David M. Hodges ✍🏻📝🕸️⌨️🗽📜 🌳🪓📖✝

Freelance editor, writer, Web coder. Favor classical liberalism, constitutional conservatism, abortion abolitionism, confessional bibliology.

[David M. Hodges ✍🏻📝🕸️⌨️🗽📜 🌳🪓📖✝ @piouseye]

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Below is an ongoing thread serving as the "footnotes" for this X profile and account. The proprietor encourages visitors to review it.
https://t.co/CwdDQ3suPn

[David M. Hodges ✍🏻📝🕸️⌨️🗽📜 🌳🪓📖✝ @piouseye]

Please note: Tweets are a snapshot of what I am (or was) thinking on a specific date and time. As deleting old tweets short-circuits free and open discourse, my policy is to never delete old tweets, except to correct typos shortly after posting. #FreeSpeech

[David M. Hodges ✍🏻📝🕸️⌨️🗽📜 🌳🪓📖✝ @piouseye]

New #blog post: https://t.co/0U9ittkqum Excerpt: "I admit that I find it difficult to believe that the second paragraph of the Declaration of Independence is anything but the eloquent statement of natural-rights doctrine that the conservative declarationists assert it to be."

[David M. Hodges ✍🏻📝🕸️⌨️🗽📜 🌳🪓📖✝ @piouseye]

New Post: On the Impossibility of Productive Discussions in YouTube Comments. Excerpt: Do we really have to limit our options to these two, anti-Israel noninterventionism or pro-Israel interventionism?.... Link: https://t.co/vjDqtviPHo #Israel #AmericaFirst #AmericaLast

[David M. Hodges ✍🏻📝🕸️⌨️🗽📜 🌳🪓📖✝ @piouseye]

P.S. Here is the video I linked to illustrating how love of unjust forgiveness has begun corrupting Christian doctrine: https://t.co/bZNpZsz5aL. In terms of historical, orthodox Christian doctrine, God has ensured that HIS forgiveness is always ENTIRELY just.

[David M. Hodges ✍🏻📝🕸️⌨️🗽📜 🌳🪓📖✝ @piouseye]

The 2nd concerned the widely publicized, & among Christians widely praised, announcement by Erica Kirk that she forgives the man who murdered her husband. This compulsion to announce forgiveness for unrepentant evildoers seems to be unjust & to claim moral authority no human has.

[David M. Hodges ✍🏻📝🕸️⌨️🗽📜 🌳🪓📖✝ @piouseye]

I commented on a couple YouTube vids today. As I do this so rarely anymore, I though I'd mark the occasion by making note of them on X, which I now also use rarely. The 1st, which YT seems to have blocked, concerned a popular branch of comparative religion: health & nutrition. 🥗

[David M. Hodges ✍🏻📝🕸️⌨️🗽📜 🌳🪓📖✝ @piouseye]

@NutritionMadeS3 Actually, it's the Gerson *Institute* Archive. Sorry. Here's my copy of the comment for reference, in case my above attempt to summarize missed anything else. The therapy still has adherents, though I don't know how many.

[David M. Hodges ✍🏻📝🕸️⌨️🗽📜 🌳🪓📖✝ @piouseye]

@NutritionMadeS3 Actually, it's the Gerson *Institute* Archive. Sorry. Here's my copy of the comment for reference, in case my above attempt to summarize missed anything else. The therapy still has adherents, though I don't know how many.

[David M. Hodges ✍🏻📝🕸️⌨️🗽📜 🌳🪓📖✝ @piouseye]

@NutritionMadeS3 FYI, the video to debunk was this one: https://t.co/80folqdApc. I also suggested that you might want to do a more comprehensive debunking of content in the Gerson Therapy Archive, since a search of your YT channel showed no matches for the keyword "Gerson."

[David M. Hodges ✍🏻📝🕸️⌨️🗽📜 🌳🪓📖✝ @piouseye]

Update 3/3 Re Israel, Gaza: "an evildoer willing to kill a hostage if a protagonist doesn’t drop his weapon will also be willing to kill the protagonist" ∴ "a protagonist who drops his weapon is acting in an irrational & immoral fashion" → take the shot
https://t.co/HcyFXpIVrq

[David M. Hodges ✍🏻📝🕸️⌨️🗽📜 🌳🪓📖✝ @piouseye]

Bringing things up to date, 2/3. Moore, MeToo Lamentations, a 2017 post restored & revised: "this post [which] had not survived the transfer from the Pious Eye site....has now been restored & revised, better organized for online reading, &...expanded.
https://t.co/NybFxNBKjj

[David M. Hodges ✍🏻📝🕸️⌨️🗽📜 🌳🪓📖✝ @piouseye]

Bringing things up to date, 1 of 3. My (Not So) Sad Farewell to Yaron Brook Caricatures of the Christian Faith — Part 1, 05/23. "During my years of agnostic confusion...one of the non-Christian cults I investigated...was the cult founded by Ayn Rand...."
https://t.co/Y88gaDMdYc

[David M. Hodges ✍🏻📝🕸️⌨️🗽📜 🌳🪓📖✝ @piouseye]

Newly posted: I Still Have Issues: Further Remarks on Established Themes — Part 4.

Excerpt: “people who accuse others of being ‘KJV only’ use the aspersion with neither consistency nor clarity.”

Link: https://t.co/hg3nAfMhSP #Christian #Bible #Theology #KJV

[David M. Hodges ✍🏻📝🕸️⌨️🗽📜 🌳🪓📖✝ @piouseye]

I Still Have Issues: Further Remarks on Established Themes — Part 3 is now up.

Excerpt: The Bible believer, of necessity, has an unshakable precommitment to reading every text of Scripture in a way that harmonizes with every other text.

Link: https://t.co/68fzvzqhTj #theology

[David M. Hodges ✍🏻📝🕸️⌨️🗽📜 🌳🪓📖✝ @piouseye]

Today I finished part 3 of the old post I've been reworking for better online reading. It discusses C. S. Lewis by examining John Robbins's Lewis-critical paper. Topics include justification by faith alone & the fate of those who never hear about Jesus. https://t.co/Xc4sPKoCWB

[David M. Hodges ✍🏻📝🕸️⌨️🗽📜 🌳🪓📖✝ @piouseye]

I'm (still) reworking an old post for better online reading. The post discusses C. S. Lewis through examination of a John Robbins paper highly critical of Lewis. Formerly 1 post, it's now a series of 3. Here is part 2, which I finished updating today: https://t.co/O1aD7pMfgc

[David M. Hodges ✍🏻📝🕸️⌨️🗽📜 🌳🪓📖✝ @piouseye]

I'm reworking an old post for better online reading. The post discusses C.S. Lewis through examination of a John Robbins paper highly critical of Lewis. Formerly 1 post, it's now a series of 3. Here is part 1, which I finished updating over the weekend: https://t.co/aBCaKOme9l

[David M. Hodges ✍🏻📝🕸️⌨️🗽📜 🌳🪓📖✝ @piouseye]

In this episode, I continue disagreeing with most people on most issues. So badly outnumbered, what hope do I have? Decide for yourself:
https://t.co/zXMIig5geQ
#politics #ProLife #Freedoms #liberty #libertarian #Conservative #liberal #ChristianFaith #theology

[David M. Hodges ✍🏻📝🕸️⌨️🗽📜 🌳🪓📖✝ @piouseye]

“While today’s social media amplifies the most extreme, least prudent voices on every topic, these voices do not deserve their prominence. Incautious extremism is not a mark of mature thought; it is the hallmark of adolescents.” Read in context, & more:
https://t.co/h3DtZq2Vj8

[David M. Hodges ✍🏻📝🕸️⌨️🗽📜 🌳🪓📖✝ @piouseye]

Stating the obvious:

When a newscaster describes having a different opinion as “spreading misinformation,” that’s 𝘣𝘪𝘢𝘴. It commonly indicates one is listening to propaganda, not new reporting.

Enjoy your Monday.

#bias #FreeSpeech #news #politics

[David M. Hodges ✍🏻📝🕸️⌨️🗽📜 🌳🪓📖✝ @piouseye]

In part 2 of 2, I continue grappling w/such complex & interconnected issues as preborn humans’ right to life, federalism, the Fourteenth Amendment and its incorporationist interpretation, and use of #government power to redefine “marriage.” https://t.co/2stwf4SHOz #politics