Viola Larson

Writer, Lover of books, interested in the history of intellectual and religious ideas, tend with love gardens, grandchildren and great grandchildren.

[Viola Larson @naminggrace]

This breaks my heart

[Dr. Maalouf ‏ @realMaalouf]

An Afghan girl cries:

“I wish God had never created women. Even animals can roam freely, but we are forbidden from stepping outside the house.”

The Taliban has permanently banned women from attending schools and legalized (sexual) slavery.

Zero protests by leftists or Muslims.

[Viola Larson @naminggrace]

@CAHutch1990 Good pastor too bad you missed it.

[Viola Larson @naminggrace]

My thoughts- Naming His Grace: The Controversy About the Pentagon's New Listing o... https://t.co/utewSXkKUQ

[Chris Hutchinson 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇬🇱🇵🇸🇮🇷 🕊️ @CAHutch1990]

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[Viola Larson @naminggrace]

@garonnevik Once the story of my life. Now 18 grandchildren and 16 great grandchildren. Look forward to your tomorrows.

[Viola Larson @naminggrace]

The Controversy About the Pentagon's New Listing o... https://t.co/utewSXkKUQ Christianity has been over emphasized by listing many different groups under the heading of Christian while all other religions are simply listed under generic names such as Islam or Buddhism.

[Jacob Denhollander @JJ_Denhollander]

I have every confidence that Donald Trump, noted theological expert, is going to provide a nuanced and well-reasoned resolution to this discussion. I have faith he can resolve this situation without compromising his deeply-held commitment to Nicene orthodoxy.

[Viola Larson @naminggrace]

Naming His Grace: The Controversy About the Pentagon's New Listing o... https://t.co/utewSXkKUQ

[Viola Larson @naminggrace]

Kierkegaard wrote of A Sickness unto Death; this is that sickness- a man who only looks into himself believing his own greatness not the humanity of anyone else. Trump sees himself as a god- he is so lost- may he find mercy from his sickness.

[Spiro’s Ghost @AntiToxicPeople]

No D-Day post from our deranged President.

But his deeply sick brain decided this was a better and more important post today. His bitterness and jealousy consumes him. He is a pathetic, empty shell of a human being. Obama’s nail clippings have more class and honor than he does.

[Viola Larson @naminggrace]

Naming His Grace: Donald Trump: Stepping Out on the Edge of Fascism https://t.co/48Zg3UCzmx

[Bannon’s WarRoom @Bannons_WarRoom]

ERIC METAXAS: I haven't heard anybody say this besides me, except for you, Steve Bannon. We're in the Third Existential Crisis of our history. The First is the Revolution, the Second is the Civil War.

We are now in the Third Existential Crisis. -- Donald Trump has been appointed by God to lead us through this war that we're in. And I believe, just as in the previous two existential crises, we will prevail, but we are in a war. It's a spiritual war, it's a political war. It's not a hot war. But we are in a war for survival. And the odds say we should lose, but if God says we should win and there are enough Patriots willing to sacrifice and willing to understand this, then we'll prevail. @ericmetaxas

[David French @DavidAFrench]

Can we be done with the pretense that Republican primary voters vote for MAGA candidates in spite of their apostasy and corruption? The transgression is a feature, not a bug. It tells voters they don't care about law or morality. Only power.

[David French @DavidAFrench]

And what a beautiful quote it is.

[Meanwhile in Ukraine @MeanwhileInUA]

Putin didn't invade Ukraine because of NATO. He invaded because Ukrainians were proving democracy works.

Historian and Pulitzer Prize winner Anne Applebaum puts it plainly: Putin looked at Ukraine's democratic movement and thought, "If they can do it in Ukraine, then people could do it in Russia. So I need to crush this."

That's the real threat Ukraine posed. Not missiles. Not borders. A working democracy next door.

Applebaum frames the war as a fault line between the democratic and autocratic worlds. Russia isn't just trying to take territory. It's trying to erase Ukraine as a nation, reduce it to a colony, and send a message to every country that the post-1945 rules of Europe no longer apply.

Those rules were simple: no invasions, no wars, borders don't change by force. Russia understood exactly what it was breaking when it crossed into Ukraine.

[Basil🧡 @LinkofSunshine]

Mitt Romney text to McConnell, January 2nd

[Jay Nordlinger @jaynordlinger]

Trump called the Jan. 6 rioters "patriots." Then he called them "political prisoners." After Oct. 7 -- when Hamas attacked Israel -- he called them "hostages." Then he pardoned them all. Now they are to receive millions, from Trump's slush fund. In our country -- a deep sickness.

[Jonah Goldberg @JonahDispatch]

The Trump slush fund is a clear cut impeachable offense. https://t.co/nUveUBkApa

[Viola Larson @naminggrace]

This is so wrong. Evil is spiraling in our country. At least Trump is being honest in his words on loyalty. He demands what only God can be given, absolute loyalty. Some have called him the anti-Christ, well there are many of those and he fits the category.

[Viola Larson @naminggrace]

Perhaps this would be helpful. Naming His Grace: Eric Metaxas' Letter to the American Church and th... https://t.co/FO0DI6JFYR

[Stephen Simpson 🇺🇦 ProperGander @BamaStephen]

@factpostnews That is corrupt grifting MAGA Christian Nationalist author Eric Metaxas. NAME HIM! Study him. Expose him. He is a traitor to the very Gospel of Jesus Christ.

Very major figure in TheoFascism.

#Ballroom #Rededicate250 #RobertJeffries #FranklinGraham #MarkDriscoll #SeanFeucht

[Viola Larson @naminggrace]

Yes, and probably some German Christians praised God and Hitler for finally allowing Nazi Germany to build all of their classic buildings Eric Metaxas should be ashamed.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

checking in for a brief moment on the Rededicate 250 blasphemy fest and yep, it's beyond parody

[Jennifer Erin Valent 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @JenniferEValent]

Christians, if you aren’t aware of who these people are and what they espouse, you need to find out. They don’t want to simply lead with Godly integrity, they want power. Christians are called to witness of Christ in word and deed, not rule. This event is nothing to celebrate.

[Jonah Goldberg @JonahDispatch]

I’ve been hearing for 10 years or so that “nationalism” has rightfully supplanted conservatism, that nationalism is the wave of the future, morally superior, even “biblically” grounded.

How many of these nationalists spent any effort or capital trying to defend — even rhetorically — the borders and sovereignty of Ukraine or Taiwan? Where were the new nationalists when Trump threatened to take Greenland by force? Where are the biblical natcons and heritage Americans when Trump memes Venezuela into US statehood?

[Meanwhile in Ukraine @MeanwhileInUA]

Russia is building concentration camps on Ukrainian territory. JD Vance calls it a territorial dispute.

Historian Anne Applebaum has a sharper read. When Russia bans the Ukrainian language, arrests mayors, teachers, journalists, and priests, and denies Ukraine exists as a nation — it is not fighting over borders. It is dismantling the European order built after 1945, the order that said force cannot rewrite the map.

Russia's goal, Applebaum argues, is to prove treaties are meaningless, alliances are hollow, and brute force still decides the fate of nations.

That is not a scuffle over lines. That is an imperial war against the rules that kept Europe at peace for eighty years.

This page documents that war. Help us keep going.
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