Folks often don’t understand the rather complex and deep rules of etiquette in the rural South.
We believe in showing respect the way our mama taught us to, so here are some rules that might help you understand our ways. 🧵
Understanding inside-outside etiquette is a good start. Inside a place of public gathering (unless only men are gathered, like a barber shop or old-time coffee shop at 6AM), the hat comes OFF.
On the inside of a home, it’s polite to offer to take off your boots. But it’s less polite to take a guest up on their offer. Your floors aren’t as important as their hassle.
Acknowledging people’s presence or existence is key to Southern etiquette. To act as though someone isn’t there is tantamount to hatred.
You nod (head going up) to those you recognize.
You nod (head going down) to those you don’t.
There are different rules for this on the road. When going in different directions, you finger-wave from the steering wheel.
One finger = I acknowledge you
Two fingers = Hey, buddy!
Pointing directly at the other driver = I love ya, brother!
Especially true for gravel.
There’s lot of road etiquette. If someone slows down when approaching you in the other lane (on smaller roads and streets), you stop. They want to chat.
When driving by and someone is in their yard, if they look up, wave. If not, they’ll wonder what your dang problem is.
If there’s a funeral procession, no matter how long it is, and no matter how busy you are, pull over to show your respect.
One of my wife’s cousins turned around to go fight someone who didn’t pull over at their grandma’s funeral. It’s very disrespectful.
See a cop on the side of the road? Flash your lights three time to those passing in the other direction. We don’t like the Smokeys.
See a deer by the road? Flash twice.
It’s not as impolite in the South, as it is other places, to knock on someone’s door unannounced. I used to do door-to-door sales in Arkansas. Tons of folks let you in and offer you tea before they even ask who you are.
But do yourself a favor. After you knock on a stranger’s door, take one step off the porch to not be intimidating, because 100% there’s a gun behind that door. You don’t want us startled.
When addressing people, we don’t do that pronoun garbage.
You call women older than you, ‘ma’am.’ Women younger than you, ‘miss.”
Ladies will usually call you ‘sir’ if you’re older, but if you’re younger, don’t be surprised to be called ‘sugar’ or ‘baby’ or ‘darlin.’
Live in the Bible Belt? Watch your mouth. Don’t swear in front of ladies. And turn your ghetto blaster down. Nobody wants to hear your vulgar rap music at the stoplight.
Opening doors is important.
Open store doors for all women no matter their age, for everyone older than you no matter their gender, and for everyone else within a few feet behind you.
Carry a gun wherever a lot of people are present, especially church. Be discreet. That’s something you do to protect people who can’t protect themselves.
A lot of ladies keep them in their purses and diaper bags.
See someone broken down out in the country, a good distance from town? You stop…especially if it’s a lady.
Don’t get out, because you don’t want to frighten them. Just ask if they need help or to borrow a phone.
If you don’t do that, that’s scumbag territory.
The American South is a very special place. Its etiquette is deep and sometimes complicated…but always sincere.
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Does the Bible support demons possessing technology as a possibility? Let's look 🧵
I write about 'supernaturality' a lot at Insight to Incite because the Bible says when Jesus returns it will be like the days of Noah. And those days were weird.
Increasingly, the world is starting to embrace the reality of a spiritual, unseen world. This is good.
When you study technological innovation, you can't help but notice a constant occultic influence in the history of invention. I'll give some examples.
I've already written about Oppenheimer - the developer of the Nuclear bomb - practicing occultism.
When @JDVance mentioned the Ordo Amoris - a doctrinal concept that says God desires us order our love *first* to those close to us, leftists and Anti-XNats lost their ever-loving mind.
Well, guess what. Biologically, God wrote the Ordo Amoris into our actual DNA. Here's why 🧵
Before I get into the science of it, let me explain the concept briefly. A traditional Christian concept, the Ordo Amoris was posited by St. Augustine and others, arguing our love is to be ordered accordingly:
1. Spouse 2. Family 3. Community 4. Country 5. World
Obviously, leftists (like the Pope) argued that Christians must love illegal aliens as much as our own children, and foreign nations as much as our own.
After all, didn't Jesus tell us to love our neighbors, and that everybody is our neighbor?
You might have seen this term being thrown about recently, and not know what it means. But that's okay, it hasn't existed that long.
But for your FYI, let's look at the meaning of the "Longhouse" and what that has to do with female-led social structures 🧵
The term "Longhouse" was primarily an anthropological one, referring to a curious architectual style in primitive matriarchal cultures (like the Iroquois tribe, the Dayak people, Neolithic Europeans, etc).
Lady-led communities usually revolved around a building like this:
The Longhouse was a communal living area, where a "Den Mother" would feed the clan and govern social interactions. It's where important activities - ranging from eating meals to community discussions - took place.
Inside, Momma was in charge...of everything and everyone.
Hidden in the news headlines today, you'll find a bizarre story of the Maryland legislature voting on a resolution to absolve past practitioners of witchcraft and purge their convictions.
For Christians, it begs the question...is witchcraft *real* or it it pure superstition? Let's look! 🧵
The Maryland bill would provide exoneration to those convicted of witchcraft, even posthumously, going back centuries.
It may seem odd, but as witchcraft grows in the United States, modern witches are seeking to de-stigmatize the practice.
And make no mistake about it...witchcraft IS growing.
"WitchTok" on TikTok has billions of views, "witch-kits" for aspiring witches are sold by major retailers (and selling out).
And today there are more self-identifying witches than there are Presbyterians in the PCUSA!
Even discernment guys have to admit when they were wrong, and offer apologies to those who warned us. It's long past due to admit that those warning us about the dangers of "New Calvinism" and the Reformed Resurgence were right.
Let's look at those who took us Woke🧵
In 2006, the year the SBC showed its first numerical decline, Collin Hansen wrote his famous article on the "Young, Restless, and Reformed."
Calvinists were ecstatic to see the movement explode, and were thrilled and optimistic to see what God would do.
Hansen and other key evangelicals put together The Gospel Coalition, which promoted the movement. Keller. Mohler. Dever. All the big-names were there. And they churned out New Calvinist content.
Neither is it conspiratorial to claim Israel spies on America. In fact, they’ve been accused and convicted (1954, 1967, 1973, 1985, 1997, 1998, 2004, 2010) of this more than any other country.
And it’s not conspiratorial to point out the in fact did intentionally attack the U.S.S. Liberty in 1967, which is declassified from the CIA.
None of this helps public perception.
But here’s the thing. None of this justifies mistreating any individual Jew or prejudging them based upon the sins of other Jewish people. And none of this justifies a mass extermination.
But neither is it “Jew Hate” to acknowledge these historic realities. When evangelical influencers insist that antipathy toward Jews has no context besides “Satan hates them” or claims of “antisemitism” it only fuels the fire that a conspiracy exists to silence their critics.
Censorship CREATES suspicion and SPARKS bigotry and hatred. And the sin of partiality - allowing criticism of America but not Israel, for example - does not prevent anti-Jewish hatred.
Americans - especially Christians - are a very forgiving people, as we’ve shown to former enemies like Germany and Japan. But demanding us to not point things out, and condemning us for doing so, gives us reason to bring up these facts over and over again.
We don’t like shutting up just because we’re scolded.
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