@RonFilipkowski @Ch_JesusChrist 1).
„On the Christian Education of Dr. Vance Luther Boelter [1]
When a bullet is a »prayer»
[...] I think of that Christian metaphor particularly resonant within the Pentecostal tradition from which Christ for the Nations descends, that of »spiritual war«.
@RonFilipkowski @Ch_JesusChrist 2).
That emphasis on Satan as an actual entity who needs to be contested not just spiritually but in the material world is central to Christian nationalism’s flattening of metaphor.
@RonFilipkowski @Ch_JesusChrist 3).
Ephesians 6:12, a verse beloved in the traditions of James G. Lindsay (1906–1973) [2] and Vance L. Boelter [3] [4], tempts the believer to project »spiritual war« outward,
@RonFilipkowski @Ch_JesusChrist 4).
against »against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms«.”
Jun 14, 2025
Excerpt from an article [5] by @JeffSharlet [6] [7]
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„At least 51 people were killed Tuesday morning and more than 200 injured while waiting for aid in the Khan Younis area, Gaza’s Health Ministry said in a statement.
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The Israel Defense Forces said that it was aware of reports of »a number of injured individuals from @IDF fire following the crowd’s approach« and that the incident was under review.”
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„ @realDonaldTrump said he was not ready to impose new sanctions on Russia over the war in Ukraine despite mounting pressure from G7 allies and members of Congress to heighten the pressure on Moscow.
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Speaking alongside Sir @Keir_Starmer, the British prime minister at the G7 summit in Canada on Mon., the @POTUS said he was sceptical of new sanctions on Russia, even as other members of the group were expected to announce further punitive measures against Moscow.
@Keir_Starmer @POTUS 3).
Earlier in the day, Trump had said it had been »big mistake« to exclude Russia from G7 summits in his first comments in Kananaskis, flanked by @MarkJCarney, Canada’s prime minister.
@epaldelta @RonFilipkowski 1).
On Wed. evening, Oct. 23, 2024, „at an event in Duluth, Ga.” [1], „former @FoxNews host @TuckerCarlson stirred up a crowd of Donald Trump supporters [...]
@epaldelta @RonFilipkowski @FoxNews @TuckerCarlson 2).
with a bizarre extended metaphor that cast former [at that time] President @realDonaldTrump as an angry father about to come home and give a »vigorous spanking« to his disobedient daughter [2] [3] [4].”
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„After Iran’s newly established Islamic leadership was dragged into war by Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein in 1980, it fought, in the words of a top commander, with “empty hands”.
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For the republic’s young, ideologically driven leaders, determined to export their vision of Islamic radicalism, it was a brutal reckoning: Iran’s conventional army was in disarray and faced an adversary backed by regional and western powers.
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Years later, those same leaders admitted the isolated regime was reduced to pleading with the few states that it had relations with for the most basic supplies, such as razor wire.
@threadreaderapp @RonFilipkowski @realDonaldTrump @CBSNews @Reuters 1).
„Vance Boelter, the man accused of shooting two Minnesota Democratic lawmakers and their spouses, was captured late Sunday after a sprawling, two-day manhunt that was the largest in the state’s history, officials said.”
June 16, 2025 [1]
@threadreaderapp @RonFilipkowski @realDonaldTrump @CBSNews @Reuters 2).
„Investigators had pursued the suspect, identified as Vance Boelter, 57, throughout the weekend, as Minnesotans reeled from the killings of Representative Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark Hortman.
@threadreaderapp @RonFilipkowski @realDonaldTrump @CBSNews @Reuters 3).
In a separate attack, the gunman also wounded State Senator John A. Hoffman and his wife, Yvette Hoffman, at their home in the Minneapolis suburbs”.
@talhagin 1).
„Missile barrages fired from Iran overnight caused damage to a major oil refinery in Haifa and to the campus of the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot.
@talhagin 2).
There were no reports of casualties in either strike, which came as Tehran fired separate volleys of dozens of ballistic missiles late Saturday and early Sunday in response to military action Israel has launched against Iran’s nuclear program.
@talhagin 3).
At least 42 people elsewhere in Rehovot were wounded when a missile hit a residential area, destroying at least one apartment building, according to the Magen David Adom rescue service.