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Christopher Gillespie
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Lutheran Pastor (https://sjrl.org), Coffee roaster (https://gillespie.coffee), Media producer (https://gillespie.media), Podcaster (https://1517.org)

"The Platonic commune does not have God’s command."

--Apology of the Augsburg Confession, XVI, 13.

Even 500 years ago, churches were endorsing collectivist political theories, confusing the two kingdoms.

#lutheran

“Harris is a Baptist who was raised by a Black Anglican father and an Indian Hindu mother, and is now married to a reformed Jewish husband.”

Informed consent requires a good conscience first informed by God’s Word and then by reason and senses.

Our Democracy (TM) is a shibboleth for those of a particular ideology, meaning it’s not yours unless you are ideologically aligned.

Does the citizen have recourse for tax dollars distributed towards fraudulent causes, under misleading claims, or appropriated for illegal actions?

The institutional gatekeepers and algorithm controls assume you lack the intellect, wisdom, and discernment to tell the truth from error.

Is it okay to knowingly impose immoral or illegal actions, only later to retract and redact them when they are no longer publicly acceptable? What would be the purpose of such actions?

Just like many of your favorite film franchises are ruined by retroactive continuity, now your memory of history is being ruined by the same lazy narrative tool.

If federal student loans were predatory, wouldn't that make the US Department of Education the predator and the schools their enabler?

One consequence of the forfeiture of critical thinking to the authoritarians and cultural mob is the ability to read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest the Scriptures critically.

In the USA, those in power may only exercise it under the authority that we, the people, give them.

Commanding power without authority given by we, the people, is illegitimate.

Trying to hold to a narrative based on lies requires more lies.

And all it takes is a little truth for the whole house of cards to fall.

“A standing military force, with an overgrown Executive will not long be safe companions to liberty.”

- James Madison

There’s no guarantee that when you seek to reform or abolish an institution, law, or tradition that something better will replace it.

The NPC’s conscience has been replaced by the media's indoctrination and the Party Revolutionary's by the Platform.

Christian, who informs your conscience?

Low-information citizens blame each other for their shared greed, lust for power, and disregard for reality.

Blaming others for your faults is weak, irresponsible, and cowardly.

Only trust experts that play experts on TV.

Crisis - failure - restructure - expand funding and authority - crisis … repeat.

When the exceptional is made ordinary, then nothing can ever be extraordinary.