I did not know until about 7:45 pm Saturday that things had gotten really ugly in Charlottesville.
One friend on Twitter seems to think people are too laid-back about it, too fixated on Google Memo or other stuff. I think he’s wrong following the wrong people.
Selected Tweets from Christians in my Twitter feed today.
Maronite Catholic:
Memo to left and right: Every member of the human family bears profound, inherent, and equal dignity as a creature made in the divine image.
— Robert P. George (@McCormickProf) August 12, 2017
The idea of racial superiority (or inferiority) is disgusting and toxic. It is also inane–indeed, irrational. Still, some fools embrace it.
— Robert P. George (@McCormickProf) August 12, 2017
Read M.L. King on the natural law basis of equality and justice: *Ltr from Birmingham Jail*. No justice/No peace? No natural law/No justice.
— Robert P. George (@McCormickProf) August 12, 2017
Orthodox:
Racism is vile and the #Charlottesville rally is disgusting. Let’s stand as Americans for the self-evident truth that all are created equal.
— Justin Amash (@justinamash) August 12, 2017
Baptist:
“From one human being he created all races of people and made them live throughout the whole earth.” -Acts 17:26
— Denny Burk (@DennyBurk) August 12, 2017
“Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer; & you know no murderer has eternal life abiding in him.” -1 Jn 3:15 https://t.co/mrnXBBU6e3
— Denny Burk (@DennyBurk) August 12, 2017
Alt-right white supremacy is a damnable error and is antithetical to the Gospel of Jesus Christ. #Charlottesvillehttps://t.co/j60bOhnFiw
— Denny Burk (@DennyBurk) August 12, 2017
Reformed:
Note adrenaline running thru your veins just *watching* heinous racism in #Charlottesville & consider incredible *power* of CRM nonviolence.
— James K.A. Smith (@james_ka_smith) August 12, 2017
Roman Catholic:
Arrest all of them.
— Michael B Dougherty🍃 (@michaelbd) August 12, 2017
Unreal. Racists bring car crash terrorism to the US.
— Michael B Dougherty🍃 (@michaelbd) August 12, 2017
Chameleon:
Nothing patriotic about #Nazis,the #KKK or #WhiteSupremacists It’s the direct opposite of what #America seeks to be. #Charlotesville
— Marco Rubio (@marcorubio) August 12, 2017
Roman Catholic:
Racism is a sin.
— C. C. Pecknold (@ccpecknold) August 12, 2017
“The worrying resurgence of aggressive forms of nationalism & racism constitute serious threats to human dignity & social coexistence.” JP2
— C. C. Pecknold (@ccpecknold) March 15, 2016
Disgraceful equivocation by the president. If you don’t want to say something because it might be upended by the news, shut up.
— Michael B Dougherty🍃 (@michaelbd) August 12, 2017
Trump’s political correctness has to go. It’s going to get more people killed.
— Michael B Dougherty🍃 (@michaelbd) August 12, 2017
1 of 2: Remember and heed New Orleans Archbishop Joseph Rummel’s warning to Leander Perez and other prominent segregationists in the 1950s:
— Robert P. George (@McCormickProf) August 12, 2017
2 of 2: White supremacy and all forms of racism are sinful. Those who embrace them place their souls in jeopardy of eternal damnation. https://t.co/YNrvknIxHi
— Robert P. George (@McCormickProf) August 12, 2017
And the very latest, pointed at the suddenly mealy-mouthed POTUS:
Trump’s response to Charlottesville is a kind of paradigm for what a bad emperor does in a moment like this.
— Ross Douthat (@DouthatNYT) August 13, 2017
In ruling a diverse society, the good emperor thinks, “how do I make sure people outside my coalition feel included/respected/safe?”
— Ross Douthat (@DouthatNYT) August 13, 2017
Bush did this well w/Muslims right after 9/11. Failed w/Katrina. Obama did it well in ’08; failed w/rural whites + evangelicals thereafter.
— Ross Douthat (@DouthatNYT) August 13, 2017
Trump doesn’t even bother trying. His (minority) coalition is the only one that exists for him. Can’t move to reassure anyone else, ever.
— Ross Douthat (@DouthatNYT) August 13, 2017
Condemning neo-Confederates and neo-Nazis is the easiest, *easiest* thing a white-conservative emperor can do for inclusion’s sake.
— Ross Douthat (@DouthatNYT) August 13, 2017
But Trump doesn’t want to. He sees his own coalition. They’re part of it. Therefore, doesn’t want to single them out.
— Ross Douthat (@DouthatNYT) August 13, 2017
Evangelical:
Trump is very, very specific when he wants to condemn someone – ask the Khans, Judge Curiel, Comey, his AG – his vagueness has a purpose.
— David French (@DavidAFrench) August 12, 2017
Tweets from people whose Christian bona fides I don’t know:
This. https://t.co/v5ZWM600XR
— Daniel W. Drezner (@dandrezner) August 12, 2017
Do follow that link, too.
“All sides” were not driving this car, killing at least one person. (credit: Ryan M. Kelly, Daily Progress) pic.twitter.com/8CL0gYPKbm
— Jonathan Blanks (@BlanksSlate) August 12, 2017
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“Liberal education is concerned with the souls of men, and therefore has little or no use for machines … [it] consists in learning to listen to still and small voices and therefore in becoming deaf to loudspeakers.” (Leo Strauss)
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