When people walked away from Jesus, he let them do so. Jesus called us to follow; he didn't order anyone to march.
7/7

Jesus specifically rejected an earthly kingdom, and not so we could use his name to take one for ourselves. Frankly, the entire "Christian nation" claim is a blasphemous attempt to usurp Jesus' authority for worldly power.
6/7

Make no mistake, I'm pretty socially-conservative, but that applies to me and my church, not non-believers. I don't mistake secondary and tertiary teachings for the Gospel itself.
5/7

The attempts to make Charlie Kirk into a supposed martyr for this false gospel is a new aspect of the subversion. We can mourn life taken while also rejecting his message, built on false idols of power, wealth, and fame.
4/7

As a result, they are making a new false gospel of conservative American social norms, strict gender norms, fear of the stranger, wealth, power, fame, heterosexuality, marriage, family, guns, protection for the powerful, and us vs. them.
3/7

Jesus' message of salvation from sin and death, loving your neighbor, mercy, care for the stranger, peace, and justice for the downtrodden remains the same, but this Gospel doesn't help those who want to gain worldly power.
2/7

Kirk and MAGA have cheered violence when they think it helps them (Jan 6), so they don't get to point fingers when it comes back to bite them.

Adding on eople need to not take the rhetoric seriously that suggests Democrats or other opposition are responsible for Charlie Kirk's shooting. It's blatant hypocrisy to ignore that Kirk, like many MAGA, has been prominently supporting violent rhetoric and the proliferation of guns for years.

And I'll argue it's for the better. My kids don't get the useless busywork I drowned in back then.

What's with the confusion? I had classes where they taught me to take notes, in middle and high school, 30+ years ago.

Why are teachers finding it strange that they have to teach studying skills, too? It's not the kids' fault if no one taught them the skills

"The good person out of the good treasure of the heart produces good, and the evil person out of evil treasure produces evil; for it is out of the abundance of the heart that the mouth speaks." Luke 6:45

“No good tree bears bad fruit, nor again does a bad tree bear good fruit; for each tree is known by its own fruit. Figs are not gathered from thorns, nor are grapes picked from a bramble bush." Luke 6:43-44

I almost picture Calvin and Hobbes saying it while taking their wagon down their ramp, then commenting on how painfully the grass touched them back, or how unloving the grass itself was, at the end.

How that would look in your own version, I have no idea.

This feels like a very Watterson-esque sort of comic.

Adding on, one of the weirdest things is when they post stuff that seems to indicate they don't know how to swing a tool, while fetishizing it. Like this guy, with an AI image of himself splitting wood with the wrong kind of ax, in a bad stance that would end with him hitting himself in the crotch.

I'm a guy who likes a lot of traditionally "masculine" types of things, and the "masculinity" influencers are so weird to me. All they seem to do is work out in the gym and then post posed photos/videos/AI-junk.

Growing up, it was physical labor, not gym memberships, that were "masculine".