Suburban Faux Bourgeoisie

[D G Hart @ReallyOldLife]

Dear Christian magistrate,

Please suppress bad worship.

Sincerely,
Really Old Life

[D G Hart @ReallyOldLife]

because you go to the 17th century for politics, but to the 1990s for worship?

[D G Hart @ReallyOldLife]

Brian Suave could start a Christian Nationalist Political Party tomorrow and run for office in the United States.

That's how much freedom Americans have.

Pastor Suave and his fellow party members would lose in their races.

This would be evidence of secular suppresion of faith

[Miles Smith IV @IVMiles]

1/ want to speak to @PerfInjust in good faith. He’s always treated me cordially on the couple occasions I’ve met him, and I appreciate that. I think anti-kinism statements in particular are necessary, and I think Stephen doesn’t probably see that because he’s not from the South.

[Alan Portland @NewNeocalvinism]

What (nearly) destroyed real Christianity in America was not "libertarian" classical liberalism, but progressivist Christian Nationalism, a child of the 2nd Great Awakening. "Conservative" Christian Nationalism is very much NOT the solution.
#HistoryLesson

[Rev. Elijah Anderson @RevElijahA]

Synod Calgary of the URCNA just adopted this motion, without any dissent; every person speaking in its favor and some saying they wish the statement were stronger. Praise the Lord!

[The Optimistic Curmudgeon @TheOptimisticC3]

“LLMs are the cognitive equivalent of Homeric sirens. They promise productivity while subverting the process of grappling with ideas, and with overuse they weaken the very muscles necessary to use them responsibly.”

[D G Hart @ReallyOldLife]

does not apply to Christian nationalists because Scruton was not a Christian

"Roger Scruton said that he was brought up to believe one should strive not to cause offence, but these days too many people work tirelessly to take it." https://t.co/hmLpJS3SXS

[Miles Smith IV @IVMiles]

Two realizations that have been liberating as I got older:
1) confronting your own insignificance is completely liberating.
2) you really can’t serve two masters.

[D G Hart @ReallyOldLife]

it's not pietist vs. offensive Christianity, it's pietism vs. confessionalism

[D G Hart @ReallyOldLife]

also applies to geneaology of ideas as if Trans is downstream from Rousseau or Woke is downstream from Hebrew covenants

[Super 70s Sports @Super70sSports]

I miss real intentional walks. The crowd booing, the .01% chance something weird would happen, the batter giving off “Yeah, I knew you didn’t want any this” vibes. If you want to walk a guy you should at least have to look like pussies for 30 seconds. It was good.

[Kalshi Film @Kalshi_Film]

Pierce Brosnan never stopped looking like 007

[Cinema Tweets @CinemaTweets1]

Maybe we took Pierce Brosnan for granted as 007. This guy was the perfect Bond at the perfect time - he was exactly what this franchise needed in the late ‘90s. I’ve said it before but I would love a reboot with Brosnan as an older, retired Bond pulled back into the force.

[Andrew T. Walker @AndrewTWalker]

As a Protestant and a Baptist, I’m genuinely looking forward to the papal encyclical on AI tomorrow.

Whatever divides Rome and Geneva, and there is no shortage of things that do, social ethics is not where those fault lines run deepest. On questions of human dignity, the integrity of the person, and the moral ordering of technology, there is real and consequential common ground in defending the dignity of the human person against reductionist visions of humanity.

What also makes this especially interesting is the Roman Catholic appeal to natural law reasoning. Because its moral arguments are not grounded exclusively in revealed theology, but in principles accessible to human reason as such, the encyclical has the potential to speak well beyond Rome itself. It will be fascinating to see how those outside the Christian tradition engage its analysis of AI, human nature, and moral responsibility.

[Suburban Faux Bourgeoisie @notdestitute]

@ReallyOldLife Like GCS in Schrader’s Hardcore (not recommended viewing; just stating facts).

[Stephen Caldwell @Stephen09552296]

@ZeroSuitCamus

[Suburban Faux Bourgeoisie @notdestitute]

@jstannehill And the alternate title for Invention for Destruction is even The Fabulous World of Jules Verne. My kids and I love them.

As for criterion, if you need some convincing, they’re streaming the Criterion Collection edition of Robocop right now, with all the extras.

[R. Scott Clark @RScottClark]

Just how surrendered does true faith have to be?

Piper has has unintentionally taken us back to the Pre-Reformation crisis. The answer to this question is one of the reasons we had a Reformation in the first place.

What I don't think you appreciate is how the reformation delivered us from this conundrum.

It's not the quality of our faith and it is not the quantity of our affections. It is the object of true faith that saves.

"21. What is true faith?

True faith is not only a certain knowledge whereby I hold for truth all that God has revealed to us in his Word; but also a hearty trust, which the Holy Spirit works in me by the Gospel, that not only to others, but to me also, forgiveness of sins, everlasting righteousness and salvation are freely given by God, merely of grace, only for the sake of Christ’s merits."

True faith, even if it is only the size of a mustard seed, is the divinely given instrument that apprehends Christ and his righteousness.

Faith formed by love is an endless pit of subjectivity that destroys assurance of salvation and assurance of faith.

Please read this:

https://t.co/vMqOpmDpKZ