M. Smith, PhD, MPH, a Christian 👽
@drm-1530.bsky.social
I don't fit neatly in holes people make, especially politically. Confessional Lutheran Christian. Imperfect lover & server of neighbor. Geography and public health nerd. Always a learner, sometimes a student.
If Castro were still here, he could organize Canadians to clean up the pig sty created by the clown people claim is his "son."
January 5, 2025 at 12:04 AM
If Castro were still here, he could organize Canadians to clean up the pig sty created by the clown people claim is his "son."
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In 2024, the filthy rich got way richer. How did you do?
In 2025, the 🫧 will pop.
In 2025, the 🫧 will pop.
January 3, 2025 at 8:19 PM
In 2024, the filthy rich got way richer. How did you do?
In 2025, the 🫧 will pop.
In 2025, the 🫧 will pop.
Reposted by M. Smith, PhD, MPH, a Christian 👽
Reposted by M. Smith, PhD, MPH, a Christian 👽
The idea of “social murder” is super useful, and we need to get comfortable using it. Engels is the best, man - reading him feels like finally acknowledging the obvious reality everyone wants you to ignore
![Engels on 'Social Murder'
When one individual inflicts bodily injury upon another, such injury that death results, we call that deed manslaughter; when the assailant knew in advance that the injury would be fatal, we call this deed murder.
But when society places hundreds of proletarians in such a position that they inevitably meet a too early and an unnatural death, one which is quite as much a death by violence as that by the sword or the bullet; when it deprives thousands of the necessaries of life, places them under conditions in which they cannot live - forces them ... to remain in such conditions until that death ensues which is the inevitable consequence - knows that these thousands of victims must perish, and yet permits these conditions to remain, its deed is murder just as surely as the deed of the single individual ...
Engels, The Condition of the Working Class in England (1845 [1967]), p. 126 (Panther Press)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:jfcht3gt62twn3r32e7bziq4/bafkreifeiogd6watrjgxqrzfsfrujyv4765jeh4why7my2rl76nbnqr5xu@jpeg)
December 5, 2024 at 4:42 AM
The idea of “social murder” is super useful, and we need to get comfortable using it. Engels is the best, man - reading him feels like finally acknowledging the obvious reality everyone wants you to ignore
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Describe your theology in five words (or less)! Mine are:
Crux sola est nostra theologia
(😛)
Crux sola est nostra theologia
(😛)
Describe your theology in five words (or less)! Mine are:
Catholic
Reformed
Sacramental
Liberation
Franciscan
Catholic
Reformed
Sacramental
Liberation
Franciscan
Describe your theology in five words (or less)! Mine are:
Inclusive
Neo-Orthodox(ish)
Reformed
Systematic
Poetic
Inclusive
Neo-Orthodox(ish)
Reformed
Systematic
Poetic
December 4, 2024 at 7:55 PM
Describe your theology in five words (or less)! Mine are:
Crux sola est nostra theologia
(😛)
Crux sola est nostra theologia
(😛)
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Excellent essay I read a few years ago. Those punisher skulls and ar-15 silhouettes have a political purpose, and there's a reason why there's no equivalent on the left.
the US's long slide into modern US men's clothing/trucks/etc is part-and-parcel with idealizing a police force that is distant from the populace, that loves faceless guns and blacked-out cars. No more Andys Griffith or Carls Winslow. Shout out to Nate Powell's essential essay.
About Face
Death and surrender to power in the clothing of men.
popula.com
December 3, 2024 at 9:34 PM
Excellent essay I read a few years ago. Those punisher skulls and ar-15 silhouettes have a political purpose, and there's a reason why there's no equivalent on the left.
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Are you being instructed predominantly by and in the Word? Or do you spend more time with Fox News, CNN, or MSNBC? Again, this is not a legalistic rule, but I think the consumption habits of the Christian (myself included) should be largely Christian, for wisdom's sake. 2/2
December 1, 2024 at 2:10 PM
Are you being instructed predominantly by and in the Word? Or do you spend more time with Fox News, CNN, or MSNBC? Again, this is not a legalistic rule, but I think the consumption habits of the Christian (myself included) should be largely Christian, for wisdom's sake. 2/2
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Reminder: You are unelected individuals pushing an agenda through a “department” not created by Congress or accountable to the American people. Your proposed budget cuts and rollbacks could devastate the systems that keep our air, water, and land safe. 5/6
December 3, 2024 at 2:00 AM
Reminder: You are unelected individuals pushing an agenda through a “department” not created by Congress or accountable to the American people. Your proposed budget cuts and rollbacks could devastate the systems that keep our air, water, and land safe. 5/6
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"Contemporary worship" is the strange idea that we can improve church service music by removing all music from the first nineteen centuries of the apostolic church.
December 2, 2024 at 8:27 PM
"Contemporary worship" is the strange idea that we can improve church service music by removing all music from the first nineteen centuries of the apostolic church.