@ramzpaul Vance would have you arrested and jailed for hate crimes if he knew you existed.
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If you are a Democrat, you should pray Trump doesn't die. If Vance became President, the war would end, the price of oil would plummet and the economy would boom. The Dems would lose the midterms.
Stop The Bollocks with Mirabel@MirabelTweets1
My prediction: They’re going to concoct a lie that Trump is suddenly at death’s door 1. To gain sympathy 2. As an excuse for JD Vance to off ramp the Iran war fiasco
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Another one of the very rare privately owned copies of my latest book. Fewer than three hundred private individuals currently own a copy of it. Join the club before it is no longer a very elite and exclusive one.
C. Louis Leipoldt@C_Leipoldt
@JOttoPohl1 Guess I'm part of a small club, too. (Yes, I still need to read it)
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@bibeIradikaI That's like being the smartest man in Cleveland.
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Orthos and Papists like to make fun of Redeemed Zoomer and sometimes they Even have a point. But as far as E-Apologists go he is still the intellectual superior to 99 % of their guys.
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A lot of RW commentators now seem to have an even worse case of TDS than they ever accused the left of having. They're getting irrationally angry about things like the ballroom and the airport instead of anything substantive. It's almost "mean tweets" level of pathetic.
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@politicalmath "Here's Johnny" is from the Carson era of the Tonight Show.
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My teens wanted to watch a horror movie so we watched The Shining, which sent me down a rabbit trail
Critics *hated* The Shining when it was released. Siskel gave it 2 stars. Variety said Kubrick "destroyed all that was so terrifying about the King novel". One critic called it "Shallow, self-conscious, and dull. Read the book".
Kubrick was nominated for "Worst Director" at the first Razzie awards
I find all of this insane. In imdb, The Shining is rated as one of the top 100 movies of all time. It is seared into our collective memory with "all work and no play" and "Here's Johnny" and "red rum".
Somehow Kubrick made a horror movie that every "smart" person hated when it came out and yet endured as one of the great movies of all time. How do you do that?
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Holy obedience is the way to salvation. This is classical, confessional Reformed theology.
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@theoldworldshow What happens to those of us who aren't aristocrats?
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Randolph was one of the few great American rightist thinkers. Russell Kirk, describing Randolph’s views and worldview, notes:
Men are not born free and equal, said Randolph. Their physical, moral, and intellectual differences are manifest, to say nothing of their difference of birth and wealth. To presume that a mystic "equality" entitles the mass of mankind to tinker at pleasure with society, to play with it as a toy, to exercise their petty ingenuity upon it, is to reduce mankind to the only state of life in which anything resembling equality of condition actually prevails: savagery. Jeffersonian levelling doctrines, if taken literally, mean anarchy, "the chrysalis state of despotism."
William Estes@WilliamE1863
“I am an aristocrat. I love liberty, I hate equality.” -John Randolph of Roanoke
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The most complex/important historical question is why White men invented everything. I offer a new explanation in Greatness and Ruin (2025).
Toilets: 1596
Shower: 1810s
Syllogistic logic: 300s BC
Printing press: 1440
Electricity: 1750s
Calculus: 1680s
Optical Lenses: 1200s
Genetics: 1860s
Telegraph: 1830s
Perspective Painting: 1410s
Semiconductor Electronics: 1947
Archeology: 1800s
Monogamy: ancient Greece and Rome
Television: 1920s
Clarinet: 1700
Guitar: 1800s
Geometry: 300 BC
Philosophy: ancient Greece
Crossword puzzles: 1913
Rock Climbing: 1880s
Triathlon: 1970s
Photography: 1830s
Museums: 1759
Tennis: 1870s
Fencing: 1800s
Hockey: 1800s
Trains: 1880s
Skiing: 1800s
Non-Euclidean geometry: 1830s
Skateboarding: 1950s
Hiking/backpacking: 1800s
Computer: 1940s
Spectrometer: 1860s
Electromagnet: 1820s
High rises: 1880s
Classical Music: 1750s
A posteriori and a priori reasoning: 1780s
Decimal fractions: 1585
Airplane: 1903
Nuclear Energy: 1942
Steam Engine: 1780s
Historical Writing: ancient Greece
Telephone: 1876
Symbolic Logic: 1600s/1854
Harpsichord: 1500s
Piano: 1700
Power Loom: 1785
Gaslighting: 1807
Arc Lamp: 1809
Tin Can: 1810
Saxophone: 1840s
Violin: 1500s
Geography: 1700s
Highways: 1900s
Rugby: 1823
Golf: 1500s
Trains: 1804
Badminton: 1870s
Table Tennis: 1880s
Logarithms: 1614
Matrix algebra: 1850s
Bobsleigh: 1870s
Curling: 1500s
Thermometer: 1714
Romantic Love: 1100s
Clean water: 1900s
Hydrometer: 1600s
Radar: 1930s
Political Theory: 1600s
Microscope: 1590s
Accelerometer: 1920s
Telescope: 1608
Radio: 1890s
Mackintosh Raincoat: 1823
Matches: 1820s
Horse Riding
Fountain Pen: 1880s
Typewriter: 1868
Rocketry: 1920s
Bookkeeping: 1494
Geology: 1780s
Chariots: 2000 BCE
Electroscope: 1740s
Mechanized Clock: 1300s
Oil Drilling: 1859
Refrigeration: 1850s
Botany: 1735
Pasteurization: 1860s
X-Rays: 1895
Germ Theory: 1860s
Roller Skates: 1860s
Submarines: 1900s
Sewing machine: 1840s
Bicycle: 1860s
Blood Transfusion: 1901
Universities: 1088
Automobile: 1880s
Zoology: 1735
Paleontology: 1800s
Seismograph: 1880s
Cardiograph: 1903
Internet: 1969
Grammatical Writing: ancient Greece/modern Europe
Taxonomy: 1735
Anesthesia: 1840s
Turbine Engine: 1880s
Washing machine: 1900s
Novels: 1600s
Children's Literature: 1700s
Toaster: 1910s
Microwave: 1940s
Flying shuttle: 1733
Spinning Jenny: 1764
Coffee maker: 1800s
Plant Breeding: 1860s
Concrete: ancient Rome
Air-Conditioning: 1902
Vacuum cleaner: 1901
Dishwasher: 1880s
Assembly Line: 1913
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@DadaAlpaca There is no ethical justification for bribing women not to kill their own children.
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Can I vent about the term "Crisis Pregnancy Center"? I hate it. I've worked for these orgs and helped to raise hundreds of thousands for non-profits related to providing health, childcare, and adoption services for women during unplanned pregnancies.
Everything they do is good. I'm not critical of the services or the intent behind them. I just think it points to a cultural framing that should be discussed.
The whole marketing approach (from someone who did this professionally) is to put on kid gloves and make women feel as comfortable and cared for as possible in order to convince them to not obtain an abortion.
Like this is noble, but is that really the social arrangement here? Be as gentle as possible and provide everything a woman needs because she was being careless with her body and virtue otherwise she will MURDER HER OWN BABY?! Make it make sense to me.
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This troglodyte doxed me because I wouldn't "disavow" his critics hard enough.
This says it all about the absolute scum bottom feeders you have to deal with in politics.
Douglass Mackey@douglassmackey
From the vault.
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@LostMyHats You're a premillenial Southern Baptist. Hypocrite.
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Not much in Dispensational Evangelicalism is more outrageously misguided than celebrating the Passover Seder. God's destruction of the Temple was his benevolent loving kindness to the Jewish people, to destroy their capacity to observe the Old Covenant religion that had been superseded and replaced by the New Covenant in Christ's blood. It was God's way of getting the most stubborn people on the planet to take a hint and move along.
But alas, that would require embracing the Messiah they rejected, because they wanted a Zionist Messiah, who would restore the earthly kingdom they wanted. They wanted a warlord, not a Savior. And so, in the centuries after the temple's destruction, they manufactured an all new religion, perverting the rites of the old and inventing creative solutions to the rites of Moses being impossible without the Temple. And from these man-made inventions, we get the 15-part Seder which is nothing like the Passover that God required under the Old Law.
At the very heart of the Seder is its central doctrine; the rejection of Jesus as the Messiah and Son of God. Its entire existence is owed to that rejection of Christ. And its individual parts serve the purpose of blaspheming the One God sent to redeem them. The Seder is a bastardized, illegitimate imitation of the Passover. The so-called "Christian Seder" is an imitation OF an imitation. That's the stupid part.
There is already a means for Christians to remember the Passover, and it's by celebrating the Messiah who is our Passover Lamb, the One whose blood was shed for us, so that if it covers us, death will pass-over us, that one day we will make it to the heavenly Zion, our Promised Land, the abode of God.
Neo-Judaizers and Dispensational Zionists believe there's some special magic in these Jewish rites, but it's little more than devil worship with a yarmulke, striking at the heart of the Christian faith. And this though - that by imitating or even worshipping alongside Jews there's some special juju is actually quite old. One of the Church Fathers, Chrysostom, had to deal with the influence of the Judaizers in Antioch.
He said, "Did the Jews ever observe our pre-Paschal fast (IE Lent)? Did they ever join us in keeping the feast of the martyrs? They do not run to the truth, but you rush to transgression..."If any of you shall go to the spectacle of the Trumpets, or rush off to the synagogue, or take part in fasting, or share in the Sabbath, or observe any other Jewish ritual great or small, I call heaven and earth as my witnesses that I am guiltless of the blood of all of you."
Chrysostom went on, "To go to the synagogue is a greater crime than going to the theater. What goes on in the theater is, to be sure, sinful; what goes on in the synagogue is godlessness..When God forsakes a people, what hope of salvation is left? When God forsakes a place, that place becomes the dwelling of demons...Certainly, it is the time for me to show that demons dwell in the synagogue, not only in the place itself but also in the souls of the Jews."
Writing from the perspective of Christ, he wrote to the Christians interloping with Jews on their feast days, "You made common cause with those who crucified me. You were obstinate toward me and started up again the festivals to which I had put an end..If, then, the Jews fail to know the Father, if they crucified the Son, if they thrust off the help of the Spirit, who should not make bold to declare plainly that the synagogue is a dwelling of demons?"
Christian Zionism presents a return of the ancient heresy of the Judaizers, which is much wider than simply demanding circumcision or dietary restrictions. Sometimes, Judaizing doesn't require that at all. The heart of the Judaizing heresy is the belief that Jews retain a special status with God even in their unbelief, and that they have obtained Covenant blessings and promises without faith in Jesus. That's the heart of the heresy. And it's that very notion that leads evangelicals in the year 2026 to embrace feasts that exist to reject Christ as Lord.
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@PresbyInn @ryanburge The PC(USA) says out loud what PCA leadership says in private. Is there a dime's worth of difference?
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A clear-headed analysis of the problems in the mainline is necessary for any kind of action moving forward. Again, as @ryanburge has shown, the PCA is going to face a massive die off in the next few decades and is going to need both people and resources.
I don't think Reformed Presbyterianism survives this century unless NAPARC merges its member churches institutionally and there's some kind of integration of PCUSA churches that have been fighting (unsuccessfully) to maintain some semblance of orthodoxy in the denomination. NAPARC has the members and the mission. PCUSA has the money and, to a degree, institutional leverage.
Disclaimer: I'm not suggesting NAPARC abandon doctrinal orthodoxy one bit to integrate PCUSA. I'm saying I think there needs to be a serious discussion about whether whole denominations can survive the passing of the boomer generation that have basically 0 substantial disagreements between themselves, URC, and OPC.
Daniel J. San Roman@dan_djsr
@PresbyInn Dawg, why are you out here on a Friday morning trying to make us sad about the history?
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@bibeIradikaI Most Catholic conversions are over marriage and not belief.
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They‘ve been telling us this for years now, always based on anecdotal evidence or statistically irrelevant sample sizes. The end of year numbers never confirm it.
Michelle Boorstein@mboorstein
The @nytimes called two dozen U.S. Catholic dioceses and found the numbers of folks converting this Easter are up in all of them nytimes.com/2026/03/26/us/…
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@ObservingPCA Burns may have been only a junior high youth leader, not an actual pastor.
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A former youth pastor from PCA Perimeter Church is currently wanted by the FBI. If you have any information about this lost sheep’s whereabouts, contact law enforcement immediately.
christianpost.com/news/former-me…
FBI San Antonio@FBISanAntonio
Christopher W. Burns is wanted by the #FBI for his involvement in a mail fraud scheme in Georgia in which he allegedly defrauded a number of victims out of hundreds of thousands of dollars. He has not been seen since leaving his home on Sept 24, 2020: fbi.gov/wanted/wcc/chr…
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ABC News@ABC
The U.S. Army is expanding its recruiting pool by raising the maximum enlistment age from 35 to 42, according to new service regulations reviewed by ABC News. The Pentagon has estimated that only about 23% of young Americans (between the ages of 17 and 24 years old) are eligible to serve. Much of this is due to academic performance on the military’s SAT-style entrance test, obesity and criminal records. abcnews.visitlink.me/-OeXj3
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The answer is simple: they disestablished the religion from the state! Of course we can ask why they did, and whether they could have handled things differently to maintain establishment longer, but if their religiosity was tied to the state, and then no longer, it would decline.
Particularly Modern@Modern1689
And now it’s among the most godless places in America. Why? The same happened in Geneva. The same happened in The Netherlands. The same happened in Germany. The same happened in England. The same happened in Scotland. The same happened in France. What do all these places have in common? They are arguably representative of all of the greatest examples of Reformed piety to the point they seem like distant dreams of a bygone era we romanticize, that can’t be compared to the backdrop of our present societies. How could this be the result? They had varying degrees of state-established religion to the point of cultural saturation and civil reinforcement. Isn’t this the answer to all of the problems within our reach? How could they have fallen to utter ruin? Is this not the path to the golden age? These lands were richly furnished with Reformed truth and often upheld by established religion; yet when that faith became cultural rather than spiritual, nominalism took root—men bearing the name of Christ without the life of Christ. Thus the churches, filled with the unregenerate, gradually lost their power, and what was once living truth became an empty shell. For neither sound doctrine nor civil establishment can preserve a people in godliness, but only the continual new birth and renewing grace of the Spirit from one generation to another. It can’t be assumed rather than defended. It can’t be inherited rather than personally wrought and stewarded. “Unless the Lord builds the house, those who build it labor in vain.” Psalm 127:1
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@GH0STD09 @TrevorSheatz For having consensual intimacy with a stone cold freak?
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Virginity should not be the #1 factor Christians look for when considering who to marry. Godliness and being attracted to them is.
Virginity matters, and it's a blessing from God. It's not wrong to desire someone who is a virgin. And past sexual sin regularly carries present-day consequences.
But I fear we've placed virginity on such a high pedestal that it's become an idol for many.
The Bible doesn't say that someone "is free to be married to anyone [they want] — only if they're a virgin." It says that someone "is free to be married to anyone [they want] — only in the Lord (aka, only if they're a Christian)" (1 Cor. 7:39).
In other words, what matters above all else is that your spouse is a believer, virgin or not.
Again, while desiring to marry a virgin isn't a bad thing, it becomes a bad thing if it causes you to miss out on marrying the person who truly matters: the man or woman who's born-again, passionate about Jesus, excellent in the God-given characteristics of a godly wife or husband, and physically attractive to you.
And a mature Christian should desire those things in a potential spouse above all else, regardless of the past sins the person may have gone through (though they should certainly weigh out that aspect as well in this decision, since it does matter).
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@MSugma71483 @DeanAbbott Sex ed, really? The 1970s called and want their leftist talking points back.
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@DeanAbbott What astounds me is that many evangelicals oppose sexual education and consider it inappropriate to discuss sex in such public settings, yet don’t seem to apply that same reasoning when it comes to discussing sexual history before a large audience. Amazing.
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Most people think evangelicalism is conservative but, in fact, large swathes of it are radically anti-traditionalist and, in their way, liberal.
Many evangelicals see traditional social virtues like modesty, propriety and prudence as hindrances to the practice and proclamation of the gospel and therefore congratulate themselves on violating these norms if, in their minds, doing so "brings glory to God".
That's exactly what's happening here. A man and his wife throw sensitive personal information into the social media gutter without thinking for a moment about dignity or social appropriateness and then, when people object, claim that people who value the social virtues they've discarded care less about God.
Trevor Sheatz@TrevorSheatz
My wife was formerly promiscuous. I was a virgin. She was then radically born-again. Committed to church, evangelized constantly, Puritan books in her bedroom, prayer journals, grief over past sexual sin, etc. We got to know each other well for over a year, dated for four months, engaged for two and a half, and didn't sin sexually with one another. Our first kiss with each other was at the altar on our wedding day (reaction pic attached!). We've been married for over five years now, and she's been the most wonderful and godly wife, mother to our three children, and homemaker you could imagine. She's more pure than most virgins, as biblical purity has less to with past sins (though they certainly matter) and more to do with one's current posture of the heart and daily decisions to honor the Lord (Matt. 5:8). We're far too quick to forget the story of the woman labeled as a known "sinner" (likely a prostitute) in Luke 7:36-50 who was washing Jesus' feet with her tears while kissing them too. The Pharisees were shocked that Jesus let a public sinner do this. Jesus responded with a parable about debts being forgiven and ended with this powerful conclusion: "Her many sins have been forgiven; that’s why she loved much. But the one who is forgiven little, loves little" (Luke 7:47). Everyone seems to highlight the benefits of virginity, and it certainly is a blessing. But we forget to highlight the benefits of being forgiven much as well. My wife knows the depths of Jesus' forgiveness more than most people, enabling her to more easily live out a life of passionate love for her Savior. A woman or man's past sexual sin matters. But what matters far more when it comes to deciding who to marry is if the person is truly born again, if their repentance is real, if they truly have a heart for Christ, if they truly follow Jesus and obey his commands. "God has chosen what is foolish in the world to shame the wise, and God has chosen what is weak in the world to shame the strong. God has chosen what is insignificant and despised in the world — what is viewed as nothing — to bring to nothing what is viewed as something, so that no one may boast in his presence. It is from him that you are in Christ Jesus, who became wisdom from God for us — our righteousness, sanctification, and redemption, — in order that, as it is written: 'Let the one who boasts, boast in the Lord.'" (1 Cor. 1:27-31) "Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has passed away, and see, the new has come!" (2 Cor. 5:17)
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@ObviousRises If you were a top spy, would you reveal secrets to Laura Loomer?
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BREAKING: Laura Loomer admits that the CIA/Mossad and Israel are planning a major planning terror attack on US soil that will be "10 times worse than 9/11" using Muslim agents.
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@michaeljknowles If humiliating yourself counts as good marketing, OK.
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