{"id":14875,"date":"2021-09-02T08:05:04","date_gmt":"2021-09-02T12:05:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/preventingrace\/?p=14875"},"modified":"2021-09-02T08:05:04","modified_gmt":"2021-09-02T12:05:04","slug":"tweets-for-thursday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/preventingrace\/2021\/09\/02\/tweets-for-thursday\/","title":{"rendered":"Tweets for Thursday"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/578\/2021\/09\/vigmund-djupang-FDwTw0lX0nI-unsplash-scaled.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-14882\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/578\/2021\/09\/vigmund-djupang-FDwTw0lX0nI-unsplash-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>If only Twitter were only about birds.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I was going to do books for Thursday, but I haven\u2019t finished any, and we all know that tweeting is more \u201cwhere it\u2019s at\u201d as they say, so why swim against the current. Here are two bad tweets for your Thursday.<\/p>\n<h3>The First Tweet<\/h3>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">You can\u2019t screen for Down syndrome before about 10 weeks, and something like 80% of Down syndrome fetuses are aborted. If red states ban abortion, we could see a world where they have five times as many children with Down syndrome, and similar numbers for other disabilities.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Richard Hanania (@RichardHanania) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RichardHanania\/status\/1433288552498929670?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">September 2, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Mmm, yes. As Science TM says, when you kill a lot of people, you don\u2019t have to deal with them anymore. My memory is super hazy but I feel like this sort of thing has been tried before some time, perhaps even in the very bad recent past. I feel like it starts with an \u2018Eu\u2019 and ends with \u2018olocost\u2019. What was that called? I guess it doesn\u2019t matter because it was whole decades ago, and the past is really only there for us to reinterpret according to our own thoughts and feelings, and not on its own terms. That also is Science TM.<\/p>\n<p>What I love best about this very stupid moment is that we apparently are Very Anxious About The Children, especially getting Covid, but, oh never mind. I\u2019m too tired to rehearse all the hypocrisy this early in the morning. Let\u2019s see, what other bad Tweets do we have.<\/p>\n<h3>The Second Tweet<\/h3>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I\u2019ll also suggest that this centrality is often more easily visible to historians who are not straight white evangelical men and\/or to those who don\u2019t categorize patriarchy and anti-LGBT as simply \u201cbiblical\u201d and thus not a topic of historical inquiry.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Kristin Du Mez (@kkdumez) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kkdumez\/status\/1191701959843229696?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">November 5, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>This one, as you can see, is pretty old. I\u2019m not sure why I\u2019m only seeing it now, but it might as well have been written this very morning. Some ideas, it seems, take rather too long to be cast away into outer darkness.<\/p>\n<p>In case you haven\u2019t been paying attention, what she\u2019s saying is that your \u201cstandpoint\u201d or \u201clived experience\u201d in certain intersecting identities are a sort of immutable truth grid that will allow you to know what is real. So even though Christians have said certain things about themselves and the Bible since, oh well, since Jesus disappeared in that very disappointing cloud, all those things that they have said can be sifted with buckets of intersectional salt. Though Du Mez is straight and white, at least she isn\u2019t male, and she doesn\u2019t believe in the patriarchy. In this way, she is uniquely positioned to better understand what evangelical Christians think and feel and believe than they are themselves. If you are so foolish as to think, for example, \u2018Gosh, I don\u2019t accept the LGBTQ view of the person because the Bible has a completely contrary anthropology to that one. I\u2019m not a homophobe, I\u2019m a Christian. I love people, but I love them in the way that Jesus commanded,\u2019 you should stop and repent of all your privilege immediately. You don\u2019t know how wrong you are. Fortunately, Du Mez will continue to point it out to you on Twitter.<\/p>\n<h3>A Bible Verse<\/h3>\n<p>I found this section of I Timothy leap out at me this morning, even before I hobbled over to Twitter. It\u2019s almost like God and St. Paul knew things would get bad and had a remedy for it:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Teach and urge these things. IF anyone teaches a different doctrine and does not agree with the sound words of our Lord Jesus Christ and the teaching that accords with godliness, he is puffed up with conceit and understands nothing. He has an unhealthy craving for controversy and for quarrels about words, which produce envy, dissension, slander, evil suspicions, and constant friction among people who are depraved in mind and deprived of the truth, imagining that godliness means gain, for we brought nothing into the world, and we cannot take anything out of the world. (1 Tim 6:3-7)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I would just point out that the chief way that people right this moment are attempting to \u201cquarrel over words\u201d is by changing the meanings of those words without admitting that they\u2019re doing that, which is a kind of gaslighting. Back in the bad old TEC days, people in the church started to use the word \u201cLove\u201d not in its theological sense, as a self-giving act for the good of another, but in its current modern English way, which is, \u2018I have so many nice feelings but am not obligated to do a single thing about them.\u2019 \u201cGod is love\u201d then doesn\u2019t mean, \u201cGod is Agape,\u201d God pours himself out eternally in love in the Godhead which overflows into creation and we are caught up in it, but rather \u201cGod\u2019s nice feelings towards me mean I can do whatever I happen to feel like in the moment.\u201d This, one might say, is a radical shift. And the people who made it are the ones \u201cquarreling over words.\u201d The people who say, \u201cYou can\u2019t do that\u201d are doing what Paul commands Timothy to do\u2013say No, no no no no no no no.<\/p>\n<p>I also find it so interesting that Paul brings in the question of envy and gain. Because that\u2019s what it\u2019s really all about, isn\u2019t it. Who gets to have what? And that is not the Christian question. The Christian life is not a zero-sum game whereby if babies with down syndrome get to live, everyone else has to suffer. On the contrary, everyone is invited to \u201cdie,\u201d as in pour out themselves for the good of others, because the Lord of Life has overturned death and doesn\u2019t lose anything at all that we put in his hands.<\/p>\n<p>And now, if you will excuse me, I have other things to do. Have a nice day.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If only Twitter were only about birds.\u00a0 I was going to do books for Thursday, but I haven\u2019t finished any, and we all know that tweeting is more \u201cwhere it\u2019s at\u201d as they say, so why swim against the current. Here are two bad tweets for your Thursday. The First Tweet Mmm, yes. 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