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Bleeding-heart Christian. RINO, otherwise. ⛪️🌾🌐
Pro-Ukraine. Advocate for literacy.

[sasseite @RespectableCon]

If Republicans were not pro-life, I would not be a Republican. The main point of conservative politics is to further the pro-life cause. Nothing should be considered more important than saving lives.

[sasseite @RespectableCon]

@GerdVonBarb It’s a choice between subverting the other person’s conscious choice to reject God’s grace (God allowed their rejection to be fulfilled because He values individual conscience so highly) and God’s command to embody selfless, sacrificial love in imitation of Christ

[sasseite @RespectableCon]

Would you choose to endure eternal torture in hell so that that any one person of your choice could go to heaven?

Would you do so in any random person’s place?

Would you do so even if the person was, like, Hitler?

[sasseite @RespectableCon]

@GerdVonBarb I think the conflict here is actually mainly a rehashing of whether forcible conversion would be a morally just end to pursue

[sasseite @RespectableCon]

@Kisson_thelips In the sense that God offered it and you accepted it, yes. It was the freely chosen fulfillment of a covenant.

[sasseite @RespectableCon]

Now watching: 1980 Firing Line on “Defense and the Democrats,” hosted by William F. Buckley and featuring Daniel Patrick Moynihan

[sasseite @RespectableCon]

@Kisson_thelips I think the idea here is that you entered heaven because you were saved by grace. It’s not necessarily that you “should” be in heaven—a supererogatory act allows you to be there.

[sasseite @RespectableCon]

@FinbarrNYC Well bc Jesus presumably would've for you

[sasseite @RespectableCon]

@Kisson_thelips Don't take my prior argument too seriously here as I'm kind of conflicted myself; ofc Jesus commands of us selfless and sacrificial love in imitation of him

[sasseite @RespectableCon]

@Shapiromentum2 Re: Gen-Z Republicans not like this

[sasseite @RespectableCon]

@Kisson_thelips Are you questioning God’s moral judgment if your answer is yes, to any of them? Are you comfortable overriding that person’s individual conscience in so doing? God seems to value individual conscience very highly!

[sasseite @RespectableCon]

@RealTweetofMe I respect and value Him so much I wouldn’t question his judgment were He to allow us to do that to ourselves, nor would I accuse Him of allowing it were it not that His word seems to me to affirm that He does.

I relate to the conundrum though

[sasseite @RespectableCon]

@Brockster310 @musicbynimbvs 2 people = anecdotal evidence that doesn’t generalize to the broader population. Hit me with a poll if that’s what you’re after

[sasseite @RespectableCon]

@Brockster310 @musicbynimbvs This is called nutpicking, news orgs like MSNOW and Fox News do this all the time. I grew up in a red rural area, I know what they’re like.

[sasseite @RespectableCon]

@musicbynimbvs @Brockster310 I am from the Midwest, but it’s worth noting that a solid majority of American social conservatives live outside the Deep South, and that social conservatives in the South are not uniformly racist even if we accept the premise that a majority there are

[sasseite @RespectableCon]

@4xCaliban Yeah

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@seashelljulia Tbf I have not been one of those arguing Hank is a surefire three-time Trump voter and soon-to-be Paxton voter. He probably votes Abbott though.

[sasseite @RespectableCon]

What on earth makes you think Hank Hill isn't socially conservative?

[Liam 🇵🇸 @Hezbolsonaro]

Hank Hill by the time of the reboot is essentially a Democrat. He’s a non-racist mainline Protestant from a fairly cosmopolitan small city who isn’t socially conservative and spent a decade in another country. He’d just vote straight Dem.

[sasseite @RespectableCon]

@seashelljulia Bush voted Condi in 2020, French was voted third party in 2016/2020 and Harris in ‘24, Rose I believe voted Trump all 3 times with heavy reluctance. I’m pretty certain they all vote R downballot.

[sasseite @RespectableCon]

@seashelljulia There are lots of quite sober-minded Americans whose moral convictions about abortion, family, and gender are very conservative but which do not stem from hatred or manifest in personal intolerance. David French, Lila Rose, George W. Bush, etc.