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@TheDonStein Who's the quote?

Empire has a habit of twisting Christianity. It’s almost as if “the state and the religious conscience are not good bedfellows. The bed is too narrow and the blanket too short.”

Since it’s his birthday, I’ll repost this incredible take from Marx’s mom

@Jeremybtc @tedfrank So, he really did hoax Hollywood?

A man invented a $2.5 MILLION crime spree, sold it to Hollywood and charged $30,000 per speech to explain how he did it. It was all lies. > Frank Abagnale claimed he spent 5 years as a teenage fugitive. > Impersonating a Pan Am pilot, a Harvard trained doctor and a Louisiana attorney general while forging $2.5 MILLION in bad checks across 26 countries. > Steven Spielberg turned it into a 2002 blockbuster starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hanks. > It became one of the highest grossing films of that year. > Broadway turned it into a musical. > The FBI hired him as a consultant. > AARP named him their official Fraud Watch Ambassador. > He charged between $20,000 and $30,000 per speaking engagement for decades telling audiences how he pulled it all off. > For 40 years nobody seriously questioned any of it. > Then in 2020 a journalist named Alan Logan spent three years pulling every public record prison document newspaper archive and court file he could find. > Pan Am's own security department told a journalist as early as 1978 "This never happened. You don't forget $2.5 MILLION in bad checks." > Prison records showed Abagnale was behind bars for most of the years he claimed to be a fugitive. > The Georgia hospital had no record of him. > The Louisiana attorney general's office had no record of him. > His only confirmed crime was check fraud totalling less than $1,500. > Logan's conclusion the entire story was not embellished but fabricated. > Abagnale had not committed the con by impersonating pilots and doctors. > He committed it by convincing Hollywood, the FBI and the entire world that he had. The most valuable skill Frank Abagnale ever had was the ability to make people so entertained by a story that they forgot to verify it. That skill made him MILLIONS legally.

@pastor_packer @bschultzy What is that conference? Who is sponsor? I’m not familiar with it.

@bschultzy Ugh.

Dear President Trump, Thomas Sowell is an American treasure. Please consider honoring him with the Presidential Medal of Freedom. I can’t think of a greater representative of American values.

@HansFiene I was with you until this linen nonsense. Linen should never be worn when Wrangler bootcuts will do—and Wrangler bootcuts will do just about everywhere except in Church and the courtroom. And “dapper” means that your Tony Lamas are clean and polished!

Gentlemen, buy yourself a few pairs of quality linen pants. Be dapper, you slobs.

Grown men should largely avoid wearing shorts and should never wear flip flops

@TheDonStein Why do I get the queasy feeling I’m listening to a voice from a tree pointing me to an apple, “Try it, try it.”

@graff_ww Try it, try it, Sam-I-Am!

I accidentally put Sriracha sauce on my brat. Y’all, Wisconsin-Thai fusion is the next thing.

@TheDonStein @shebringsjoy I’ll lay you 6 to 1 it does not stop but gets worse.

This is an epidemic. It’s got to stop.

In New Mexico we’re “training” our trees! Lysenkoism is not dead! (Perhaps they didn’t mean to saying "training”? Perhaps what they are about is good ol’ simple "natural selection”? One can hope.) krqe.com/news/new-mexic…

Can we all agree that in a world of influencers, Z-listers, TikToks, badly acted ads, brand collabs, people filming themselves crying…the Artemis livestream of 4 middle-aged scientists doing their jobs is genuinely the best most authentic content of the century? Thanks @NASA🌚

Alleluia Christ is risen! Go to church. Hear the good news, for you. Receive God's good gifts, given for you. For Christ is risen indeed, and we know God is faithful and His promises are true!

@jack_kilcrease Whoa! What’s this? Is this a better translation? Morphology is certainly straighter to the original than the word structure. But can we get rid of the devastatingly bad “Lutheranism” as a translation?

Very exciting stuff. A fresh translation of volume 1 of "The Structure of Lutheranism" by Werner Elert. Also, for the first time, a translation of volume 2. lulu.com/shop/werner-el…

@nmlinguaphile @HustleBitch_ Jesus used the word tithe only for teachers of the law (eg, Matt 23:23), never for the X'n. For the X'n, Jesus is himself the sacrifice and tithe. The X'n, along w/ the Macedonian X'ns, counts it an honor to give freely and joyfully (eg 2 Cor 8), never by compulsion.

@HustleBitch_ I thought only Mormons did this.

🚨 WOMAN LEAVES CHURCH AFTER THEY ASKED FOR HER W2 TO VERIFY TITHING — AND PEOPLE SAY THIS CROSSES A LINE She says it started like any normal first visit. They welcomed her, gave her a small gift, made it feel warm and inviting. Then they told first-time visitors to meet in the back if they wanted to join. That’s when everything changed. She claims they asked for her W2 to verify she was giving the full 10%. Not a suggestion. Not an honor system. Verification. She says growing up, churches talked about tithing, but no one was checking your income or tracking what you gave. Now she’s hearing stories of pastors following up with people directly…asking why they haven’t been giving. And at the same time? Mega church leaders living in multi-million dollar homes, driving luxury cars, flying private. Her reaction: “I think you’re good… I don’t think you need my W2.” People in the comments are saying this isn’t uncommon. Is this faith, or is this something else entirely?

@RedProdigal @Jr_deedat Well, I mean, he did say “scholars agree”! You aren’t going to disagree with “scholars,” are you?

@Jr_deedat Why does this guy even pretend to be a pastor? I have to wonder if he just outright worships Satan when he gets home at night, or if he's just so full of himself that he is blind to everything else. Either way, rough ending for him on the day of the resurrection.

Did any of the Bible's authors meet Jesus in person?

@TheAnchoress @zenahitz @katienotopoulos Seriously? I don’t use ebooks. But are they really doing that?

@katienotopoulos Hard copies. I've stopped loading ebooks since finding them "edited" after the fact. Hard copies forever!

This is A NIGHTMARE. Amazon is bricking old Kindles, including my beloved Kindle 5 (with the side buttons). I hate the touch screen versions, I've tried them and I'm always accidentally flipping pages.

@walterkirn Pair that with Kristofferson's "The Burden of Freedom."

Me and Bobby McGee is the one thinking of.

Once you are roundly hated even by your former friends and declared unredeemable by both them and your enemies, you are finally free. (There's a song by Kris Kristofferson about it.) I mean once you're the Antichrist, what's your downside risk?

@EricLDaugh @chien_kwok Wow—beautifully said! The Communist Left must hate Glover for opposing identity politics and DEI.