The current political success of MAGA was one of the main purposes of white evangelicalism.

Roll back FDR’s policies via Christianity’s ideas.

Howard Pew, Billy Graham, Carl Henry, Gleason Archer, Harold Lindsell all worked together toward these aims.

Christ was the pawn.🧵 One of the central characters that agitated for a split of the PCUS (that became the PCA), Nelson Bell, was also under Howard Pew’s patronage.

Carl Henry shifted from the hard political right to the covert political right with a façade of moderation.

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There’s so much talk about ESS, but what isn’t talked about as much is creating ideas about the Trinity that create & justify Male Power.

I call it Trinity Ordering™️.

1. Claim equality
2. Say the Father rules
3. Men must rule over women

🧵/1 This book that I quoted is part of the PCA’s official women’s ministry training curriculum.



2/ women.pcacdm.org/training/

Billy Graham, 1985:

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“Millions of young people have no purpose for living and no motivating challenge. And young people are restless, I find. They want a cause. They want a song to sing. They want to flag to follow.”

“Into that type of situation came Hitler—he found Germany with millions of young people unemployed, millions of young people, marching and demonstrating this cause or that cause that vacuum came Hitler and built that mighty military machine that almost conquered Europe and the world.” Graham had similar themes in his crusades all the back in the 1950s.

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https://twitter.com/brucewilson/status/1793428578303893736

On Jan 22, 1986, RJ Rushdoony left a message for Howard Phillips. He invited Phillips to speak at a conference on May 17 in Seattle with 300-400 attendees.

“Crisis of Civilization”

Otto Scott
RE McMaster
RJ Rushdoony

🧵/1 > learn more! This was the 6th annual Northwest Conference for Christian Reconstruction

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How did Francis Schaeffer get rocketed to fame and stardom…and why?

Come see how President Gerald Ford, Amway, oil tycoons and Michigan politics made it happen. 🫣

🧵/1 In 1930, Francis Schaeffer had a conversion experience at a tent revival meeting by Anthony Zeoli.

2/ Hankin ⬇️

Why is the PCA unsafe for women?

Because PCA women are taught this.

“Self-protection is unnecessary”

“We don’t have to resist or fear”

Freedom in Christ = submission

“Trust and obey”

SCARY STUFF

HT @CrazyMom4Him This is just full-on neo-confederate.

Freedom in Christ = slavery to your husband

Suffering is amazing!

Seriously, if someone wanted to try to abuse a woman, this is a great strategy.

I can’t adequately explain how bad this is.

Why do I write constantly about Robert Dabney, a late 19th century enslaver? Because his ideas, thoughts, style, philosophy and doctrine have washed over American evangelicalism.

Neo-confederate ideology.

Come see how.

🧵/1 John Piper has a long history of reading and recommending Confederate theologians.

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https://twitter.com/brmorris/status/1788071313317240901

Francis Schaeffer:

“… the mass media can be used by an authoritarian manipulating government or an elite. The elite gives the arbitrary absolutes and then not only TV, but all the mass media, can be used for manipulation and a plot or conspiracy are not needed.”

“All that is needed is as a people in the places of influence, and those who decide what is the news, have in common, the modern results of humanism— the modern worldview—which we have considered at length in this series.”

The New Right took this strategy and adopted it for themselves to create White Christian Nationalism / Fascism.

-Salem Radio, Bott (D James Kennedy, Focus on the Family, ACLJ)
-Christian book publishers
-CBN, Fox News
-Rush Limbaugh
-Billy Graham & Bill Bright and their films
-on and on

(This started at least in the 1930s with William Randolph Hurst and films and news, although history is full of examples.) Source

So how did Jay Adams, the father of Biblical Counseling (Neuthetic), train his followers to handle a child molester?

Using the words of the Bible!

Get an inside look on how abuse can spread like cancer in the world of ACBC.

TW: CSA

🧵/1 Step 1:

You need to be trained on how to use the words of the Bible to get the intended effect.

“The deliberate, skillful use of the Scriptures in bringing conviction of sin..”

This is the core of Neuthetic Counseling.

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John MacArthur, 2012:

“It is a little strange that we have such an aversion to slavery because historically there have been abuses you know there have been abuses in marriage we don't have an aversion to marriage particularly because there have been abuses.”

“There are parents who abuse their children we don't have an aversion to having children because some parents have been abusive.”

“In any kind of human relationship, there can be abuses, there can also be benefits. For many people—poor people, perhaps people who weren’t educated, perhaps who had no other opportunity working for a gentle, caring, loving Master was the best of all possible worlds. If you had the right master, everything was taken care of.”

[Good thing American enslaved people had a choice.]

“We have to go back and take a more honest look at slavery [apparently others are dishonest] and understand that God has, in a sense, legitimized it when it is handled correctly by saying this is the way that you are to view your relationship with Jesus Christ—the perfect, all wise, all loving, all compassionate, all beneficent Lord—and you willing to be his slave because of such unique care provided by him.”

“Slavery is not objectionable if you have the right master, it is the perfect scenario. Everything you need is need and met in a caring and loving environment where God provides all that we need through Christ. That’s what it means to be a Christian.”

🧵/1 This ideology is called “Neo-Confederate.” It comes straight from Robert Dabney and other Presbyterians that owned people. It’s how they justified what they did.

Douglas Wilson and Steve Wilkins were injecting this ideology into the mainstream of evangelicalism in the 90s.

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https://twitter.com/brmorris/status/1725281040929873984

Francis Schaeffer’s 1982 A Christian Manifesto was not Schaeffer’s original material.

1. John Whitehead, Rushdoony’s disciple, wrote the first draft

2. Accusations of plagiarism were made after publication

Who were the accusers? Reconstructionists.

Come see who and how

🧵/1 First, John Whitehead had been with RJ Rushdoony and studied using Rushdoony’s library, but left team Chalcedon to join Team Schaeffer.

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https://twitter.com/brmorris/status/1750237771350806825

Purity culture — why?

Where did it come from?

Rushdoony & Gothard 👀

Come see how and who else!

Tweet 21 is the 😱

🧵/1 As I was reading Joshua Harris’s book, I see the Rushdoony, Van Til phrases.

“God’s lordship in my life”

And law-obsessed Reformed:

“Obeying Him”
“Please Him”

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Despite what the Moral Majority guys expected, Ronald Reagan decided to side with the NAACP & allow segregated schools to have tax-exemption revoked.

What did RJ Rushdoony say when he got a meeting with Reagan lawyers?

You won’t believe it. 😳😳
Tweet 11 is the shocker.

🧵/1 Falwell, LaHaye, Oral Roberts, Bakker, D James Kennedy, Charles Stanley met with Jimmy Carter in 1980 and were SOOO angry about Carter’s support for equal rights for women (ERA) & Roe v Wade that they decided to get him out of office.

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https://twitter.com/brmorris/status/1738800204621463637

Want to see how

RJ Rushdoony
Howard & Roberta Ahmanson (below)
Marvin Olasky

were able to:

-Get Gingrich to flip congress
-Make Doug Wilson famous
-Get GW Bush elected
-Pave the way for Trcmp

Buckle up!

🧵/1 Howard Fieldstead Ahmanson, Sr died and left Howard, Jr the equivalent of $2.5 billion from a Savings & Loans company.

Howard and Rushdoony became friends and Howard wanted to use this money to spread the Rushdoony “dominion” theology.

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https://twitter.com/brmorris/status/1745660009017491904

Bill Bright, 1986:

“We might also start various ‘front’ groups. One of the most effective Christian movements in the late '60s and early '70s was the Christian World Liberation Front at the University of California, Berkeley.”

🧵/1 > this is nuts, come see Bill Bright, 1986:

“It was organized to counteract the radical movement on campus. Few people knew that its leaders were on the staff of Campus Crusade for Christ.”

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Dane Ortlund, 2012

Reconstructionist?

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“In this marvelously useful book David Bostrom gives all of us back our God-given personhood, coaching us into a clearer and deeper vision of why we are on the planet, according to Scripture. This book has blessed and strengthened me, and it will do the same for you.” Dane Ortlund enforcing the book along side:

Randy Booth (CREC)
Steve Wilkins (League of the South, 2001)
George Grant (Coral Ridge reconstruction)

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This story will blow your mind 🤯, stun, shock and educate.

INSIDE: Paul Pressler, OPC, John Birch Society, NBC News, media intimidation, guns, immigration

Philip Blair Jones, Presbyterian

Don’t miss the end. 😱

🧵/1 Let’s start in Houston Texas in 1962. Philip Blair Jones is the pastor of eight families wanting a church that was “elder-led, conservative in doctrine and evangelistic in outreach…”

They named it Bethel Independent Presbyterian Church.

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bethelofhouston.com/about/our-hist…

So how did Douglas Wilson become famous?

You won’t believe the story.

And don’t miss the last tweet.

🧵/1 Once upon a time, Doug Wilson opens a school & publishing house and starts advertising in World Magazine.

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dougwils.com/books-and-cult…

Let’s play Six Degrees of Greg Bahnsen.

This time — Douglas Wilson.

Bahnsen died in 1995 and DW was still on-the-rise.

🧵/1 It wasn’t until 1996 that Douglas Wilson and the PCA’s Steve Wilkins wrote their slavery apologetics book that seemed to boost their respective profiles.

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https://twitter.com/brmorris/status/1725281040929873984

Bill Bright was deeply influenced and helped by Henrietta Mears, who may be one of the most influential teachers in all of American evangelicalism (believe it or not).

She was head of education at a mega Presbyterian church in Hollywood, CA in the 1940s.

🧵/1 At Mears’s church, Bright met Ronald Reagan’s mother (late 1940s to early 50s) and became Ronald Reagan’s friend during Vietnam War protest days.

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Long before Bill Gothard and RJ Rushdoony and Douglas Wilson — there was Robert Dabney’s umbrella.

God (who is law)
☂️
Church + civil authorities
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Husband
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Wife
☂️
Children

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https://twitter.com/brmorris/status/1626607447065432072

Douglas Wilson’s theology leans heavily on Robert Dabney.

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https://x.com/brmorris/status/1728852369960755425?s=46&t=QEp050jLoWFA7fdG4lKBaw