Tyler Holmen

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[Noam Blum @neontaster]

Apparently there's this failed actress who started a revival church and is super popular on TikTok and honestly it's just hilarious how 19th century snake oil gets repackaged for people who are too incurious about history to recognize it. What's next, a spiritualism craze?

[Tyler Holmen @tyler_holmen]

@revjeffvox @MikeWingerii You're projecting. I think if you're going to fearmonger about Islam, you should at least have the curiosity to do so accurately. There's plenty to critique without having to make stuff up.

If you're a pastor, I'd expect you to be more discerning than this. Mike too.

[Tyler Holmen @tyler_holmen]

@barnaby1025 Maybe because they don't want you to fly your stupid drone into a firefighting aircraft and cause an accident...

[Tyler Holmen @tyler_holmen]

@revjeffvox @MikeWingerii Yes, did you?

"the Quran contain(s) no explicit prohibition"

If something is "haram", that means it's totally forbidden, which dogs aren't.

[Tyler Holmen @tyler_holmen]

@revjeffvox @MikeWingerii

[Abolitionists Rising 🌳🪓 @AbolitionRising]

Imagine murdering your child with down syndrome and having the audacity to call those who rebuke you "depraved."

Abortion must and shall be abolished. People like this need to be charged with murder. The pro-life movement calls them victims. Their child was the victim.

[Tyler Holmen @tyler_holmen]

"Don't let outside forces pressure you", said the outside force as he pressured the people

[Rapid Response 47 @RapidResponse47]

.@VP in Budapest: "We want you to make a decision about your future with no outside forces pressuring you... The bureaucrats in Brussels, those people should not be listened to. Listen to your hearts, listen to your souls, and listen to the sovereignty of the Hungarian people."

[Taylor Combs @combstaylor_]

John Piper: literally quotes Scripture, with reference, probably from his morning reading.

Christian Nationalists: “LIBERALLLL!!!!!”

[Tyler Holmen @tyler_holmen]

John Piper: *quotes scripture*

Woke right:🤬🤬🤬🤬

[John Piper @JohnPiper]

“You shall treat the stranger who sojourns with you as the native among you, and you shall love him as yourself, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.” Leviticus 19:34

Christians know the miserable bondage we were all in.

[alexSSN @alexSSN]

Really can’t believe the Mariners took us deep into football season and then the Seahawks took us all the way back to baseball season. It’s just never happened before in our entire lives.

[NFL Memes @NFLMemes]

The haters said the Patriots were frauds and couldn’t do it.

They were correct. Honestly, great call by the haters.

[Melissa the Hopeful🏠Homemaker @BiblicalBeauty]

To the Christians who continue engaging with men like Webbon and Partridge as though they actually are qualified pastors or even men showing fruit of genuine conversion:

Please stop. You are contributing to their ability to create confusion and bring shame upon the name of Christ. Just denounce them and their unbiblical ideas clearly. Stop pretending we are somehow on the same team. We are not.👇

[Sana Ebrahimi Ledene @SanaELedene]

Tonight, after the call by @PahlaviReza, Mashhad exploded.

Mashhad, the hometown of Khamenei’s family, is flooded with an ocean of people. Hundreds of thousands, maybe millions, in the streets with one clear demand:

Overthrow the Islamic Republic terrorist regime. The regime’s own symbolic city is rising against it.

And while Iranians are risking everything for freedom, Khamenei is busy threatening President Trump with overthrow.

A dictator terrified of his own people always lashes out abroad.
History is knocking. Loud.

[Tyler Holmen @tyler_holmen]

Mark and avoid

[Joel Webbon @JoelWebbon]

The average Christian woman on social media is retarded.

I don’t mean to be rude, but this is a lesson for the general public that is simply too valuable to pass up.

First, I will truthfully and plainly answer the woman’s question, without apology:

I am AGAINST interracial marriage.

That is to say, I believe interracial marriage “generally” goes against God’s normative design for humanity, nations, and cultures.

Now, allow me to demonstrate why the question is so stupid by providing a line of actual good questioning that would have produced far more clarity, beginning with the woman’s vague and ambiguous question:

1) Are you for or against interracial marriage?

2) If against, do you believe interracial marriage is a sin?

3) If a sin, do you believe the act of entering an interracial marriage is a one-time sin, or does it place the individuals in a state of ongoing and continual sin?

4) If a sin, do you believe interracial marriage should be categorized as a crime?

5) If a crime, what penalty do you believe is justified for the civil magistrate to inflict upon the “criminal”?

In other words, there is a million miles of distance between being “against interracial marriage” and “capital punishment being the just penalty for those who enter into an interracial marriage”.

The majority of Christian Nationalists that I have partnered with would answer “yes” to the first question, but “no” to all the following questions (I, personally, fall into this category; believe it or not, @NickJFuentes also falls into this category, and has said so many times publicly).

Some of the Christian Nationalists that I have partnered with would answer “yes” to the first two questions, but “no” to all the following questions.

In regards to answering “yes” to the second question, these individuals would say that the act of entering into an interracial marriage is a one-time sin, but does not place the individuals into a state of ongoing and continual sin (I, personally, disagree with these individuals, but I am not ashamed to call them my brothers; I believe they are wrong in this specific position, but there is no legitimate witness from either Scripture or 2,000 years of church history that would condemn their position as a heresy, and therefore, the individuals who hold such a position should be accepted as brothers in Christ).

Thank you for attending my brief lecture in how to think reasonably as a Christian, and why women (even Christian women) are generally incapable of doing so.

This is why I make no apology in consistently saying that women should log off of social media and devote their attention to baking pies - apple, preferably.

God bless.

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

The "warmth of collectivism" is to freeze while those with heated dachas tell you how noble your sacrifice is.

[Ben Sasse @BenSasse]

Friends-

This is a tough note to write, but since a bunch of you have started to suspect something, I’ll cut to the chase: Last week I was diagnosed with metastasized, stage-four pancreatic cancer, and am gonna die.

Advanced pancreatic is nasty stuff; it’s a death sentence. But I already had a death sentence before last week too — we all do.

I’m blessed with amazing siblings and half-a-dozen buddies that are genuinely brothers. As one of them put it, “Sure, you’re on the clock, but we’re all on the clock.” Death is a wicked thief, and the bastard pursues us all.

Still, I’ve got less time than I’d prefer. This is hard for someone wired to work and build, but harder still as a husband and a dad. I can’t begin to describe how great my people are. During the past year, as we’d temporarily stepped back from public life and built new family rhythms, Melissa and I have grown even closer — and that on top of three decades of the best friend a man could ever have. Seven months ago, Corrie was commissioned into the Air Force and she’s off at instrument and multi-engine rounds of flight school. Last week, Alex kicked butt graduating from college a semester early even while teaching gen chem, organic, and physics (she’s a freak). This summer, 14-year-old Breck started learning to drive. (Okay, we’ve been driving off-book for six years — but now we’ve got paper to make it street-legal.) I couldn’t be more grateful to constantly get to bear-hug this motley crew of sinners and saints.

There’s not a good time to tell your peeps you’re now marching to the beat of a faster drummer — but the season of advent isn’t the worst. As a Christian, the weeks running up to Christmas are a time to orient our hearts toward the hope of what’s to come.

Not an abstract hope in fanciful human goodness; not hope in vague hallmark-sappy spirituality; not a bootstrapped hope in our own strength (what foolishness is the evaporating-muscle I once prided myself in). Nope — often we lazily say “hope” when what we mean is “optimism.” To be clear, optimism is great, and it’s absolutely necessary, but it’s insufficient. It’s not the kinda thing that holds up when you tell your daughters you’re not going to walk them down the aisle. Nor telling your mom and pops they’re gonna bury their son.

A well-lived life demands more reality — stiffer stuff. That’s why, during advent, even while still walking in darkness, we shout our hope — often properly with a gravelly voice soldiering through tears.

Such is the calling of the pilgrim. Those who know ourselves to need a Physician should dang well look forward to enduring beauty and eventual fulfillment. That is, we hope in a real Deliverer — a rescuing God, born at a real time, in a real place. But the eternal city — with foundations and without cancer — is not yet.

Remembering Isaiah’s prophecies of what’s to come doesn’t dull the pain of current sufferings. But it does put it in eternity’s perspective:
“When we've been there 10,000 years…We've no less days to sing God's praise.”

I’ll have more to say. I’m not going down without a fight. One sub-part of God’s grace is found in the jawdropping advances science has made the past few years in immunotherapy and more. Death and dying aren’t the same — the process of dying is still something to be lived. We’re zealously embracing a lot of gallows humor in our house, and I’ve pledged to do my part to run through the irreverent tape.

But for now, as our family faces the reality of treatments, but more importantly as we celebrate Christmas, we wish you peace: “The people walking in darkness have seen a great light; on those living in the land of deep darkness a light has dawned….For to us a son is given” (Isaiah 9).

With great gratitude, and with gravelly-but-hopeful voices,
Ben — and the Sasses

[André Béliveau @TheRealBeliveau]

This is a tired and lazy talking point. As I have previously said:

American conservatism has conserved our constitutional republic through times of war, recession, and cultural upheaval. It has catalogued a system of values to which conservatives can point as their inheritance, and yes, even yourself. It has promoted a system of free enterprise that made America the most prosperous and dynamic nation on earth. It is a movement for a political order rooted in natural rights and limited government; a movement that values continuity, tradition, and ordered liberty against the tides of both technocratic liberalism and reactionary populism.

It’s also championed tremendous policy victories at the federal and state-level.

Reaganomics reduced marginal tax rates, reined in inflation through monetary discipline, and unleashed historic economic growth. Welfare Reform in the 90s by conservatives like Newt Gingrich reduced the nanny state and even passed under a Democratic president. Deregulation across decades: from Reagan’s rollback of federal control in the 1980s created the intellectual architecture that enabled Trump’s ongoing aggressive regulatory rollbacks. Conservatives have consistently advanced conservative policies.

In the states: educational reform has seen victory after victory. Conservative-led states have advanced school choice, charter school expansion, and education savings accounts. Right-to-Work laws have been passed in over half the states. Today, Christian Americans have more freedom to educate their children according to their values than at any point in the last 75 years.

Tax reform has been passed in conservative-controlled states over and over again. These reforms have made conservative states into rising economic powerhouses to challenge shrinking economies of liberal states. And over half of U.S. States now have Constitutional Carry laws.

But perhaps the greatest victories of the American conservative movement come from the strong work and long-view of history of the conservative legal movement. Its institutionalization of originalism has fundamentally reshaped the judiciary in our favor.

Under originalism, conservatives have achieved landmark U.S. Supreme Court Decisions.

District of Columbia v. Heller - held that the Second Amendment provides an individual right to a firearm for self-defense.
Citizens United v. FEC - protected Americans’ right to band together and speak freely in politics, stopping Washington from silencing outsiders and grassroots movements.
Shelby County v. Holder – struck down the federal pre-clearance requirement of the VRA, restoring state sovereignty over elections.
Janus v. AFSCME - protected workers’ freedom by ending mandatory union dues that funded political causes they didn’t support
Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization – Overturned Roe v. Wade.
Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard – ended race-based affirmative action in college admissions.
Kennedy v. Bremerton School District - reaffirmed that Americans don’t lose their religious freedom just because they work for the government.
Mahmoud v. Taylor - affirmed that parents cannot be forced by public-school systems to have their children attend lessons that violate the family’s religious convictions
United States v. Skrmetti - upheld a state law banning gender-affirming medical treatments for minors, protecting children from irreversible decisions.

Just to name a few. Your freedoms today are larger than they would have been without the conservative movement.

This doesn’t mean conservatism has won every battle. Cultural, institutional, and political challenges remain, to be sure, but it’s precisely the conservative disposition to resist utopianism and embrace long-term, principled reform that has enabled its enduring relevance and successes.

[Melissa Tate @TheRightMelissa]

Nick Fuentes laughed at the White kids killed at the Christmas parade saying they were gonna grow up & have sex with black men anyway.

Only a monster would do such a thing. Not a Christian