"He also faced tough questions for agreeing with a podcast host who assailed Jews for claiming 'special victim status' after the Holocaust and saying that 'Hitler is always the convenient kind of bad example.'"
Tricky thing here (in Sutton’s favor) is that one side of this argument always seems to win and the losing side loses its right to continue (or its interest in continuing) to participate in the argument, thus ceasing to be a part of it.
This is a bit like my old joke that “Evangelicals are the subset of Protestants who have strong opinions about who is or is not an evangelical.” But Reynolds sees the argument as being over practice/piety/obligation rather than, as in my (half) joke, about tribal identity (linked to “salvation”).
A thoughtful, less-bellicose entry in the evangelical definition wars.
Reynolds sees “evangelicalism” as a kind of ongoing internal argument.
www.patheos.com/blogs/anxiou...
If I had a nickel for every time a TV show killed off Amy Acker's character only to have her brought back as a godlike being seeking redemption ...
Well, I'd have TWO nickels. But it's still weird that it's happened twice.
Andy Ogles is either too dumb to realize this is what he's saying or else he's shrewd enough not to explicitly admit it. But either way, it's what he's saying: One and only one sect is legitimate, everyone else must convert or be expelled.
Muslims are just the first item on Ogles' long list.
That's why Stuyvesant forbade not just Jews and Quakers from coming to New Amsterdam, but also Lutherans. And also the wrong sub-variants of Dutch Reformed Calvinists. Once you say "Pluralism is a lie" that's how it has to work -- one single sect can be permitted, everyone else doesn't belong.
I respect Stuyvesant for understanding that it's never sufficiently specific to call for a "Christian nation." Christianity has too many denominations and traditions and sects, and religious nationalism is like Highlander: In the end, there can be only one.
"Pluralism is a lie," Rep. Andy Ogles says of "American society," in which we have more than 200 distinct Christian denominations.
Ogles, like Stuyvesant, wants to stamp out the "lie" of religious pluralism. Stuyvesant started with Jews and Quakers. Ogles starts with Muslims. Who's next?
“Be wise as serpents and innocent as doves.”
Every church needs one not wholly sanctified member to review their communications for missteps those innocent as doves may not notice.
Thank you, Andy. You’ve saved us all money on repairs and medical bills, and kept people from taking our money for crap that doesn’t work. We’re much obliged.
These ghouls act like they've discovered some novel secret: "Hey, guys, GUYS! Did you know that we can just kill people whenever we want?" Yes, you absolute idiot, that's ALWAYS been true. We just chose not to, for good and self-interested reasons which the entire world is about to learn yet again.
nice essay by @slacktivistfred.bsky.social
www.patheos.com/blogs/slackt...
Trump on January 22, 2020 when the CDC confirmed the first US covid case: “We have it totally under control. It's one person coming in from China, and we have it under control. It's going to be just fine.”
Terriers wouldn’t need any exposition or explanation or apology for the long gap of missing years. Just put an unkempt Donal Logue in a beat-up pickup waiting outside the prison from which Michael Raymond is being released. Or the other way around, either one would work.
For most shows, coming back 20 years later is challenging. The cast all LOOKS 20+ years older. The characters will need to have grown or changed over all that time, becoming *different* characters than the ones we remember. These wouldn’t be problems for Terriers.
What I’d much rather see would be a bunch of teasing Instagram videos showing Donal Logue knocking on the doors of Michael Raymond, Rockmond Dunbar, and Laura Allen.
Leave Firefly alone and bring back Terriers, you cowards.
(Or they become some kind of Anabaptisty Hauerwasian.)
But you’ll never have an influential jurist upholding the evangelical intellectual tradition & evangelical political philosophy because there isn’t any such thing to uphold.
Mark Noll addresses this in The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind.
One short answer is that evangelical students who go into academia to study law and politics almost all wind up turning into Kuyperian Reformed types or Catholics or Niebuhrians because those are functioning schools of thought and evangelicalism has nothing like that to offer.
One short answer is that evangelical students who go into academia to study law and politics almost all wind up turning into Kuyperian Reformed types or Catholics or Niebuhrians because those are functioning schools of thought and evangelicalism has nothing like that to offer.
There's been lots made of a story involving "Armageddon briefings" in the US military. There's also lotsa skepticism around it, mainly bc it seems none of the first-hand sources spoke to reporters.
If you're a member of the military who HAS experienced these briefings, my Signal is: jackmjenkins.60
Happy to see some discussion of Tears for Fears and thus also hsppy to revisit this, which is lovely and subdued until the end, where it’s lovely and wonderfully not subdued.
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Guy who gets disappeared to a black site off the win rate of his Kalshi account.
The gospel of Jubilee is beautiful. And the word itself is a beautiful word — it sounds as joyous and lovely and liberating as the necessary idea and ideal it expresses.
Say it out loud. It’s fun to say. Even if you don’t know what it means, you know just hearing it that it must be a Good Thing.
JUBILEE!
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I'm teaching about early 20th century eugenics today and was reminded that 9 years ago Republican Representative Steve King was stripped of his committee assignments by his GOP colleagues for this post that simply states what is now bog standard GOP policy/rhetoric on immigration and "civilization."
The thing I am looking forward to tonight is the reporting from that Texas county where the GOP has pledged itself to hand-counting hard-copy ballots before midnight.
Underground...stations, if you will, perhaps connected to a means of transportation that became popular in the 19th century.
(This came up because “St. Elmo’s Fire” started playing on the store PA and I made a face. There are so many songs from 1985 that we should still be playing and singing today. This is not one of them.)
