Mo Dardinger

Birder, student and teacher of biblical prophecy, Toastmaster

[Adam | Faithful Messenger @Adam_FaithfulM]

Everyone reads the Prodigal Son as a story about a rebellious boy who came home.

It isn't.

Jesus told this parable to show us what God is actually like.

And the portrait He paints of the father is so scandalous, so undignified, that it offended every person in His audience.

It should offend us, too.

A thread on the father nobody talks about. 🧵

[Robert Davi @RobertJohnDavi]

You decide!!!
No Kings explained for people who think they're fighting fascism.

You're standing in a crowd on Saturday. You look around and think yeah. No Kings. This is what democracy looks like.

Bro.

You're holding a sign made by a communist billionaire who lives in Shanghai.

You live in a constitutional republic.

Elections. Term limits. A free press that spent four years calling the president a fascist without one journalist being arrested.

The modern left's definition of fascism:

You love your country? Fascist.

You want to enforce the border? Racist.

You think parents should raise their kids? Bigot.

You want to know who's voting in your elections? Jim Crow.

Being patriotic is fascism to the modern left.

But every country has borders and enforces them. 176 countries require ID to vote. That's the definition of a country.

But the Democratic establishment told you otherwise. And you believed them.

Congress has a 15% approval rating. 80% of Americans disapprove. 97% of incumbents got re-elected.

Chuck Schumer. 46 years. Longer than Stalin.

Steny Hoyer. 45 years. Longer than Mao.

Mitch McConnell. 42 years. 5x more than Napoleon.

Nancy Pelosi. 39 years. Longer than Henry VIII.

Maxine Waters. 35 years. Longer than Mussolini.

Bernie Sanders. 35 years. Triple Hitler's entire reign.

Trump. 5 years and 3 months. Won the popular vote and the electoral vote.

But Trump is the king. Okay buddy.

You don't hate kings. You hate kings that aren't yours.
And Saturday they had you in the streets carrying their water.

The Democratic Party installed a president without letting you vote. Biden quit on a Sunday. By Tuesday your queen was crowned.

No primary. No debate. No ballot. First time since 1968.

Three days before your march every Senate Democrat voted against photo ID to vote.

During COVID you carried a vaccine card everywhere like a hall pass from the government just to eat at a restaurant.

But getting a birth certificate or waiting two hours at the DMV to prove you're a citizen before you vote? That's oppression.

The Democratic Party is pro illegal immigration.

Counts non-citizens in the Census. Census determines congressional seats. More non-citizens means more seats means more power. No voter ID means no way to check.

That's how you keep power without wearing a crown.

Biden built a censorship machine.

Pressured Facebook to suppress true information and admitted it in writing. Censored scientists. Censored doctors. Censored JOKES. The Biden White House told Facebook to remove "humor and satire."

They literally went after people for making fun of them. UK does it better tho...

Everything they censored turned out to be right. They just outsourced the silencing to Silicon Valley.

And it doesn't stop at speech.

The extreme left justifies taking children from families.

Six thousand schools rewrite children's identities without telling parents. And the State has the right to intervene.

The Hitler Youth did this. Mao's Red Guards did this. The Soviets built statues of a child who reported his own father.

Same playbook.

During Covid, your bakery got shut down. Church closed. You couldn't hold your dying mother's hand at the hospital.

But thousands packed together during BLM to burn Minneapolis and THAT was essential civic engagement. Obviously.

$2 billion in damage. 25 dead. 2,000 cops injured. 20 states burning. VP Kamala promoted a bail fund for the rioters. No investigation. No hearings.

January 6. One building. Few hours. 1,000 prosecuted. Two years of televised hearings.

Kings decide which violence counts. The left decided.

Charlie Kirk spent his life walking onto campuses asking for honest debate. He was assassinated.

CSIS terrorism database. 2025 is the first year in 30 years that left-wing attacks outnumber right-wing. Yet no one brings this up.

75% of liberal students say preventing a speaker from talking is justified. 27% say violence is acceptable.

[Clint Teeples @TeeplesCY]

Someone praying for you in another building can change your brain in real time. There is a study that proves it.

Researchers at North Hawaii Community Hospital placed 11 people inside fMRI scanners, fully isolated. In a separate building, spiritual leaders who knew them personally sent focused intentions toward them at random two-minute intervals. The receivers had no way to know when. Their brains lit up at the exact moments the senders focused on them. Specific regions associated with attention and awareness activated on cue. The odds of this happening by chance were less than one in seven thousand.

Most people have never heard of this. Here are three more.

Hand-holding and pain. Researchers placed 22 couples under EEG caps. When the woman was in pain and her partner held her hand, their brain waves synchronized. The more empathy he felt for her, the more their brains coupled. The more their brains coupled, the more her pain decreased. Touch combined with focused care produced a measurable analgesic effect. The lead researcher got the idea while holding his wife's hand during the birth of their daughter.

Two brains in shielded rooms. A Mexican neuroscientist named Jacobo Grinberg ran a series of experiments at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. Two participants meditated together for 20 minutes. Then they were placed in separate electromagnetically shielded rooms more than 14 meters apart. One participant was shown 100 random flashes of light. The other, hooked to an EEG with no sensory contact of any kind, registered matching brain-wave responses one out of every four flashes. Pairs who had not bonded showed nothing.

Group prayer. Andrew Newberg at Thomas Jefferson University has spent more than two decades scanning the brains of praying nuns, meditating monks, and chanting Sikhs. His imaging work shows a consistent pattern. The frontal lobes activate. The parietal lobes quiet. The effect amplifies in groups. Brains in shared prayer entrain to one another the way two pendulums swinging in the same room eventually fall into the same rhythm.

These studies measure what physically happens to the human nervous system when people focus caring attention on each other, in the same room or at a distance. The findings are consistent across labs, methods, and decades.

The basic finding, that human brains synchronize during empathic connection, is now mainstream neuroscience. Newberg alone has published more than 250 peer-reviewed papers.

People have been doing this for thousands of years and calling it prayer. Christians alone offer a window into the variety. Latter-day Saints kneel as families. Catholics pray the rosary. Protestants join hands in prayer circles.

What is actually happening when you pray? On the imaging, something measurable. On the EEG, something synchronized. On the pain scale, something diminished.

Prayer works.

[alpha man @alphaman_111]

On day 1 of my high school history class, our professor got up and said

You are 15 or 16 years old. 200 years ago people your age were married, planted crops, had children, and built a cabin by winter. You can do your homework. The bar set for you historically is embarrassingly low. You are not dealing with regional famine or plague. You do not have to save your family from marauders or go into battle to destroy your enemies. You have to sit down and learn from someone who cares about you in a safe, air-conditioned room. You have no excuses.

[Yossi BenYakar @YossiBenYakar]

Former FBI agent John Guandolo breaks down Islam in under 3 minutes—and he nails the core doctrine without apology.

He explains: The entire purpose of Islam, according to all authoritative Islamic sources, is to establish an Islamic state (caliphate) across the entire world under Sharia law. Jihad, in 100% of published Islamic law, is defined solely as warfare against non-Muslims to achieve that goal.

No sugarcoating, no "peaceful majority" deflection—just straight facts from the texts themselves.

A must-watch for anyone still confused about what's driving global events, migration patterns, and the push for cultural submission in the West.

Watch it. Understand it. The truth doesn't care about feelings.

[Josh Barzon @JoshuaBarzon]

I was watching Monsters Inc. with my kids the other night. It’s one of my all time favorite Pixar films.

But this time , I noticed a theme in the movie that was fascinating in connection with religion and Christianity specifically…

In the movie, the City of Monstropolis is literally running on fear. Screams power the city. And when supply runs short, the establishment’s answer is simple…

Scare harder.
And never question the system.

Mr. Waternoose and Randall threaten to silence anyone who threatens their system. But then Sully discovers something by accident. Boo’s laughter generates more energy than fear ever could. The very thing the system was suppressing (the joy of a child) was the most powerful force in the room.

This is a near-perfect picture of the difference between Christianity and every other religion on earth.

Every other religious system is fear-based.

Do enough.
Perform enough.
Earn your way past judgment.

The energy it produces is real, but it is exhausting and hollow.

Christianity runs on something entirely different. The Apostle John writes that “perfect love casts out fear, and that we have no fear of judgment because of what Christ has already done.” (1 John 4:18) It is the love of God that compels us to obey and serve Him, not the threat of wrath.

And just like Mr. Waternoose in Monsters Inc, there are those even within the church who would rather keep you afraid than let you discover how much more powerful grace and the love of God actually is.

The movie has a happy ending when the old system is destroyed and Sully leads the city into a new era of using love and joy as a new system to run the city on.

And so too has Christ done away with the fear of the law and judgment and given us hope in His righteousness that lets us come boldly to the Father as His forgiven children.

[Scott Roberts @ScottRoberts]

Seven marks of a husband who leads well:

1. Initiates prayer
2. Repents quickly
3. Protects emotionally and spiritually
4. Teaches Scripture
5. Works diligently
6. Loves sacrificially
7. Fears God more than culture

[Tanya @tanyaelisabethh]

Marry a man who has an annoying truly insufferable desire for truth.

Marry a man who has such strong moral convictions that it will aggravate you

Yes. Do this.
Why?

Because he will not bend his values around his flesh. He will not rewrite what is right to excuse what he wants.

He will desire goodness, and God, even when it costs him.

And a man who fears God more than he fears discomfort is a man who will remain steady when temptation comes knocking.

A man like this may frustrate you.
But he will not betray you.

[Tulsi Gabbard 🌺 @TulsiGabbard]

The quiet moments are often the most important. Last night just before Cabinet members walked onto the House floor for the President’s State of the Union, we joined together in prayer, giving all thanks and praise to God, and praying for the clarity and strength to listen to Him, serve Him, and do His will.

[Lincoln @flabbytofit99]

Last week, I heard my son being disrespectful to my wife upstairs at bedtime.

I didn't yell up the stairs. I didn't rush up.

I just started walking. Slowly.

Our stairs creak. Loud.

Step. Creak.
Step. Creak.
Step. Creak.

My son went silent.

I heard my wife: "You hear your father coming, so you stopped, didn't you?"

No response.

I reached his room. Looked him in the eye.

"You will not be disrespectful to your mother. Apologize. Right now. And don't ever do it again."

He apologized. I walked out.

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That's all it took.

But here's the lesson every dad needs to hear:

**Your kids are testing YOU when they disrespect your wife.**

They're learning:
• Does Dad back Mom up?
• Can I get away with this?
• Who's really in charge here?

If you don't shut it down IMMEDIATELY, it escalates.

Your kids keep pushing. Your wife keeps absorbing it. And you've failed both of them.

**Back her up. Every single time.**

Even if you disagree with how she handled something, you back her up in front of the kids.

Handle disagreements later, in private.

In the moment? You're a team. Always.

**Here's what your kids are learning:**

Your SONS are watching how you treat their mother. That's their blueprint for how to treat women.

Your DAUGHTERS are watching too. That's their blueprint for what treatment to accept from men.

If you let your kids disrespect her, you're teaching them:
• Mom doesn't deserve respect
• I can talk to women however I want
• Dad won't protect the people he loves

Is that the legacy you want to leave?

**Your wife is watching too.**

She's asking:
• Will he back me up?
• Will he stand with me?
• Can I count on him when it's hard?

Be the man who says YES to all three.

Nip disrespect in the bud. Now. Before it becomes a pattern.

Your family is counting on you to lead.

Don't let them down.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

The neuroscience here is more radical than people realize.

What you’re watching is a hormonal phase transition. Within minutes of skin-to-skin contact with a newborn, a father’s endocrine system starts a cascade that rewires his brain for the next 20 years.

Testosterone drops 34% on average. Gettler’s 2011 landmark study at Notre Dame tracked 624 men and found that the ones who spent 3+ hours per day in direct childcare had the steepest declines. This matters because testosterone and parental sensitivity are inversely correlated. Lower T predicts more responsiveness to infant cues, more physical touch, more synchrony with the child’s emotional states.

Meanwhile, oxytocin surges 33% above non-father baselines. Prolactin spikes. Estradiol rises. These are the same hormones that activate in mothers during pregnancy and breastfeeding. The entire “maternal bonding” cocktail fires in fathers through a different delivery mechanism: proximity and touch.

Here’s where it gets wild. Dr. Pilyoung Kim at the University of Denver scanned fathers’ brains at 2-4 weeks postpartum and again at 12-16 weeks. The regions linked to attachment, empathy, and threat detection showed measurable increases in gray and white matter. The brain physically bulked up in areas responsible for protection and caregiving.

And in mice studies, neurogenesis (new neuron formation) occurred in father brains within days of their pups being born. But only in fathers who stayed in the nest. The ones removed on day one showed zero new neuron growth. Physical contact was the switch.

So the claim about brains being “literally rewired for protection” actually undersells it. The father’s brain grows new tissue. It shifts its entire hormonal architecture from mating optimization to caregiving optimization. The reward circuitry that previously activated for sexual stimuli redirects toward child faces and infant cries.

The biological mechanism for fatherhood is one of the most aggressive neuroplastic events in the adult male lifespan. And it’s entirely dose-dependent: more contact, more holding, more time in proximity = stronger the neural and hormonal shift.

That first hold is a pharmacological event.

[Dr. Maalouf ‏ @realMaalouf]

“Far more people are dying in Nigeria than in Palestine. Last year, 500,000 Christians were killed. But the activists aren’t protesting or saying anything. To me, that’s hypocrisy.” Well said.

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[Camus @newstart_2024]

Dr. Erica Komisar just said what many parents whisper but few say out loud: Modern schools are built for girls, not boys—and we’re paying a steep price.

Little boys (ages 3–6) surge with testosterone. They need to run, jump, play, burn energy.
Instead, we sit them in circle time, demand emotional regulation, and label normal boy behavior as ADHD or “behavioral problems.”

Result? Marginalized, stressed, diagnosed early, and tracked that way through school.

Her fix if she ran the world:
Separate boys and girls in the early years.
Boys get multiple recess periods, short focused bursts, and space to move.
Girls get a calmer environment where they feel safe taking STEM/math risks.
Both thrive when not forced into the opposite gender’s learning style.

Single-gender early education: Boys try art/music without teasing. Girls try science without self-consciousness.
Evidence already shows it works.

Parents/teachers: Do you see boys struggling more in today’s classrooms—or is this overblown?
What’s one change you’d make to education for boys right now?

[Josh Howerton @howertonjosh]

RE: Somalian Childcare Fraud & weaponized Christian Theology...

It's become clear that for the last ~decade aspects of Christian Theology have been twisted and weaponized to advance evil (or keep people from opposing it), and a *lot* of those examples converge in the Somalian Childcare thing:

1) "The Bible commands us to welcome the stranger" was often misappropriated by progressive Christians to max-boost immigration, oppose any immigration restrictions, and DEFINITELY to oppose any consequences for illegal immigrants.

But as has been stated before, the Bible distinguishes between the role of the individual Christians (charity for all) and the role of the State (prioritizing justice for that nation's citizens).

This is why the same Bible that commands individuals to "welcome the stranger" and "love the immigrant" also blesses a nation in building a wall to protect its borders.

And in the same way a father has a responsibility to his children that he does not have for all children, and a pastor has a responsibility to his church he does not have for all churches... the leaders of a nation have a responsibility to the citizens of that nation that they do not have to care for other nations' citizens.

2) "When he returns, Christ will gather the glory of the nations" was often used to reinforce the progressive idea that all cultures are equally glorious and to be celebrated.

"What could be wrong with importing hundreds of thousands of Somalians? Yes, they're different but all human cultures are equally glorious, they just possess different glories."

But, the reality that Christ will bring in "the glory of the nations" does not mean that all human cultures are equally glorious.

All PEOPLE are equally valuable because they're created in the image of God, but not all CULTURES are equally glorious because what a culture becomes arises from what that culture worships. If a culture is built on top of godless or demonic ideologies (like Islam), it will not be morally equal to a culture built on top of Protestant Christianity.

Islamic Somalian culture is not equal in value to (or often compatible with) Protestant Christian culture.

3) "The Bible commands us to love the poor" is (very) often used to support max-boosting welfare programs, Christians throwing tantrums against any scrutiny toward entitlement programs, and used to support socialism-lite policies (such billions of $ to blank-check "childcare facilities")

But again, the Bible distinguishes between the role of the individual, church, family, and State.

And the Bible places the primary responsibility for charity on families (1 Tim 5:8), individual Christians (Matt 25), and the church (Gal 2:10, 1 Tim 5).

There are not examples in the Bible of God commanding human governments to forcibly redistribute wealth, because with governments, "You always get more of what you incentivize and less of what you penalize."

This is why when governments max-boost welfare programs, at-scale and over time it tends to CREATE more poverty rather than SOLVING it. For example, progressive cities / states that max-boost "care for the homeless" end up with cities overwhelmed by *more* homelessness; they do not end up solving homelessness.

4) Biblical commands against partiality and prejudice are often used to make Christians more scared of being called racist or Islamophobic than they are of allowing the destruction of their society.

But honesty about cultural realities and generalizations are not "prejudice" or "phobia." In the same way that it was not wrong for the Apostle Paul to say, "Cretans tend to liars, evil brutes, and lazy gluttons" (Titus 1:12), it would also not be wrong for someone to say, "Hey, Somalian culture tends to be heavily Islamic, low-trust, and high-fraud."

And then for governments to make wise decisions based on those realities.

^^^All of this to say, YES Christians ARE absolutely commanded to welcome the stranger, care for the poor, repent of all prejudice, and the Bible does say in the New Earth Christ will gather the glory of the nations... but those things do not mean what they have often been distorted and weaponized to DO in the culture war.

[T.J. Moe @TJMoe28]

I’m reading Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis, and I came across a fascinating idea I’ve never heard presented before.

Lewis doesn’t state it directly—only its implication—but for his conclusion to hold, it must be inferred.

It appears in the chapter “The Cardinal Virtues,” on the final two pages.

Lewis distinguishes between performing a just or temperate act and actually being a just or temperate person. A poor tennis player might hit a great shot occasionally, but that doesn’t make him a good player. We all agree on that. Therefore, isolated acts of obedience don’t make one virtuous, character is revealed in consistency.

From there, Lewis argues that God wants more than mere obedience. Obedience matters, but God cares far more about our character. He wants us to become people who naturally produce obedient behavior.

Then comes the part I've been contemplating for the last few days.

Lewis notes that we might assume virtues are needed only for this life, because in heaven there will be nothing to quarrel about (so no need for justice) and no danger (so no need for courage). But he adds that while God won’t refuse entry to heaven for lacking certain qualities, heaven offers no further opportunity to develop them. As a result, we will never attain the “deep, strong, unshakable kind of happiness” God intends.

The inference that struck me is this: we may have only our time on earth to become the people God intends us to be. This life forms our capacity for joy, virtue, and glory. Heaven fulfills it but does not expand it through suffering.

In heaven there are no trials to forge bravery, self-control, patience, humility, resilience, integrity, gratitude, or joy in the midst of hardship. Those qualities are shaped here, not there.

So here's the unsettling question: once we die and enter eternity, is our development finished? Is this life our only chance to become the best version of ourselves?

If so, it’s sobering. All the time wasted scrolling Instagram reels or behaving poorly without seeking growth would carry eternal consequences.

I should live each day with urgency, taking massive strides toward becoming the man God intends. The day I die, the work ends. My capacity for joy and virtue can no longer grow.

I’m not sure if this idea is theologically sound. Maybe it's not. I’d love some insight from theologians who could explain why it might not hold.

But if this life truly is our only training ground, delay is far more dangerous than I ever realized.

That thought alone makes me want to live with far greater urgency than yesterday.

[Trad West @trad_west_]

Sir Christopher Lee also warned people to not dabble with Satanism, saying:

"Never, never, never. You will not only lose your mind, you will lose your soul."

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

Answer: it helps girls. It tells girls they have the right to things of their own. It tells girls they have the right to say 'no'. It reminds girls that the desires of boys do not supersede their feelings, their rights, their discomfort or their safety.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Until March, Saturn had 146 known moons, then astronomers discovered 128 new ones, bringing the ringed gas giant's total up to 274 moons—far beyond any other planet in our Solar System.

This is the coreography of their dance.

[🎞️ thebrainmaze]

[Alexander Duncan @AlexDuncanTX]

The West didn’t reject Jesus — it rebranded Him.

We’ve turned the Lion of Judah into a soft, inoffensive, hippie mascot who never confronts sin, never speaks hard truth, and never offends anyone. That Jesus doesn’t exist.

The real Jesus was strong, bold, fearless, and unapologetic.
He spoke with authority, not approval.
He flipped tables.
He rebuked corruption.
He called men to repent, deny themselves, and follow Him — not to be comfortable, but to be transformed.

Christ was not weak.
He didn’t beg for acceptance.
He didn’t silence truth to keep the peace.

The West didn’t lose Jesus — it watered Him down to justify cowardice and compromise.

If your version of Jesus never convicts you, never offends your pride, and never demands obedience — it’s not Jesus.

It’s an idol.

[Eric Metaxas @ericmetaxas]

The ex-wife of Google's founder has accepted Jesus. The revival is happening RIGHT NOW. God bless @NicoleShanahan for sharing her AMAZING story. And God bless @conservmillen for the amazing interview! https://t.co/LWj5LJj5jf