Me: Trying to explain to older people about the kerfuffle on Twitter yesterday. I know so many older people on Facebook only, who have never been on Twitter and don't know the hellscape it can be. I envy them. lol
So, basically, I followed a friend onto a thread and made a
light comment. It was basically saying, "hey, I'm not with those guys. Don't judge all of us by this guy's conduct, some of us have bible degrees..". It was a joke. They were calling a group of about 200 people apostates, of which I belong, and I was making a light comment.
So, the original tweeter lifted that comment (he had over 4,000 followers) and used my quote to continue his "look at these biblical elitists over here", so then...his followers RTd my quote and everyone was talking about how I "made education my idol" and how I was a devil,
an idiot, a fool, etc. I received hundreds of notifications of people calling me out! It was a joke. I mean, it had a Star Wars GIF. I couldn't win for trying. I kept telling people it was a joke and asking them if they read the context. Nope, they refused to. So, yup...
this may be the persecution that Sean Feucht was talking about. Do we owe him an apology? lol
The original tweeter took no responsibility for what he did. Doubled down.
Serious take away is that there is a group on Twitter who claim to be Conservative Christians, who have all
right words and are on the literal right side of things, who follow all the Conservative and Reformed thinkers and shotcallers, but in reality are snakes, liars, Pharisees and carnally-minded drones. They gaslight you, call you bitter if you say anything unpleasant, especially
about their idols. They rage against "cancel culture" and then set a campaign out against you for one comment. It's political and religious hypocrisy. My friends called them #AngryChristianTwitter or #AngryReformedTwitter or #TheoBros, which may be true, but in reality this is
the Christian non-denom, ShepCon, Evang. machine. The Influencers who spout verses without love, theology without sense. Black-hearted New Wave of punks who think that they're spattering of Hebrew and Greek and MacArthur commentaries will dismiss their dreadful behavior.
And by grace, eventually they block you.
If you haven't encountered them yet, perhaps you will. But they are out there. I could call them out, but it would be mean and that's not what I'm about.
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From a recent email from a @MastersSeminary student:
Entering the GCC campus, I walk by a neighboring house with a poster that says “love thy neighbor, wear a mask.” Then I pass the two security guards, unmasked, to enter the only entrance of “Grace” that’s not currently gated
off. What bitter irony. The other day, an unmasked guard sneezed and then coughed loudly and said at the top of his lungs, “Sorry, I have the Covid! I have the Covid!!” as his friend laughed heartily".
I get bad looks like I’m a pariah. The ones who mask up have warmed up to me,
you can tell they appreciate it. They’re tired of being the “strange ones”. They didn’t sign up for this. No one social distances at the desks, save for my few friends. No one except us wipes down the tables as we’re supposedly required to do. But if the culture is “it’s all fake