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@RickApplet0n The actions of the Pittsburgh Presbytery are more damning the deeper one investigates

@contramordor Our reformed congregations are often led by liberal clergy who (perhaps unconsciously) have been waiting to enact the COVID era attack on their conservative peers and congregants. They were in a bubble in the early '20s. Glaser is but one example.

This week there was great controversy over pushback that a Reformed pastor received for sending his daughter into the Marines. He was rightly chastised for sending a woman into a vocation of soldiering—a task that Biblically, historically, and culturally has been for men. I was a bit shocked, though I shouldn’t be I suppose, that this was actually a thing in “conservative” circles. Growing up, it was a basic fact that the differences between men and women precluded women engagement in something like the military. That’s a standard conservative Christian, and deeply Western and American teaching. But as a reminder of how far we’ve fallen, I was reminded of an essay I wrote in high school about how women’s soccer in Europe was outlawed. Women were not allowed to play many team sports. Why? Sports themselves were rooted in the training that men needed for constant preparation for war. Sports were physical, brash, competitive, muscular, heroic, brutal… masculine. They entailed blood, bruises, broken body parts, cuts, scrapes, injuries, ligament swelling, and on and on. Sports were “mannish” activities, unbecoming of the female sex. Soccer was physical, full of contact and aggression, rough, physically competitive. These are features of masculinity. The “female grace” (as the laws put it) would be undermined by the participation in “mannish” behavior. The female archetype would be mocked and distorted, and the difference between the sexes would be subverted. To be properly feminine was the social ideal of the woman in the civil order; and sports were a revolt against this ideal: the indecency of the dress needed, and the bodily movements required, would serve to undermine the purpose of the feminine in society. To expect of the woman to behave like a man was to ask of her to participate in a certain level of barbarity, which would compromise the integrity of both the woman behaving as such and the men who would watch her. In the Germany 1955 ban, this was the language used: “in the fight for the ball, female grace disappears… and the public parading of the body is offensive and indecent.” There were also concerns about how women would get distracted from their social function as being wives and mothers and reproducing their race (a crucial concern after WW1 and WWII). I could go on. It’s an interesting topic. But the point is this: the opponents of women in the military are entirely correct and have history and heritage on their side. Those seeking to blur the lines on the sexes are the Jacobins, the innovators, the hyper-moderns. The “complementarians” are egalitarians driving the speed limit.

@autocorrect2_0 Ma'am - talking on X is men's work

Glad you asked. My husband is an Army ranger and has been for 14 years He’s doing what yall should be doing. He said to tell you talking is women’s work

@RickApplet0n @veilofvagary Count me and my family amongst them

@veilofvagary Many have testified to being edified, encouraged in their faith.

@Reformed_Rican @JoelWebbon @Eric_Conn @Brian_Sauve Great take. NOT!

Correct. @JoelWebbon, @Eric_Conn, @Brian_Sauve, etc. consistently show that they bear fruit of the spirit. The spirit of Satan.

@_BenLee Because you depose the good ones for being faithful to Scripture and the traditional beliefs of the reformers

Why are so many churches (PCA and otherwise) struggling to find pastors?

@WVPitt @realmattcarr ::shakes off dust::

@mcnope45141 @realmattcarr Say hi to Vishnu for me.

Brothers and sisters, I'm not going to link to it and I don't ask you to look for it as he doesn't deserve your attention, but the attacks on my daughter have now escalated to a Christian Nationalist posting pictures of my family he got off our church website, and is predictably leading conversation to where unbelief and wickedness takes you. I'd ask you to pray for him, for those who are joining in, and especially for the louder voices in the Christian Nationalism conversation that not only encourage this world they created, but who are too afraid of the movement they created to say anything. Not all Christian Nationalists are of Christian Nationalism. But those who are in and around it need to be asking some serious questions about their involvement, their own role in its vulgarness, whether they are going to continue to allow it to be a toxic hive of rebrobate conversation and life. ​"Deliver those who are drawn toward death, and hold back those stumbling to the slaughter. If you say, 'Surely we did not know this,' Does not He who weighs the hearts consider it? He who keeps your soul, does He not know it And will He not render to each man according to his deeds?" Proverbs 24:11-12

@WVPitt @realmattcarr Your daughter is far farther from you than I am, and God will judge you more harshly for your pastoral position and unwillingness to repent. I pray that you will find humility, and will cease attacking the few real men we have leading Christ's church.

@WVPitt @realmattcarr And yet you turned out so differently...

@TexasNacho Dickens wrote about this in Bleak House (Mrs. Jellyby), but it has since become completely out of hand. How many soccer clinics should we fund in Euro countries while ignoring our communities?

This can also be an allegory about our own country. People are so passionate about spreading the gospel in a foreign land, while their home country becomes more apostate than the foreign country they leave to.

@bsharbaugh @RickApplet0n @realmattcarr @NicholasHCotto @shadowpatriot23 Justly

@RickApplet0n @realmattcarr @NicholasHCotto @shadowpatriot23 How did Jehu treat Jezebel, Rick?

KDY: “Do you unequivocally denounce antisemitism, racism, Nazism?” Rick Appleton (deposed PCA pastor): “No.”

@WVPitt @realmattcarr You're likely right! As I recall, your conduct is above reproach. ::shakes off dust::

@WVPitt @realmattcarr -Guy pretending to be a faithful reformed pastor

@TexasNacho Taco Nacho Enthusiast has been on fire today

@WVPitt I have formed my opinion of the ARP by the behavior of you and @realmattcarr. Apparently you are the theater kids of NAPARC.

@HacimRamalla1 @jonharris1989 @RickApplet0n Is there a less controversial post-revolutionary American figure than Stonewall?

@mcnope45141 @jonharris1989 @RickApplet0n Anon with Stonewall Jackson as his profile pic? LOL

Was Rick Appleton deposed for imprudence? For teaching biblical patriarchy? I examine the publicly available evidence, explain why many conservatives are concerned, and discuss what this case could mean for the PCA going forward.

@OttoRosfeld @RickApplet0n God is sexist

@RickApplet0n Sexism.