I wasn’t raised to reject Christianity.
I was raised to be quietly embarrassed by it.

I grew up in a progressive, educated, deeply liberal environment.
Oakland, and San Francisco, with most of my extended family in Berkeley in the Bay Area of California.

Christianity was never explicitly banned or mocked.
Instead it was just treated like something you didn’t want to be caught taking too seriously.

Even the religious side of my family (Catholic, practicing) had some traditions surrounding Easter, and Christmas, but during the rest of the year? Most mentions of God or faith with a kind of apologetic whisper.

You could have faith, sure.
But don’t build your worldview on it.
Don’t base your logic, your politics, your arguments on it.
Don’t bring it up in serious conversations.
That wasn’t “smart.” That wasn’t “scientific.”
That was… Very cringe.

There was this unspoken agreement in the progressive culture I grew up in.
You can be Christian, but keep it to yourself.
And whatever you do, don’t act like it’s true in a way that matters.

And so while my mom absorbed some of the ideas and stories through what almost amounts to osmosis, I was not raised with any real roots in Jesus.
Not due to rebellion, just through the emotional atmosphere.

It wasn’t that I rejected Jesus.
It’s that I actively tried to quietly distance myself from Him.
To keep Him in the “spiritual feelings” category, not the “truth” category.

But, he started coming from me when I was fourteen, and never really stopped. (but that's another story.)

It's taken decades, and witnessing the death of a martyr for me to finally grow comfortable talking about anything related to faith, but here we finally are.

Everything I’m about to say in this thread, every argument, every conviction, goes against what I was taught growing up.

Instead it's what I have come to believe after years of watching our culture collapse from the front lines, and finally being willing to say what I understand to be the reasons why.

I didn’t grow up believing Christianity was the foundation of civilization.
But now I’d stake my life on it.

And if we don’t remember the root…
we’re going to lose the fruit. We live in a culture that loves the Fruits of Christianity.
But is busy poisoning the tree they grew from.

We love human rights.
We love scientific progress.
We love freedom of conscience, equal dignity, and moral outrage at injustice.

But secular thought wants to pretend those things just exist. That they’re universal, self-evident, maybe even repressed in some way by the rigidity and discipline you in organized religious thought.

But if you study history, you realize that they are not.

Every time a human community grows beyond 100-150 people, something shifts.
(This is often referred to as Dunbar’s Number, rooted in evolutionary psychology and anthropology)

That warm, cooperative, tribal closeness we romanticize?
Well, it starts to break down.
You need more structure.
More rules.
More enforcement.

And like clockwork, societies default to hierarchy, control, and fear.
Usually with some god-king, priest-class, or centralized elite at the top.

This is not because people are evil. It’s because we’re human, and scale changes everything.
And for most of history, that was just accepted.

Power rules.
The strong lead.
The rest submit.

Until something happened.

Christianity didn’t erase hierarchy, but it DID put the king under God.

It said every soul mattered.
That rulers would be judged.
That the meek would inherit the earth.

It didn’t perfect the system.
But it changed the moral architecture of the system in a way that’s never been reversed.

This does not mean we've ever actually lived up to the idealized standards that this Christianity sets for us.
Far from it.
Christian men and women have stumbled, and fumbled their way along the last two thousand years making countless amounts of mistakes.
Just as we all do throughout the course of our lives.

But the resonant hum of light that guided the ultimate goal has walked humanity down a path of light that many of us have forgotten the source of.

And now we take those ideas, about rights, personhood, and justice, for granted.
As if they were inevitable.

America isn’t just a country.
It’s the civilizational experiment of Christianity in action.

Not as a theocracy.
But as a Representative Republic.
Not perfection, but with intentions formed by Christian principles .

On law.
On personhood.
On freedom
On justice

It set loose onto history what would happen when a people who are free to speak their voice free from tyranny, and use them to shape the future for themselves and their children.

Where else has this been done?
Not perfectly. Not cleanly. But honestly?
What other nation built this much moral structure on faith-rooted liberty?

And here we are now: enjoying the fruit, while hacking at the root.

I was raised being taught through culture that Christianity is oppressive, outdated, anti-intellectual, even dangerous.

But I’ve now realized: when you pull back the cultural curtain and trace where our best ideas actually came from… you see it.
This house was built on the foundation of faith.
And it cannot stand for long in secularism.

If we forget the root, we will lose the fruit.
The sweetness growing ever more bitter.
Until soon it stops sustaining us altogether.

It’s been two weeks since the assassination attempt on Charlie Kirk.
Two short weeks.
And two long weeks.

On Sunday the nation witnessed what was, for millions, a beautiful and cathartic day full of talk about Jesus and forgiveness.

But by Tuesday Jimmy Kimmel was back on the air with an apology that sideskipped the real problem, and
California's Governor, Gavin Newsom, was spewing what translated to unmitigated rage toward ICE, calling them part of an authoritarian regime.

And by Wednesday we've had another shooting. This time at an ICE facility in Dallas, Texas.

And of course, right on cue, we've got the media telling us there's 'no conclusive evidence' that confirms the political motivations (if any) of the shooter.

In short, nothing has changed.
If anything they have just doubled down.

I wish I could say I was surprised. But I'm not.
What we are seeing is the long tail of mass psychological programming.

It's called Trump Derangement Syndrome.
And it’s not a joke; it is a very real problem.
But what is TDS?
What causes it?
Who's susceptible?
(1🧵) Trump Derangement Syndrome is not really about Trump.

It's about what happens when someone’s ego, worldview, and moral identity get threatened by something they can’t control, and instead of integrating the dissonance, they externalize it into hate.

I don't claim to have all the answers, but I do have many observations and theories based both on recovering from my own case of it, as well as my personal interactions with so many friends and family suffering from it over the last decade or so.

Of before I go any further I need to put the course it's important to note that not everyone who dislikes Trump is suffering from TDS, and not everyone who suffers from it is capable of violence.

But for those that are, the propaganda wing of the Democratic party has been working overtime to whip them up into what is fair to call a frenzy.
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🧵 The Hunter Biden Thread.

A bit of backstory on why I decided to write this thread:
The other night I got into a heated discussion with my brother about the 'Hunter Biden Laptop Story'. I mentioned that it's been confirmed as true, and he strongly pushed back on this idea.

Like most members of my family he votes Democrat, so it's very fair to say we don't see eye to eye politically, but we do try to respect each other.

Well, last night the respect was stretched thin, so I decided I needed to have my sources lined up for our next discussion on the matter.

So with that explanation, and introduction...
Welcome to an ridiculously long thread about Hunter Biden, his laptop, and whatever else seemed relevant to include.😂 1🧵The Original Story Drops
In October 2020, the New York Post published their bombshell report on Hunter Biden's laptop.

The story revealed emails indicating that Hunter Biden introduced Vadym Pozharskyi, a Ukrainian businessman and adviser to Burisma, to his father, then-Vice President Joe Biden.

This revelation raised concerns about potential conflicts of interest and contradicted Joe Biden's previous statements that he never discussed overseas business dealings with his son.

The emails detailed several interactions:

April 17, 2015 Email: Vadym Pozharskyi thanked Hunter Biden for arranging a meeting with Joe Biden. This suggested that Joe Biden might have been involved in discussions related to Hunter's business dealings.

May 2014 Email: Pozharskyi asked Hunter for "advice on how you could use your influence" on behalf of Burisma. This indicated that Burisma was seeking to leverage Hunter Biden's connections to influence US policy.

The laptop containing these emails was reportedly dropped off at a repair shop in Delaware and never picked up. The shop owner, who discovered the emails, provided a copy of the hard drive to Rudy Giuliani's lawyer, and the original was later seized by the FBI.

The implications of these emails were significant, suggesting possible misuse of political influence and raising ethical questions about the Biden family's business dealings.