I've been building a Baby SkyNet. This will be the thread where I'll show its progress: Here's the theory behind the work: there may be some correlation between how someone looks and their political opinions. This should be self evident since most people make these inferences all the time. The question is whether a machine can learn to do this.

Gospeling in the Current Year
by GloboHomo

a slow drip🧵

𝐀𝐧𝐭𝐢-𝐂𝐫𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐦 is the idea that Cretes are uniquely predisposed to being liars. As defined elsewhere, ethnic sin is either malicious, vainglorious, or separatist, but the anti-Cretism forms of it usually tend toward the malicious.

After being on the losing side of a revolution, the conservative ceases to be a conservative in the proper sense of the word. Instead, he either becomes a counter revolutionary or a collaborator. The Collaborator does not need to buy entirely into the Revolution. In fact, he rarely does. What the Collaborator does, however, is internalize his defeat and begins accepting the frame of the Revolution while questioning specific aspects of its excesses for a time.

The Reformers did not take a "just preach the gospel" approach. They went straight to their national elite and tried to win them over to the Reformation, and what they offered the national elite was something the elite found beneficial vis-à-vis Rome. Today's church leaders are not in the same position. They have nothing to offer the current crop of national and international elite other than offering to smoothly manage Christianity's decline and ensuring that their people don't resist.

This is where we are.

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It’s a living, slow drip #ChristianAmericana thread:

This time it’s WOMEN'S RIGHTS WOMEN (1871) by Robert Lewis Dabney (1820 – 1898)

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🧵 For a brief biographical background sketch see my other Dabney thread:

https://twitter.com/PhilipDerrida/status/1617903150228467714

For perspective, the LCMS is like 5x larger than the PCA. It is very difficult to have so many people in a body in the negative world, especially for cradle Lutherans, who struggle with being labeled haters. Also, your soft antinomian podcasters didn't prep you for this hour. To make a more general remark, because the soft antinomian podcaster phenomenon wasn't confined to Lutherans: it sucks that at the very hour that real leaders with foresight should have been preparing people for what's upon us now, we were plagued with a swarm of antinomians

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It's another living, slow drip #ChristianAmericana thread. 🧵

This time it's RELIGION AND POLITICS (1880) by Lyman Hotchkiss Atwater (1813 – 1883)
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1/115 (+/-) "It [the state] is not bound to protect-immoralities or breaches of the public peace committed in the name of religion, or in obedience to alleged conscientious convictions, however sincere."

Lyman H. Atwater, Religion and Politics (1880) 🇺🇸

"While it is partially true to say that 'white Christians deserve credit for building Western civilization,' it is divisive and exclusionary in that which it leaves out: namely, there is neither Jew nor Greek, as well as the contributions of Jews, Arabs, Asians, and Africans." This type of reaction is a conditioned response

We need to purge the people who believe in transing 3 year olds and the geocentrists from our churches! Both sides have repulsive scientific beliefs and it is the church's duty to purge them both!

Such a "purge" of just the people who buy into "LGBT propaganda" among the "conservative" PCA would see a loss of about half its membership

https://twitter.com/BMcGrewvy/status/1647332391529185286

Data on the views of "Same-sex marriage" among the PCA membership: 40% strongly in favor, 11% was unsure

"Personally, I would rather live in Mayberry than Sodom, but to each their own. I certainly would not want you to fight for turning Sodom into Mayberry."

Lovely compliant leaders we have here

https://twitter.com/JoshBuice/status/1647213305277153282

People need to start picking up on when people are being theonerds for the sake of theonerdery and when they are compromised.

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Hey, it's time for another living, slow drip southern #PresbyAmericana #ChristianAmericana thread. 🧵

This time it's Relation of the State to Christ (1861) by James Henley Thornwell (1812-1862)

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#ProtestantPoliticalTheory

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Debrecen Profession of Faith (1562)

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Peter Mélius Juhász (1536–1572) & Gregory Szegedi (1511–1569), &co.
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A slow drip🧵 (0/IDK)

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It’s another living, slow drip #PresbyAmericana #ChristianAmericana thread🧵

This time it’s The Christian Soldier: A Sermon Commemorative of the Death of Abram C. Carrington (1863) by Robert Lewis Dabney (1820 – 1898)

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Robert Lewis Dabney (1820-1898)—a major figure in 19th century Southern Presbyterianism—was born on March 5, 1820 in Louisa County, Virginia, as the sixth child of Charles and Elizabeth Dabney.

So I've had an influx of new follows (to over 4400!) since my shadow ban ended. To those people, here's what you might expect from this account: 1. A lot of church history quotes + custom gifs. I believe that that 20th century was terrible for theology so I push for RETVRN'n to tradition pretty hard and I use the gits to catch the eyes so you'll get on the RETVRN train too.

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Time for another living, slow drip #PresbyAmericana #ChristianAmericana thread🧵

This time it’s from the sections of Systematic Theology by Charles Hodge (1797 – 1878) in which Hodge argues that America is a Christian and Protestant nation.

Hope you enjoy!

1/130(+/1) For some quick background info: Charles Hodge was born in Philadelphia to a family of Scotch-Irish descent on December 27, 1797 in the aftermath of two Yellow Fever epidemics which claimed the lives of several of his older siblings.

I'm going to be posting some from “Religion and Patriotism: The Constituents of a Good Soldier” by Samuel Davies (1723 – 1761) and thought I should do a little background info. It was a sermon preached to Captain Overton's Independent Company of Volunteers, raised in Hanover County, Virginia August 17, 1755.

#ProtestantPoliticalTheory from THE FIRST BOOK OF DISCIPLINE (1560) by John Knox (ca. 1514 – 1572), John Winram (ca. 1492 – 1582), John Spottiswoode (1510 – 1585), John Willock (†1585), John Douglas (ca. 1494 – 1574), and John Row (ca. 1525 – 1580)

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This is an example of the type of American "Christian Nationalism" that I've been advocating for played out in a local environment, i.e., Philadelphia in the aftermath of the 1793 Yellow Fever crisis.

1/11 It was organized. It was assertive. And it was broadly ecumenical in a way that didn't blur doctrinal differences: it focused on social goods. From the list of signers, I have identified Episcopalian, Presbyterian, Baptist, Lutheran, Moravian, and Methodist ministers. 2/11

#ProtestantPoliticalTheory from the Geneva Students’ Confession (1559) 🧵

0/5 "I confess that God wills that the world be ruled by laws and governments so that the reins are not absent by which the actions of unruly men are restrained."

Geneva Students’ Confession (1559)
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