You should go read Nightwind’s latest post and check out the article he links to from the National Review, called “Crush This Evil.”
I use “red pill” as a catch all phrase for some extremism, for some radicalization that goes on, on the internet. It’s a really challenging thing to talk about amid so much political noise, people all hollering about guns, mental illness, and white supremacy.
We’re all seeking material answers for what is really a spiritual problem, a relationship problem. The Nat’l Review said it well, “Here, as elsewhere, the best prophylactic against mass killings is individual intervention and social responsibility.”
I’m really grateful this is starting to get some coverage, the lost boys, the red pills, the radicalization of broken people by some dark forces out there with an evil agenda of their own. I’ve been screaming into the internet abyss for a good decade now, trying to get people to understand something I don’t even fully understand.
Something that continues to frustrate me, the (Christian) internet is full of accusations of heresy, of false teachings, when really that is all just so trite, so superficial and foolish. You haven’t even seen false teachings until you’ve seen the twisted perversion of Christianity that red pills are using, basically to hook people and brainwash them. It’s satanic, its demonic.
Everyone convinced “Beth Moore is the root of all evil,” or “SJW are the anti Christ” really need to wake up and go forth and evangelize for real. Troubled young men are struggling with being unable to find their purpose and meaning in life and that is exactly what the Good News is all about! The church was made for such a time as this.
The article also says, “In the Internet era, malevolence tends to echo.” Malevolence has always echoed in the world. Love just need to echo a whole lot louder. Another name for “individual intervention and social responsibility” is actually called, loving your neighbor.
Arkenaten said:
With all the so-called solutions to this social ill, the most obvious – serious gun control – is the one that is avoided like the plague.
Makes you wonder why?
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seekingdivineperspective said:
“Avoided like the plague”? That’s all I’m hearing about…
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insanitybytes22 said:
Right??! I don’t want to get into a discussion about politics and gun control, but I think we do need to be asking ourselves why these kinds of tragedies get so much attention and yet 9 people killed and 39 wounded in Chicago on the same day doesn’t really trigger our social conscience, our outrage, and our fear? That’s kind of what racism is, the real kind that has normalized violence among certain groups, the bigotry of low expectations. And of course. some of the cities with the highest rates of violence also tend to have the tightest gun control laws.
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coachkanikafindingabetteryou said:
An eye opener thanks much for sharing
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patrickhawthorne01 said:
Rats!! I had to look up the word, malevolence. That’s just not a word we Southern folk use much…if ever.
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Rebecca Fegan said:
Yikes! Frightening stuff, especially the cultural changes and the influence of music and rhetoric! I thoroughly believe in the melting pot and looking back, I can see the gradual change in perception of actually melting. It’s like those globs of flour that never truly mix into the gravy. Then one glob accuses another glob of ruining it and they become cannibalistic. Hmmm. Note to self: never have biscuits and gravy after 9:00–you get heartburn and weird dreams.
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The V Pub said:
It’s such a complicated issue. In short, I believe that children need more role models in the form of parents, councilors, teachers, and reverse this trend of having the internet influence their minds. It’s the technological version of latch key kids.
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SharaC said:
Yes yes yes… I follow some folks on Twitter who spend their waking hours stuck in the mud an muck of Christian infighting about which leader or organization said what and why it was oh so wrong… I consider myself a pretty discerning Christian and even I can’t figure out what they’re fighting about half the time. Doctrine is important, but man oh man you are right, we need to get out and love our neighbor and see if things don’t start to settle themselves a bit when we do…
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What Words May Come said:
It is the New Covenant! Amen!
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Julie (aka Cookie) said:
Well stated IB—the root being evil
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Wally Fry said:
Seems we are much like the church at Ephesus Jesus dispatched His first letter too. We are busy, busy, busy… quick to call out false teachers, and have doctrine tighter than a tick on a hound dog(and we should have all of those things,” yet He told them they had lost their first love.
Matthew 22:37-40 “Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.”
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insanitybytes22 said:
Amen, Wally. I see so much “busy, busy,” and so little love for one another. We can have perfect theology, sound doctrine, but without love we are nothing but noise. That’s what it says in the Bible.
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Wally Fry said:
1 Corinthians 13:1-3 “Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing. And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.”
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seekingdivineperspective said:
Thank you for posting this! Yes, we are so easily distracted by secondary issues. It’s a testament to God’s grace that He didn’t give up on us long ago.
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sklyjd said:
Listen to you all, avoiding the real problem, God’s grace and all the role models, the parents, councillors, teachers and priests are not going to save anybody, only gun control is.
You get sicko’s in all communities but in yours they readily find a weapon designed to efficiently kill the maximum amount of humans. The few states that have gun regulations is a waste of time unless you have boarder police.
Your country and your president need to wake up, this is foolishness.
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SLIMJIM said:
“Troubled young men are struggling with being unable to find their purpose and meaning in life and that is exactly what the Good News is all about! The church was made for such a time as this.”
This really puts some of my ministry in bigger picture perspective…
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The Night Wind said:
Thank you for the link. Some church leaders began speaking out, I’m glad to see that the issue is starting to be taken on the political side too.
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Baedon said:
I’m sorry, I disagree. Religion is not a panacea, it is one of the problems. Some of these young people have been disenfranchised by those very institutions.
Morality has nothing to do with phantom fears from on high. Morality is basic human decency. Most of these kids were not afforded even the slightest bit of it. It is not a failure of society as a whole but is a failure broken families, broken schools, and they being broke themselves. Your phantom morality does not fix a thing, it creates more anxiety.
Just my two cents.
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Lily Pierce said:
All I have to say to this is a resounding “AMEN.”
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