I'm going to have to draw the line here. And, that's in reaction to a piece from, of all people, Greg Sargent - whom I regard as perhaps the @washingtonpost's top regular political columnist.
A text search shows the words "Christian","evangelical","fundamentalist" are absent...
Marjorie Taylor Greene approved of executing Dems, yet she'll get little to no punishment. But the story here is much bigger: GOP failure to police extremists goes back half a century.
— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) January 28, 2021
\u201cThe dictum now is \u2018No enemies to the right,'" @RuleandRuin tells me:https://t.co/DTlzGomy5h
See, I knew that would happen. It was transactional...
And it was so. In early 2017 I wrote this: https://t.co/mabl2EQnem
Over the next few years, covering Drollinger's thingy become quite a media cottage industry. Predictably, none of the pieces mentioned mine
Many in the horde who stormed the US Capitol would have been (probably quite unaware) under Rushdoony's ideological sway. And there was another major influence in play as well...
This is because coverage of the Christian right has been so thin, and patchy, so a very old piece might be..
Covering the planned January 6th rally (which became a coup attempt) journalist Bob Smietana, writing for Christianity Today, noted the planned "Jericho March": https://t.co/ZpQ2QqItpG
Without getting bogged down in endless details., what you to know is that these rituals are quite new, and associated with...
Top scholars who study this movement, technically known as the "3rd Wave"...
The 3rd Wave is as radically different from traditional Christianity as was (and is) the Church of the Latter Days Saints (the Mormon Church.
A definitive academic reference work for global Christianity, laid down 2 decades ago, is "World Christian Trends AD30 - AD2200"
According to this work, by the year 2000 there were 295 million Third Wave Christians globally...
In the late 90s, leaders in the 3rd Wave began to organize their movement, starting to give it the very rough framework...
And there were prophets, too, who talked directly to god & got specific teachings and instructions.
One key figure who helped pull this whole NAR thing together was an evangelist named C. Peter Wagner, who started out his..
The end product is the 3rd Wave, whose prophets can literally receive
Now, imagine wielding that power as *a political weapon*.
Because that's exactly how the NAR uses it.
BUT, he told them, *our prophets tell us it's wrong*.
And, I know just who one of those prophets is.
So, how do you think people in Wagner's & Engle's movement...
I have no indication whatsoever that the producers of "Jesus Camp" had the faintest inkling of who Lou Engle *really* was, nor did anybody with any size megaphone anywhere (except people in the NAR, of course.)
As I said, there were two main tendencies at work - one, very diffuse but *very* pervasive were the ideas of Rushdoony & his Christian Reconstructionists.
Now, remember that memo, from...
Well, I cross referenced the names from the CNP committee that sent DeVos the memo, and quite a few of them were associated with the "Coalition on Revival" the true significance of which was..
We know this, in part, because one of the top leaders in COR, a highly entertaining raconteur of a man named Colonel V. Doner...
COR very efficiently spread CR ideas widely among fundamentalists and evangelicals...
One key group that COR spread CR ideas to were the charismatics. C. Peter Wagner (a new convert to charismania) & other...
Back in the 90s, a researcher & journalist named Frederick Clarkson noticed that Christian Reconstructionist ideas were spreading to charismatics...
Well, here's one of those - see the subsection of this long 1994 article, towards the end, titled "No longer without Sheep": https://t.co/DbEwgHfxzl
They were always numerically tiny, but no matter - they now have "sheep", millions in fact, weaned on CR-derived visions of...
Now, for the wonkishly-inclined reader, here's a 2011 continuation of Frederick Clarkson's line of thought, from the website Fred & I co-founded in 2005:
"The Rise of Charismatic Dominionism (Updated)": https://t.co/RW0LH4xnYP
One of the most colorful entrances of the NAR, and its brand of Charismatic Dominionism into US national politics was when John McCain picked Sarah Palin as his VP running mate in the 2008 election.
You see, Palin was....
Now, "Assemblies of God" are churches in one of the major Pentecostal denominations. But, as I suggested, one of the...
Wagner & his crowd, for all their magical woo ideas, are surprisingly organizationally & technologically cutting edge.
You wouldn't think that, of a movement
But, I've got footage of C. Peter Wagner giving a lecture, at a big South Korean church in 1993.
Most people...
At the very start of the footage, you'll see somebody in the audience transcribing Wagner's talk, on an *extremely early* laptop that doesn't even seem to have a rollerball or a trackpad.
To give you an example - during the 2016, one evangelical...
Guess who was funding this?..
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global health policy in 2020 has centered around NPI's (non-pharmaceutical interventions) like distancing, masks, school closures
these have been sold as a way to stop infection as though this were science.
this was never true and that fact was known and knowable.
let's look.
above is the plot of social restriction and NPI vs total death per million. there is 0 R2. this means that the variables play no role in explaining one another.
we can see this same relationship between NPI and all cause deaths.
this is devastating to the case for NPI.
clearly, correlation is not proof of causality, but a total lack of correlation IS proof that there was no material causality.
barring massive and implausible coincidence, it's essentially impossible to cause something and not correlate to it, especially 51 times.
this would seem to pose some very serious questions for those claiming that lockdowns work, those basing policy upon them, and those claiming this is the side of science.
there is no science here nor any data. this is the febrile imaginings of discredited modelers.
this has been clear and obvious from all over the world since the beginning and had been proven so clearly by may that it's hard to imagine anyone who is actually conversant with the data still believing in these responses.
everyone got the same R
these have been sold as a way to stop infection as though this were science.
this was never true and that fact was known and knowable.
let's look.
above is the plot of social restriction and NPI vs total death per million. there is 0 R2. this means that the variables play no role in explaining one another.
we can see this same relationship between NPI and all cause deaths.
this is devastating to the case for NPI.
clearly, correlation is not proof of causality, but a total lack of correlation IS proof that there was no material causality.
barring massive and implausible coincidence, it's essentially impossible to cause something and not correlate to it, especially 51 times.
this would seem to pose some very serious questions for those claiming that lockdowns work, those basing policy upon them, and those claiming this is the side of science.
there is no science here nor any data. this is the febrile imaginings of discredited modelers.
this has been clear and obvious from all over the world since the beginning and had been proven so clearly by may that it's hard to imagine anyone who is actually conversant with the data still believing in these responses.
everyone got the same R
this methodology is a little complex, so let me explain what i did.
— el gato malo (@boriquagato) May 30, 2020
a few EU countries provide real day of death data. this lets us plot meaningful curves to show rate of disease change.
what struck me is how similar all the curves were.
everyone got the same shape. pic.twitter.com/bN0hILzoSl
I’ll address every nonsense argument and lie used to defend the suicidal gender ideology Thats in vogue today:
3:45 - “So what if you don’t have gametes?”
It’s called a birth defect. You’re still male or female.
~5:00 *nonsense trying to say the sexes of seahorses could be swapped coz male carry the eggs*
male doesn’t produce eggs, he produces the sperm. He’s still the male. If I impregnated a chick then carried the amniotic sac in a backpack ‘til the baby was done I’ll still be male🤦♂️
5:10 - we could say there’s 4 sexes of fruit fly cause there’s 3 producers of different sized sperm
No. They’re still producing sperm. They’re males. This is idiotic. Is this whole video like this? (Probably. 99% likely. Abandon hope.)
~6:10 - hermaphroditism and sequential hermaphroditism exists therefore....
No. Some animals being hermaphrodites, which is meaningless w/o the existence of binary sex to contrast it to, still doesn’t make gender ideology or transgenderism valid.
Intersex ≠ transgenderism 🙄
6:20 - bilateral gynandromorphism is a disorder in some species (not in humans). Has nothing to do w/ “gender” or transgenderism.
Ova-testes in humans are also a disorder, usually found in those w/ the karyotype disorders that you ppl also try to appropriate (extra X’s/Y’s).
3:45 - “So what if you don’t have gametes?”
It’s called a birth defect. You’re still male or female.
*one horrible doctor does a horrible thing* "oh I guess gender is horrible" miss me with that transphobic nonsense
— Goob \u26a1 (@Goob999) February 17, 2021
Here's a video to even disprove your take on sex (not gender) and the binary:https://t.co/bpmqqJWoJX
~5:00 *nonsense trying to say the sexes of seahorses could be swapped coz male carry the eggs*
male doesn’t produce eggs, he produces the sperm. He’s still the male. If I impregnated a chick then carried the amniotic sac in a backpack ‘til the baby was done I’ll still be male🤦♂️
5:10 - we could say there’s 4 sexes of fruit fly cause there’s 3 producers of different sized sperm
No. They’re still producing sperm. They’re males. This is idiotic. Is this whole video like this? (Probably. 99% likely. Abandon hope.)
~6:10 - hermaphroditism and sequential hermaphroditism exists therefore....
No. Some animals being hermaphrodites, which is meaningless w/o the existence of binary sex to contrast it to, still doesn’t make gender ideology or transgenderism valid.
Intersex ≠ transgenderism 🙄
6:20 - bilateral gynandromorphism is a disorder in some species (not in humans). Has nothing to do w/ “gender” or transgenderism.
Ova-testes in humans are also a disorder, usually found in those w/ the karyotype disorders that you ppl also try to appropriate (extra X’s/Y’s).
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1. IQ is one of the most heritable psychological traits – that is, individual differences in IQ are strongly associated with individual differences in genes (at least in fairly typical modern environments). https://t.co/3XxzW9bxLE
2. The heritability of IQ *increases* from childhood to adulthood. Meanwhile, the effect of the shared environment largely fades away. In other words, when it comes to IQ, nature becomes more important as we get older, nurture less. https://t.co/UqtS1lpw3n
3. IQ scores have been increasing for the last century or so, a phenomenon known as the Flynn effect. https://t.co/sCZvCst3hw (N ≈ 4 million)
(Note that the Flynn effect shows that IQ isn't 100% genetic; it doesn't show that it's 100% environmental.)
4. IQ predicts many important real world outcomes.
For example, though far from perfect, IQ is the single-best predictor of job performance we have – much better than Emotional Intelligence, the Big Five, Grit, etc. https://t.co/rKUgKDAAVx https://t.co/DWbVI8QSU3
5. Higher IQ is associated with a lower risk of death from most causes, including cardiovascular disease, respiratory disease, most forms of cancer, homicide, suicide, and accident. https://t.co/PJjGNyeQRA (N = 728,160)
1. IQ is one of the most heritable psychological traits – that is, individual differences in IQ are strongly associated with individual differences in genes (at least in fairly typical modern environments). https://t.co/3XxzW9bxLE
2. The heritability of IQ *increases* from childhood to adulthood. Meanwhile, the effect of the shared environment largely fades away. In other words, when it comes to IQ, nature becomes more important as we get older, nurture less. https://t.co/UqtS1lpw3n
3. IQ scores have been increasing for the last century or so, a phenomenon known as the Flynn effect. https://t.co/sCZvCst3hw (N ≈ 4 million)
(Note that the Flynn effect shows that IQ isn't 100% genetic; it doesn't show that it's 100% environmental.)
4. IQ predicts many important real world outcomes.
For example, though far from perfect, IQ is the single-best predictor of job performance we have – much better than Emotional Intelligence, the Big Five, Grit, etc. https://t.co/rKUgKDAAVx https://t.co/DWbVI8QSU3
5. Higher IQ is associated with a lower risk of death from most causes, including cardiovascular disease, respiratory disease, most forms of cancer, homicide, suicide, and accident. https://t.co/PJjGNyeQRA (N = 728,160)
