Purple Christian

🚨Do you understand the irony of what just happened.. the FBI spent two years investigating Hillary Clinton for using a personal email for government work.. it dominated every news cycle.. it decided an election.. "lock her up.." the man they put in charge of the FBI.. just got his personal email hacked by Iran.. the DOJ confirmed it.. Iran-linked group "Handala" breached FBI Director Kash Patel's personal email and got his data.. think about the timing.. America has fired 850 Tomahawk missiles at Iran this month.. spent billions.. and Iran didn't fire back with a missile.. they walked through the front door of the FBI.. and here's what nobody wants to say out loud.. the FBI Director was using a personal email in the first place.. the same thing the FBI called a national security threat when Hillary did it.. the agency that decides what's a crime.. doesn't follow its own rules.. The rules only apply until you're the one making them.

@EWErickson @LowerLeavell @WilliamWolfe This is exactly how Rush Limbaugh and Newt Gingrich operated, and you lot made them superstars. Our current fascism is because of exactly this—the cowardice of conservatives, your inability to shout down the worst of the deplorables…from the Dixiecrats to the Tea Party to MAGA.

Y'all, one final word on @WilliamWolfe before I go back to ignoring him. In the past 24 hours, I have been overwhelmed with emails, private messages, text messages, etc. from people who have gone to church with him, worked with him, or otherwise been the subject of his vitriol. The number of people who have reached out blows my mind. Pastors who are good, Godly men have sent notes of appreciation with stories of William's vitriol directed at them or their friends. His former co-workers and even those he went to church with have stories. What an appalling and abusive person, and he is clearly a very troubled soul. Often, in political movements, the people with serious issues are used by others to attack others. Those above the abusive person and around them egg them on because they'd never get their hands dirty, but have found a useful fool who has no self-awareness to know how dirty he gets himself. So many of the pastors keep telling me they are fearful of engaging because their Twitter timelines fill up with awful invective from people if they respond. I have seen the examples of them being called demons and snakes. First, I wouldn't be surprised if it is him. Second, even if it is not him, they are a small and loud minority. Set your Twitter notifications to only show you tweets from people who actually follow you, or only from those you follow. Ignore the sound and fury of the tiny group of angry people. Also, know you are not alone and know that he has no power over you. He has alienated himself and his Center for Baptist Leadership by his abusive behavior. The darkness will not overcome the light. Lastly, William clearly is a troubled soul and he needs a lot of prayer. I'm going to back to ignoring him now. The rest of you just know I thank you for your kinds notes and you are not alone.

@dandarling @WNGdotorg If you were a Christian in Germany in 1937, you would be hoping/praying/arguing/etc. for an end to fascism. In 1939, you would be hoping for a quick/decisive loss in the war in order for the current regime to be humbled and lose the next election, no matter whom you’re fighting.

My latest for @WNGdotorg: Can We Stop Rooting Against America? Commentators on both left and right are allowing policy disagreements to move them into a position where they are actually rooting against their own country. Christians should resist this: wng.org/opinions/can-w…

If you get a dollar bill with Trump’s name on it, black it out with a Sharpie. He prefers his name heavily redacted.

At this point, it should be clear: Trump should have just stayed in the Iran deal that Obama negotiated. This was the biggest foreign policy blunder of his two terms of office.

Crazy how the people for years that shit on kids for getting participation trophies, creating a "soft" generation that gets their feelings coddled now worship a kid fucker who receives participation trophies to coddle his feelings. 😆🤣 Maga, you fucking suck bro.

@SenJohnBarrasso Is this a parody account?

President Trump is doing absolutely the right thing to get TSA agents paid. Senate Democrats are completely unable to come to an agreement to help the American people. President Trump is showing leadership at a time the Democrats are continuing to fight against the hardworking, freedom loving people of our country. Democrats are continuing to stand on the side of illegal immigrant criminals as opposed to American citizens.

@PeterArmstong @Vicar1973 I believe it’s a realistic assessment of what we can know about this guy (the pastor, not Mr. Armstrong) that he is playing both sides of the line—talking tough/worldly for his manosphere audience to get their hoo-rah on, and talking at the soul level for plausible deniability.

@PeterArmstong @Vicar1973 OK, then, let’s discuss this without Mr. Armstrong then. I made one assertion of fact and one conclusion about the pastor’s mindset/intent. I believe it’s fact that the pastor isn’t speaking in a way consistent with how Christians talk about the souls of strangers. Honestly.🤷☮️

This is either incredibly dishonest or wildly ignorant. Obviously, non-Christians are not going to know all the biblical jargon Christians use. But journalists (or should I say “journalists”?) who report on Christians have at least some obligation to understand what Christians are actually saying. It’s really not hard to grasp what Pastor Potteiger is talking about here. The suggestion that he is advocating violence is insane. He’s actually hoping Talarico would be converted to genuine faith in Christ. He wants to see Talarico saved. Every Christian has been crucified with Christ (Galatians 2:20). Every Christian is called to die to himself, to take up his cross, to deny himself, to put his flesh (fallenness) to death. One of Satan’s tactics is false accusation. Early Christians were accused of cannibalism and atheism. Some things never change. Satanic slander of good men is one of them.

Toxic Christianity is witnessing horrible people do horrible things but supporting them anyway just because they occasionally shout out Jesus in between atrocities.

But certainly we can all agree that it’s a war that lacks any strategic clarity or understanding on the part of the President making the strategic decisions. In that context, I don’t see how any rational person could say, “Yes, let’s continue to escalate with him in that chair continuing to make life/death decisions with these stakes in the balance.” That’s where I’m at. It makes sense to neutralize Iran, but it’s totally unreasonable to entrust Trump to make those decisions and certainly unreasonable to do so without Congressional oversight and approval.

@PeterArmstong @Vicar1973 I admit, I’ve just looked at the accounts you retweet, and I’m not inclined to trust your judgement, let alone your from-the-hip assessment of what’s good/right/true, so let’s discuss it on the merits: Help me understand the accusation. What truth(s) am I hiding, and from whom?

@deeppurplexian @Vicar1973 You aren't being honest.

The alliance which beat communist tyranny is collapsing because of one man’s petulance. Unreal Future historians will be flabbergasted that Americans gave away two generations of alliance goodwill and friendship for MAGA’s weird cult leader. What an absurd trade…

@PownalForever @DC_DeWitt

@DC_DeWitt Anyone with any intelligence knows there is widespread voter fraud in America. 2020 was stolen in many ways, not just non citizens voting.

Anyone with any intelligence knows there is no widespread noncitizen voter fraud in America, and the entire charade is to protect Trump's fragile ego because he lost in 2020, he's too weak to admit it, and he's been lying about it since. Pretending otherwise is pathetic.

@EWErickson You know that is not what those guys meant. They were twisting cruciform language into violence toward another believer and you are helping them. Gross.

@GoreloRuth98405 @TomHoefling @LaurieBrow97443 Turns out maybe the thoughtful, principled conservatives were just a teeny minority in the party of racists and misogynists and xenophobes and warmongers and country-club tax-loopholers and know-nothing fundamentalists. Exactly like the earnest, shouty progressives kept saying.

@TomHoefling @LaurieBrow97443 No Conservative would start a trade war. No Conservative would support Putin over Democratic Ukraine. No Conservative would cheer the wall between Church and State being torn down

The most disastrous thing about Trump is his ability to convince millions of professing Christians/conservatives/republicans to totally abandon truth, and principle, and decency, all for empty promises. They traded away everything for an empty bag.

@TomHoefling @LaurieBrow97443 When do you think Trump voters will realize he only used them to escape legal accountability for J6th and The Documents? He doesn't need them anymore. He is busy enriching his family and friends