Comparing things against a standard is definitionally not moral relativism 😅😅
Zach W. Lambert@ZachWLambert
This is the moral relativism our childhood evangelical churches warned us about.
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Zero Flight
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You'll never believe what this is responding to
Iran Embassy in Thailand ☫@IranInThailand
@7dub7 Is this in Thailand? We only go to mosques
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Dear Poland, please return yourself to the Soviet Union, American conservatives are having a brainwave about ethnonationslism
Neil Shenvi@NeilShenvi
The Dissident Right's flirtation with ethnonationalism is just as destructive to the American church as Critical Race Theory.
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Buzz Aldrin taking communion on the Moon wasn’t revealed until 1970. NASA kept it quiet during Apollo 11 because they were still dealing with a lawsuit over the Apollo 8 Bible reading. They didn’t want another religion vs government fight overshadowing the mission. Aldrin finally told the story a year later in Guideposts magazine.
Dee 🌹@DeeWaynee94
Apollo 8 reading Genesis and Aldrin taking communion happened, sure, but those are examples of Christian astronauts, not “distinctly Christian” space travel. The first human in space was Yuri Gagarin, and the first woman in space was Valentina Tereshkova. Personal faith in orbit doesn’t baptise rocketry.
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@Forms_Respecter That he thinks "birds of a feather flock together" as a problem to be solved instead of a natural phenomenon to be accounted for is textbook progressivism.
I think he thinks he is excepted from this charge because the context is "the church" and not "the state."
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The "conservative" critique of CRT and the far left is that they've strayed too far from the utopian leftism conservatives hold.
Basically, the far left realized how disconnected from reality liberalism is, so they developed praxis that takes into account reality, in spite of the fact that their theory is still antireality.
The left recognized that people organize by group identity—especially ethnic/racial—and utilizes that fact politically. Conservatives, holding to liberalism, reject that on purely ideological grounds because it contradicts their pressuposition of tabula rasa indivualist egalitarianism.
So you are coming at this as someone on the left. You just do it from a leftist position that's even more disconnected from reality.
Hunter Baker@hunterbaker
Let me add that I don't come to this as someone on the left. I deplore critical theory and the project of labeling everything as "white supremacy." I hate that stuff. It is divisive and acidic. But I detect something growing that wants to emphasize a kind of "birds of the feather flock together" racial thing that I believe is unhealthy and antithetical to the Christian church as we should understand it.
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New theory. Stephen Miller converted to Christianity and doesn’t consider himself Jewish
Stephen Miller@StephenM
Wishing all Americans a blessed and wonderful Easter.
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"But we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and absolutely bonkers to Gentiles."
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Peter Mitchell@_bezpilotnik
Why is my timeline full of absolutely bonkers and frequently AI-generated influencer-type content about how crucifixion is really painful and unpleasant, and that's why Jesus was truly the hardest saviour? Even the very normal historian off the famous history podcast is doing it!
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Plutarch (46-125 AD), a priest of Apollo, wrote about the oracles falling silent across the Greek world.
He also recounts that, during the reign of Tiberius (14-37 AD), a sailor heard a voice on the seas proclaiming: “the great god Pan is dead.”
What could it all mean?
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No one cares, he is risen
Paulogia@paulogia0
If the Romans disposed of Jesus' body, the location was unknown. If his family buried him, it would not be in Jerusalem. If the Sanhedrin, he would be unmarked in a criminal's graveyard. Joseph of Arimathea was a literary device created to fill an awkward plot hole. #goodfriday
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@Wave_E_Gravy @hunterbaker You are inserting yourself into an intra-conservative debate on the nature of immigration and the Great Replacement.
You aren't conservative, so your line of argument supports my view that Baker has imbided liberal assumptions. He would balk at what you've made explicit.
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@_wereback @hunterbaker If I am wrong by all means show me how. Are you disputing the fact that racial theory was commonly accepted in the time of the founders? Or are you just using politics as an excuse to escape from a losing argument?
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This post got a lot of views, but what depresses me is the stupid, monkey-reasoning by which a crowd desperately tries to "ratio" me. I can imagine them shrieking and whooping. Read your Plato and Tocqueville. The ratio has little to do with wisdom.
Hunter Baker@hunterbaker
I don't understand why any Christian cares about preserving a majority for a particular race. That's not a category for us. If it is, then something else is under the hood of the vehicle, but not Christianity.
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@_wereback @hunterbaker I never said "gutter racists." Don't get histrionic. They believed in race as a scientific, biological reality. That is definitionally racism. It's not an insult, I am just stating the basic fact that they were racist.
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@anthonyjkreider @Wave_E_Gravy @hunterbaker It does, actually. Hamilton was not a gutter racist for wanting to preserve the character of the nation and he worried that an influx of non-Anglo foreigners would do just that. Or in Baker's framing, Hamilton, did worry about his people becoming a minority.
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@Wave_E_Gravy @hunterbaker So, you just moved the goal post. But thank you for confirming my suspicion that this side of debate is just re-packaged leftism.
No, the drafters of our Founding Documents were not gutter racists, actually.
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@_wereback @hunterbaker I don't really find these quotes impressive considering the time period. Racism was an extremely common misconception in the days of the founders, we have learned a lot since then. I also don't believe disease is caused by a lack of balance in the humors, even if they did.
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This neat trick is how all the leftist studies of mass shootings get to say, "the right wing is more violent."
Harrison H. Smith ✞@HarrisonHSmith
@MelonieMac Muslims are rightwing though.
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@Wave_E_Gravy @hunterbaker "The number of purely white people in the world is proportionably very small...I with their numbers were increased...But perhaps I am partial to the complexion of my Country, for such kind of partiality is natural to mankind. "
Ben Franklin
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@_wereback @hunterbaker The founders eh? Well, let's see what old Franklin has to say on the subject.
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@Wave_E_Gravy @hunterbaker "Providence has been pleased to give this one connected country to one united people, a people descended from the same ancestors, speaking the same language, professing the same religion, attached to the same principles of government...
John Jay Federalist #2
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