Fact: @SHAQ is one of the best dads in America. Data: boys that don’t roughhouse with their fathers (grades k-12) are more likely to struggle with addictions(drugs, porn, video games, etc.), lack impulse control, lack the ability to delay gratification, etc. #dadsmatter
If you don’t believe me read the data for yourself. Boys wrestling with their fathers makes the world a better place. Dads who don’t do roughhouse set the most sons up for struggle. amazon.com/Boy-Crisis-Boy…
If you don’t want to read the data. Listen to it. We’d have less sexual assault on college campuses, less teen drug use, teenage boys would struggle grades less, etc. if dads roughhoused more. It’s true.
Dr. Samuel Perry once commented that many evangelicals suffer from “information isolation” (can’t find the tweet). I think it’s worse. It’s disinformation & information deprivation, within the context of isolation. Here’s why: I just had a PCA pastor attempt to rebuke me because:
My observation that, based on US history during slavery, Jim Crow, the white flight 70s/80s, etc., that I had zero expectations that US Christianity can pull off racial solidarity. Where’s the historical evidence in US history? I don’t see any, esp, during Jim Crow. His response:
(1) Christians ended slavery in America, (2) “The only persons who are going to consistently lay down their lives, livelihoods and comforts for the sake of others is the regenerated Christian.”
Still processing: Jim Crow Era lynchings & today’s race tensions are the consequence of the 1877 Compromise, in my view. In the South, pre-Jim Crow Era, blacks & non-elite whites (the poor, white majority class) shared integrated social spaces & friendships. Jim Crow ended that.
If the black community reestablished Antebellum/Reconstruction Era solidarity with working class whites, they’d take over America. They have a common threat: Elites-(woke white Southern/evangelical hipsters, costal white progressives, racist conservatives) bittersoutherner.com/from-the-south…
And we know from church history, Christianity will never be able to advance racial solidarity in America. It never has in US history and never will. It’s going to have be politics & economics. amazon.com/Divided-Faith-…
If #robertaaronlong had been voted POTUS, many SBC/9 Marks/Founders/White Big Eva leaders would be claiming him as their own but b/c he’s a product of what many of us have warned about, their leaders are racing to dissociate their tribes. What cowards. washingtonpost.com/religion/2021/…
Black Empowerment > Anti-racism. Black Dignity > Begging for Affirmation. Black Entrepreneurship > Progressive Gov’t Programs. The Future: Black Dignity, Black Agency, Black Moral Virtue, Black Empowerment. Is he wrong?
Woke up at 4:30am bothered by how low-down white Christian elites were toward poor whites in Antebellum South & the Gilded Age. Booker T. Washington explained that newly freed slaves felt so bad for poor whites that blacks would teach them how to read & provide them charity.
Crazy! Blacks left a slave plantation and ministered to poor whites out of pity for them🤯. Seems that Scots-Irish Presbyterians seduced by Gilded Age money & power gave up on Scots-Irish “rednecks” which opened the door for them to be radicalized into white supremacy by the KKK.
To be more clear, the vast majority of poor whites (1877 to 1915) would not have been assumed to be anti-black. The White Christian elite minority advancing Jim Crow ideology turned the South in the racist place caricatured in the 20th-century. This may be happening again.🤷🏾♂️
🤦🏽♂️...Because Presbyterians aren’t binary thinkers & have a confession that says, “the purest Churches under heaven are subject both to mixture and error”(WCF, 25.5), prudence helps you decide when & how to apply theories. Fundamentalists feel safe with “all or nothing” reasoning.
As such, Presbyterians have the reasoning skills & confessional church models to say, “well, duh, it depends on what the theory says. It’s not ‘all or nothing,’” Lutherans, etc. do this as well. mereorthodoxy.com/critical-race-…
Connectional confessionalism tends to produce better thinkers on cultural issues because theology is done in community. You’re less likely to reason like evangelicals—who tend to be tribal biblicists tossed/hysterical about by passing philosophical tends. whyblacklivesmatter.com/a-theological-…