I kept a list for twenty years.
Not on paper. I was never that organized. But I could have written it out any day of the week and it would have come out the same.
Did I tithe.
Did I read my Bible, and did I read enough of it.
Did I say the right words, at the right time, in front of the right people.
Was I dressed right. Was my wife dressed right.
Did I listen to music on accident.
That last one is not a joke.
A grown man, driving to work, running an audit on whether music had gotten into him without his permission. Not music he chose. Music that happened to him. In a waiting room. In a store. Through somebody else's truck window at a stoplight.
I ran that list for years and I never once asked what it was for.
Here is what it was for.
I did not believe I could be loved. I believed I could be tolerated. So I set out to be tolerated better than anybody else in the building, because somewhere early I had worked out that if you get tolerated well enough, for long enough, they eventually hand you the list.
And then you are the one who tolerates.
That was the whole plan. I have never said it out loud until this week.
Two men went up into the temple to pray. One of them said, "God, I thank thee, that I am not as other men are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this publican. I fast twice in the week, I give tithes of all that I possess."
That is not a prayer. That is a list. Two items. He walked into the house of God, read his checklist out loud, and called it worship.
The other man would not lift up his eyes. He hit himself in the chest and said, "God be merciful to me a sinner."
No list. Nothing to submit.
Which brings me to Moses.
He grew up in the palace with everything a man can be handed. The tutors. The language. The linen. The court manners. A nursemaid who was his own mother, who had told him exactly what he was born for.
He was a Hebrew in an Egyptian house.
He was tolerated.
So he settled it himself. He saw an Egyptian beating one of his own, and he looked this way, and that way, and when he saw that there was no man, he slew the Egyptian, and hid him in the sand.
That is what a man does when he is trying to prove which side he belongs on.
He does something he has to bury.
Forty years on the back side of a desert. He came home a shepherd instead of a prince.
He asked God for two things in his whole life.
Shew me thy glory.
Let me go over, and see the good land that is beyond Jordan.
For the first he got a crack in a rock and a hand over his face. For the second he got this. "Let it suffice thee; speak no more unto me of this matter."
Stop asking.
That is the man who talked God out of wiping out the nation. On the one thing he ever wanted for himself, the answer was, that is enough, do not bring it up to me again.
He died in Moab looking at a country he never walked in.
Fourteen hundred years later he is standing on a mountain inside that country, in glory, talking with Christ about the death that would open the whole thing up.
Both prayers answered in full. Neither one on his terms. Neither one on his side of the grave.
Moses hid a man in the sand because he could not stand to look at what he had done.
Then God hid Moses.
"But no man knoweth of his sepulchre unto this day."
Baylor University was founded by Texas Baptists.
It is the largest Christian Baptist university on the planet.
And now it’s proudly serving certified halal chicken in its dining halls because, in their own words, they want to “support growing diversity on campus.”
Let that sink in.
A university built to educate Christian students is rewriting its menu to satisfy Islamic dietary law.
This isn’t inclusion.
It’s institutional surrender.
When the strongest Christian schools start competing to accommodate every other faith while watering down their own identity, the outcome is inevitable.
We are not watching diversity.
We are watching replacement.
@BrandonStraka Not at all the same thing. Tucker wants to destroy all of us along with MAGA. I'm very pleased he is naming them by name. They have been utterly disloyal to him.
I am a J6er.
It was not an insurrection.
It was a redress of grievances. The First Amendment. A million people showed up because they believed their votes were stolen and their voices were being erased. I walked through an open door on a handicap ramp. Police stood there. People walked in and out. I chanted “Stop the Steal” for 22 minutes. I saw no violence. I committed none.
They could not stomach a protest they did not control.
When they burned cities in 2020 they called it mostly peaceful. When we showed up they called it the worst thing since the British burned the Capitol in 1812. They sent 24 FBI agents after dads for a Class B petty offense that used to be a $50 ticket. They stacked a 20-year felony the Supreme Court later said they applied unconstitutionally. They put us in the same court that was already at war with Trump.
They destroyed families. They destroyed businesses. They turned fathers against sons. They put kids and families through TSA hell. They wanted us bankrupt, destitute, ashamed, and silent.
COVID taught them they could shut churches, lock people in their homes, and crush small businesses. January 6 taught them they could make protest itself a crime if the wrong people did it.
That is not justice. That is a police state picking winners and losers.
We are still here.
God Bless the J6ers
One of my favorite verses. It is exactly what I did in 1969 when I told God I didn't know if He was real, but if he was, then please show me. And then for the next 3 months it was as if the scales fell off my eyes and everything became clear. I saw right through the scam of Transcendental Meditation. I suddenly understood that, no, all religions don't lead to God, because if there is an evil Being opposed to God naturally he will make counterfeits to distract and deceive. One day I had to make a choice. I was at a giant peace rally on the Boston Common. I could see all the people around me walking down this popular crowded road. And there was another road stretching off into the distance beckoning me but it would mean people wouldn't understand and even hate me if I left their way. But I thought, "I want to be on the side that wins in the end. "
I chose Jesus.
Novak Djokovic in his documentary on why he refused the COVID vaccine:
"Because I didn't need it. Why should I get the vaccine? I'm healthy, I'm an athlete. I had corona. I had immunity. I wasn't a threat to anyone. There was no reason for me to get vaccinated. It's my freedom to choose which that fundamental right that you have as a human being on this planet — the freedom to choose — which was taken from a lot of people."
I understand the alleged reason for it, but it is absolutely batshit insane that the prosecutors in the Karmelo Anthony case agreed not to tell the jury that Anthony was openly fantasizing about stabbing someone only hours before he killed Metcalf. This was premeditated murder. They had the evidence right there and never used it.
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In sub-Saharan Africa I was taken to entire camps of women who were raped so violently with both penises and objects such as bottles, that they were permanently injured. And these women had already suffered cliterodectomies and infibulation. People in the West have no concept of the sexual violence aimed at women in fundamentalist Muslim countries and in sub-Saharan Africa.
Talarico has always and will always put his radical trans agenda ahead of women. There’s no one more dangerous and extreme.
Women’s sports are for women only. There is nothing complicated about that.