"I personally think the Holy Ghost evicted us. I think the Lord evicted us from our churches [with lockdowns] so that we might have a moment to breathe and...reimagine what it means to truly be just."
Tonyia Rawls / Union Presbyterian Seminary talk on "Queer Justice"
"In the Bible when the experience of the wrestling with the angel happened, the question is: What is your name? When Moses encounters the divine: Who shall I tell sent me? Naming, identifying, this is what the alphabet [LGBTQIA+], these designations are all about."
Cedric Harmon
"Where the church failed, where Noah did not, was the church began to determine who was safe to accept + who was no longer safe to accept. We did just the opposite of the example that God showed us through Noah + the ark."
<ppl outside the ark could not be reached for comment>
Obvious that the queer-affirming apostates are queer-affirming apostates, right? So what's relevant here, WPC?
1. Listen to Harmon admit their faith's burden is "ongoing work." 2. Listen to Rawls discuss how they focus on co-opting the black church.
"The first step with the black church pastors we worked with was: I get that you might not be able to affirm LGBTQ people, but your charge is to not cause harm, similar to doctors...own that your rhetoric has been causing harm, has been literally killing people."
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"In conservative evangelical circles, often times there'll be a real concern about immigration, and especially, what? Illegal immigration...But here's the thing. What if that is God's plan to reverse secularization in the United States?"
Ligon Duncan
Thread incoming 🧵.
This clip'll probably earn some dunking in the quote-RTs, because there's a lot of perfectly innocuous things to agree with. But I'd like to unpack some of the assumptions in it that reveal a really ugly anthropology.
The point, in brief:
As @SovMichael points out, this has been a talking point from the WEF/CFR-adjacent evangelical elites for a long time. Plus the claim "immigration aids the Great Commission b/c it brings the nations to our doorstep." Duncan uses it earlier in this talk.
Again, overwhelmed by the influx of new followers this week because of the Kathy Hochul clip. If you're not familiar with my work, here are some highlights from the past year+...
I was an aimless reply guy anon when I watched this bizarre sermon from Eric Mason, author of "Woke Church," and figured it would be helpful for people to see what exactly he's teaching, split up into social media-sized clips.
That thread got such a big response, I decided to switch the name and theme of my account. I started looking up sermons and conference talks from various so-called "moderate" pastors and found insanely far-left ideologies.
These "David Raped Bathsheba" takes are getting considerably weirder
you thought I was done, didn't you
Okay, here's the climax, which actually is relevant to the socjus discourse:
"We are made in the image of God...That doesn't just mean that your body is good...It means that you are good. All of you...We are infinitely good, and we are infinitely lovable."
ED STETZER: As a Christian + a scientist, do you think there's any basis...to claim a religious exemption from [COVID] vaccines?
FRANCIS COLLINS: I have trouble seeing what it would be...I can't see how that fits together in some sort of rational argument.
"Kids need to be in school. The consequences of missing out on that personal interaction...are really significant. Those of us who are adults + are missing our church gathering, we're suffering too, but if I have to make a priority, getting those kids in school is even higher."
"If churches are determined to meet, what can they do...well, certainly continuing to insist on mask wearing for everybody, vaxed or unvaxed...Families who are arriving together + have been unmasked around each other all day need not be separated [by 6 feet], but others should."
My new editing style for YouTube is more laborious, so those have cut into my output. We started out with a montage of some clips first tweeted last Friday:
Next, I've been scanning YouTube for churches mentioning the 'rona vax during their services to see who's respecting conscience and who's not. This Disciples Of Christ church in Ohio went WAY overboard for the latter:
"When you...stay silent, when you push back + say things like 'all lives matter,' and when right now more than 12 million people are being persecuted because of the color of their skin...Christ follower, you have missed the point."
Yasmin Roohi, Silicon Valley's CenterSet Church
<Lest anyone assume otherwise, "All Lives Matter" is cringe and I have never uttered, typed, or written it anywhere unless quoting others>
"Until black lives matter, all lives can't matter. They simply don't matter."
"When I look at Jesus, his humility says: I want what's right over being right."