Matt Childers
@mpchilders.bsky.social
Just here to see if the sky is actually bluer over here.
For a Christian, the debate is over how to best help our neighbors. It becomes distinctly anti-Christian if the debate shifts to whether we should help our neighbors.
April 14, 2025 at 3:40 AM
For a Christian, the debate is over how to best help our neighbors. It becomes distinctly anti-Christian if the debate shifts to whether we should help our neighbors.
History has shown that typically, when corrupt leaders—whether business leaders, pastors, coaches, or even the popular guy who gets a bit drunk—start facing the consequences of their decisions, they pick a fight.
But when politicians pick fights, nations do the fighting.
But when politicians pick fights, nations do the fighting.
April 5, 2025 at 10:05 PM
History has shown that typically, when corrupt leaders—whether business leaders, pastors, coaches, or even the popular guy who gets a bit drunk—start facing the consequences of their decisions, they pick a fight.
But when politicians pick fights, nations do the fighting.
But when politicians pick fights, nations do the fighting.
“I would throw out the old maxim, ‘My country, right or wrong,’ etc., and instead I would say, ‘My country when she is right.’ Because patriotism is supporting your country all the time, but your government only when it deserves it.”
- Mark Twain
- Mark Twain
March 25, 2025 at 4:59 AM
“I would throw out the old maxim, ‘My country, right or wrong,’ etc., and instead I would say, ‘My country when she is right.’ Because patriotism is supporting your country all the time, but your government only when it deserves it.”
- Mark Twain
- Mark Twain
I have been in some sort of leadership for a long time, one thing has always been true:
You will find forgiveness for being wrong, but never an apology for being treated wrong when you were right.
You will find forgiveness for being wrong, but never an apology for being treated wrong when you were right.
March 11, 2025 at 3:56 PM
I have been in some sort of leadership for a long time, one thing has always been true:
You will find forgiveness for being wrong, but never an apology for being treated wrong when you were right.
You will find forgiveness for being wrong, but never an apology for being treated wrong when you were right.
Having owned a Tesla since 2018, it’s been weird being protested by the truck nuts brigade because they thought I was part of the coexist crowd, only to now be protested by the coexist crowd because they think I’m part of the truck nuts brigade.
March 9, 2025 at 2:27 AM
Having owned a Tesla since 2018, it’s been weird being protested by the truck nuts brigade because they thought I was part of the coexist crowd, only to now be protested by the coexist crowd because they think I’m part of the truck nuts brigade.
Reposted by Matt Childers
Yall better be both sharing the Stand up for Science posts /and/ figuring out how to get your butt to one of them!
@standupforscience.bsky.social
@standupforscience.bsky.social
March 3, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Yall better be both sharing the Stand up for Science posts /and/ figuring out how to get your butt to one of them!
@standupforscience.bsky.social
@standupforscience.bsky.social
A pro-life person who is anti-vaccine is like a vegan who is pro-hamburger.
February 27, 2025 at 2:09 PM
A pro-life person who is anti-vaccine is like a vegan who is pro-hamburger.
“[T]otalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty.”
- hannah arendt
- hannah arendt
February 23, 2025 at 10:35 PM
“[T]otalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty.”
- hannah arendt
- hannah arendt
There is a point where focusing on the supposed good in the face of the bad crosses into just endorsing the bad. Like someone telling a woman being beaten by her boyfriend, ‘You need to overlook his flaws because at least he buys you flowers on Valentine’s.’
February 13, 2025 at 9:15 PM
There is a point where focusing on the supposed good in the face of the bad crosses into just endorsing the bad. Like someone telling a woman being beaten by her boyfriend, ‘You need to overlook his flaws because at least he buys you flowers on Valentine’s.’
Can you imagine if the Biden administration allowed the Justice Department to do this in small town Ohio in the name of finding a January 6 participant?
Sweeping up Puerto Ricans - automatic U.S. citizens - in immigration raids doesn't exactly back up the idea that it's all about making sure immigrants are following the law. ICYMI @adriancarrasquillo.bsky.social: www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-depo...
Trump’s Deportation Dragnet Widens and Puerto Ricans Are Getting Caught in It
The collateral damage increasingly appears to be lawful U.S. citizens.
www.thebulwark.com
February 10, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Can you imagine if the Biden administration allowed the Justice Department to do this in small town Ohio in the name of finding a January 6 participant?
"[P]etty quarrels with neighbors, films, football, beer, and above all, gambling filled up the horizon of their minds. To keep them in control was not difficult."
-George Orwell | 1984
#superbowl
-George Orwell | 1984
#superbowl
February 9, 2025 at 7:46 PM
"[P]etty quarrels with neighbors, films, football, beer, and above all, gambling filled up the horizon of their minds. To keep them in control was not difficult."
-George Orwell | 1984
#superbowl
-George Orwell | 1984
#superbowl
Reposted by Matt Childers
Whenever you hear someone sneer about scientific research that seems useless to them — “they’re studying the spit of lizards?!” — remind them that’s exactly how we got Ozempic.
globalnews.ca/news/9793403...
globalnews.ca/news/9793403...
How a Canadian scientist and a venomous lizard helped pave the way for Ozempic - National | Globalnews.ca
In 1984, Dr. Daniel Drucker, an endocrinologist from the University of Toronto, discovered a hormone that helped pave the way for popular diabetes drugs such as Ozempic.
globalnews.ca
February 9, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Whenever you hear someone sneer about scientific research that seems useless to them — “they’re studying the spit of lizards?!” — remind them that’s exactly how we got Ozempic.
globalnews.ca/news/9793403...
globalnews.ca/news/9793403...
$92 BILLION
The estimated money embezzled by Christian clergy every year.
Be careful pointing out specks in your government agency’s eye, fellow Christians.
The estimated money embezzled by Christian clergy every year.
Be careful pointing out specks in your government agency’s eye, fellow Christians.
February 7, 2025 at 7:10 AM
$92 BILLION
The estimated money embezzled by Christian clergy every year.
Be careful pointing out specks in your government agency’s eye, fellow Christians.
The estimated money embezzled by Christian clergy every year.
Be careful pointing out specks in your government agency’s eye, fellow Christians.
When the founders were thinking about religious freedom, they were mostly trying to solve the problem of Christians persecuting other Christians.
February 6, 2025 at 3:58 PM
When the founders were thinking about religious freedom, they were mostly trying to solve the problem of Christians persecuting other Christians.
President Trump is Uncle Rico if he somehow got a chance to play in the Super Bowl.
a man in a blue shirt is talking about how much you wanna make a bet
ALT: a man in a blue shirt is talking about how much you wanna make a bet
media.tenor.com
February 5, 2025 at 3:13 AM
President Trump is Uncle Rico if he somehow got a chance to play in the Super Bowl.
Don’t claim you want the government to be more ‘pro-life’ and simultaneously condone this action.
www.christianitytoday.com/2025/02/usai...
www.christianitytoday.com/2025/02/usai...
Is This the End of USAID? - Christianity Today
Christian partners around the world—suddenly fired, defunded, and without answers—worry that the new administration is done with the development agency.
www.christianitytoday.com
February 4, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Don’t claim you want the government to be more ‘pro-life’ and simultaneously condone this action.
www.christianitytoday.com/2025/02/usai...
www.christianitytoday.com/2025/02/usai...
DODGE is like the guy with a $1,500/month truck payment who texts his wife, outraged that she spent money on coffee with her friends—while he’s sitting at the bar having beers with his buddies.
February 3, 2025 at 6:44 PM
DODGE is like the guy with a $1,500/month truck payment who texts his wife, outraged that she spent money on coffee with her friends—while he’s sitting at the bar having beers with his buddies.
February 1, 2025 at 5:19 PM
When someone understands the Christian principle of ‘ordered loves’ as a way to avoid showing love.
“So you’re telling me there’s a chance not to love this person?!”
“So you’re telling me there’s a chance not to love this person?!”
January 31, 2025 at 9:50 PM
When someone understands the Christian principle of ‘ordered loves’ as a way to avoid showing love.
“So you’re telling me there’s a chance not to love this person?!”
“So you’re telling me there’s a chance not to love this person?!”
"What people revere, they resemble, either for ruin or restoration." - G. K. Beale
January 29, 2025 at 9:40 PM
"What people revere, they resemble, either for ruin or restoration." - G. K. Beale
The confusion is the point.
January 29, 2025 at 6:35 PM
The confusion is the point.
Me when my wife reads the news and asks, “do you think this will lead to violence?”
January 23, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Me when my wife reads the news and asks, “do you think this will lead to violence?”
Modern ish interpretation of
Luke 18:11
The Pharisee stood up and prayed: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like other people—robbers, evildoers, adulterers—or even like this person who voted differently than me.
Luke 18:11
The Pharisee stood up and prayed: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like other people—robbers, evildoers, adulterers—or even like this person who voted differently than me.
January 23, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Modern ish interpretation of
Luke 18:11
The Pharisee stood up and prayed: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like other people—robbers, evildoers, adulterers—or even like this person who voted differently than me.
Luke 18:11
The Pharisee stood up and prayed: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like other people—robbers, evildoers, adulterers—or even like this person who voted differently than me.
Bullies always think they are the ones being bullied by the person standing up to them.
January 23, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Bullies always think they are the ones being bullied by the person standing up to them.