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🚨 BREAKING: The Pentagon is preparing for weeks of ground operations in Iran -WaPo

Is this what they call "toxic" masculinity?

Nobody knows how it will end but this is all embarrasing cope. The mullahs have played their two cards: shooting at everybody in the vicinity and closing the strait. This ammo is spent now. They can't threaten it, they've already done it. And they haven't detached the gulf states from the US, they've pushed them closer. At this point their only hope is that the US gets bored or distracted or that oil prices get catastrophically bad: but even that doesn't buy them a win, just breathing room. How do you imagine this works if the US halts a bombing campaign? Do you think we apologize and hand them the keys to our F-35s? Do you imagine the sword isn't STILL hanging over their head? Best case scenario for the Iranians is that the US unilaterally declares a cease fire. And the Iranians don't even get to hit us back if we stop bombing them because they know very well that a terror event against Americans just means we gain the political space to hit them much, much harder.

Mass deportations are not optional.

As someone who does pre-marriage counseling, I would be more inclined to tell a young man it is OK to marry a redeemed woman with a sexual past than to tell a young lady it's OK to marry a man with an anonymous X account who calls sisters in Christ whores.

This kind of stuff would actually have some cache if we lived in a healthy civilization where antisocial behaviors, especially promiscuity were heavily stigmatized, rather than something idealized and celebrated by a significant percentage of the population. If you lived in a world where a girl who whored herself out to dozens of random men was treated with the same degree of scorn society at large today only reserves for things like racism (and apparently those who shame promiscuous women), then you could say "Jesus has redeemed me from this great shame. I am free." But when there is no shame whatsoever, and stigma is actually only directed at those who disapprove of women being an unwalled garden, then there really isn't any liberation from shame since there wasn't much to begin with, and instead you have established a career path for online prostitutes to retire into once their looks and attendant earnings begin to diminish. In this particular case (and there are countless others) the reformed prostitute transitions from gaining attention from sex to gaining attention from her redemption from selling sex. She still operates within the attention economy under a different function. That is a major part of the reaction here. It is a more acute corollary to the declining celebrity who has a radical conversion to Christianity. His star has diminished, but now he has a new market that will cherish him as the broader public once did. Instead of making money in a Hollywood that has rejected him, he can now make movies for Angel Studios. Wise pastoral counsel in both cases would be to advise getting out of the public eye for the sake of their faith. Their ability to garner attention is their "great riches." If they are unwilling to set aside those great riches, they, like the rich, young ruler, will go away sorrowful. Addressing these concerns and weighing them in our particular societal disfunction is not "denying the power of God in the gospel." Certainly not more than claiming the prodigal son, in the moment he decides to return home, is not an ideal candidate for your daughter to marry.