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father, husband, evangelical You can compromise your faith by adding political power; you can do it, but to do it you need to ignore everything Jesus said.
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There are millions of white evangelical voices which say they have a right to be in politics and that Christianity is political. Yes, it is political to bring security to the widow, orphan, poor, and migrant. It's sin to be political to focus on & secure your prestige, self-importance, influence.

Daffodils Molly Lamb Bobak n.d.

Historical marker destroyed in Florence, SC, honoring Reconstruction-era Black lawmaker, Alfred Rush, who represented Darlington County and was assassinated in 1876. This marks the third destruction of this marker. wpde.com/news/local/a... #TeachReconstruction

With more than 3000 interviews, the HistoryMakers' oral history database preserves African Americans' takes on life, in the Crescent City and across the U.S. www.nola.com/entertainmen...

Ian Fleming, 1964: Truly, I have created a monster for the ages with the Child Catcher in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang ICE, 2025: At long last, we have realized the vision of Roald Dahl with our new squad of masked kidnappers we call the Child Catchers

www.unite4veterans.org

You are witnessing what happens when the most amoral people are put in power

from 10/24/24, Homan is now Border Czar and Catholic "In 2023, he said "families chose to separate themselves” by violating the law and entering the country with a child. More than 5,000 migrant children were forcibly separated from their families during this time." thehill.com/blogs/blog-b...

White evangelicals: we're born again, live by a higher moral standard. White evangelicals: 85% check their consciences and vote for the least moral candidate, calling him the lesser of two evils. Then he does what he says he will do and they love it, the most christian potus ever. #blasphemy

So they kidnapped U.S. citizen children, one of whom has CANCER and have sent them out of the country?????

Kidnapping and moving people to insecure situations for your 'ends' is called human trafficking.

I fear we are losing track of who allowed this. The crush of cruelty to the least protected violates basic human decency. 85% of white evangelicals considered Trump the lesser of two evils. For nine yrs now, I've said racism is the force which they can't let go and alters their moral compass. +

"Our thought is bound up with the world in another sense too. It is not just a "reflection" of reality, but a material force in its own right. Marxist theory itself is not just a commentary on the world, but an instrument for changing it. Certain kinds of theory–emancipatory theories–can act..."

Paul Weyrich (co founder of Heritage Fndn) lambasted the Moral Majority for looking for a Savior–"that's not how politics works" he said. You have to get inside, run for dog catcher, school board, mayor, state rep, go to law school, clerk, and become a federal judge. Christianity ceased to be true.

The heart & soul of America First is white supremacy; for eight yrs I've heard "good people can do bad things" Not intentionally, intentionality means their "good" label is pulled. And if you're a "christian" and supporting this falls under "no one is perfect" evil www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

What a friend bad faith has in good faith followers who refuse to stand up for Jesus.

substack.com/@revjenbutle...

Tim Keller introduced me to Terry Eagleton, Eagleton introduced me to René Girard. Girard introduced me to the way in which historical events are mythologized. And how guilt is individualized, and then erased. The perpetuators at the time are so sure of themselves! What did he really say?

Italian-Senegalese photographer, sculptor, video and installation artist Maïmouna Guerresi whose work is influenced by African and Islamic imagery #womensart

humility has been lost in white christian america strong point as it grasps what it cannot, is not entitled to.

#tdih 1846 marks official beginning of U.S.-Mexico War. Today’s border with Mexico is product of invasion & war. Lesson (next post), vital for understanding border today, with reading by H. Zinn @zinndigital.bsky.social & voices left out of most textbooks. www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/u-...

"...is only as strong as our willingness to defend it." I admit the effect of christian nationalism is that I now rotate every thing to look at it from the vantage point of how bad faith would appropriate it to accomplish for their purposes.

Norway joining France, Netherlands, Belgium by expanding the number of academic researchers. Reminds me of the book The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind, in it, Noll argues the net result of eschewing science has led to their decline into thoughtlessness. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

We’re already predisposed to finding someone else to blame. It isn’t hard. When over 75% of our thoughts are negative. How do we counteract that? m.youtube.com/watch?v=U-EZ...

Our prisons are cash cows, overflowing w people whose rights have been taken away.

Kinda insane and shows how afraid the networks are of upsetting this administration that a guy who killed 7 people and wounded 48 with “47” literally tattooed on his face has all but been forgotten like there’s still not a very serious threat emanating from every pore of this pathetic cult

Israeli forces have now dropped more explosives in Gaza than fell on London, Dresden, and Hamburg during the Second World War. The region’s hospitals have not been spared; most are no longer functional. Clayton Dalton writes about the devastation.

IMMIGRANTS ARE WELCOME HERE! Join Pittsburgh's May Day Rally & March -- Thursday, 5pm, 60 Bivd of the Allies. I'll be the chubby older woman waving an "Abolish ICE" flag, if I can get this damn sewing machine working. Sponsored by APALA & LCLAA. www.mobilize.us/mobilize/eve...

The Bible and the Constitution were written by people who were peons in global power; they didn't believe their ideas would one day be the dominant power and what checks they left depended on good faith; but could so easily be circumvented by bad faith. The difference btwn inspiration and reality.

The national spirit that drives this mentality is as American as the 'frontier'. People of a nation aren't really free if they are bound in; they have to have an ever-extending buffer to move into and exploit.