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Dad’s Band…TONIGHT!
But Not Sure Where
There is always an open road somewhere . . .
Luther would’ve had a lot of fun with this…
Brilliant. pic.twitter.com/CbXBRmge9R
— You Had One Job (@_youhadonejob1) April 5, 2018
Babylon Bee Won the Zuckerberg Meme-Fest
Zuckerberg Begins Testimony By Reminding Senators He Knows All Their Deepest Thoughts, Hopes, Fears https://t.co/85vkznmwwE pic.twitter.com/jmU084w5He
— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) April 10, 2018
Zuckerberg Loses Contact Lens During Senate Hearing Revealing Horrifying Lizard Eye https://t.co/jYhTrRViWK pic.twitter.com/Q2HAvqGrhz
— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) April 10, 2018
Zuckerberg Requires House Members To Accept Terms Of Service Before He Testifies https://t.co/iiR0fNkBPi pic.twitter.com/6xxmu7wPhW
— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) April 11, 2018
Facebook Staffers Coach Mark Zuckerberg On Humanlike Behavior Ahead Of Congressional Testimony https://t.co/AmphKTyVXa pic.twitter.com/nkZlyG8tWK
— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) April 9, 2018
Most Recent Exchange with Thabiti
A plea for Thabiti to come back and rejoin us — https://t.co/yt7r4tvdbn
— Douglas Wilson (@douglaswils) April 9, 2018
“Dear @douglaswils“: https://t.co/Rl2yOzcc4I
— Thabiti Anyabwile (@ThabitiAnyabwil) April 9, 2018
— The Chocolate Knox (@Chocolate_Knox) April 10, 2018
Come Get Your Funny Bone Tickled
The perfect excuse to come see Moscow, Idaho. #fightlaughfeast pic.twitter.com/9aCl6aKHlf
— CrossPolitic (@CrossPolitic) April 11, 2018
Perusing the Babylon Bee further, I found this page that might be of interest to some here:
Calvinist Researchers Complete Development Of Elect Detector
The last paragraph!
This is a good article related to recent discussions here:
http://thefederalist.com/2018/04/09/want-men-church-stop-treating-contempt/
And this is tangentially related to the above article:
https://www.dailywire.com/news/29311/walsh-boys-matt-walsh?utm_source=cnemail&utm_medium=email&utm_content=041218-news&utm_campaign=position1
The Matt Walsh article is very good. I am puzzled, however, that boys today seem much more badly affected by the traditional academic setting than boys were when I was a child. In my young days, boys typically outscored girls in math and science, yet were subjected to a more repressive classroom environment than we typically find today. We stayed in our desks, we were punished for talking or moving around or even fidgeting. So there must be something else that is contributing to the achievement gap.
Jill, I wonder if all children, and perhaps boys to a greater extent, lack the family and social pressure to behave according to the rules of the authority today. In other words, this is one symptom of a greater ill. However, it is also possible that your perception of your “young days” is inaccurate. Here is a contrary claim: “Despite the stereotype that boys do better in math and science, girls have made higher grades than boys throughout their school years for nearly a century, according to a new analysis published by the American Psychological Association.” Anecdotally, I did very… Read more »
OKR, that’s very interesting; I had no idea that the difference went back so far. Your perception is similar to mine about the behavior of successful students–although my years as a teacher (and student) showed me that even bright girls sometimes talk too much in class! When I was a child, it was not uncommon to have 40 kids in a class. Obviously the teacher needed to enforce the rules or classrooms would have been chaotic. As a teacher, the most irritating misconduct I had to deal with was talkative girls (which was karma coming back to bite me). It… Read more »
Matt Walsh on ADHD: We never stop to consider that perhaps we are not so much diagnosing boys as we are diagnosing boyhood.
Reverend Wilson, Given Reverend Anyabwile’s history of lecturing us Christians who voted for Trump, in order to avoid the Hillary apocalypse, because we are supposedly giving up our moral high ground, I wonder why you failed to highlight that the good reverend is hypocritically doing the same in his calling white people to repent for supposedly being culpable for killing someone who is just like Trump in his philandering and theological heresy? Honestly, in what notable way is MLK’s adultery and theological heresy somehow okay, when Trump’s is not? I think it simply comes down to politics. Reverend Anyabwile likes… Read more »
Hi Kilgore, can you point to an article where TA suggested people shouldn’t vote for Trump because moral character/ adultery?
I am familiar with claims of sexual misconduct. What are the theological heresies?
https://www.facebook.com/thegospelcoalition/videos/10154032039452723/
Here he openly chastises those who support Trump’s position on immigration, and he does so with some horrendous Scriptural exposition.
https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/thabiti-anyabwile/4-problems-associated-with-white-evangelical-support-of-donald-trump/
Here is his public chastisement of Christian support for Trump. It is most clearly stated when he said that evangelicalism, “failed to escape its partisan bias in favor of more principled and biblical stands.” In other words, we betrayed the bible for politics.
https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/9-things-you-should-know-about-martin-luther-king-jr-2/
Here you can find the theological heresies of MLK in number 6.
https://www.christianpost.com/news/john-piper-mlk-struck-blow-my-blind-racist-conscience-mlk50-222498/
Piper even made a public statement about MLK’s theological heresies.
I sent you the links, but they are in moderation. The short version is that Reverend Anyabwile very publicly supported Hillary Clinton.
bethyada asks: What are the theological heresies? Here’s an example. In a section titled “The Divinity of Jesus”, Martin Luther King, Jr. wrote: The orthodox attempt to explain the divinity of Jesus in terms of an inherent metaphysical substance within him seems to me quite inadequate. To say that the Christ, whose example of living we are bid to follow, is divine in an ontological sense is actually harmful and detrimental. To invest this Christ with such supernatural qualities makes the rejoinder: “Oh, well, he had a better chance for that kind of life than we can possibly have.” In… Read more »
Thank you for the source, kind sir. I think that speaks clearly enough. How many other heretics are extolled by evangelicals? Should we expect a Gandhi 70 from TGC? Perhaps a TGC bicentennial celebration of Thomas Jefferson?
This kind of Leftist placation makes me sad for the state of American Evangelicalism.
Yeah, I doubt they have “Arius…1750 Years Later” planned…but if he were really into social justice, maybe they would.
Upvote. Also, this from James White’s blog makes me think parts of the Reformed Evangelical world are going full SJW:
“I likewise had to deal with the blatant attempt to slander and delegitimize me launched by one of the participants at the MLK50 Conference, Kyle J. Howard. In a Facebook comment Mr. Howard had indicated that he, as a black man, would not feel “safe” with me alone in a room”
https://www.aomin.org/aoblog/2018/04/09/the-racialist-lens-disrupts-true-christian-unity-a-response-to-thabiti-anyabwile/
If you can’t win an argument, just say “I’m woke, you’re not…. and you’d probably attack me in person, you racist!”
Unless he’s Jeffrey Dahmer, that’s just silly.
would not feel “safe” I read that when Doug posted a link. I found it quite concerting. Now White is not exactly winsome so there could be a perceived reality behind that comment. But not safe how? Not physically safe or not psychologically safe. The 2 are quite different. He needs to be specific. If he is just using SJW rhetoric then my thoughts were. 1. Using SJW tools against SJWs is permissible (if it is not sin). 2. Not safe is a rhetorical ploy to win an argument so it is not appropriate for honest people to use against… Read more »
I agree with you, Bethyada. I suppose it is possible to make me feel psychologically unsafe but I am very irritated by people who use that phrase as a demand for extra-specially gentle and sensitive treatment. If unkind, even harsh rhetoric makes a person feel excessively nervous, he or she should refrain from engaging in polemical argument. It’s such a wussy, little-girl tactic–“Mom, he’s scaring me.”
” Now White is not exactly winsome so there could be a perceived reality behind that comment. But not safe how? Not physically safe or not psychologically safe” White is a 55-year old Christian apologist. As far as I know, he doesn’t have a rap sheet with assaults (or anything else) on it. Based on Kyle Howard’s blog, he looks roughly half the age of White and is a former Crip. I’d say Howard is in no danger and Vegas would give him ridiculous odds in boxing, MMA or anything else resembling physical confrontation. https://kylejhoward.com/about/testimony/ Oh, and he does fear… Read more »
JP, I read his testimony and found it quite remarkable. He was running with the Crips through high school, and his lawyer mom and dad never found out about it? He was able just to walk away from gangbanging and go to college without a stain on his record? Usually you have to get jumped out of the Crips, and the process isn’t pretty. I wonder if there s a bit of exaggeration here.
Jill, I agree. I also wonder why the biracial son of two trial attorneys–who’s hobnobbing with Evangelical celebrities as a seminary student–is spokesman extraordinaire when it comes to being a victim of racism and so-called white privilege.
I am a trusting soul but I struggle to believe most of his testimony! So tough to grow up in affluence and go to the finest schools! But, if he really is afraid of an aging Christian apologist (and is apparently not afraid of running into one of his old homeboys which is what would make me nervous), then perhaps he has psychological issues. Either way I don’t think he’s a person to take seriously.
I just meant that safe needs to be defined as physical vs emotional.
And unsafe need just mean that you don’t trust your opponent not to hit you, not that you think he would take you out in a cage fight.
I found the last link a little amusing.
It doesn’t seem like Howard understands physical. He says physical then denies he thinks White would actually punch him. So what does he mean by physical?
On a side note, the authors deny Matt Walsh is a Christian. On what do they base this?
Bethyada, I don’t know where you saw this, but Matt Walsh is Roman Catholic and therefore a spawn of the Whore of Babylon and Mother of Abominations. I don’t want to sound peevish, but I spent an hour today reading otherwise excellent and interesting articles at a site called Pulpit and Pen. I grew very weary of reading that Mother Teresa is, at this very moment, burning in the fiery pit, and a similar fate awaits the rest of us. I understand that some very sincere Christians believe this very sincerely. But do they have to sound so gleeful about… Read more »
Ironically, P&P was on the outs with James White a few months ago, calling him a “prideful man [who] craves opportunities to boast about himself”.
https://www.facebook.com/pulpitandpen/posts/1616260075104424
White made his reputation debating and defending strict Calvinism against all other parties – and belittling anyone who declined a debate. Fortunately, like Ian Paisley, White did mellow somewhat with the years.
Then, late last year, a pair of younger, even harder, stricter Calvinists tried to boost their own reputations using the same tactic – with White as the other party. White refused the bait, leading P&P to denounce him as a squish.
That’s why a put a caveat about P&P. It appears to be a hard-line (hyper?) Calvinist, sectarian Baptist site with conspiratorial leanings. However, the article did quote Howard directly (based on his own blog, Twitter, etc.) and made some good points IMO.
Statistically speaking, James White had more to fear from Kyle Howard than the other way around. From a Pat Buchanan column entitled, “Black America’s Problem Isn’t White Racism”: After researching the FBI numbers for “Suicide of a Superpower,” this writer concluded: “An analysis of ‘single offender victimization figures’ from the FBI for 2007 finds blacks committed 433,934 crimes against whites, eight times the 55,685 whites committed against blacks. … Though blacks are outnumbered 5-to-1 in the population by whites, they commit eight times as many crimes against whites as the reverse. By those 2007 numbers, a black male was 40… Read more »
I didn’t go there, but yes, FP is correct…especially if Howard is a former Crip who could slip into his gang banger mode in a moment of sinful anger. That said, I’m skeptical about many of his claims, just like Jill.
I wonder if Howard also fears being in a room alone with John Piper or Franklin Graham? Such brutes!
I haven’t’ read any articles where Thabiti condemned Trump voters specifically for his morality, he said that Clinton was not better, and if morality was an issue then Christians should have voted third party. I think it important if we are going to compare then we need clear specifics. As to King’s theology, the links and quotes were helpful. One need to view a position based on where it is headed, a liberal becoming a conservative (theologically) is better than vice versa, even if both have similar views at any one time. Giving King the benefit on the doubt, his… Read more »
He was very heavily influenced by Gandhi, and maybe he was misled into seeing Jesus as a great moral teacher. If he sincerely lost his faith, I think that is tragic. Perhaps that explains his moral lapses (of which Gandhi would not have approved!)