Roscoe Purvis

[Roscoe Purvis @roscoe71866]

@TheCinesthetic Fantastic

[cinesthetic. @TheCinesthetic]

Monty Python never gets old.

[Roscoe Purvis @roscoe71866]

@ConservativeAnt I'm Catholic and I'm not going to unfollow you

[Roscoe Purvis @roscoe71866]

@GenTXer2 Never forget

[Daily Memes @thedailymemes_]

There are so many things happening in this video 😭

[Graham Allen @GrahamAllen]

Who does this UNGRATEFUL CLOWN think he is?!?

Imagine having the audacity to spend America’s 250th birthday calling our nation “an arena of supremacy,” accusing it of “persecution,” and claiming it’s controlled by “oligarchs.”

THIS GUY IS A CLOWN!!!

[Justine Bateman @JustineBateman]

You know how advertising works. If you are selling a product that no one really wants, you must create a need that only you can fill.
If you are selling deodorant to people who don’t really smell, you must convince them they smell, so you can sell them your “solution” of deodorant.
If you are selling control and the ripping away of people’s rights, you must convince those people they are so unhappy that they will want your “solution” of dominance.
Both sales pitches are lies. The first costs you money for an unnecessary product. The second steals your rights and the enjoyment of the life you’ve got.
Don’t believe the lies.

[Roscoe Purvis @roscoe71866]

@DomShow1210 Don't even acknowledge pop culture. Ignore it.

[Most Holy Family Monastery @mhfmvc]

You are wrong. The Vatican II Sect to which you belong (which is not the Catholic Church) allows "Gay Pride Masses", "LGBT" promotions, etc. in many churches, with the full knowledge of Antipope Leo XIV and the local apostate Novus Ordo "bishop". You are in a Counter Church, not the Catholic Church. Here's Exhibit A: https://t.co/ZLdY0Bso3h

[Roscoe Purvis @roscoe71866]

@dixietrigger Well said 🙏

[Roscoe Purvis @roscoe71866]

@khallwalker Well said 🙏

[Karen Hall @khallwalker]

For people asking why Catholics are supporting the SSPX: many Catholics suffer through the clown show that is the NO Mass because they don't have another option. They despise the silliness and the lack of reverence but because they believe in the Church they are forced to put up with rainbow flags and cardinals praying in mosques and the pope bowing to Pachamama. And they support the SSPX because they love a chance to view from afar the reverence and the ritual that has been stolen from them, and to hear the sacred music that they miss.

[Roscoe Purvis @roscoe71866]

@SportsRadioWIP Just stick to what works like knuckle curves and cutters and get away from the 4 seamers
Coach the guy

[Roscoe Purvis @roscoe71866]

@BenVerlander I wonder how the Rays and Brewers are getting it done?

[Bishop Robert Barron @BishopBarron]

Like many others, I have been alarmed by the success of certain politicians in our country who identify as extreme socialists or communists.

This is not a matter of classical liberals triumphing over standard-issue conservatives; this is the victory of people who stand athwart the fundamental principles that undergird our country.

There are many reasons why I detest Communism, but I want to draw attention to just one issue of supreme importance.

Karl Marx said that the first critique is the critique of religion. He meant that, before a complete re-working of the politics and economics of a society can take place, religion has to be taken down.

This is because religion, as he saw it, is the “opium of the masses,” a drug taken to dull our sensitivity to the suffering caused by economic exploitation. As long as the suffering populace is lured into complacency by fantasies about God's providence and the promise of eternal life, they will never rise up and throw off their chains.

But there is a second reason why the elimination of religion is of paramount significance for Marx.

Communism aspires to be a totalizing system, involving the government's control over education, entertainment, communication, politics, and especially economics.

What stands resolutely athwart this ambition is religion, which declares that all of these societal expressions are finally under the judgment of God. So, if you want Communism to succeed, religion has to be stamped out.

If you doubt me on any of this, I would encourage you to read the recent histories of China, Russia, Cuba, Nicaragua, Vietnam, Cambodia, and Venezuela. Revisit those histories and tell me I'm wrong about the attack on religion.

Might I encourage my fellow believers in God not to be complacent in the face of this very troubling development in the American body politic?

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Accusations of racism have been weaponized to stop criticism and common sense.

No more.

[Roscoe Purvis @roscoe71866]

@SenWarren You voted "YES" to send $175 billion to Ukraine over 5 funding packages. STFU

[Gerry Callahan @GerryCallahan]

Yeah great idea. Instead of Elon employing hundreds of thousands of people, turning blue collar workers into millionaires, sending reusable rockets into space, providing internet to third world countries, helping paralyzed people walk and providing a free speech platform for everyone - we could fund a whole new way for foreign criminals to scam us!

[Roscoe Purvis @roscoe71866]

@SenWarren $5 Trillion a year isn't enough. Not enough. Your a disgrace 👎

[Pastor Rich Bitterman @w_bitterman]

He took a rainbow stitched onto a San Francisco Giants cap and placed beside it the first Word God ever spoke over that sign. Genesis 9:11-16.

That was enough for the league to warn them to not write a Bible verse on the pride hat again. A covenant became an offense.

MLB could point to the uniform rule and maybe the rule was clear enough. Still, everyone knew the ink was not the real scandal. The scandal was Genesis.

A verse from the first book of the Bible appeared beside a rainbow and suddenly the old story came walking into the modern room. God had spoken first..that was the wound. Before it was claimed by a movement, it was placed there by mercy.

Landen Roupp said there was no hate in it. He said the rainbow is a symbol of God’s covenant and as a believer he wanted to stand firm. Good!

There are times when standing firm looks less like shouting from a platform and more like refusing to vanish under a hat. Writing the verse in ink was small a small thing. The witness was not.

I admire him. He could have worn the cap and said nothing, carried his convictions quietly back to the clubhouse. Instead, he wrote Genesis 9 beside the rainbow. It was not a spectacle. It was a confession.

To understand why, we have to leave the ballpark and walk back into the soaked world of Genesis 9. God speaks as the world was still wet with judgment when God blessed Noah.

He gave Noah’s family the earth. He sent them out to fill it and placed a holy fence around human life and said, in effect, “Do not treat people like animals. They bear My image.”

Every person carries that mark. The baby in the womb and the old man in the nursing home. The angry critic online and the confused soul wrapped in a flag. Every one of them lives beneath the hand of the God who made them.

Christian courage can never be cruel because every person bears God’s image. Mercy still hangs over this world and sinners still have time to come home.

Then God lifted His sign into the clouds.“ I have set my bow in the cloud,” He says, “and it shall be for a sign of a covenant between me and the earth” (Genesis 9:13).

The word is bow. That is easy to miss because we have turned the rainbow into greeting-card weather with soft colors after rain. Scripture’s bow is often a weapon. It belongs in the hand of a warrior. Scripture’s bow is often a weapon, bent with judgment, strung with arrows, aimed by wrath.

In Genesis 9, God hangs the bow in the clouds with no arrow in it.

Look at that again. The bow is there, but the string is quiet. The storm has spent itself. Sunlight breaks through the wet air. Color bends across the sky and creation receives a sermon without a single human word. God remembers. He keeps His promise. The world deserves judgment, yet mercy still hangs over our heads. The rainbow is a sermon.

Long before flags, merchandise, corporate campaigns, political speeches, or team uniforms, God placed the rainbow above a guilty world and made it preach patience.

That is why Genesis 9 belongs in this conversation. Christians do not need cruelty to speak clearly. Sneering never strengthens truth. When believers say the rainbow belongs to God, we are saying more than “our symbol came first.” We are saying the world is still being held together by the promise of a holy God who gives sinners time to repent.

The rainbow is beautiful because mercy is beautiful.

It also warns because mercy delayed carries a clock inside it. Peter tells us the Lord is patient and calls sinners to repentance. The same God who set His bow in the clouds has appointed a day when every mouth will close and every knee will bow.

That makes the cross shine brighter. At Calvary, judgment did not stay in the distance. It landed as the arrow we deserved struck the Son of God. Christ stood beneath the wrath sinners earned and mercy flowed from His wounds. Genesis 9 gives us the empty bow in the clouds. Golgotha gives us the Savior on the tree.

So yes, be thankful for these players. Be thankful for men who can stand beneath public pressure and say, with open eyes and a steady voice, “I belong to Christ.”

Christians should learn from that. Stand firm when the culture demands your silence. Hold your ground when conviction is called hatred. Do it with tenderness, clean hands, tears for the lost, love for your neighbor and your Bible open.

A rainbow appeared on a baseball cap and a few men remembered the God who set it in the sky.

That is enough reason to be grateful. The rainbow is still preaching and let the church stand firm under it.