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10 Oct

1/7 A corporation is a money-making machine. Until recently in history, corporations could only make money by manipulating matter (wood, stone, metals, minerals, etc) to extract profits. Now corporations can make money by manipulating human perceptions, feelings, and decisions.

2/7 Testifying to Congress, Frances Haugen, the Facebook whistle blower, charges that Facebook puts "astronomical profits before people... Facebook’s products harm children, stoke division, and weaken our democracy...destabilize democracy.” What!?

3/7 If true, think of how frightening and historically unprecedented this is. If a corporation possesses enough power to “destabilize democracy” for its own financial profits, that corporation possesses power equal to that of sovereign nations.

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13 Mar

1/6 The Bible is full of poetry. Sixteen books are composed entirely of poetry. Fourteen other books have a high percentage of poetry. Only 7 of its 66 books have no poetry.

2/6 Yet many people are unaware that much of the Bible is poetry and song, because the way teachers and preachers deliver the Bible to people is largely in the fragmented form of prooftext arguments, which is a way of thinking and communicating that is foreign to the prophets.

3/6 The prophets are more like spoken word artists and less like academic professors, more like singer-songwriters and less like fact-firing evangelists, more like practitioners of love and less like preachers of logic. They want us to act justly, not merely to argue correctly.

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19 Feb

A few thoughts on the Ravi Zacharias scandal:

1/7 One of the repeated warnings of the Bible is that bad men will use the good news of Christ as a means of preying upon vulnerable people. They are called “wolves in sheep’s clothing." #RaviZacharias

2/7 Jesus is so attractive & the gospel is so powerful, it is inevitable that predators & shysters will harness His beauty & potency for their evil aims. They are frauds. He is not. The disguise they wear is effective precisely because of the truth it represents. #RaviZacharias

3/7 I’ve actually known two very successful evangelist who said privately that they were atheists, but that preaching was a great way to win trust and make money. They didn’t believe a word they were preaching, and yet what they were preaching was the truth. #RaviZacharias

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7 Jan

1/5 A key premise of Revelation is that America, while posing as a “lamb,” actually operates by the principles of the “dragon.” That is, America is not a Christian nation, but rather a modern incarnation of Rome.

2/5 Rome was defined as a legal political system called a “Republic” and was governed by a representative body called a “Senate,” which gave the surface appearance that the government existed for the “public.” America, too, is a Republic and hence a kind of modern Rome.

3/5 But beneath the surface, Rome was characterized by political corruption, financial scandal, legal farce, and warmongering, which led to a loss of public trust. Rome was not conquered from without by a foreign power, but from within by the moral corruption of its own leaders.

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28 Sep 20

1/8 At the deepest core level, peeling back the layers of all our ills as human beings, we are collectively, generationally traumatized by bad religion, through which an abusive, authoritarian, arbitrary picture of God has been imposed upon the world.

2/8 Of the 7.8 Billion people on the planet, 1.2B are Catholic, 1B are Protestant, 1.8B are Muslim. This means that 4B humans have been raised to believe that God predetermines who is saved and who is lost and that the lost will be tortured in flames for all eternity.

3/8 Approximately 800 million people are either atheist or claim no belief in God, many of whom are unbelievers as a trauma response to the above mentioned picture of God. They don't believe in God because they find God to be intellectually untenable and emotionally unattractive

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26 Sep 20

1/5 Rolling Stone Magazine just released its new list of the 500 greatest albums of all time, and Seventh-day Adventist theology, in a roundabout way, occupies the number 1 slot. Marvin Gaye’s, "What’s Going On," has been named by Rolling Stone the greatest album of all time.

2/5 According to encyclopedia.com, “Gaye was the second of four children of Alberta and Marvin Gay, Sr., who were devout Seventh-day Adventists.” Gaye's father became a House of God minister, a spin off of the Adventist church, while retaining key Adventists beliefs.

3/5 Gaye's album is a theological opus that proclaims “God is love” as its thesis, insisting that this is the only truth by which “We can rock the world's foundation.” Gaye sings, “true love can conquer hate every time; give out some love and you'll find peace sublime.”

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