EJ Preston

Constitutional Amendment XXVIII : Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind.

@PAHoyeck @worst_account wtf is going on lately? Is twitter getting dumber at a heightened rate?

@worst_account Suddenly, overnight, everyone decided they didn't understand what "social commentary" means.

Lol neither of those things are "social commentary."

@AuronMacintyre @Reece_Robert_76

@Reece_Robert_76 No, it is your country

There's a lot going on here and most of it's highly controversial and uncomfortable but without looking at the difficult stuff we can't see the whole board so strap in: America was founded predominantly by Anglo-Protestants, Catholics were here since the begging and they even got Maryland but that didn't go so well and it reverted to protestant control The American ruling class was dominated by high-church Anglos When the first big waves of Irish, German, and Italian immigration arrived they were Catholic, the ethnic and religious tensions began Much like Indian immigrants do today, Catholics took over urban hubs and used machine politics to turn government jobs into ethnic cartels, Catholic neighborhood form, Catholic schools segregate out the new minorities and allow them to retain their culture and faith We also start to see significant Eastern European immigration which is why America has more Jews here than Israel does in their specifically Jewish ethno-state This is how we got the Know Nothings (beware of foreign influence, Catholics will follow their king in Rome) Most people think of the KKK as an organization that tormented black Americans but it was mainly a protestant reaction to Catholic and Jewish immigration Catholic and Jewish diasporas were able to control local urban politics but found it difficult to break into the higher echelon because the ruling class remained White Anglo-Saxon Protestants (WASPs) and they were uninterested in handing power to the new comers This is why you heard so much about Catholics and Jews being excluded from country clubs, where WASPs did the real politics The mainline Protestant denominations held the ruling class but evangelical low-church Protestantism swept through the heartland The ruling class might have been Anglican/Episcopalian but evangelicals had the passion and the numbers Jews were already not huge fans of Catholics for reasons that should be obvious, and Evangelicals adopted this novel form of theology called dispensationalism that featured the Jews prominently as a chosen people to be protected and to whom a homeland was owed if Jesus was to return Evangelicals are also very politically convenient because while they have the numbers and accumulated wealth to be very politically useful, they have no interest in ruling Many Evangelicals even believe that holding power is against their religion and are very amenable to handing power to another ruling class So you start to see an Evangelical-Jewish axis form in American politics to unseat the WASPs and freeze out the Catholics Dispensationalism was key to securing support for the founding of Israel and Jewish allies here are very aware of how important it is to keep Evangelicals the dominate Christians force in America politics But as America continued to experience unprecedented levels of legal and illegal immigration it didn't just shift the ethnic make up, but the religious composition as well When foreigners are Christian (instead of say Muslim or Hindu) they are not Evangelical, they're Catholic or Orthodox (sorry Catholic bros but America isn't getting more Catholic, it's getting more foreign and less American) These immigrants don't have the American addiction to WW2 Holocaust history and their faith is at best neutral to Judaism, if not openly hostile They're not natural allies to Israel and American Jews are very aware of this So what you are watching under the surface of the current debate is an ethno-religious shake up of the American political landscape The remaining WASPs who resent losing power aligning to some extent with Catholics (who were already ascending, notice the Supreme Court and conservative intelligentsia are increasingly more Catholic and less Jewish) while Jewish Americans attempt to hold onto their hard won positions by utilizing their alliance with Evangelicals Paula White vs The Pope, it's just ethno-religious factionalism dressed up in ideology

@Instigatator @TheLaurenChen Indeed it’s actually the left that has either corrupted classics and humanities programs, or outright eliminated them

@TheLaurenChen I believe the right has always been devoted to the classics. If not there would be nothing to conserve.

This may be an unpopular take amongst the right But art and the humanities are important Beauty and entertainment are important Education should be about more than rote memorization

@PAHoyeck @AlexPowers3000

@AlexPowers3000 Top is infinitely better.

Fun fact, when you have a eye for fighting you cannot unsee that they go just for sabers in TPM an not for the bodies.

@PAHoyeck @VigilantesSaber

@VigilantesSaber And did a phenomenal job btw.

You may not remember this, but people complained that the PT fights were all flash and no substance; they went too fast and had no emotional core. Abrams was very intentional about listening to PT haters’ complaints (not necessarily a good thing) so he did the opposite.

The internet was a mistake.

@Andrewnsnyder LOL

@jonathanbfine 😂😂

i love it when twitter becomes a dick measuring contest for reading

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banger

@Godistheword1 @DrShayPhD This is why a 2000 year unbroken tradition is just so very very important

@DrShayPhD @ejpreston No dumb ass they all use the same word in the original greek but the translations change these words. Or did you forget the bible wasnt written in English? so plain reading doesnt cut it.

The Catholic Church teaches that Mary remained a virgin for the rest of her life, even after the birth of Jesus. However, when we turn to Scripture, we see that too is another falsehood coming from the Catholic Church. Both Matthew and Mark plainly say that Jesus had brothers and sisters. Matthew writes, “Is this not the carpenter’s son? Is not His mother called Mary? And His brothers James, Joses, Simon, and Judas? And His sisters, are they not all with us?” [Matthew 13:55–56]. Mark says the same: “Is this not the carpenter, the Son of Mary, and brother of James, Joses, Judas, and Simon? And are not His sisters here with us?” [Mark 6:3]. Some try to explain this away by saying these were cousins, not actual brothers and sisters. But that explanation raises its own problem. The New Testament had words available for “cousin” and “relative.” For example, “cousin” appears in [Colossians 4:10], and “relative” appears in [Luke 1:36]. Yet Matthew and Mark did not use those words. They used the ordinary words for brothers and sisters. The Gospels mention Jesus’ siblings more than once. Matthew refers to them again in [Matthew 12:46–50]. Luke mentions His brothers in [Acts 1:14]. Jesus Himself even made a distinction between His earthly family and His spiritual family in [Mark 3:32–35] and [Luke 8:19–21]. Paul also refers to “the Lord’s brother” in [Galatians 1:19]. Taken together, the natural reading is that Mary had other children after Jesus. The idea of Mary’s perpetual virginity also runs into trouble in Matthew 1:24–25, which says Joseph “did not know her till she had brought forth her firstborn Son” [Matthew 1:25]. In Scripture, “knew” is a common way of speaking about marital relations [Genesis 4:1]. And the word “till” naturally suggests that this abstinence lasted up to the birth of Jesus, not necessarily forever after. On top of that, Jesus is called her “firstborn,” which also fits naturally with the idea that other children followed. While Catholic tradition teaches perpetual virginity, the plain reading of Scripture points in another direction. The Bible presents Mary as a virgin when Jesus was conceived, exactly as prophecy required, but it does not teach that she remained a virgin for life.

@DrShayPhD @smurphyftw The 1st century context is very clear - if Mary had other sons, the eldest was duty bound to assume her care. Why didn't that take place? James was right there, leading the church of Jerusalem...

@ejpreston @smurphyftw No, a first century reading still has to respect the text. You are still trying to get perpetual virginity out of a passage that does not teach it.

Art that speaks to the ages.

@DrShayPhD @smurphyftw Nah. Rather than reading in a modern context, we read in a 1st century framework - that’s when the words were written

@ejpreston @smurphyftw False. It proves Jesus chose the faithful disciple at that moment, not that Mary had no other children. You are trying to turn a care decision into a doctrine. That does not work.

@smurphyftw @DrShayPhD The mental gymnastics are wildddddd

@ejpreston @DrShayPhD The scholars that originally claimed that were Roman Catholic. And His brothers weren't believers. Pretty simple. Why do soldiers ask fellow soldiers to look after their wife and kids before their bio brothers?

This guy is taking his own pictures in Constantinople now

@smurphyftw @DrShayPhD Classical Greek is highly context dependent : the word is also used for "kinsman" or even of the same nationality. Pop Quiz! Why did Jesus leave the care of his mother to a disciple? If she had other sons any one of them would take up the duty of her care and protection, no?

@ejpreston @DrShayPhD Adelphos literally translates to "of the same womb"

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