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24 Jan, 6 tweets, 2 min read
Calling someone a "Jezebel" is just a way of saying "b*tch" when you're an evangelical man that still wants to maintain a self image of being someone whose heart is pained by hearing cussing.
Calling a woman a "Jezebel" is different from a "worldly" person calling someone a "b*tch" in that it evokes the authority of scripture and the church to demonize and dismiss a woman.
Calling someone a "Jezebel" also saves the time and energy that it would take to present a charitable and nuanced description of points of affirmation about what is good about a person and points of disagreement on policy or principles.
"Jezebels" are dismissable and unredeemable. As @angelique_rvrs points out, flawed men can be redeemed by likening them to "David"...or, I would add, "Cyrus."
*invokes, rather
So, anyway- "Thou art the man," @TomBuck. If keeping a nasty tweet is more important than repairing your relationships that you have damaged with people your real life, we can't move on by casting you as "David" in your restoration narrative.

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24 Jan
The SBC at its worst is characterized by condemnation. This is not inconsistent with the wounded psuedo-dignity elaborately displayed when anyone attempts to hold its members accountable for their sinful behavior.
Note the waving of clean hands under the banner of scripture when a White leader in the SBC feels threatened or condemned by anyone labeled "woke" or affiliated with "CRT," the latest in a long line of bogeymen protecting members of the Fortress of Faithfulness from criticism.
SBC discipleship may accomplish very little in the way of actual transformation of its members, but one thing it does very well is using Pavlovian-style conditioning to dismiss any unease from criticism at their own behavior as a sign of someone else's sinfulness.
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24 Jan
Another thoughtful piece from @DavidAFrench , who has endured hellish abuse from his fellow evangelicals and been faithful throughout.
I am also glad that Hunter Baker apologized, but won't trust people like him until they show a track record of the good fruit of repentance around the arrogant mindsets that allow evangelical men to overvalue their own calloused judgement and disdain opponents as hysterical.
I think it took some real integrity for Hunter Baker to admit the inner narrative that categorized his own approach as prudential and carefully reasoned and that of his opponents as fragile, weak, and emotional.
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23 Jan
@pastordmack "Personal responsibility" language plays an interesting role in SBC culture and is tied to their functional model of how people come to know God and how people grow.
@pastordmack The SBC has its roots in a deeply populist model of knowledge and community. White men in the SBC often have inflated confidence in their own ability to see all of reality clearly, which is an extension of the assumption that they have access to the plain reading of scripture.
@pastordmack The role of our communities in shaping our reading of scripture is usually minimized, if not outright denied. Mutual recognition of other clear-thinking, biblically minded people then appears as recognition of other people with the Sanctified Common Sense to "see what I see."
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21 Jan
This is what happens when church leaders lack the wisdom and depth of connection to Jesus to help people develop into Christian maturity. The sincere leaders becone exhausted doing their best to disciple people. 1/
If after years of toil in the fields of the Lord, men most men don't move beyond white, middle-class, employable, and sincere about the Bible facts, the leaders will subtly drop the standards of maturity for men to what is achievable with their current framework. 2/
This framework is unquestionable in much of white evangelical Protestantism, locking people into a system that chokes out growth because faithfulness to this system is equated with thr gospel and faithfulness to God. 3/
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21 Jan
President Biden signed an executive action today to mandate face mask wearing on Federal property.
I've been having lots of thoughts about folks that make such performace out of refusing to wear a mask in public and how they cast themselves as Heroes of Freedom who are persecuted by the State.
It's such a toxic individualist conception of freedom, in which the sovereign autonomous individual thinks of themselves as 1. Clear-Thinking possessors of Reason, Common Sense, and Conscience who are refusing to Live in Fear and 2.
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