Gotta say, I've gone looking for this 'self-evident that all men are created equal'. I don't see it anywhere. The founders of our nation were very intelligent, and everything else they've written (Thomas Jefferson particularly) seems on-point, but I see no evidence of men being equal, created so or in any other wise.
If it read 'that all men are created equal IN that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights'... sure, kind of? Demonstrable in form and function, we have life, liberty and pursuit of happiness. And you can say that our Creator made us this way, and that may be true, but I think more to the point, these are derived characteristics of what we are. Well, liberty maybe not so much. By malformation, crippling or weak will, there's not so much liberty for some people (which brings me back to 'where is this self-evidently created equal thing?')
And looking through the bible, I see none of this equality ideology in there. And I say this to people, and they invariably say to me 'why do you hate X?'. Because apparently almost everyone believes it necessary that, if I do not believe in equality of people, I must hate and deride people. But as a christian, I am called to not hate my enemies. How then, must I hate my inferiors?
And some believe that this equality ideology is necessary to the function of society. But I am christian, called to build upon the rock of God, and God is truth. I will not lay my foundation on a lie.
Not really related to the topic at hand, but this is something I will say, because I believe it is something that most people are in need to hearing. God is truth, and upon truth we must build our understanding, and equality is not true.
They gaslight because they reject any and every kind of limitation, including consequences, responsibility, basic reality itself. There is a limitation in being a man, in that they're then not women, and even that much is too much for them. They're solipsistic, wanting absolute, anarchic freedom and rejecting the notion that it's not possible.
Equal justice was never a thing. High-positioned people have been and will always be harder to take down, and as a consequence they can get away with more (the 'not worth the effort' threshold is higher), that's just how things work.
Believing in equal justice will result in laying equal pressure on the high and the low... but that pressure will have far less impact on the high than the low. Gotta go after em harder.
Nope.
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If we let them associate whatever with whatever, then taking away their latest toy means nothing. They'll find another.
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You cannot judge people primarily by their conduct and also primarily by their race, and the good way is the former, not the latter. The repentant will find forgiveness, and the unrepentant, hell. For that, I will always hold stigma against white supremacists.
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The big problem is that the right, by and large, has accepted the left's assertion that they should not be condemned for things they are proud of. If a right argues with a left about Ginsberg, and then the left says that Ginsberg is admired and they're proud of her, then the right (in my experience) immediately drops the subject and sulks, rather than leveling condemnation against them. Most christians have been fooled into thinking this non-judging behavior is actually how they should act.
However...
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Racism, even ideological racism is hyped beyond sanity. Sin it may be, but great it is not. It's quite minor in the grand scheme of things.
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The demand to condemn racism by the left extends beyond anti-tribalism (note: this is not the definition of bigotry. Bigotry is being strongly for or against beliefs as well as tribes. To be a non-bigot you cannot believe anything strongly. Another example of leftist corruption of our language.) to anti-pattern-recognition, which is evil.
I'll say it again. If sex is love and familial bonds are love, then love ≠ love. It looks tautological, but when one word is used for an eclectic library of ideas, it might not be. And science is as infallible as those to perform it. Bad scientists make for bad 'science'.
If sex is love and familial bonds are love, then love =/= love.
Science is as infallible as those who perform it. Bad scientists make for bad 'science'.
Is it illegal for a stranger to break into your house? Then it's illegal for him to break into our country as well.
Lives matter only as far as souls matter. For redemption, edification, happiness and will, souls matter. For the unrepentant subversive... it may be that they might change, but that potential is weighed against the harm that they do.
Not everything is about rights, and in fact, very few things are.
We are required to try to help people come to god, we are required to forgive those who repent.
We are not required to behave foolishly, we are not required to lay down our lives for the unrepentant, we are not required to believe liars, we are not required to believe those who claim to repent. To repent is to confess and forsake.
Some may forgive all who claim to be repentant, 'just to be safe', but strait is the gate and narrow is the way - there is no safe side on the path to heaven. We must be clever, we must be vigilant, and we must resist evil, and there are times appropriate to do so with lethal force.
Do not be glad when your enemies sin, do not be glad when the wicked die in sin, without redemption. But be glad in victory, in the defeat of evil, and killing the wicked who seek to dominate you and your people has often been the way of God. The war is glorious, the death is not, but may be necessary.
Their core motivation is to be unassailable. To never have to defend themselves by reason of having nothing they need defend themselves against. For this purpose they try to destroy anyone and everyone that raises any opposition against them.
In 2016, they thought they would see their final victory. With Hillary in office, no conservative would ever take it again, and they believed that, somehow, this would translate into their personal, lasting supremacy. Donald Trump shattered that delusion, and as such he came to represent everything they hate and fear - that is, opposition to themselves.