He's also gone above and beyond in defending Vince despite the truly horrific allegations and track record of sexual assault. It's one thing to say "I owe my career to this man" but something else entirely to repeatedly say "I love him" and making sure the paps see them getting dinner
His name is Jack P. Reacher, but it’s a running bit that no one knows his middle name. Does it stand for Philadelphia, “love your brother,” or Preacher, making his full name Jack Preacher Reacher? Yes.
*I haven’t read any Reacher books, IDK the lore or whatev
1/Right wing evangelicals espouse and practice doctrines of Mammon and self righteousness, not the doctrine of Christ. Trump supporters wriggle off the hook in bouts of willful ignorance to turn a blind eye to Trump's 'subjective' transgressions (those they can explain away w witch hunt or 'lies').
The woke mind virus has infected so many people now that a huge body builder guy, is giving articulate, well-constructed and succinct reasons why cops suck, Christians don't have to, and what we should do about that (in a general sense).
I just forwarded the quotes to Ian even though he's on his computer right next to me because I was like "you are not going to want to hear these in my voice for the first time; you are going to want to imagine him saying them"
I haven't watched Reacher but dude was acting his heart out on Titans even if they didn't give him the best material and they kept making him act opposite a scene partner who, (sorry) wasn't very good.
American evangelicals are among the "tares" Christ spoke of in Matthew 13:24....They are self-righteous. God hates self-righteousness as He is the Creator of all things and as such is the only Judge of righteousness. The (real) Christian is here to love those like and unlike him.
Technically "Jews" are direct descendants of Jacob's son Judah. eg Moses was a Levite or direct descendant of Jacob's son Levi.
Pharisees, Sadducees and to a lesser extent Essenes were sects among Israelites ("Jews") generally responsible for maintaining aspects of Jewish tradition and law.
It's more complex than you lead on. It matters if you are interested in understanding what applies where. eg it's theorized those controlling Israel are Danites of Jacobs son Dan considered the fallen tribe.
Real Christians don't "hate Jews" as it's understood they were merely fulfilling prophecy.
It's not antichrist singular, antichrists, people who claim Jesus, who claim Christianity yet pervert the teaching. Every prosperity gospel dip shit is an antichrist.
What I’m hearing is that this guy could’ve made one life decision differently and he’d be enthusiastically ripping phone books in half for Jesus, to crowds of bored middle schoolers
Thank fuck. I'm a big bald guy with sleeves from the Northwest Side of Chicago and I swear to god every cop, Nazi, and firefighter (but I repeat myself) wants to saunter up and tell me the joke they just heard thats inevitably going to lead to my wife reminding me about bail money.
Finally someone who understands the pain of being in a convo with other white dudes and having to be the one to say, "Actually, I don't know what you mean. That sounds creepy as hell." And the look of dawning realization that they aren't in a safe space just because I don't dye my hair.
Still amazed that he got Alan Doyle from Great Big Sea cast as Alan A'Dayle in that Robin Hood movie because they're friends and have written music together. Alan Doyle didn't do half bad, either.
If you can find it online, do check out the Canadian series Republic of Doyle, in particular s3 e1 “Streets of St. John’s”, in which Crowe, Alan Doyle, Kevin Durant and Scott Grimes guest-star!
Lol, it's been ages since I thought of that show. I remember watching it, though I don't think I stuck around until season 3. Canada is such a small country for such a large country sometimes, I've somehow met more than one relatively famous Canadian actor completely by accident.
I thought Norris was far right. I could be totally wrong, but that’s what I thought I came across. Crowe as a sensitive artist is a snowflake. Who brawls.
But again, it’s just something I thought I read a long time ago. I don’t care all that much and he’s a fun actor, so it doesn’t much matter. But I just remember being disappointed by it.
There’s another right wing actor named Dean and I keep thinking they’re referring to Norris and going “aw man not Hank :(“ but now I can’t remember his name.
I went to high school with the guy and if he hasn't changed much since then (it sounds like he hasn't) he is the most adorable compassionate and friendly dude who ever looks like he's been repeatedly in bar fights where he gets punched in the face.
Did you see his version of Hawk in Titans? He is only in the first like 2 seasons and quickly written out in the 3rd, but I highly recommend you check it out if you haven't seen it.
Hawk is traditionally right wing bro coded and I have always hated him in the comics. But between the scripts and the performance... I actually LIKED Hawk and he was my favorite part of the show. I couldn't care when they wrote him off and it convinced me to try Reacher.
The paucity of Christians willing to stand up, be counted as standing in opposition and resistance to his hateful message of violence towards all neighbors is deadly. Christianity will not survive this moment the same - the grifting bigots dominate. Who wants to follow that? The hypocrites.
Listen to the John Cena episode of "Armchair Expert". Guy's remarkably articulate and cogent. And the reason why he became a bulked up macho man is kind of sad.
I don't think CM Punk was anti-LGBTQ before AEW or that Mick Foley ever was? So I'm not sure of the point. Whatever the wrestler or promotion, I've rarely heard of a wrestler giving much of a shit about sexuality. Their lives aren't...mainstream. I'm not talking about the McMahons.
I’m not saying AEW is better or the only one. Just pointing out that those stills are from AEW which is a whole other company from WWE. Though some performers have moved from one to the other for various reasons.
Stone Cold Steve Austin was openly pro-LGBTQ back in the early-00's and talked about how much everyone in the WWE loved Pat Patterson. I remember him being one of the first big celebrities to come out for gay marriage.
As a culture, wrestling embraces a lot of outcasts, and they defend their own.
Yeah, he seems like a cool, non-toxic dude. Hollywood people coming out against hunger or whatever is pretty meh, but a guy who'll be like, "Yeah, I'm a Christian and cops get away with murder all the time. And Trump idolatry is gross" is a cut above.
I’m going to be straight. If somebody just read a list of ten things Jesus did/said, and tried to be more like that, they’d be a pretty decent person. Reading the Bible is cool though.
Thankfully you don’t have to believe in God to treat people the way Jesus did. Be a good neighbor and treat others as you’d like to be treated and you’re well on your way.
‘Terrible thing to have to burn all them words, though.’
‘The worthwhile ones don’t burn.’
‘You’re not too stupid, for all that you wear a funny hat,’ said Granny.
--Terry Pratchett's "Carpe Jugulum"
That cops are bad, useless, and corrupt which is why in the first season he got them completely defunded until Margrave was just a black detective and woman rookie?
Well, good for him in real life. But Reacher the show is very right wing in its attitudes toward use of force, the justice system, and civil rights. Basically, you have to be a vigilante to get justice.
In general I think it’s good to indulge your dumbass lizard brain side in tv and movies and not in politics and policy.
For Reacher specifically it’s going beyond the standard don’t-apply-this-to-the-real-world moral logic of action movies, into right wing culture war territory.
It also involves numerous crooked cops, and the reason Reacher is becoming a vigilante, reluctantly, is because nearly every fucking authority figure in that town is corrupt.
The dude is genuinely awesome. He was on a Podcast talking about his struggles with mental illness and how he has learned to deal with his his whole life and how he talks about it to help others.
He has a little YouTube channel called "instachurch" for people who might want the fellowship but might have issues attending one and I've found it sincerely helpful. He also used to troll reddit a ton pre-Reacher and pops up in the weirdest subreddits completely unannounced
Yes he is speaking out- that is a responsibility in my Opinion when you have a platform like he has, why I have no respect for Michael Jordan's attitude. "right-wing fascist assholes buy sneakers too".....
I’m so happy about this. I want to be able to just enjoy Reacher and this could have easily gone another way. But instead he’s awesome and that’s just neat
His trajectory from “that one overconfident American Idol contestant who didn’t make it past the Hollywood round in season 3” to “the bully in dude-bro Spike comedy show Blue Mountain State” to *waves hands* ALL of this will forever be remarkable to me.
No kidding. It didn't take me long in my wildlife career to realize that anything over about 5 pounds Is absolutely capable of eating your fucking lunch.
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The Rock? He comes across as alright in interviews but I hear mixed reports.
PReacher
I’m sorry
His name is Jack P. Reacher, but it’s a running bit that no one knows his middle name. Does it stand for Philadelphia, “love your brother,” or Preacher, making his full name Jack Preacher Reacher? Yes.
*I haven’t read any Reacher books, IDK the lore or whatev
That is the definition of evil. I always get an amusing response when I confront them with that. Really a case study in cerebral overload.
me: He's Hollywood openly-Christian but like actually good
Ian: like not in an actual cult?
and as he was reading:
Ian: Oh god, he's even Protestant... how?
Pharisees, Sadducees and to a lesser extent Essenes were sects among Israelites ("Jews") generally responsible for maintaining aspects of Jewish tradition and law.
Real Christians don't "hate Jews" as it's understood they were merely fulfilling prophecy.
As the Punk era has shown, you keep out Nazis by making it dangerous for them to crawl out from under their rocks.
Absolute king shit 👑
https://twitter.com/dexertonox/status/1679950089672970241/mediaviewer
https://www.indiewire.com/features/general/jon-bernthal-punisher-alt-right-netflix-1201913462/
Because maybe I'm just exposed to too many white men who aren't right-wingers for this guy to look right wing to me.
For context, this post is the first I've ever heard of this person.
https://www.fightful.com/wrestling/john-cena-comments-vince-mcmahon-allegations-i-m-going-love-person-i-love
As a culture, wrestling embraces a lot of outcasts, and they defend their own.
‘The worthwhile ones don’t burn.’
‘You’re not too stupid, for all that you wear a funny hat,’ said Granny.
--Terry Pratchett's "Carpe Jugulum"
Mr. Rogers was one of the best preachers for Christ in modern times. He just lived it.
Reacher is basically a pseudo-realistically depicted Punisher, without all of the Marvel fanfare.
For Reacher specifically it’s going beyond the standard don’t-apply-this-to-the-real-world moral logic of action movies, into right wing culture war territory.
the entire premise of the show is the cops aren't doing their job because they're corrupt...so Reacher gets justice
You are welcome.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GQyR2AHN86M