Hey @josiahhawthorne.bsky.social, we're gonna need a Christian Bluesky map.

Christians spending their energy grasping for power instead of loving their neighbors won't result in a society influenced by the love of Christ. At best it will result in a society that reluctantly acquiesces to forced cultural practices.

Wanna make America great? Proceed in humility. Listen. Consider others as more important than yourself. Love others as yourself. Treat others as you want to be treated.

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Use a GIF to show me where you’re from.

I'm a diehard @cowboyfb.bsky.social fan. But this year has been so disheartening, I barely even care to watch. Something has to change.

Yes please!

I'm intrigued!

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First time smoking a turkey. 🤤

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I just saw an ad for reusable toilet paper.

Christian Nationalists use "Christ is King" to announce a reign of terror against non-Christian Nationalists.

Christians use "Christ is King" as an invitation to all people into the merciful reign of a loving God.

Happy, "completely made up story to lie about our relationship to the native Americans in hopes to heal the rift caused by the civil war but damn these Greens and Mac and cheese are SLAPPIN" day.

Happy cognitive dissonance day.

A word for turkey (the bird) in Turkey (the country) is hindi.
A word for turkey (the bird) in Hindi (the language) is tarki.

And the scary question is, what if they kind of even like that? What if the division that is revealed at the end of all of it turns out to be the logical conclusion of everything they were after? /End

What if, in the end, they have so dehumanized everyone else who doesn't fit their categories that they are the only ones left standing. And what if they look around and are all alone?
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What if they begin to narrow their circles until no one can actually be a part anymore? What if it begins with a desire to exclude on the basis of doctrine, but then extends to culture and customs, and then to ethnicity and gender?
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What if, as fundamentalists seek to separate themselves from everyone not like them, who in their eyes just aren't quite holy enough, God begins to give them over to their own desires?
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What if the sins listed in Romans 1 are not the only ones that work this way, though? What if the sins of fundamentalism work very much the same way?
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🧵Romans 1 spells out a way that God gives people over to their carnal desires. Fundamentalists love to point to that passage to condemn people (while ignoring Romans 2).
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People in positions of spiritual authority who abuse will continue abusing as long as they are idolized and affirmed by infatuated followers. #bozlaw

Course-correction without attempts towards restitution and reconciliation is not full repentance.

You can't just leave a wake of destruction in your path and then say you've changed so it should all somehow be ok now.

Is that a Westie?

It seems like Trump's picks for leaders of health-related fields are people who would be likely to allow him to experiment with injecting bleach or shining bright lights at people to fight contagious diseases.

Isn't DOGE going to be eliminating that position soon?

@danielwalbert.bsky.social glad you're here, Dan!

America First.

Christian if it doesn't in any way conflict with #1.

Also, only American if it fits certain criteria.

Am I doing this w̵h̵i̵t̵e̵ right?

Growing up in a cultural Christian environment means you have to deconstruct the tendency to depend on the culture to make you righteous and understand that only Jesus can do that.

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

Word of the day is ‘sequaciousness’ (16th century): the slavish and reckless following of another person in matters of thought or opinion.