The tribe I disagree with has turned the leaders on my side into villains so they can play the hero. They are villains and I am heroically warning you about them.
Leaders who make decisions I disagree with are abusive.
Organizations that aren’t run the way I want them to be run are toxic.
Some people who disagree with me have been deceived by evil grifters and deserve my pity. I grieve for those rubes.
Anyone that disagrees with me about how to best love their neighbor doesn't love their neighbor.
Christians that disagree with me have never read their Bible and probably don’t go to church.
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.
• • •
Missing some Tweet in this thread? You can try to
force a refresh
In WWII, we were unquestionably the good guys. Hitler was evil. He orchestrated the murder of millions of Jews. His evil was so monumental, so unfathomable in scale, that a post-war consensus naturally formed around the fear of ever letting someone like him rise again. 1/10
Cultural elites (of various ethnicities) capitalized on that fear to consolidate and wield power. 2/
The moral clarity of WWII has become a kind of founding myth for the modern West, replacing Christianity as the framework for understanding good and evil. Where the Gospel once shaped our moral imagination, WWII has taken its place, with Hitler as the ultimate symbol of evil. 3/
Abolitionism is rapidly gaining momentum because average pro-life voters believed that the only thing preventing states from abolishing abortion was Roe v. Wade. 1/19
The unspoken expectation of many pro-life voters was that when Roe was overturned, red states would be quick to ensure equal protection for the unborn and treat abortion as murder. 2/19
For 50 years, we've used the words "murder" and "holocaust" to accurately describe the wholesale slaughter of babies in the womb. 3/19
Galatians 3:28 tells us two important truths that are often missed by focusing solely on the description of a people that have transcended physical, ethnic, cultural, and class differences. 2/20
1) Those differences are only transcended in Christ Jesus. If laying aside our differences to unite around our common humanity were possible without Christ, this verse would not be remarkable. It is literally describing a miracle. 3/20
One of the challenges we had to overcome early in the effort to sound the alarm about Critical Race Theory was regular folks who recognized the problems but didn’t know how to articulate their concerns without sounding racist. 1/8
Nationalism has the same problem. Folks are concerned about globalism and haven’t quite figured out how to articulate those concerns without automatically triggering the negative response we’ve been conditioned to have by the postwar liberal consensus. 2/8
It’s pretty wild to see anti-woke leaders who helped articulate the concerns of regular folks about CRT turn on them because of their concerns about globalism. Where is the charitableness you exhibited before? 3/8
Evangelicals have made an idol of evangelism.
🧵 1/16
The whole "idol of ____" is way overplayed in gospel-centered circles. It seems like every week there's a new article on the idol of marriage or family or politics or career. They all convey the same basic idea that being enthusiastic about anything makes it an idol. 2/16
That's not what I mean when I say evangelicals have made an idol of evangelism. I'm not sure you can be too enthusiastic about sharing the gospel. Even if that were possible, most evangelicals hardly fit that description. 3/16
I've struggled with how to respond to the death of Tim Keller. My thoughts on him and his legacy are complicated. 1/13
I first encountered Tim Keller while working for a seeker-sensitive mega church. I had grown frustrated with the shallowness of our "relevant" preaching. Pastor Keller demonstrated that you could be seeker-sensitive without sacrificing doctrinally-rich biblical teaching. 2/13
I've probably listened to more of Tim Keller's sermons than any other single pastor. His teaching was a constant source of nourishment for many years. He was my gateway into reformed theology. His books were extremely influential to me, particularly Counterfeit Gods. 3/13