views and thoughts on topics, especially ones pertaining to christianity – with an emphasis on how most christians either ignore or discriminate against unmarried christians – and how christians have turned marriage and parenting into IDOLS and how there is no true support for sexual purity, virginity, or celibacy among christians – this is a blog for me to vent; I seldom permit dissenting views. I don't debate dissenters ————-
I’m a Conservative Immigrant Ready to Challenge the Woke Left – and, No, I Won’t ‘Go Home’ by Helen Raleigh
Excerpts:
For those immigrants who reject its doctrine, the woke left has only detestation
by Helen Raleigh
The woke left has long professed that they love immigrants. But in truth, their love is conditioned on whether the immigrants accept its woke ideology. For those immigrants who reject its doctrine, the woke left has only detestation.
The West Needs a Better System for Identifying Radical Islamists by Tawfik Hamid
The following piece was written by a Muslim who is a self-identifying ex-Islamic Jihadist.
(I conveyed some of the same sentiments as he does in his WSJ article in blog posts here years ago, and on my SoloLoner Twitter account, but the clowns 🤡 at progressive Christian Stephanie Drury’s “Stuff Christian Culture Likes” Facebook group ripped on me years ago for saying the same thing this Muslim guy does here):
(Link): The War on Terror Shifts to ‘Brainistan’ by Tawfik Hamid
Excerpts:
The West needs a better system for identifying radical Islamists and cutting out the religious underpinnings of jihad.
September 10, 2021
Twenty years ago, 19 of my fellow Arab Muslims carried out the worst foreign attack on American soil in history.
Slipping into the country legally and apparently without raising alarm bells among our intelligence and law-enforcement communities, these members of al Qaeda, a radical Islamist group bent on jihad, crashed two commercial airliners into New York’s World Trade Center towers and a third plane into the Pentagon.
They failed with a fourth aircraft because of the actions of courageous and selfless passengers. As a result, nearly 3,000 people were murdered that day, and many more have succumbed to related injuries in the ensuing years.
I mention all this not to recall the obvious, but to make the point that such immense harm to our nation could be effected by a small group of dedicated terrorists.
Yet now, in the name of protecting Afghan nationals who helped our military and intelligence services—and of providing the prospect of better lives to the hundreds of thousands who stream across our southern border this year—we have created conditions favorable to another, perhaps much deadlier terror attack on the U.S.
Sad but true: In the 20 years since 9/11, we have continuously worked to fight only the symptoms of what transpired that horrible day.
[The author goes on to list steps that the U.S. government did to combat Islamic terrorism in the aftermath of 9/11]
Yet here we are, on Sept. 11, 2021, still vulnerable to the same sort of act that transpired 20 years ago despite our enormous expenditure of treasure and precious blood. I guarantee you, among those who are entering our shores and crossing our borders are men hell-bent on dwarfing 9/11 and declaring another victorious jihad.
How do I know this? I was once one of them.
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Why Progressive Christians Are Ineffective and Unpersuasive by P. Heck
I agree with some of this guy’s points, but maybe not all.
He mentions Rachel Held Evans in his post – I think she’s right, for the most part, in her opposition to gender complementarianism, but I think she’s incorrect on other topics.
I have several more things to say below this link and long excerpt:
(Link): Why Progressive Christians Are Ineffective and Unpersuasive by P Heck
Excerpts:
… There is a reason that liberal Christian movements like those championed by Jim Wallis, Rachel Held Evans, Shane Claiborne and others are so ineffective and unpersuasive in American culture.
Rather than seeking to glorify and build the Kingdom of God, they regularly appropriate the language of Scripture to advocate for earthly, largely political causes that never address the principal need of humanity: redemption from sin.
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