still believe it is NEVER as black and white as you’re stating.

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@silogramm @PoliticsJOE_UK Someone’s opinion isn’t invalid unless it’s objectively untrue. That’s postmodernism’s trap. My point isn’t to demonise abortion, my point has been the sanctity of life as per my first tweet and that abortion isn’t as reductionist argument as you’re asserting 1/2

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@alex__ross @silogramm @PoliticsJOE_UK The two go hand in hand. If one’s true, it affects the other. The distinction of the language ‘foetus’ and ‘baby’ cannot be subjective otherwise (sorry to be morbid) a mother tragically loses her stillborn “foetus”. It’s not just about bodily autonomy, if there’s two bodies…

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@alex__ross @silogramm @PoliticsJOE_UK So babies… aren’t human?

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@silogramm @PoliticsJOE_UK That’s such a weird false dichotomy.. it’s like saying I can’t oppose racism if I will never experience it.
My point is that babies (in utero) are humans are is NOT a ‘Victorian’ view.

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@queenjaneyyy @PoliticsJOE_UK But if it *is* morally ambiguous then it’s worth disagreeing on, no? Plus you’re still assuming I’m pushing an uncompassionate right-wing agenda. Is it really that hard to understand I don’t hate women and just do like babies?

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@queenjaneyyy @PoliticsJOE_UK You’ve made so many weird assumptions here. I’ve not made any assertions over the autonomy of women. They can do as they please. However, if I, or anyone, believes unborn babies are human am I not allowed to disagree with you?

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@lkittykat_t @PoliticsJOE_UK With the risk of being baited into a reductionist argument it’s really not that simple… Please don’t hear what I’m not saying. I’m not condemning those who have had to abort on the past, no one does that lightly. I can still respectfully hope it wouldn’t happen, can’t I?

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@FewtonNaulkner @PoliticsJOE_UK It is tragic that the loudest voices that seem to exist in this conversation are those who vilify vulnerable women or, in contrast, demonise anyone who disagrees with them.