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Over on Sanityville, we were discussing the podcast “Well-Driven Nails” latest recording on the Crusades, and specifically Martin Luther’s condemnation of the Crusades. One man responded by asking whether Martin Luther wasn’t anti semitic?
My response to his question:
Speciesism, sexism, homophobia, racism, anti semitism, authoritarianism, tyranny; today, the only thing these words stand for is any slightest confession of the corresponding Christian doctrines:
SPECIESISM: “Then God said, ‘Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let them rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the cattle and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth’” (Genesis 1:26).
SEXISM: “[Man] is the image and glory of God; but the woman is the glory of man. For man is not from woman, but woman from man; for indeed man was not created for the woman’s sake, but woman for the man’s sake” (1Corinthians 11:7-9).
BIGOTRY, HOMOPHOBIA HETEROSEXISM: “‘You shall not lie with a male as those who lie with a female; it is an abomination” (Leviticus 18:22).
RACISM: “Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, lazy gluttons. This testimony is true. For this reason reprove them severely so that they may be sound in the faith" (Titus 1:12-13).
ANTISEMITISM: “His blood shall be on us and on our children!” (Matthew 27:25).
AUTHORITARIANISM: “Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they keep watch over your souls as those who will give an account” (Hebrews 13:17).
TYRANNY: “Every person is to be in subjection to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those which exist are established by God. Therefore he who resists authority has opposed the ordinance of God; and they who have opposed will receive condemnation upon themselves” (Romans 13:1-2).
We could continue this list. What is really needed is not tipping our hat to this new constitution (“Won’t Get Fooled Again”) or virtue signalling, but directly attacking the project, particularly when it rears its head within Bibles and the Church. Church officers have steadfastly refused to take these rebellions on, directly or even indirectly, and so now we have the Bibles and gotchas oppressing us even in private Christian discourse.
Take, for instance, this discussion of Martin Luther. What, we’re going to cancel him because he didn’t express himself concerning the Jews the way we judge he ought to have, making our judgment half a millennium later? Why, even historians have begun to wake up to the stupidity of this sort of cheap anachronism. And it’s not because historians have softened towards the historical opposition and criticism and oppression and murder of Jews, but because we understand how difficult it is to understand the thoughts and hearts of men and women five hundred years ago on an issue incredibly controverted today.
One last thing: If the people of God hated and murdered their Messiah, does His blood rest on their children’s children today—just as they cried it down on themselves at the time of the murder? And if so, is it anti semitism to point out their crying down on themselves this generational guilt, but also to read their past and present history of character and sins in light of that guilt?
For myself, I see no way around this and believe such observations and judgments are only the beginning of loving the Jews. Love,
Thanks for posting this, Pastor Tim.
With a strong agreement to the concerns around what happens when Christ becomes “cool,” it makes me feel better that Silicon Valley elites are at least pretending to care about what Christ wants. It has seemed to me that to have that powerful of a force in American (truly, global!) culture totally unmoored from the creator of the universe has been pure ill for planet earth.
The number of inimical fads to emerge from Silicon Valley in the last 10-20 years has been kind of breathtaking.
May God grant courage to the men preaching His word and shepherding there—they will need it.
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Finally got to listen to this. Very clear exposition of a passage that could seem foreign and inapplicable. Convicting. Good applications to modern US life. Loved the tie to God’s love and generosity with us through the cross.
Thank you @andrewlhalsey for the sermon and @tbbayly for recommending it.
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Whatever view of the President’s foreign policy initiatives re Greenland one has, it’s insubordination for Air Force Col. Susan Meyers—commander of US Pituffik Space Base in Greenland—to denounce her Commander in Chief’s policy. Following visit by VPVance, Meyers (a Purdue grad) emailed all US and foreign base personnel:
“I do not presume to understand current politics, but what I do know is the concerns of the U.S. administration discussed by Vice President Vance on Friday are not reflective of Pituffik Space Base.”
When a woman officer in military makes public show of her insubordination to her Commander in Chief, we know rotten condition of US Armed Forces’s submission to civilian authority. Col. Meyers was relieved of base command, but she should be discharged.
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LibElites in hissy fit over voting laws requiring proof of citizenship, writing: “U.S. Constitution imposes no citizenship requirement for voting.”
Great! Since citizenship is no requirement for voting, citizenship grants no right to vote, either.
Reform proposed: Remove the vote from any citizen who receives government payments. Those who live on government $$ should be prohibited from voting. Themselves more $$. Let us restore sanity to our democracy.
Amendments 15, 19, 24, and 26 would pose no problem to removal of voting rights from those living off government funds. Doing so would not be discrimination on basis of race, sex, or age, but simple conflict of interest.
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PresTrump’s "Presidential Address on Holy Week " says, “Through His suffering, we have redemption. Through His death, we are forgiven of our sins. Through His Resurrection, we have hope of eternal life.” Presidential Message on Holy Week, 2025 – The White House
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Want to warn everyone to avoid
@TMobile.
Couple months ago, bought two phones at TMobile store. Deal was phones free with old phones trade-in plus two year contract.
Bills started arriving and they were giving us monthly $25 trade-in credit, but not monthly $58 Free Phone on Us credit.
Called in and hours on phone before supervisor assured me she’d correct it going forward.
She didn’t. Next bill was missing $58 credit again.
Called again and spent hour on phone. Escalated but supervisor refused to give us the credit. Instead she finally agreed to give us a one-time credit that month but then warned it was one-time only, and if we wanted our monthly credit next time, we’d have to call in and fight for it all over again. For third time.
So disheartening and exhausting…
After hours in store and on phone, sure seems @TMobile corporate policy they force on stores and customer service is to deceive, then rip off, their customers.
Watch out!
RE @TMobile: I I kept feeling facial tics from TMobile reminding me of all those years of harrassment by Comcast/Xfinity. LOL
@TMobile has DMd me and said they’ll straighten things out. I’ll report on socials what they end up doing. Hoping they make things right.
What a relief not to be harassed with federal ‘Transgender Day of Awareness’ this Easter.
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Verizon just did something startlingly similar to us—We’ve been Verizon customers for years.
The bait & switch that Verizon pulled was to only give us a pittance for trade-in credit on our old phones, well below what they told us to expect. (They were in decent shape—normal wear & tear for phones that were 4 years old.)
My poor wife had to spend hours on the phone with them to get them to sort it out. Awful.
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Speaking as Protestant and Reformed Christian pastor, for at least the past century Harvard’s influence in our nation has been in direct opposition to the truths held by the Protestant and Reformed Christian pastors who founded it.
With all Ivy League schools, Harvard corrupts our nation morally and spiritually. Little to no veritas at the Square.
So leaving to the side the DEI issue, I rejoice at Harvard getting less of our tax dollars.
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Where Harvard and the Ivy League go, there go all universities in America. Seeing the Trump admin discipline Harvard is tonic. (Your framing of the Trump admin’s actions as discipline is right on, Pastor Tim.) May it inspire red state governors and legislators to do the same. At least 30 years overdue, IMHO.
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@Slate reporting on retrial of Gov. Sarah Palin’s suit against @NYTimes provides this reverential explanation of the TImes oped at issue: “The (NYT) Editorial Board, in characteristic fashion, sensed an opportunity to condemn both ends of the political spectrum.”
“Both ends?” Heaping lies upon lies, Slate must consider readers 2b idiots. The Times is about as bipartisan as a screaming hyena.
First, USA—and now UK. Let us all give praise to God!
Now stop and consider we have PresTrump/ElonMusk to thank for this great reversal in USA and JKRowling in UK. Not one Christian celebrity pastor or writer either in US or UK is known for opposing transex. Think abt that.
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10% of US dairy farms now use robots to milk cows. They say cows are less “stressed” and give more milk. Revolutionizing Dairy Farming: How Robots Benefit Cows & Farmers - IEEE Spectrum
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Just excellent
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