That's because it reminds me that I'm smarter than them.
I'm really smart... in case that wasn't clear.
Everything you grew up believing about Christianity is a lie. I explain this in my new book which you can purchase for $120. Until you fork over the cash to read it, you should just assume I'm correct.
Everything that concerns you is a boogeyman to distract people from what concerns me.
The comedy you find humorous is unfunny, hateful, and reveals your emotional baggage. It is nothing like the brilliant satire that makes me chuckle and speaks truth to power.
The more people disagree with my argument the stronger it becomes.
You only disagree with me because you don’t have any friends of a different ethnicity. I have lots and lots (well, a couple) of them and they all think the same… way I do. #satire
It’s wrong to critique my friend based on what he’s said publicly. Everyone who does that is wicked, immoral, and foolish. The gentleness of Christ does not dwell within them and they can go jump in a lake for all I care. Make it a fiery one.
People who rethink their opinions and come to agree with me have listened humbly and done the work to become educated.
People who rethink their opinions and come to disagree with me have become radicalized by dangerous misinformation peddled by extremists.
Evangelical leaders who lend their platform to the administration I voted for are doing a public service and promoting the common good.
Evangelical leaders who lend their platform to the administration I voted against are dangerous Christian Nationalists who want theonomy.
I’m not going to respond to your well-researched and thoughtful critique of me and my friends, but I will pray for you and encourage you to read my new TGC post about how to be nicer online.
The journalism you enjoy is nothing more than slanderous cyber-stalking designed to smear the reputations of good people.
The journalism I find valuable bravely exposes the meanness of people who disagree with me.
I think it's wise for folks to spend some significant time in ministry, helping lead people thru suffering, sitting at hospital bedsides, meeting with them across the table at diners, and jumping through various other hoops before you disagree with or critique me in any way.
Ah hah! You misspelled a word in your response to me. I am now fully justified in dismissing you’re argument entirely! What a dummy.
I'm shocked, shocked I tell you, that something you've been warning about for years has happened. If only there had been some way to know ahead of time.
Hello, my hundreds of thousands of devoted followers, this tiny account disagreed with me. You know what to do.
I’m a modern day Elijah bravely calling the church to correct injustice and repent of our complicity in it by voting for candidates committed to this important work. You, on the other hand, need to stop injecting politics into the church.
I know your concerns are sincere and well-intentioned. It’s just that your work is being used by people that disagree with me (and are therefore bad), so I need you to focus on my concerns instead. If you don’t that will reveal your true intentions which we all know are bad.
Language is fluid. The meaning of words changes from person to person, so you are wrong to criticize my usage of that particular word. In fact, I don't even think you know what that word means and should stop using it altogether. You can't just define it however you want.
I'm convinced that the pushback against my perspective is actually a manifestation of a spiritual battle aiming to dislodge unity in Christ. By disagreeing with me you are literally working for Satan.
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Confession time. I used to be an evangelical elite. 🧵 1/
Okay, not elite in the sense that people knew who I was, but as far as sensibilities, evangelistic approach, middle-way-ism, etc. I was fully aligned with evangelical elites in their strategy of cultural engagement. 2/
When I went off to college I quickly found a nondenominational mega church that was nothing like the cheesy and embarrassing SBC church world I had grown up in. 3/
Bonhoeffer offers the most charitable understanding of David French I can imagine.
Believe it or not this was me actually trying to offer a more charitable interpretation of what has happened to French over the last several years. Legit Christians are going to recognize this tendency in themselves. I do. There but for the grace of God go I.
Any of us can become “destroyers of Christian community” in our local church when we make debatable issues like voting for Trump or wearing masks a requirement for fellowship. French just has a larger platform airing his demands.
Big Eva (for lack of a better term) tells our pastors how they are supposed to think about their own church members. Instead of encouraging them to humbly listen to the concerns of their congregation, they poison their minds against us. 🧵 1/
The @megbasham article and the response it has generated have really clarified what my grievances against Big Eva are. By "Big Eva", I mean the parachurch organizations like TGC and their leaders that have outsized influence in many of our churches. 2/
I believe many of these organizations started with good intentions. They have produced some wonderful content and still do. I shared a couple of TGC articles this week. 3/
What we can learn from this is that tone does matter but not in the way certain leaders think it does. Tone doesn’t persuade the progressives. You can be as gentle and lowly as Jesus and they’ll still interpret any disagreement as a bigoted attack on them. 2/
This is why it’s tempting to eviscerate these toxic ideas and the people peddling them. They’re going to respond as if you are no matter what so why hold back? 3/
I finished @isickadams' book Talking About Race: Gospel Hope for Hard Conversations. My thoughts to follow in this thread. 1/17
I had high hopes for this book based on some strong recommendations from well-respected pastors who have gone on the record rejecting CRT. 2/17
From the beginning of my involvement in this discussion, I've tried to remind people that it's possible to have conversations on race without relying on CRT at all. It's unfair and wrong to use concepts from CRT or accusations of CRT to shut down conversations. 3/17
Story time, boys and girls. Let’s say you live in a neighborhood where everyone’s lawn is dying and you are convinced it is your neighbor Gary’s fault because he refuses to put a pink flamingo in his yard. 1/
No matter how much anyone tries to persuade him, Gary will not cooperate with the rest of the neighborhood who had all dutifully put pink flamingos in their yards when the HOA asked them to in order to stop the spread of whatever was killing their yards. 2/
Gary drives past all the other pink-flamingoed yards in the neighborhood every day to and from his job. On the weekends he works in his own yard flaunting its lack of a pink flamingo for all the neighbors to see. 3/