Sam Lufi

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I wonder if his work at Yale was so shoddy? "CBO anticipates that in the decade after 2034, the effects of the immigration surge on revenues and on mandatory spending for benefits will grow."

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Remarkable confession by JD Vance this morning when he said he will “create stories” (that is, lie) to redirect the media. All this to change the subject away from abortion rights, manufacturing jobs, taxation of the rich, and the other things clearly at stake in this election.

The majority of short term "mission" trips are part of indoctrination into American exceptionalism; they have nothing to do with following Jesus.

The Springfield legal Haitian immigrants controversy is pulling the covers off of evangelical and Republican racism. You ask, why is it racist? Glad you asked. Melania Trump was born in Novo Mesto, Yugoslavia, now part of present-day Slovenia. If 25, 000 Slovenians, Romanians, or Italians were granted citizenship to work in Springfield, there would be no protest, ridicule, nor rejection,. Why no protest? Because they would be European immigrants. At the root of the Haitian immigrants rejection and ridicule is race. Painful watching Bible believing evangelicals & Republicans disregard biblical commands to treat immigrants on your land with hospitality and kindness. When the immigrants are the wrong color, is when we find out that it is selective border control they seek. There are people who eat snakes, possum, raccoons, squirrels, & a host of other unsavory animals. I was shocked to discover a few years ago that squirrels and rats are in the same family. My point is, the false allegations of the Haitians diet of cats and dogs has been debunked. But, let’s not ignore the fact that eating coons, snakes, squirrels, & possums are also bizarre to many people too. The evangelical and Republican reaction has been eye-opening.

@AG_USA @EuropeMissions @agworldmissions How is Scott Martin being platformed at an anti-trafficking conference? Ministers he oversaw are facing unresolved charges for sex trafficking. It is pride and hubris that he believes he should be instructing others in this area.

I wonder if @reachjulieroys will be reporting on Scott Martin, an @AG_USA minister who oversaw the largest sexual abuse scandal in the denomination's history (including unresolved charges of sex trafficking), being a featured speaker at an anti-sex trafficking conference.

Donald Trump is a moral leader for people offended by Colin Kaepernick’s knee, but not Derek Chauvin’s.

@AlisonSwihart @MikeCosper @PageauJonathan The SBC and Cosper suggest that such people stay in their place and don't get uppity.

@MikeCosper @PageauJonathan Mike, there are so many problems with your comment. What do you suggest we do with people who are created neither fully female or fully male? Are they in the image of God? Or do you think God made a mistake? This person believed until recently that they were female.

Why does the deconstruction of the Last Supper in the opening ceremonies matter? Why should Christians care? Because of this. The name of the opening ceremony sequence was ‘La Cène sur la scène sur la Seine’ - which as @PageauJonathan pointed out yesterday, is a pun that reads plainly as a reference to the Last Supper. (Translating roughly as 'The Last Supper on the stage on the River Seine'.) The performers acknowledged this at the time, and I can only assume people are denying and backing away from it to avoid the backlash. Dionysus was there because (again, credit to Pageau’s analysis) the scene was an invocation of Carnival — the contrast between the impulses of order and chaos, piety and indulgence. And the drama of the scene unfolded with the triumph of Bacchanalian chaos — including orgiastic dancing, the inversion of gender, the inclusion (centrality event of a young girl in the final act of the scene. Bacchus was the Paschal Lamb. A celebration of deconstruction. “Who cares.The French are weird. Christians shouldn’t be so sensitive.” Wrong. Because the revaluation of values dramatized in the opening ceremonies has real-world consequences. In this case, today, a biological male breaks a female athlete’s nose in competition and is rewarded for it by advancing to the next round. Think about it. In the name of sport, we’re rewarding violence by men against women. We’re setting a standard that will almost surely, in many categories, crows biological women out of the games. It’s not just about blasphemy and respecting sacred symbols. It’s about culture and civilization and norms that safeguard women and children.

@LostinAusten27 @MikeCosper @PageauJonathan Cosper has roots in the SBC and Calvinist traditions. It is hatred for women that undergirds his hatred for trans people.

@MikeCosper @PageauJonathan Mike - delete this shameful post. Imane Khelif is a woman and always has been. She has a disorder (DSD) that causes some women to have an XY chromosome. This is what we warned you guys of - that your hatred of trans people would soon hurt biological women, too. Shameful.

@AshaRangappa_ A black woman finding joy is a direct attack on white supremacy.

This thread is titled "What it Means to Work: How Mark Driscoll Lost His Way." 🧵 1/

If you adhere to a "men are like trucks" worldview, you're saying something DIFFERENT about humanity & its relationship to God. "They'll go squirrely" means they'll get into trouble. They'll fall into sin. And the prevention/solution is to keep them busy. Keep them working. 21/

But also, it might not be a story designed to teach us about marriage at all. It might be a story about those who hear the Word of God (Adam) and those who haven't (Eve), and how the consequence of disobedience affects each. Note that Eve didn't feel shame until ADAM ate. 12/

@Tazerface16 @MattWallace1701 please know that a 0 Star is laughing at you. A 0 Star!

How it started. How it's going.

I'm old enough to remember when certain political parties said systemic injustice and judicial corruption didn't exist. Now all of sudden it does.

@JWAlex_in_MTL I don't think "the" Anti-Christ is a thing. I think many people and many actions are antichrist. Few things seem more blasphemous than suggesting Trump's behavior is Christ-like.

@slufi Thanks for your reply, Sam. I don't know if I am inferring correctly but I would agree that Trump's actions are not Christ-like behaviour. I wouldn't consider Trump to be the Anti-Christ, though. 😉

For me, one of the clearest examples of why the comparison between Jesus and Trump is antichrist.