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@PaleoStephen @RBPundit You're spending your Friday morning counting how many times other people have posted.
Just an observation.
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@RBPundit You’ve made 10+ posts in the last hour on a Friday morning. Perhaps I’m not the one lacking a social life.
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Honest question:
When was the last time you actually interacted with another human being in person?
InOtherWords@PaleoStephen
@RBPundit Modern liberal conservatives are so clueless as to what actual conservatism is. It’s quite amazing.
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@Heminator "all I can breathe is your life" is a great first date line. 100% guarantee it works, and your next date will be a first date again.
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“When everything’s made to be broken/I just want you to know who I am” is one of the worst lyrics in pop history.
Sopan Deb@SopanDeb
Wrote about one of the great pieces of art of the last 500 years. nytimes.com/2026/03/18/art…
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@redsteeze Do I need to rough this guy up @damintoell ? 😂😂
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The last time I saw Charlie Kirk on this Earth was in June, in the West Wing... He looked me in the eye and he said … Miller, stop that mayonnaise slurping bald lib on Twitter from posting anymore pics.
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@adnan_islamian @Osint613 @grok, limiting to just the last few months, how many of their own people have Iranian leadership had killed?
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@Osint613 In my opinion, Iran may be the only country in the world where, in the fight for the survival of the nation, the top leadership has sacrificed their lives before asking anything from its people
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U.S. President Donald Trump:
"Israel, out of anger for what has taken place in the Middle East, has violently lashed out at a major facility known as South Pars Gas Field in Iran. A relatively small section of the whole has been hit. The United States knew nothing about this particular attack, and the country of Qatar was in no way, shape, or form, involved with it, nor did it have any idea that it was going to happen. Unfortunately, Iran did not know this, or any of the pertinent facts pertaining to the South Pars attack, and unjustifiably and unfairly attacked a portion of Qatar’s LNG Gas facility. NO MORE ATTACKS WILL BE MADE BY ISRAEL pertaining to this extremely important and valuable South Pars Field unless Iran unwisely decides to attack a very innocent, in this case, Qatar - In which instance the United States of America, with or without the help or consent of Israel, will massively blow up the entirety of the South Pars Gas Field at an amount of strength and power that Iran has never seen or witnessed before. I do not want to authorize this level of violence and destruction because of the long term implications that it will have on the future of Iran, but if Qatar’s LNG is again attacked, I will not hesitate to do so."
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Haha, the poster deleted. Basically, they said they wanted fourteen straight female Doctors to make up for the fourteen previous male ones.
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David, there are many of us who completely agree with your criticisms of Trump, but your inability to see through the sheep's clothing on wolves like Talarico demonstrates an alarming lack of discretion.
Advocating for the death of millions in the womb and sacrificing children to the predations of gender ideology is not, and never will be, "kind". Packaging it in a smile and a mutilated Scripture reference only makes it more damnable, not less.
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"American hatred is growing so great that partisans, perversely enough, often view kindness and tolerance from political opponents as a threat. The only good people are people who agree with them. The supposedly decent person on the other side? We have a name for him or her, a wolf in sheep’s clothing." nytimes.com/2026/03/15/opi…
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For nearly twenty–seven years I have labored in the field of Christian apologetics, and much of that work has required looking carefully into the history of the church to recognize the recurring patterns of error that threaten the Gospel.
The church has always faced challenges, from ancient heresies to modern revisions of the faith, and the task of the apologist is to measure every teaching against the unchanging truth of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
In the last decade especially, I have watched with sorrow as the Gospel has been drawn into ideological battles that distort its message.
On one side, some have attempted to reinterpret Christianity through the lens of postmodern frameworks; on the other, there are voices tempted to respond with a spirit of grievance and political triumphalism that likewise eclipses the grace of God.
In both cases, the danger is the same: the Gospel is no longer treated as the good news of redemption for sinners but as a tool in service of political revolution.
The church must resist that temptation with clarity and humility. Our calling is not to baptize ideologies, whether from the left or the right, but to proclaim Christ faithfully and guard the truth entrusted to us.
The church has always needed reform - not to align itself with the spirit of the age, but to return again and again to the authority of Scripture and the saving work of Christ.
When the church remains centered on that Gospel, it becomes a force for reconciliation and truth in the world rather than a vehicle for division or ideological conflict.
So I have to ask my fellow pastors and teachers a very serious question: how has it been so easy for some of you to be willingly bewitched?
How have voices within the church become so susceptible to ideologies that distort the Gospel and undermine the very biblical truth we are called to proclaim?
The church’s mandate has never been to chase cultural influence, applause, or relevance. Our calling is to faithfully preach the Word of God and uphold the Gospel of Jesus Christ, regardless of the latest revolutionary movement that is presented in a flavor of our liking.
When ministers begin shaping their message in the form of outside influencers who are seeking revolution - they place themselves in a dangerous position.
Scripture warns us about the temptation to trade eternal truth for temporary reward. The task of the shepherd is not to build a platform or pursue recognition, but to guard the flock and proclaim the whole counsel of God with courage and fidelity.
So the question every pastor must ask himself is this: are we serving Christ faithfully, or are we allowing the next pre-packaged revolutionary zeitgeist to shape our priorities?
The church does not need more voices seeking to be victorious on the other side of a color revolution; it needs men who will stand firmly on Scripture, proclaim the Gospel without compromise, and remain steadfast in their allegiance to the Lord who called them to ministry.
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@DalmatianFren @CarlZha You're beyond help if you think this is true.
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@TCNetwork I don't know who needs to hear this, but anyone telling you that the Ayatollah is just your run-of-the-mill "religious leader" is either very stupid themselves, or else they think that you are.
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Killing the Ayatollah unified the people of Iran against America and Israel. How is that good for the US?
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It’s amazing that Trump has a tweet from 2012 with only 59 likes saying we should put aircraft carriers in the straight of Hormuz and then he actually became president and did it, only for everyone to say it was because he is blackmailed by Israel
Donald J. Trump@realDonaldTrump
Iran has warned the US not to send an aircraft carrier back into the Strait of Hormuz. We should send three as a (cont) tl.gd/f51pbp
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What is the "smoke", though? Being anti-war MAGA in 2025? Getting annoyed with some pushy donors?
I mean, it's obviously true that *sometimes* dots are connected, but especially with extremely active and public figures like Kirk, there are thousands and thousands of dots that tempt people to read meaning into them. It's textbook post hoc ergo propter hoc.
Meanwhile you have the radicalized furry with the trans boyfriend who presents means, motivation, and a confession, and people seem more willing to entertain that aliens did it than the obvious explanation.
(I know that was ranty, but it's not directed at you. Just annoyed at how careless the larger discourse has become...)
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@pragmatometer @BretWeinstein I (still) don't buy any of conspiracy theories around Kirk but the smoke is starting to get a bit thick, no?
Often times where there is smoke there is no fire, as I still believe, but where there is fire there is always smoke.
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On June 18th, I had a text exchange with Charlie Kirk. He said he was spending two full days at the White House trying to persuade President Trump not to initiate a war with Iran.
Given that Charlie was close with the President and that he represented a large constituency essential to Trump, and given that many proponents of the war with Iran saw a U.S. attack as urgently necessary to the survival of Israel, it is reasonable to wonder if his refusal to back down from his steadfast opposition somehow resulted in his murder.
A good investigation could have settled the matter. What we got only increases the reason for concern.
Asking this question may be unforgivable, but it is in no way unreasonable. Charlie was in a strong position to keep us from doing what we have now done, and the timing of his death removed him from the equation and likely changed the course of history--as Charlie himself worried it might.
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@jtLOL 15 Reasons Buzzfeed is Going Under (You Won't Believe Number 7)
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@BretWeinstein Bret, no one is gonna off you for being the 4 millionth person to peddle this tripe.
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If something were to happen to me, this tweet would be worth returning to. I don't like the risks, but they must be faced. Charlie deserves justice, and we need to understand what is happening to our Republic. Good luck to us all.
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@BasedCatholicPL @LostMyHats @BahBahBased @JoelWebbon @grok First time I've been blocked by a Catholic for rejecting a Lutheran confession...
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@BasedCatholicPL @LostMyHats @BahBahBased @JoelWebbon @grok "Ok that was bunk, let's see if"
*shuffles cards*
"a 16th century Lutheran confessional will do it!"
Look, there is wisdom in consulting church history as part of the interpretive process, but this notion of uniform consensus throughout the ages on this is plainly false.
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Was Jesus a Jew?
YES… and NO.
The question is far more complex than most are willing to admit, and I simply didn’t want to spend the entirety of my conversation with Jake Sheilds answering it.
But if you genuinely want to know my position, I agree with this. 👇
JD™@LostMyHats
Yes, I can explain, @tribeandtrail, but not in that thread, because Buck blocked me (telling a pietist they’ve sinned is like saying “%*#} you” to them). I’ll be happy to explain, and I sincerely hope you appreciate my effort to do so, because I’m sincere.🧵 BACKGROUND: To those who are J-pilled (like this guest) Dispensational Zionists are a huuuuuge stumbling block to the gospel. By over-emphasizing, (sometimes even fetishizing) Jesus’ Jewishness far beyond Scriptural warrant, it presents a challenge to the evangelist when dealing with someone who’s of a certain geopolitical persuasion. You might have noticed all the obnoxious “Jesus was a Jew!!!! The disciples were Jews!!!! The Bible is a Jewish book!!!” posts from Jewish Supremacists. But what they’re implying is that Jesus was a Rabbinic Jew, just like the Israelis. Which of course, he wasn’t. DEFINITIONALLY: (1) The J-Pillers will fight to the death that Jesus isn’t a Jew. What they often mean is that a “Jew” was originally someone from Judea (fact) and Jesus wasn’t; He is from Galilee. Of course, by the time Jesus was incarnate, the term largely meant (colloquially) all Hebrews. But technically and definitionally, how much do you want to die on that hill with a J-piller? It would be foolish to let semantics over geography get in the way of a gospel conservation (which Joel was having in this video, and he did quite well). There are other arguments J-Pillers have also. These include (2) that Jesus did not have a paternal ancestry (fact) and because Jewish lineage was patrilineal and not matrilineal (also fact), he wasn’t *technically* Jewish. That’s incorrect on a technicality, despite those both being facts because Romans 1:3 says Jesus “descended from David according to the flesh” (meaning the Bible doesn’t have legal paternity in view, but genetic). But the J-Piller will argue that genetic paternity didn’t matter in Jewish custom, only legal paternity (fact). So again you have a choice; argue over semantics, or move on. The third J-Pill argument is that (3) today’s Jews are not the same as Biblical Jews. There’s the Edomite Theory, the Khazar Theory, the Grecian-Persian Theory, etc. At the risk of being mocked by those who’ve never studied it, at least one of those is downright compelling. It’s also a fact that until the 19th century, Ashkenazi and Sephardic Jews didn’t even allege Abrahamic ancestry and MANY today deny it. Given that Rabbinic Judaism had to go matrilineal post-temple to maintain identity continuity, God destroyed the genealogy records in the temple, genetic science acknowledges an infinitesimally small Semitic ancestry in most modern Jews, they aren’t all wrong. What you’ve got to understand is that this theorizing is *not* a denial that Jesus fulfilled prophecies of being the chosen seed through Abraham, despite it sounding like it to someone who doesn’t understand the arguments or have never evangelized a J-Piller. Hopefully we can agree that I don’t have to believe Benjamin “Mileikowski” Netanyahu is related to Abraham to go to Heaven. The 4th reason is that the J-Piller (4) doesn’t refer to Old Testament covenant faith as “Judaism.” And that’s valid. It wasn’t called Judaism. Christian theologians didn’t called it that for some time. Jesus’ religion wasn’t widely called “Judaism” by theologians for centuries, and in many ways it’s an unhelpful blurring with Rabbinic religion, which didn’t exist except in infancy, and Jesus rejected it. Want to die on that hill? Finally (5), the disagreement isn’t always about what Jesus WAS, but what Jesus IS. Is Jesus a Jew? Let me ask you, is Jesus a Christian? “OT Judaism”had an object of worship. Jesus IS that object of worship….
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Oh come on, look at the sources! I can identify 3 of them by running the same search (screenshot 1).
The first source, which is the only remotely academic one in the list, literally says the exact opposite (see second screenshot and link below).
The second and third sources are literally just random posts from different users on public forums. Do better lol.
francisgumerlock.com/wp-content/upl…
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@BasedCatholicPL @LostMyHats @BahBahBased @JoelWebbon @grok Lol ok, then.
@grok, did the Second Ecumenical Council in 381D condemn Premillennialism/Chiliasm as a heresy?
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@BasedCatholicPL @LostMyHats @BahBahBased @JoelWebbon @grok If I keep trying and get Grok to answer here in-thread, will you accept that your explanation for its silence is incorrect?
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