Richard McArthur
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Richard McArthur
@rmca22
Follower of Jesus, father of four, former vet, former pastor and lover of Scotland.
Marvelous Motherwell, Lanarksh انضم Temmuz 2014
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@Distilled193934 @20committee @roddreher Again that may be true, but given that the US has provided our defence in Europe for decades, even while we weren't paying our fair share, I would say we owed them a favour. Instead we spat in their face. Not sensible and personally I wouldn't blame them for pulling out of NATO
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@rmca22 @20committee @roddreher Access, basing and overflight are not guaranteed for all operations by virtue of NATO membership.
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It's easier to blame others -- NATO, panicans, "Unpatriotic Conservatives," etc -- than admit that they have done something geostrategically insane that the world and most Americans hate and will punish them for mightily. I'm waiting for the 2nd iteration of "freedom fries."
Blake Herzinger@BDHerzinger
It’s deeply puzzling how hard some are finding it to grasp that launching an enormously damaging war of choice after a year of personal attacks and deeply unpopular policies isn’t exactly an incentive for America’s European allies to send their kids to war.
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Agreed. People can ignore reality, but reality will not ignore them. Our useless governing and media class won't like living under Sharia law but by then it will be too late, just like it was for the leftists in Iran who helped the Ayotollahs come to power.
David Betz@DavidBe31099196
What’s crazy is that if you don’t ignore this stuff you’re an awful person and not, simply, completely sensible. So much of contemporary discourse is deliberate demoralisation and gaslighting.
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This is what happens when a society abandons a biblical understanding of sin, personal responsibility, and punishment.
Laila Cunningham@policylaila
As a Senior Crown Prosecutor in London I dealt with the thefts, the intimidation and assaults. And I was shocked at how willing institutions had become to excuse it. I would get increasingly frustrated at a system that is overwhelmingly focused on the offender not the victims, Does the defendant have a drug problem, alcohol addiction, difficult background? All of which may be relevant but none of which erase the harm done. And they get slap on the wrist. Released the next day. Back on the same high street within hours. This has to change 👇 express.co.uk/news/politics/…
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And so, to the foot of the Cross. Persecuted by the elite, condemned by the mob, murdered by an empire. The first person Jesus explicitly saves? A criminal.
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If the gospel is really good news for all people, then that includes our Muslim neighbors, too.
This is a really helpful article if you want to grow in that: ekklesiamission.org/post/how-to-sh… @N_Rostampour
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What the cross is all about. One of the most beautiful statements I’ve ever read.
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The problem - as many are now realizing - is that not only is secular neutrality a myth, but that secularism is a totalizing creed. It is an ideology that cannot coexist with non-secularism. More here: the-seismos.com
Canada’s Offensive Secularism firstthings.com/canadas-offens…
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The Defender of the Faiths strikes again...
GB Politics@GBPolitcs
🚨BREAKING: Buckingham Palace has confirmed King Charles will not issue an Easter message this year
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Please read this
It's an highly educated comparison between Christian and Koranic texts
Adrian Hilton@Adrian_Hilton
State of this. There is (literally) not a Christian or theologian or Church historian on the planet who would seek to represent Christianity with any of those Old Testament verses, while there are (literally) millions of (mainly Sunni-Salafi/Wahhabi) Muslims including Islamic jurists who believe in a literal interpretation of the Qur'an and hadith, and that the example set by Mohammed is the archetype to be emulated, with all his warmongering and advocacy of violence. Christianity is a new dispensation with a New Testament. The point @JohnCleese is making is that for millions of Muslims, Islam is unadaptable, unreformable and immutable. Christianity has been through centuries of textual scholarship, biblical criticism, form criticism, Christology, and reformation. To criticise him for demonising a religion he knows very little about, when it is obvious that Rory's grasp of the Christian religion is less than very little, is embarrassing from someone who purports to impart political wisdom, cultural insight, and intellectual enlightenment.
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“Black Lives Matter!”
screams the Left
Except when it’s black Christians in Nigeria being massacred by Islamic terrorists.
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When I first heard about the baby parts scandal I thought it was *clearly* outrageous conservative propaganda. Then I saw how Planned Parenthood behaved in the gender years and I thought "hang on. Was that story *true*?"
James O'Keefe@JamesOKeefeIII
It took 11 years defending himself over one story. This is what they do to people who hold them accountable. Nobody is held accountable because the people who have the power to do so are afraid of the retaliation. But David is different. His love of truth was greater than his regard for himself.
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We need more Christians like this, people whose 'love of truth is greater than their love of self'.
James O'Keefe@JamesOKeefeIII
It took 11 years defending himself over one story. This is what they do to people who hold them accountable. Nobody is held accountable because the people who have the power to do so are afraid of the retaliation. But David is different. His love of truth was greater than his regard for himself.
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Yet more evidence of how much our governing class hate Christianity, and how myopically blind they are to the realities of Islam.
James Orr@jtworr
Hard to deny in light of recent events that one religion is influencing a major British political party to an alarming degree. Remarkably, The Economist and The Financial Times are trying to convince their readers that the religion is Christianity and the party is Reform.
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@newstart_2024 @MelanieLatest This is the fruit of postmodernism which is the default position of our universities and our elites.
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Truth is now considered a right-wing conspiracy.
That’s the chilling line from Melanie Phillips that stopped me in my tracks.
She explains how we’ve reached a point where simply stating observable reality — whether it’s basic biology defining a woman or pushing back against blanket accusations that all white people are inherently bad — gets you branded as evil. Not wrong. Evil. Therefore you must be silenced, cancelled, or erased. No debate. No evidence allowed.
She calls it cultural totalitarianism: a Manichean worldview where one ideology claims a monopoly on goodness, progress, and reason itself. Dissent isn’t argued with — it’s treated as a moral threat that has to be removed.
The deepest irony? In an era that smugly ditched religion in the name of superior rationality, we’ve ended up rejecting reason, evidence, and open inquiry altogether. We’re so “rational” we’ve dispensed with the very tools of rationality.
It doesn’t add up.
Her take has me wondering how we got here — and how quickly disagreement turned into moral excommunication.
Anyone else seeing this pattern play out in conversations lately? Where have you felt truth itself become off-limits?
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'Across the West, a political revolution has put the church at odds with the state.'
Lots more on this here: the-seismos.com
Louise Perry@Louise_m_perry
'A lot of church leaders don’t want to talk about this. I don’t recall ever hearing the words “assisted suicide” in my liberal Anglican church, let alone the words “abortion,” “homosexuality” or “divorce.” The process of dechristianization has been so quick and so complete that many Christian leaders avoid even pointing out these repeated and ongoing defeats, lest potential converts realize that a political revolution has put the church at odds with the state. Any priest who desires a quiet life is well advised not to draw attention to this fact. Yet the political revolution rolls on and on, with no sign of stopping.' For @WSJFreeEx I wrote about the death of Noelia Castillo Ramos, and why legislation is a better indication of dechristianisation than the data on church attendance. To put it bluntly, Christendom is no longer Christian. wsj.com/opinion/free-e…
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In Syria, the regime of Ahmed al-Sharaa (aka Abu Muhammad al-Julani) is currently sacking Christian towns, destroying churches, and slaughtering Christians. He is a Sunni Islamist butcher. I don't know how the Prime Minister could bring himself to shake his blood-soaked hand.
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