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Sep 23, 2020 5 tweets 2 min read Read on X
I typically hate when people say “I have a mother and a wife and a daughter” to explain their feminist stances. Cuz it should t take that.

But birth control is one issue I didn’t even come close to beginning to understand until I had a daughter entering puberty.
There are any number of health issues that can surface as women enter the bio reproductive stage of maturity.

Birth control is a tool that serves as an aid to many women on a number of fronts.

Denying millions of women access to it because folks don’t get science is whack.
I’ve seen women curled up on the floors, calling out of work, sitting in the clinic at school experiencing pain I could never imagine FOR A WEEK OUT OF EVERY MONTH.

And it’s different for every woman, because that’s how bodies work.

Maybe we should mind our business???
To be clear, I’m not some holier than thou feminist whose got it all figured out.

There are times where I automatically think “it can’t be THAT bad”

But that’s a goofy thought because:
1) I don’t have a uterus & will never know
2) people have died from doctors thinking that way
What is, and will continue to be, ignorant at best and inhumane at worst is that we would suggest to the word that our religion requires other people to suffer because we don’t understand how a friggen uterus works.

#KThanksBye

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More from @PastorTrey05

Apr 15
You know what? We gon use this as a teaching opportunity.

Time for a #LetsGetBetterAtReadingTheBible 🧵

The Bible repeatedly frowns upon angels/“sons of God”/“strange/foreign flesh” having sexual relations with actual human beings.

1/13
The first time we see this pop up is Genesis 6. There’s people everywhere. (6:1)

And the sons of God are like “…I like how that look. Ima get me some human action.” (6:2)

They made babies. (6:4)

God is like “hell naw. Restart the phone. Put it in some rice.” (6:7) 2/13
Please do not miss that.

The flood narrative *begins* with humans and divine beings gettin jiggy with each other and God being like “absolutely not!”

That’s where the story of human wickedness begins. Human flesh and divine beings knowin each other in the biblical way. 3/13
Read 14 tweets
Mar 26
Look… is Lee Greenwood releasing a “God Bless the USA Bible” something I could potentially get behind in the right circumstances?

No.

But is “God Bless the USA” a dope song?

Also no.
Y’all want a song that actually captures the aspirational essence of America?

I can even give you one sung by white people with a good ol bluegrass feel to it.

It’s “Can You Run” by The SteelDrivers, featuring none other than Chris Stapleton.
“Can You Run” even allows for martial violence for the sake of freedom celebrated in songs like “The Star Spangled Banner” and “God Bless the USA”.

Except it’s about an enslaved family striving for freedom during the Civil War.

You know? The war that made the America we know.
Read 9 tweets
Mar 22
Whether or not babies are sinners is a theological issue pondered by people who are not facing real issues and tangible sin.

If the people telling you that you were born in sin also own & traffic people who look like you, you not worried about sinner babies no more.
I fully affirm the idea that babies are born *in sin*. But they literally can’t do anything. They’re not active participants of the thing they’re born in.

Callin babies sinners is stupid.

And it’s kinda stupid to spend real time thinkin bout it. GO FEED THAT BABY!
Like… let’s think about this real quick.

Let’s say that infants are actually sinners.

Now what?

You gon bring that lil wobbly-necked soggy lil mound of slobber to repentance?
Read 5 tweets
Mar 21
This is an area of legit fascination for me, and I do have thoughts. Pull up a chair if you bout that life.

Here’s the “too long; didn’t read”: Black culture is America’s first indigenous non-agrarian export.

🧵 1/18
America (as we perceive of it), being a colonial project, did not have much of a positive identity of its own. They were *against* plenty of stuff (a negative identity). But not *for* anything particularly original.

They were mostly just lightly estranged Europeans. 2/18
Whatever colonists took from Native populations (that was not agrarian), they mostly tried to pass off as their own.

Appearing mostly European was sort of an ethic/virtue for the people who created what is now perceived as “America” 3/18
Read 18 tweets
Feb 25
…y’all ever seen that clip of Brian Scalabrine givin casual YMCA-pickup type hoopers BUCKETS?

It’s a funny experiment on whether or not an amateur hooper could beat someone who many think is a bad/unremarkable professional player. 1/9

youtube.com/shorts/CylXSCj…
Many of the people reading this don’t know who Brian Scalabrine is without Google.

But he was a professional basketball player.

Averaged 3 points a game for his career.

Not thought of as a great NBA player.

But he was *still* a PROFESSIONAL basketball player. 2/9
If you are not a professional basketball player?

Brian Scalabrine is almost certainly going to give you buckets.

You won’t be able to stay in front of him.

And he’s gonna lock you down, too. You won’t get many shots off at all. 3/9
Read 9 tweets
Feb 16
Aight, I’m waitin on the Comcast dude to finish installing the equipment in the office, so let’s have a conversation about “the wrath of God” and how penal substitution makes a mockery of it.

First things first: the wrath of God is real, and to be taken seriously. 1/8
HOWEVER!

The idea that the wrath of God is satiated by blood sacrifice (much less HUMAN sacrifice, which is patently against the testimony of God in the Hebrew Bible) is not soundly supported by the biblical texts.

Some dudes made that up centuries after the crucifixion. 2/8
The Hebrew prophet Hosea says that God desires mercy/steadfast love/loving kindness, and not sacrifice. Knowing God, rather than burnt offerings.

And Jesus repeats that very scripture in Matthew 9:13.

Does that sound like a God who needs to punish anyone to satiate wrath? 3/8
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