this is a rly salutary thread for “stoles to the protests” type christians esp white ones who think doing so will make us the conscience of the government/nation (it won’t and shouldn’t)—we love to speak to important ppl to feel important. but I have a concern about it also:
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— FrJosh \U0001f4af (@tweetmobb) January 9, 2021
Uncomfortable reality:
\u201cSpeaking truth to power\u201d is not the primary mode of Gospel witness, simply because it isn\u2019t the way Jesus operates.
Brought before both Pilate and Herod, the two main embodiments of worldly power in the Gospels, He was nearly silent.
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Also, it's telling how much the horrible, illegal attacks on the Capitol have made establishment DC and its permanent bureaucracy quake in their boots.
U.S. State Department diplomats and staff have expressed outrage at Secretary of State Mike Pompeo\u2019s failure to acknowledge, much less protest, President Trump\u2019s role in inciting rioters who laid siege to the Capitol.https://t.co/NvjcKSpta9
— The New York Times (@nytimes) January 12, 2021
GP The bureaucrats have always assumed they were untouchable, unassailable, protected. They assumed things would never change and that people in the hinterlands could safely be ignored forever because they're backwards hick Jesus-loving gun clingers and too dumb to listen to.
GP Government's overall disregard for ordinary Americans from treating us like bottomless wallets to trying to force us to believe as they do to ignoring basic legal and constitutional restraints on their actions built resentment over time and DC was blind to it.
GP When the hicks from the sticks got Trump elected, DC fought back against Trump and by extension them with everything at its disposal. Media pushed made up crap to hamstring Trump. Biden and Obama secretly used government to torment and assail an incoming administration.
That morning, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey was recorded in a Project Veritas sting video admitting to purging accounts of Trump supporters and promising it was going to get much bigger.
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