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Living In Faith
Living In Faith
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What I Learned from a Bad Seminary
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What I Learned from a Bad Seminary

“What is a Wiccan Club?” asked my mother. She’d joined me for orientation day at my new school, one of the most progressive seminaries in the country, and she’d noticed a flyer in the hallway. We discovered others for the LGBTQ+ Alliance and the Atheists Society. “Are you sure we’re in the right place?” she questioned. I tried to suppress my concerns, but soon they were unavoidable. My New Testament professor was an avowed atheist. My systematic theology professor rejected the doctrine of substitutionary atonement. Greek and Hebrew weren’t required classes, but “Religious Pluralism” and “Social Justice” were. I don’t recommend the seminary I attended to others. But while it failed to teach me all it should have, here are five important lessons I did learn during those formative years. 1. Interest in Jesus can’t save you. Though my seminary was the most diverse community I’d ever been part of, everyone shared one thing in common: We were all captivated by the Christian faith academically. I suspect there was as much intellectual curiosity and talk about Jesus, the Bible, and the church as you’d find at any religious institution. But interest in Jesus isn’t the same as devotion to him. Studying the Bible isn’t the same as believing and practicing it. Jesus didn’t come to make us religious; he came to make us God’s children by freeing us from bondage to sin. The most religious people in Jesus’s day, the Pharisees, were some of the most lost. Jesus didn’t come to make us religious; he came to make us God’s children by freeing us from bondage to sin. The gospel is “the power of God for salvation [only] to everyone who believes” (Rom. 1:16). Liberal and conservative, scholar and skeptic—we must all repent and trust in Christ for salvation. 2. Common grace touches everyone. While my seminary was in many ways a spiritually dark place, I nevertheless met and grew to love many people whom God is using to accomplish his purposes. Thanks to God’s common grace to all, even unregenerate sinners can “by nature do what the law requires . . . [and] show that the work of the law is written on their hearts” (2:14–15). Alongside the unorthodox student life groups I mentioned, the seminary housed organizations devoted to caring for immigrants, the environment, the homeless, the disabled, and other “least of these” populations. I’ve kept in touch with seminary friends with whom I disagree theologically but whose work nevertheless encourages me to show God’s mercy and compassion. 3. Our faith needs to be challenged . . . and supported. My three years in seminary challenged my faith more than any other time in my life. There’s good biblical precedent for questioning our faith (e.g., Ps. 10:1)—arguably even a biblical mandate to do so (e.g., 2 Cor. 13:5)—and we know God wants to use such tests of our faith to refine us (Isa. 48:10) and produce “steadfastness” (James 1:3) so that “the tested genuineness of [our] faith . . . may be found to result in praise . . . of Jesus Christ” (1 Pet. 1:7). But stretch faith too much and it snaps. It’s one thing to scrutinize and another thing to subvert. We Christians face enough attacks from the Enemy (5:8); we need not help him out. What we need is the loving support of fellow believers who can handle our tough questions and answer them with God’s truth. I often wonder how different those seminary years might have been for me had I discovered The Gospel Coalition and its resources sooner—or, better yet, joined a gospel-preaching church. 4. We need compassion for those deconstructing. Seminary didn’t just challenge my faith; it eventually shipwrecked it. Within a week of graduating, I told my new bride I was done with God and Christianity altogether. The memory still haunts me. I’ve never felt more alone in my entire life. Or more afraid. I’m glad I can still remember that feeling so vividly because it compels me to reach others who are in that same scary place today. Deconstructing may be trendy, but it’s not fun. Yet the data indicates there are more “exvangelicals” today than ever before in history. We need to see them the way Jesus does: not as our enemies but as lost, hurting “sheep without a shepherd” (Matt. 9:36). More than evidence and arguments, they need love and empathy. 5. God works all things for good. Praise God that even when I was ready to give up on him, he refused to give up on me (2 Tim. 2:13). Two years later, God used a friend’s faithful evangelism to bring me to true repentance and saving faith. Even when I was ready to give up on God, he refused to give up on me. Looking back, I now know my seminary choice was the wrong one. Yet I’m not sure I’d be where I am today without it. I don’t know if I’d be as passionate for the gospel, as charitable to nonevangelicals, as strong in my convictions, as aware of my need for the church, or as compassionate toward those suffering the spiritual devastation of deconstruction. And I’m not sure I’d be as awe-inspired by God’s power of redemption—that he could take a story (and a seminary experience) as rough as mine and use it for my good and his glory. Of course, we need look no further than the cross for the ultimate proof that we worship a God in the business of redeeming bad choices. On Sundays, a visitor sometimes asks, “So, where did you go to seminary?” I used to laugh and reply, “You don’t want to know!” But today I no longer hide it. I want others to marvel too at God’s power and faithfulness to take even the worst of our decisions in life—what the Enemy “meant for evil against [us]”—and use them for good (Gen. 50:20).
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Want to Reach the Next Generation? Love the Church.
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Want to Reach the Next Generation? Love the Church.

If I asked you to name the most controversial Christian teaching today, what would you say? Some might say LGBT+ issues, some Jesus’s divinity, some the doctrine of eternal punishment. My answer might be unexpected: the necessity of the church. Over my years serving as a pastor to college students, I’ve received more confused responses, pushback, and dismissiveness when it comes to the church’s necessity than any other point of theology. Many Christian students will acknowledge the need for Christian friendships or some type of Christian community, but as for the fullness of the church—church as both gathered and scattered, organism and organization—there’s often ambivalence. They aren’t denying the need for community but are skeptical that the church is necessary in fulfilling this need. This is the case for a wide array of people on the spiritual spectrum, from new Christians all the way to those who’ve passionately proclaimed allegiance to Jesus for their whole lives. I don’t think this ambivalence usually has at its root a dramatic change in religious beliefs or commitments. As I’m honored to hear students’ stories over a meal or coffee, I often hear, “We went to church for a period of time when I was little, but after ______ we stopped going. We still believe in Jesus though.” The event that fills in the blank can be something as traumatic as the prominent Christian in the family, such as a grandmother, passing away. Or it could be something as subtle as a busy athletics schedule that eroded the habit of church involvement over time. As a result of these events, I often hear, “I didn’t really grow up in church, but I grew up in a Christian home, if that makes sense.” Do these stories have a common thread running through them? Authentic Spiritual Journey It’s impossible to reduce so many different people’s stories down to one common cause, but I suspect what’s often hidden under these stories is a belief absorbed unconsciously from our culture: the more individual, inward, and disconnected from institutions a spiritual journey is, the purer it is and the closer that person is to God. It feels less spiritual and authentic to move outward to be shaped by a structured community and to have your faith tethered to the church. The church can be nice but not essential to a thriving Christian walk. Indeed, the church can be seen as dangerous in this framework, a slippery slope into having “religion but not relationship.” Given such beliefs, when involvement in the church becomes inconvenient or too uncomfortable, it’s cast aside. Relatedly, we’ve often believed that an inward decision alone makes one a Christian, while ignoring the church’s key role. In this framework, baptism and church membership lose their pivotal roles in the conversion process. But as we read the Bible, Christians as independent individuals don’t definitively declare themselves as Christians. Jesus has given that responsibility to the church (Matt. 18:15–20; 1 Cor. 5:1–6:8). We’ve often believed that an inward decision alone makes one a Christian, while ignoring the church’s key role. As we consider the next generation’s posture toward the church, we must seriously ask, “What place does the church have in an increasingly post-Christian society?” A Christian faith that has hitched itself to the church is doomed to failure, it’d seem. We’re in an age where people are leaving the church like never before. As Jim Davis and Michael Graham have pointed out in their book The Great Dechurching, “We are currently experiencing the largest and fastest religious shift in the history of our country. . . . More people have left the church in the last twenty-five years than all the new people who became Christians from the First Great Awakening, Second Great Awakening, and Billy Graham crusades combined.” Despite our cultural trends, for the Christian faith to have a meaningful, long-term influence in the lives of the next generation, we must not only embrace the church but also labor to strengthen it and make it an essential part of our evangelistic methods. As our Lord has done, we must love the church and place our confidence in its future. For us to help the next generation see the beauty of Christ and his church, there must be three marriages. 1. The Church and Embodiment We must marry our theological anthropology to a rich ecclesiology. People often don’t know it, but they need the church. Every one of us has a deep and enduring problem—we crave rich community. However, the cultural air we breathe teaches us to distrust God’s answer to our craving. Like a waiter who serves diners, faithful Christian evangelism persuades people to eat the best dish on the menu, even one that might look unappetizing at first glance. We befriend lonely neighbors and invite them into the communion of the saints. We counsel emerging adults hungry for wisdom and connect them to mothers and fathers in the faith. We embrace friends who feel spiritually dirty and pour the waters of baptism on them. We walk with isolated people looking for an embodied faith and bring them to the Lord’s table in the context of the local church. We challenge unanchored souls looking for purpose and sweep them up into the mission of God’s people. Out of all the options on the menu, we point them to the church. 2. The Church and Mission In an age of spiritual decline, we must marry our missiology to our ecclesiology. I believe there are essential tenets of the church to which Christians must commit themselves to see the gospel compel people to faith. These tenets flow out of the scriptural pattern and confessional belief that outside the church “there is no ordinary possibility of salvation” (Westminster Confession of Faith 25.2). The primary place where God works in the world is in and through his church, through which Christ “preached peace to you who were far off and peace to those who were near” (Eph. 2:17). In our desire to reach the next generation, Christians mustn’t reinvent the church or replace the church; we must cling to the church’s blueprint given to us by God in Scripture. If we’re honest, plenty of us are embarrassed by the church’s failures. However, when a kitchen knife is dull, we don’t abandon knives altogether. We sharpen it. While distrust of authority and power is at an all-time high, let’s educate, rigorously train, and solemnly ordain our elders and deacons. While many claim that truth changes with the times, let’s devote ourselves to the apostles’ teachings as our unmoving foundation. In an age when celebrity pastors have illegitimately become quasi bishops through the worldly accumulation of power, let’s submit to the church’s accountability structures and decision-making processes. In a time when Christian influencers determine orthodoxy in blogosphere councils, let’s compassionately embrace the church’s creeds and confessions. The church still can, and must, be the church. Christians mustn’t see the church as tangential to the spiritual growth of the next generation but as central to it. This holds true not only scripturally but also empirically. According to Barna’s report on Gen Z, a deep involvement in the church is an essential ingredient in the lives of resilient Gen Z disciples. While Barna’s data showed there wasn’t a drastic difference between a habitual churchgoing Christian and a resilient disciple at the level of his or her “cognitive understandings of the Christian faith,” the most significant difference between those two groups was a deep, personal connection with their church communities. Spiritual depths are found in the depths of the church. 3. The Church and Christ Most importantly, we must behold Jesus’s marriage to the church. Jesus loves the church and delights to use it. The plan to center the church in the future of the Christian faith might sound absurd, but we plan to point the next generation to the church because this is Jesus’s plan. Christians mustn’t see the church as tangential to the spiritual growth of the next generation but as central to it. In a culture that sees the church as a stronghold of hypocrisy, 1 Timothy tells us it’s a “pillar and buttress of the truth” (1 Tim. 3:15). While it feels like the church is falling apart, Jesus says, “I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it” (Matt. 16:18). Though many see no future for the church, Ephesians tells us that God’s plan for the church is eternal (Eph. 3:10–11). When the world claims to love Jesus but hate the church, God tells us, “Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her” (5:25). Though the church needs a makeover, Jesus will “present the church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish” (v. 27). In this day and age, we’re invested in the church because God has already invested in his church, “not with perishable things such as silver or gold, but with the precious blood of Christ” (1 Pet. 1:18–19). God has made the church his home (Eph. 2:22) and is working all things to its benefit (1:22). The church is a central part of God’s future plan, and so it must be a part of ours, no matter how post-Christian our culture might become.
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The Cure for Church Hypocrisy
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The Cure for Church Hypocrisy

“We must fight the collective sin of allowing anything but the gospel to be the cause of our unity.” That’s not my line. It comes from Michael Reeves, president and professor of theology at Union School of Theology. But I think I’ve said just about the same thing dozens of times to explain what we do at The Gospel Coalition: “We fight the collective sin of allowing anything but the gospel to be the cause of our unity.” Michael has published a couple recent books with Crossway that grabbed my attention: Gospel People: A Call for Evangelical Integrity in 2022 and then Evangelical Pharisees: The Gospel as Cure for the Church’s Hypocrisy in 2023. I love his perspective on why we must define evangelicalism theologically as people who rally together around the gospel alone.  Michael joined me on Gospelbound to explain orthocardia and the cure for evangelicalism. We also discussed his 2004 book Preaching: A God-Centered Vision.
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Nets Cheer Liz Cheney Conserving Conservatism By Selling Out the Unborn
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Nets Cheer Liz Cheney Conserving Conservatism By Selling Out the Unborn

The Regime Media takes delight in exhibiting recently conquered conservatives as role models for others to emulate. Such was the case during Adam Kinzinger’s tearful heyday, but the Regime now has a bigger prize: former Congresswoman Liz Cheney. As part of her endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris, Cheney is touring the country in hopes of wrangling disaffected conservatives over to Harris at events festooned with imagery meant to evoke Reaganite nostalgia. But such conversions require an abandonment of prior deeply-held beliefs. Such is the case with Cheney and abortion, which the networks gleefully featured. Watch as CBS’s Nancy Cordes highlights Cheney’s battlefield conversion and subsequent ditching of the unborn in furtherance of “conserving conservatism”: NANCY CORDES: Today, Harris and Cheney even found some common ground on abortion. LIZ CHENEY: I think there are many of us around the country who have been pro-life, but who have watched what's going on in our states since the Dobbs decision and have watched state legislatures put in place laws that are resulting in women not getting the care they need. That's not sustainable for us as a country, and it has to change. NBC’s Kelly O’Donnell also covered Cheney’s remarks on abortion but chose to summarize them rather than air them: KELLY O’DONNELL: Joined on the trail by former GOP Congresswoman Liz Cheney, who said she believes many women who object to abortion are also worried about consequences for women's health care from strict state abortion laws. LIZ CHENEY: That's not sustainable for us as a country. And it has to change. The record will reflect that Cheney held an “A “rating from SBA Pro-Life. In 2018, while receiving the endorsements of National Right to Life and the List, Cheney said: Two years ago, I made a promise to the voters of Wyoming that in Congress I would fight for the sanctity of every human life, including the unborn. We must fight for the most vulnerable among us and never forget that families, not our government, are the fundamental building block of society. I’m proud to have earned the endorsements of National Right to Life and Susan B. Anthony’s List for my work in support of legislation to defund Planned Parenthood and prevent taxpayer money from funding abortion. As a member of the House Committee on Rules, I also manage every rule on the floor of the U.S. House having to do with pro-life legislation. That included the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protect Act, a bill prohibiting abortion after 20 weeks. That's a long way from whining about Dobbs.  These “Country Over Party” town halls occupied much of today’s pillow-soft coverage of the Harris campaign with two weeks to go until Election Day, seeking to cast her as magnanimous and welcoming towards any Republicans who, like Cheney, are willing to offer some of their most deeply held beliefs upon the altar of Regime acceptance. Click “expand” to view the full transcript of the aforementioned reports as aired on their respective network newscasts on Monday, October 22nd, 2024: CBS EVENING NEWS 10/21/24 6:34 PM NORAH O’DONNELL: We want to turn now to the Harris campaign. Every vote counts and the clock is ticking so the Vice President is reaching out to Republican battleground voters, with some noticeable help. Here is CBS's Nancy Cordes. NANCY CORDES: Vice President Harris and Republican Liz Cheney disagree on most policies but on one thing, they are in lockstep. LIZ CHENEY: The choice here is absolutely clear in terms of the necessity of supporting Vice President Harris. CORDES: They appeared together in the suburbs of Philadelphia and Detroit today, with another stop tonight outside Milwaukee. Their goal? To try to win over some of the moderate Republicans who went for Nikki Haley over Donald Trump in the primaries. CHENEY: Think about how dangerous and damaging it is to have someone who is totally erratic, totally erratic, completely unstable. CORDES: Even a few crossover votes could make a difference here in Wisconsin, where the latest CBS News battleground tracker shows the race dead even. Is it your sense that there are any folks who are still persuadable at this point? DAN BIESER: Maybe a minimal, minimal- minimal group. But, I’d like to think so. CORDES: Dan Bieser is a chocolate maker. He has a shop in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin. He's a longtime Harris supporter, and a newer Cheney fan. BIESER: I think it's just a reminder that we all want to work together, that it's not just one side versus the other. CORDES: Today, Harris and Cheney even found some common ground on abortion. CHENEY: I think there are many of us around the country who have been pro-life, but who have watched what's going on in our states since the Dobbs decision and have watched state legislatures put in place laws that are resulting in women not getting the care they need. That's not sustainable for us as a country, and it has to change. CORDES: Early voting gets underway here in Wisconsin tomorrow, and so the Harris campaign’s get out the vote effort has kicked into high gear. It helps that they've got a lot of money to work with. Harris' fund-raising haul in September, Norah, was more than three times the size of Trump’s. O’DONNELL: Those polls neck and neck. Nancy Cordes, thank you so much. NBC NIGHTLY NEWS 10/21/24 6:35 PM LESTER HOLT: And tonight, Vice President Harris is going after Republican voters in three critical states who might be open to a candidate other than former President Trump. Kelly O'Donnell is on the trail with the Vice President. KELLY O’DONNELL: A battleground trio today. Pennsylvania, Michigan, and here in Wisconsin… KAMALA HARRIS: I ask for your vote. O’DONNELL: …where Vice President Harris is looking for “red bricks” to fortify the Democrats' “Blue Wall” in a tight race. HARRIS: Donald Trump is an unserious man. But the consequences of him being president of the United States are brutally serious. O’DONNELL: Joined on the trail by former GOP Congresswoman Liz Cheney, who said she believes many women who object to abortion are also worried about consequences for women's health care from strict state abortion laws. LIZ CHENEY: That's not sustainable for us as a country. And it has to change. O’DONNELL: Cheney, a fierce Trump critic who lost her Wyoming primary in a landslide, now urging Republican and independent voters to back Harris. CHENEY: We're going to reject the kind of vile vitriol that we've seen from Donald Trump. We're going to reject the misogyny that we've seen from Donald Trump and JD Vance. O’DONNELL: Former President Trump's raw language included a new and profane attack on Harris Saturday. DONALD TRUMP: You're a shit Vice President. The worst. You're the worst Vice President. Kamala, you're fired. Get the hell out of here, you're fired. KAMALA HARRIS: The American people deserve so much better. O’DONNELL: Harris responded Sunday. HARRIS: What you see in my opponent, a former President of the United States, really is -- it demeans the office. O’DONNELL: While today's events are framed around the seriousness of what is at stake, Harris pulled in star power over the weekend. Lizzo, Usher, and Stevie Wonder, who marked Harris's 60th birthday Sunday.  STEVIE WONDER PLUS CHURCH CHOIR: ♪♪ Happy Birthday to Ya ♪♪  O’DONNELL: Back here in Wisconsin, the Harris team points out that in dependably Republican Waukesha County, 9,000 voters still chose Nikki Haley in the GOP primary over Mr. Trump, even after Haley exited the race. Haley has since endorsed Trump. And Trump allies like Lindsey Graham are calling Republicans home away from Harris. LINDSEY GRAHAM: To every Republican supporting her, what the hell are you doing? You're supporting the most radical nominee in the history of American politics. HOLT: And Kelly, you have some new reporting on how the Harris campaign sees this dead-heat race. O’DONNELL: Lester, Harris campaign officials tell me they recognize that many Democrats are worried that it remains so tight across all the battleground states, but they argue they built their operation knowing that they would need a strong turnout among Democratic base voters, as well as this strategic appeal to disaffected Republicans. Lester. HOLT: All right, Kelly. Thank you.  
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Corpse falls out of hearse during transport, funeral home apologizes: ‘Unexpected technical failure’
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WARSAW, Poland — A funeral home in Poland issued an unusual apology on Saturday after a corpse that it was transporting fell out of a hearse and into traffic. Polish media reported that a man was driving…
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A Defense of the Fudd
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American gun culture expanded significantly in the aftermath of 2020. The riotous year, the most divisive since 1968, drove record gun sales. The demand for firearms hasn’t slowed in the years since,…
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A Defense of the Fudd
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A Defense of the Fudd

Culture A Defense of the Fudd There is something sad about the recent changes in American firearms culture. Credit: image via Shutterstock American gun culture expanded significantly in the aftermath of 2020. The riotous year, the most divisive since 1968, drove record gun sales. The demand for firearms hasn’t slowed in the years since, effectively sidelining the gun-control debate and creating a new generation of gun owners. While Second Amendment activists are undoubtedly pleased by the influx of new firearm owners, this expansion has led to some tension among firearm owners. I’ll start off by admitting that I am probably classified as a “Fudd.” Fudd is a derogatory term for gun owners who are primarily sportsmen, expending their shells on dove or deer while harboring a sentimental attachment to their firearms. The slight derives from Elmer Fudd, the shotgun-toting rabbit hunter immortalized by Looney Tunes. There’s some truth behind the generalization. Fudds generally carry double-barrel, over-under, or pump-action shotguns. If they’re carrying a rifle, you’ll find them with a Winchester Model 70 or Remington Model 700. You won’t generally find them covered head-to-toe in camouflage. In Texas, they might sport blue jeans and a cowboy hat. In colder climates, they might don the Elmer Fudd hat itself. A Fudd might own an AR-15 and some camo, but they would never brandish it; some might not even admit it. To a Fudd, an Armalite rifle might be a useful tool of self-defense, but it is undoubtedly a vulgar departure from the craftsmanship and tradition that once defined American sporting. I’ll concede that Fudds might be influenced by a tinge of luxury. Though I was toting a Ruger .22 and .410 shotguns when I was a small child, this is an unusual experience in an increasingly urbanized America. Access to land and wildlife, once a given in American life, is now a rarity. Despite 32 percent of Americans owning a firearm, only six percent hunted in 2023. Land accessibility—a modern privilege—is the key driver. A staggering 88 percent of the 2021–2022 white-tailed deer harvest, the U.S.’s most sought-after game, occurred on privately-held land. Fudd culture, the country’s traditional sporting culture, is becoming unattainable. Much to the chagrin of the M1 Garand owner at your local range, newer classes of firearm owners are crowding out the Fudds. Participation in shooting sports, generally at local ranges, increased 42 percent from 2020 to 2022. Since 2009, participation has jumped 24 percent. The change has ushered in a new, combative firearm culture. Ironically, camo sales have jumped as hunting participation has declined, anecdotally driven by newcomers at the range. (I suppose Nashville’s popification has contributed some as well.) This marks a departure from the olive green Barbour coats or khaki safari shirts that adorn your average Fudd. Second Amendment symbology, previously limited to a small NRA logo on the back of a pick-up with a gun rack, has expanded to include a collection of emblems, flags, and insignias. Punisher skulls, popularized domestically in the aftermath of the Iraq War, are a common sight at ranges across the United States. The ominous skull is generally accompanied by other militarized regalia, from tactical boots to the firearms themselves. If you ever come across a Fudd, you might hear them deride the new-coming gun owners as “tacticool.” Tacticool refers to the sometimes ostentatious behavior of self-defense enthusiasts. Their ear-drums blown out at the range by AR-15s and AK-47s, Fudds are inclined to raise an eyebrow. Red-dot sights, flashlights, bump stocks, scopes, and every other James Bond–esque device you could think of strike the Fudd as unnecessary. Given the average shooting takes place at three yards, discharges three rounds, and wraps up in 3 seconds, the Fudds are generally right. Tacticools might point to hog hunting as justification for the arms race, and there’s some merit to that, but Americans have been hunting hogs since Hernando De Soto loosed them on the continent. Tension between traditional sportsmen and newcomers wouldn’t matter outside of their circles if not for the public policy implications. Tacticools, generally urban and concerned with self-defense, view their firearms as a means of protection and increasingly as a defense against government. This attitude prompted President Joe Biden to address the phenomenon, crassly blustering that domestic militias would be dispatched with the Air Force. Regardless, tacticool bravado and associated no-compromise politics create unease among the Fudds. Open-carrying an AR-15 into a Texas diner might be a legal expression of one’s rights, but to the Fudd it is undoubtedly distasteful. The sea-change in American gun culture may have provided short-term benefits, but the widespread embrace of culturally alienating habits may prove a long-term political liability. Fudds, despite my protests, are fading from American life. Their good-natured politics, love for craftsmanship, and appreciation for sporting tradition are as outmoded in modern America as Elmer himself. Technologists, range enthusiasts, and activists are ascendant. Just as the F-series gives way to the Cybertruck, wood gives way to aluminum alloy. A time-honored ethos is being lost, a piece of heritage American culture soon to be replaced. Activists may deride them, but a simpler age passes with the Fudd. In time, we may grow to regret their loss. The post A Defense of the Fudd appeared first on The American Conservative.
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Ivanka Trump, WEF Young Global Leader Panel on Training Workers to Serve the Beast System
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Ivanka Trump, WEF Young Global Leader Panel on Training Workers to Serve the Beast System

Ivanka Trump, WEF Young Global Leader Panel on Training Workers to Serve the Great Reset Beast System - Ivanka Trump - Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff WEF Committee *** Ivanka Trump, WEF Young Global Leader, speaks at Davos 2020 About Climate Change and Equity (Diversity, Equity and Inclusion) - Fascist Mark Salesforce CEO Says Capitalism As We Know It Is DEAD - Klaus Schwab is Right, Salesforce is PROOF STAKEHOLDER CAPITALISM WORKS... - Ensuring Success of the 4th Industrial Revolution. Grants to STAKEHOLDERS and NGO'S. Salesforce is Running 40,000 Non Profits For Free. (Yeah, No. Stock Holders are Paying for it) You would Think Investors would be complaining. They are all Clueless Fools. - Reskilling and Educating to Train Future Workers to Serve the 4th Industrial Revolution. - Questioner asks about public opposition and Davos Protesters with signs saying Eat The Rich. With the 4th Industrial Revolution be a Violent Wealth Redistribution? - Training Workers to Work Internationally. (Sounds like Forced Migration. Not only if Workers Coming to the U.S. but U.S. Workers FORCED to Work Outside the U.S.?) A Global Hub For Talent? - That's One Way to Get Rid of American Citizens... You will Work in the Foreign Gulag... - BOOM! IVANKA TRUMP A WEF YOUNG GLOBAL LEADER CONFIRMED BY WH https://silview.media/2022/02/12/boom-ivanka-trump-a-wef-young-global-leader-confirmed-by-wh/ - A Must See Article on WEF Young Global Leaders: https://silview.media/2021/06/09/klaus-schwabs-youth-is-called-young-global-leaders-ready-for-regime-change-in-unaligned-countries/ * Kushner Foreign Policy Role Grew After Kissinger Lunch (Correct) - https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2018-08-13/kushner-foreign-policy-role-grew-after-kissinger-lunch-correct - Trump son-in-law met Center for National Interest in March ’16 - Some center board members have done business in Russia - In March 2016, as the U.S. foreign policy establishment shunned presidential candidate Donald Trump, his son-in-law Jared Kushner was invited to lunch for a think tank urging engagement with Russia. - The meeting at Manhattan’s Time Warner Center, which hasn’t been reported before, would prove significant for the Center for the National Interest and Kushner, who was still a little-known figure in the Trump campaign - https://SILVIEW.media/ Check out our original memes site: https://truth-memes.com Buy me a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/silview - FAIR USE FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES Mirrored From: https://old.bitchute.com/channel/silview/
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?? Hello and Welcome to the MENTAL HEALTH HOTLINE!! ??
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National Popular Vote Would Increase Distrust in Elections
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National Popular Vote Would Increase Distrust in Elections

National Popular Vote Would Increase Distrust in Elections
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