Category: FOX News

The Worship of Narcissists and Extremists

This is what happens when it is more important to be extreme, then to actually govern.

When you have Donald Trump, a narcissist, working for his own interest at the expense of his own party, it’s no surprise that you get someone like Matt Gaetz, working for his own interest, causing huge damage to his own party.

And now in the search for an adult in the room, it’s no surprise that, in a party that rewards narcissists For working in their own interest, even if it damages the party, that you have Steve Scalise dropping out of the race because too many of his colleagues would rather have the attention then do what’s best for their own party.

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Do Christians Care About Truth? It’s Time for Some Accountability

When I was in the church I joined several “Accountability Groups”; groups of men who shared their struggles with the common temptations that face young Christian men. 

I remember many nights standing in the garden after worship services, confessing, encouraging, and sending each other off emboldened to do better in the coming week. It was clear to me: Accountability was a deep part of Evangelical culture; when we weren’t afraid of confronting each other on sin, we all did better. 

The Two Christians

As the years passed I studied the word and I applied the morality that I derived from scripture this way: That we should love sacrificially, we should take care of the poor above all, we should uphold non-violence, scorn power and riches… tenets I thought were reasonable interpretations of the bible. 

But many of my brothers took their faiths a different direction: Their own rights/freedoms are the priority, we should laud the rich, romanticize those with guns, insist on political power… and I found that this competing version of Christianity was, in fact, not derived from scripture, but rather a different source: 

FOX News. 

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