Joe Castleberry
215 posts
Joe Castleberry
@drcastleberry
Ministro cristiano, Doctor en educación y desarrollo internacional, presidente emérito de Northwest University
Katılım Aralık 2025
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and then punctuating his disingenuous critique with his refrain, “Words matter!” In fact, he was actually saying, “The rhetorical manipulation of words can have whatever effect you want to make,” but he can’t go on then to pretend he is not a sophist. 2/2
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At the UVA Law graduation today, David Baldacci beclowned himself today by bashing a “trillionaire,” misquoting him to make him say something he didn’t say (in fact @elonmusk said the opposite and made a good point about a certain kind of twisted “suicidal empathy”), 1/2
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@ryanburge @ScottMGreer They are still “baptists,” but not “Baptists.” They aren’t sprinkling infants.
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In 1972, the denominational composition of evangelicals was:
63% Baptists
4% Non-Denominationals
33% Everyone Else
In 2024:
38% Baptists
30% Non-Denominationals
32% Everyone Else
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@Hania16836 Absolutely OK. I wouldn’t want to live in a neighborhood where children can’t be children.
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@Dario_Madrid_F Mexico owes everything to Spain, and Spain owes Mexico for chocolate. So let’s call it even and all be friends.
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Además de la lengua y la religión, ¿Qué debe México a España. México heredó de España una enorme cantidad de elementos que hoy forman parte de su identidad histórica, jurídica, cultural y social. Entre ellos:
- El propio nombre de “México” escrito con alfabeto latino y conservado durante siglos en documentos españoles.
- La fundación de ciudades, universidades y hospitales que aún existen, como la Real y Pontificia Universidad de México, antecedente de la actual UNAM.
- El sistema jurídico basado en el derecho castellano y romano.
- La organización municipal mediante ayuntamientos y cabildos.
- La arquitectura virreinal: catedrales, plazas mayores, caminos, acueductos y fortalezas.
- La imprenta, introducida en América en 1539 en Ciudad de México, una de las primeras del continente.
- Buena parte de la gastronomía mestiza actual: trigo, arroz, ganado vacuno, caballos, aceite de oliva, queso, etc.
- El calendario occidental y las instituciones administrativas modernas.
- El mestizaje cultural y biológico que dio origen a gran parte de la población mexicana actual.
- Tradiciones populares, fiestas y manifestaciones artísticas nacidas de la mezcla hispano-indígena.
- La conservación escrita de muchas lenguas indígenas gracias a gramáticas y diccionarios elaborados por religiosos y cronistas españoles.
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@MarioNawfal I’m against congressional stock trading, but $174,000 a year doesn’t go very far in Washington DC, and Congress members. Have to keep a residence in there. State or District also. Raise the salary to $250K, and cut out the stock trading.
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🇺🇸 Speaker Johnson just defended congressional stock trading because lawmakers' salaries have been frozen since 2009.
"At least let them engage in some stock trading so that they can continue to take care of their family."
$174,000 a year.
That's the poverty line Johnson is asking you to feel sorry about.
Mario Nawfal@MarioNawfal
🇺🇸 Trump wants Congress to pass the Stop Insider Trading Act to crack down on lawmakers using insider info to trade stocks. The pitch is simple: if you write the laws, you shouldn’t be playing the market with nonpublic information. Sounds obvious, which probably means the debate is about to get complicated. Source: @WhiteHouse
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@mitchellvii @omarbula The Electoral College failures of MoGovern & Mondale outstrip Kamala’s by a large margin. FDR beat Landon 523-8, Monroe beat JQ Adams 231-1. But hooray to the hyperbole. I agree she’s the worst campaigner we’ve seen in living memory.
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There are no coincidences.
When America was funding USAID and Ukraine, the Democrat party was flush with cash. Far left media prospered and paid their anchors millions.
Kamala Harris, easily the worst presidential candidate in history, somehow raised $2 billion from a mostly broke base for her campaign.
Trump cuts off Ukraine and USAID and suddenly the DNC is broke and leftwing media is laying off staff!
It's not hard to figure out who was paying the bills folks.
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Central Park is great, but it takes up a lot of space and isn’t utilized to its full potential.
That’s why I worked with McKinsey on a plan to make it a state of the art data center, complemented by rooftop parking and nuclear power.
We can still build beautiful things.
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@MarkDeReborn11 No se olvide de la Malinche, sin la cual Cortés habría fracasdo.
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Hernán Cortés es por mucho el hombre más GRANDE que ha tenido la historia (después de Jesucristo). A los homosexuales les gusta Alejandro Magno, a los franceses Napoleón Bonaparte, pero a los historiadores les vuelve loco el GRAN conquistador Español. Y es que Hernán Cortés llegó más allá que cualquier otro conquistador. Los ojos de Alejandro Magno y Napoleón Bonaparte vieron lo que cientos de millones de personas ya conocían de memoria; su hazaña fue la de destruir y masacrar no la de descubrir y construir. Hernán Cortés puso el pie donde ningún otro cristiano había llegado, enfrentando peligros DESCONOCIDOS. Era literalmente UN NUEVO MUNDO. Se dice fácil, pero se necesita de mucho valor, coraje, inteligencia y seguridad para hacer lo que hizo. Sobretodo en un mundo donde la muerte era el culto oficial, donde las deidades que se labraban en piedra eran de monstruos, y dónde la dieta local era de carne humana. Gracias a Hernán Cortés no solo tenemos a México, sino que tenemos a toda hispanoamerica. No podemos mostrar ingratitud con el PADRE del continente AMERICANO.
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Ayuso se ha referido al altar más importante del imperio azteca, el gran Tzompantli, donde se apilan 35 cráneos humanos dados en ofrenda a los dioses. “¿Qué hay bajo tierra? Pregúntenle cuál es el pasado de México antes de que nos uniéramos en mestizaje. Pregúntele a Sheinbaum qué hay debajo. Porque a lo mejor habrá que empezar a pedir disculpas por tanta mentira y por tanto agravio” elpais.com/espana/madrid/…
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Trying to prove a point.
Have you ever worked 55+ hours a week?
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¡Gracias a Colón por colonizarnos! Y gracias a Vespucci por hacernos americanos y a Cortés por su cortesía en liberarnos del cruel imperio Azteca. Aun un gringo como yo debo parte de mi identidad a esos héroes de la conquista europea del hemisferio. Estoy agradecido.
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With due respect to the presidenta of Mexico, she really should apologize to Spain and Mexico for suggesting the would have been better without Columbus & Cortes & America. We wouldn’t be us without them. And we rock!
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@capTercio Imagínese las Américas sin vacas, caballos, ovejas, y cerdos que no son nativos de acá. Puede concebir la Irlanda sin papas o Italia sin tomates, que los españoles trajeron de América? Y el café con helado habría sido imposible tanto en América como en Europa. ¡Gracias, Colón!
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Está todo el rogerio patrio exaltado porque Ayuso ha dicho que México no existía hasta que llegaron los españoles.
Pues Ayuso tiene razón.
Tras la llegada de los españoles con Hernán Cortés se crea Nueva España (dicen que España no existía...) y tras la independencia nace México.
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@AttorneyF_ You are a brilliant person, Sir. As a retired university president, I value your thoughts.
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@drcastleberry Thank you for your kind words Joe, it’s Okom 😊🙏🏾❤️
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“The universe did not give God something to love. God’s love is what gave the universe something to be.” I just love the thinking and writing of this brilliant African theologian and apologist, Faithfulness Okum. @AttorneyF_
Faithfulness Okom@AttorneyF_
I have been slowly unraveling and marveling at the trinity alongside a brother in Christ. Today he shared this verse and it hit me differently. “By the word of the LORD the heavens were made, their starry host by the breath of his mouth.” Psalm 33:6 David, in a single verse of doxology, quietly crystallizes the Trinity. The heavens made by the Logos. The starry host animated by the Ruach. The Father as the initiating source of both. This means something staggering about who God was before the universe existed. God was not waiting, God was not empty and God was certainly not bored. No one who possesses such a Word and such a Spirit is any of those things. The capacity for creation was not something God acquired. It was internal to him. Which means the relationships between Father, Word, and Spirit were not created for the universe, but the universe was created out of them. Theologians say God is self-sufficient and I think this verse shows you what that actually looks like. It looks like a Father whose Word executes his intentions with perfect fidelity and whose Spirit gives life to everything that Word calls into form. Those are not transactions, those are the movements of love. A universe without the Word is chaos. A universe without the Spirit is a corpse. What God made is neither. And the reason is not that God found good materials. It is that God brought good relationships. The universe did not give God something to love. God’s love is what gave the universe something to be.
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@MarioNawfal They know everything that is on the internet about you. Privacy, even in your own home, is a thing of the past.
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🇺🇸 A man told Alexa he was tired, after it asked about his day.
Alexa's response: "That is understandable, especially with you being in nursing school."
He never mentioned he was in nursing school…
Alexa first denied having the record.
Then, it admitted using "background information" to "personalize responses," and refused to say where it came from.
Is the whole point of these devices just to collect data on us?
Source: @Rightanglenews
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