[I post these Tucker updates as a courtesy to my subscribers who do not use social media. If you would like to opt out, you can click top right in your subscriber settings] “How did a self-described conservative evangelical like Mike Johnson wind up supporting the anti-Christian policies of the Biden administration? He’s not the only one, as Megan Basham explains.”
I saw the interview and thought it was compelling in defense of Christians. It seems to me that straight white Christian males in particular are the last acceptable category to cast as villains in movies, press and culture. Even our historical role models will be cast to DEI Hell for the crime of being born the wrong sex, color and sexual orientation. One by one they are being deleted from history and culture. From statues melted to portraits destroyed to history revised, they will disappear quickly as their living counterparts are mocked and ostracized. Even the memory of Jesus Christ will be defamed, banned and eventually forgotten in what was once America. But the scary part is that it’s only two generations away.
There is a good article over at The Upheaval where N S Lyons is deconstructing the argument that Christianity is being replaced by neo-Paganism. He argues that the real enemy is soulless materialism. I agree but told him he is ignoring the Islam problem. Whatever you think about Islam, you can't argue that they lack enthusiasm. Since Lyons was at that NatCon conference in Brussels that was temporarily shut down by the Islamic mayor, Emir Kir (not sure whether Emir is a name or a title), I am waiting for his reflections on that.
Over the course of my (politically aware) life, the strength of Christian Nationalism has been, to steal the phrase that Tom Lehrer (History's Greatest American) once employed to describe his fan base, "small, and diminishing". Maybe not really "small", but at least never, even in the beginning, big enough to get its way. The threat to democracy comes from those who claim that Christian Nationalism is a threat to democracy.
There’s a meme that has been around for quite a while where a crudely rendered stick figure *pokes* to instigate. “Come on, do something.” THIS is what they are trying to do. The Spirit of the Age behind all of this hates God, it's the 'march through the institutions'. Your faith better be able to withstand the all wolves and pharisees inside the flock. Many American Evangelicals, sadly, seemed to have skipped what Jesus calls us to in the Sermon on the Mount (Mt.5-7) ...and the fact that we are in the New Covenant.
As Tucker pushes antisemitic conspiracy theories based upon malicious fallacies. Is there a n insidious anti-Christian sentiment poisoning Western culture? Yes. It also targeting observant Hindus and Sikhs who support Modi.
But NOBODY is being threatened , targeted, vilified, persecuted existentially in this despicable moment in history as are the Jews.. And Tucker, with his current reach across the spectrum has caused the most damage. I’m not a fan of politicians who preach religious doctrine as a show of their “ moral righteousness”. A “ righteous” person’s actions speak for their virtuosity. We have houses of worship, parochial schools, religious organizations, outreach… And Tucker has isolated the only entity in the Middle East that welcomes Christians . Where they can practice freely, have equal rights and are actually achieving more in academia than the Jews-Israel! But for whatever reason/s, Tucker is shilling for Hamas,Hezbollah,Houthis,Al Qaeda , Iran.. the most horrific, oppressive, murderous human rights abusers who’s goal is the conquer of the West. They torture and murder their own. The Jews make up less than 2% of the global population. “ Exterminate” them-, get rid of Israel ( the size of New Jersey, the floodgate opens.
Tucker has very little knowledge of history. Even history that has transpired in the past century. He’s unaware of the Palestinian occupation of Jordan that so destabilized the country, it wound up with the slaughter of 25,000 Palestinians before purging the rest. Or the occupation of Lebanon by Palestinian Islamists. Lebanon was the prize of the region. A Christian majority country with a secular society. Or Itan pre1979 Islamist Revolution. Iran was a beautiful , culturally rich nation. Persian, but very modern. Turkey pre-Erdogan Islamists Nor does he appear to have much knowledge of Biblical text- of God’s edicts. That Jesus was a Jew, lived as a Jew and died as a Jew. And that it will end in Jerusalem where the Messiah will rise, which is a belief shared by Jews and Christians alike. The Jews aren’t massacring Christians. They aren’t bombing churches, perpetrating global terror attacks, beheading priests and pastors… they’re not calling for “ Death To The Christians” , stoning women, throwing gays off rooftops or forcing anybody to convert or be killed. They didn’t travel through the Middle East and Africa hacking up Christians, burning them alive, taking their little girls as sex slaves, destroying historical artifacts, churches slaughtering the Christian, Yazidi, Zoastrian,Kurdish, Druze, Bedouin,and pluralist Muslim population. Crucifixions! When did we last hear of crucifixion? Roman times! 2000years ago! Brought back by ISIS. Meanwhile, Tucker seems bent on bringing back the Inquistion. I’d include the Crusades and the Holocaust, but the Crusades was a conflict with Islam and the Nazis were atheist.
Oh yeah! His object of inspiration.. Candace Owens, is not a Christian. She made that clear just a few years in her own words. But like everything the opportunistic grifter embraces at a moment’s notice, it’s all about attention and relevance. Which Tucker seems to have adopted.
The last straw was his asinine podcast with the Palestinian” Pastor”. The Hamas propagandist. With so many fantastic truly Christian clerics so knowledgable and familiar with the region, Tucker finds the false prophet. Reminds me of the Jews who prop up Soros, Finklestein, Zelenskyy, Blinken,Raskin, Bernie, Kissinger and the like. They can’t possibly be antisemites because they’re Jewish. Yeah.
Who most desperately hopes Israel will destroy Iran’s nuclear facilities and take out the Ayatollah terror regime? The Iranian people,Saudi Arabia, Egypt,Bahrain,UAE, Morocco,Yemen,India, Jordan,Mali,Armenia,
So let me get this straight. Christian Nationalists and evangelicals are running to drape the thrice married, incl to the Russian looking and sounding one who was "with child" at the time of the one nighter with a porn star and a longer relationship with a Playmate of the Year, in whiffs of decency. It's like martyring their decency at the hands of the devil. What hypocrisy! What a con!
Tucker reacts, poorly no doubt, to the new anti-Christian documentary, the same week the 1st ever criminal trial of an American ex president gets underway involving the most tawdry of facts including election interference, sex with a porn star, an affair with a Playboy Playmate of the Year around the time his gorgeous 3rd wife and future 1st lady is pregnant with his 5th (her 1st) child.
The elevation of the guy above to the highest office on the planet by Christian nationalists is but one of many, many reasons - but a damn good one - why there are such things as anti-Christian documentaries and other queries about their family values, morals, ability to judge others and recognize when they're being conned (particularly one as obvious as sleepy don) and general decency.
Another bit of hilarity re his 1st of 4th criminal trials, which delay, delay delay is now mercifully underway. Election interference by Trump involves attempting to hush mention of his own tawdry behavior in order to present, or shall we say con one into believing he's a more savory persona. At this point, when hasn't he tried to do this, which is one reason why he's such an obvious con man. Always lying, even about himself, but for the latter at least, always in the most glowing terms. Example, Trump declared he would be the healthiest president ever and his personal physician signed a letter indicating as much. Turns out Trump himself dictated the letter and had doc sign it. A similar story emerged from a doc apptmt once he was president. And who can forget person, woman, man, camera, TV.
By the way, election interference prior to ascending to presidency in 2016 as differentiated from attempting to steal the 2020 election, which in turn has exposed the American judicial system as an entity as political as everything else here. Sometimes hard to keep it all straight I now. So Trump is being elected to bring it all down without much thought as to what to replace it with? After all, he's undermined our faith in electoral infrastructure and justice system of the world's foremost economy based on delusionals and lies.
A major Wake Up Call for the Western World is that the "God" of The Old Testament is Not The Creator of All!!! That has been part of The Big Lie we have been sold for centuries!! A correct translation, as Hebrew Scholar, Mauro Biglino points out, the word we read as "God" in Genesis should have been translated "gods". Not that gives a whole different slant on The O.T. stories!! His book is "The Gods of The Bible". Paul A. Wallis expounds on this in his own book, "The Eden Conspiracy"
What would these "ponderous journalists" think "inalienable rights" mean? If rights cannot be separated from a person's being, who do they think forged that relationship. Of course we Christians believe rights come from God. Everyone has them but never does it exempt anyone from being law abiding. For the secular person, read Thoreau.
I saw the interview and thought it was compelling in defense of Christians. It seems to me that straight white Christian males in particular are the last acceptable category to cast as villains in movies, press and culture. Even our historical role models will be cast to DEI Hell for the crime of being born the wrong sex, color and sexual orientation. One by one they are being deleted from history and culture. From statues melted to portraits destroyed to history revised, they will disappear quickly as their living counterparts are mocked and ostracized. Even the memory of Jesus Christ will be defamed, banned and eventually forgotten in what was once America. But the scary part is that it’s only two generations away.
Thanks for the alert. I appreciate Megan Basham's work.
There is a good article over at The Upheaval where N S Lyons is deconstructing the argument that Christianity is being replaced by neo-Paganism. He argues that the real enemy is soulless materialism. I agree but told him he is ignoring the Islam problem. Whatever you think about Islam, you can't argue that they lack enthusiasm. Since Lyons was at that NatCon conference in Brussels that was temporarily shut down by the Islamic mayor, Emir Kir (not sure whether Emir is a name or a title), I am waiting for his reflections on that.
Over the course of my (politically aware) life, the strength of Christian Nationalism has been, to steal the phrase that Tom Lehrer (History's Greatest American) once employed to describe his fan base, "small, and diminishing". Maybe not really "small", but at least never, even in the beginning, big enough to get its way. The threat to democracy comes from those who claim that Christian Nationalism is a threat to democracy.
There’s a meme that has been around for quite a while where a crudely rendered stick figure *pokes* to instigate. “Come on, do something.” THIS is what they are trying to do. The Spirit of the Age behind all of this hates God, it's the 'march through the institutions'. Your faith better be able to withstand the all wolves and pharisees inside the flock. Many American Evangelicals, sadly, seemed to have skipped what Jesus calls us to in the Sermon on the Mount (Mt.5-7) ...and the fact that we are in the New Covenant.
I remember Rob Reiner on "All In The Family." I enjoyed it as a teenager. It appears to me now, he Really is a "Meat Head."
As Tucker pushes antisemitic conspiracy theories based upon malicious fallacies. Is there a n insidious anti-Christian sentiment poisoning Western culture? Yes. It also targeting observant Hindus and Sikhs who support Modi.
But NOBODY is being threatened , targeted, vilified, persecuted existentially in this despicable moment in history as are the Jews.. And Tucker, with his current reach across the spectrum has caused the most damage. I’m not a fan of politicians who preach religious doctrine as a show of their “ moral righteousness”. A “ righteous” person’s actions speak for their virtuosity. We have houses of worship, parochial schools, religious organizations, outreach… And Tucker has isolated the only entity in the Middle East that welcomes Christians . Where they can practice freely, have equal rights and are actually achieving more in academia than the Jews-Israel! But for whatever reason/s, Tucker is shilling for Hamas,Hezbollah,Houthis,Al Qaeda , Iran.. the most horrific, oppressive, murderous human rights abusers who’s goal is the conquer of the West. They torture and murder their own. The Jews make up less than 2% of the global population. “ Exterminate” them-, get rid of Israel ( the size of New Jersey, the floodgate opens.
Tucker has very little knowledge of history. Even history that has transpired in the past century. He’s unaware of the Palestinian occupation of Jordan that so destabilized the country, it wound up with the slaughter of 25,000 Palestinians before purging the rest. Or the occupation of Lebanon by Palestinian Islamists. Lebanon was the prize of the region. A Christian majority country with a secular society. Or Itan pre1979 Islamist Revolution. Iran was a beautiful , culturally rich nation. Persian, but very modern. Turkey pre-Erdogan Islamists Nor does he appear to have much knowledge of Biblical text- of God’s edicts. That Jesus was a Jew, lived as a Jew and died as a Jew. And that it will end in Jerusalem where the Messiah will rise, which is a belief shared by Jews and Christians alike. The Jews aren’t massacring Christians. They aren’t bombing churches, perpetrating global terror attacks, beheading priests and pastors… they’re not calling for “ Death To The Christians” , stoning women, throwing gays off rooftops or forcing anybody to convert or be killed. They didn’t travel through the Middle East and Africa hacking up Christians, burning them alive, taking their little girls as sex slaves, destroying historical artifacts, churches slaughtering the Christian, Yazidi, Zoastrian,Kurdish, Druze, Bedouin,and pluralist Muslim population. Crucifixions! When did we last hear of crucifixion? Roman times! 2000years ago! Brought back by ISIS. Meanwhile, Tucker seems bent on bringing back the Inquistion. I’d include the Crusades and the Holocaust, but the Crusades was a conflict with Islam and the Nazis were atheist.
Oh yeah! His object of inspiration.. Candace Owens, is not a Christian. She made that clear just a few years in her own words. But like everything the opportunistic grifter embraces at a moment’s notice, it’s all about attention and relevance. Which Tucker seems to have adopted.
The last straw was his asinine podcast with the Palestinian” Pastor”. The Hamas propagandist. With so many fantastic truly Christian clerics so knowledgable and familiar with the region, Tucker finds the false prophet. Reminds me of the Jews who prop up Soros, Finklestein, Zelenskyy, Blinken,Raskin, Bernie, Kissinger and the like. They can’t possibly be antisemites because they’re Jewish. Yeah.
Who most desperately hopes Israel will destroy Iran’s nuclear facilities and take out the Ayatollah terror regime? The Iranian people,Saudi Arabia, Egypt,Bahrain,UAE, Morocco,Yemen,India, Jordan,Mali,Armenia,
So let me get this straight. Christian Nationalists and evangelicals are running to drape the thrice married, incl to the Russian looking and sounding one who was "with child" at the time of the one nighter with a porn star and a longer relationship with a Playmate of the Year, in whiffs of decency. It's like martyring their decency at the hands of the devil. What hypocrisy! What a con!
What hilarious timing!
Tucker reacts, poorly no doubt, to the new anti-Christian documentary, the same week the 1st ever criminal trial of an American ex president gets underway involving the most tawdry of facts including election interference, sex with a porn star, an affair with a Playboy Playmate of the Year around the time his gorgeous 3rd wife and future 1st lady is pregnant with his 5th (her 1st) child.
The elevation of the guy above to the highest office on the planet by Christian nationalists is but one of many, many reasons - but a damn good one - why there are such things as anti-Christian documentaries and other queries about their family values, morals, ability to judge others and recognize when they're being conned (particularly one as obvious as sleepy don) and general decency.
Another bit of hilarity re his 1st of 4th criminal trials, which delay, delay delay is now mercifully underway. Election interference by Trump involves attempting to hush mention of his own tawdry behavior in order to present, or shall we say con one into believing he's a more savory persona. At this point, when hasn't he tried to do this, which is one reason why he's such an obvious con man. Always lying, even about himself, but for the latter at least, always in the most glowing terms. Example, Trump declared he would be the healthiest president ever and his personal physician signed a letter indicating as much. Turns out Trump himself dictated the letter and had doc sign it. A similar story emerged from a doc apptmt once he was president. And who can forget person, woman, man, camera, TV.
By the way, election interference prior to ascending to presidency in 2016 as differentiated from attempting to steal the 2020 election, which in turn has exposed the American judicial system as an entity as political as everything else here. Sometimes hard to keep it all straight I now. So Trump is being elected to bring it all down without much thought as to what to replace it with? After all, he's undermined our faith in electoral infrastructure and justice system of the world's foremost economy based on delusionals and lies.
Thank you Sasha. i am one such non-social-media folk; and i love Tucker.
The only true religion is the woke religion.(sarcasm)
For those interested, Tucker’s on Rogan today.
A major Wake Up Call for the Western World is that the "God" of The Old Testament is Not The Creator of All!!! That has been part of The Big Lie we have been sold for centuries!! A correct translation, as Hebrew Scholar, Mauro Biglino points out, the word we read as "God" in Genesis should have been translated "gods". Not that gives a whole different slant on The O.T. stories!! His book is "The Gods of The Bible". Paul A. Wallis expounds on this in his own book, "The Eden Conspiracy"
What would these "ponderous journalists" think "inalienable rights" mean? If rights cannot be separated from a person's being, who do they think forged that relationship. Of course we Christians believe rights come from God. Everyone has them but never does it exempt anyone from being law abiding. For the secular person, read Thoreau.
The meat on the MEATHEAD is as fresh as ever.
I’ll take my medium rare please.
Yeast