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Brian Morris
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IT Security; dependent on Jesus Christ; Racism, Abuse ≠ fruit of the Spirit; leaving complementarianism, bringin’ receipts
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May 14 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Why is the PCA unsafe for women?

Because PCA women are taught this.

“Self-protection is unnecessary”

“We don’t have to resist or fear”

Freedom in Christ = submission

“Trust and obey”

SCARY STUFF

HT @CrazyMom4Him Image This is just full-on neo-confederate.

Freedom in Christ = slavery to your husband

Suffering is amazing!

Seriously, if someone wanted to try to abuse a woman, this is a great strategy.

I can’t adequately explain how bad this is. Image
May 12 • 26 tweets • 7 min read
Why do I write constantly about Robert Dabney, a late 19th century enslaver? Because his ideas, thoughts, style, philosophy and doctrine have washed over American evangelicalism.

Neo-confederate ideology.

Come see how.

🧵/1 Image John Piper has a long history of reading and recommending Confederate theologians.

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May 10 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Francis Schaeffer:

“… the mass media can be used by an authoritarian manipulating government or an elite. The elite gives the arbitrary absolutes and then not only TV, but all the mass media, can be used for manipulation and a plot or conspiracy are not needed.”

“All that is needed is as a people in the places of influence, and those who decide what is the news, have in common, the modern results of humanism— the modern worldview—which we have considered at length in this series.”

The New Right took this strategy and adopted it for themselves to create White Christian Nationalism / Fascism.

-Salem Radio, Bott (D James Kennedy, Focus on the Family, ACLJ)
-Christian book publishers
-CBN, Fox News
-Rush Limbaugh
-Billy Graham & Bill Bright and their films
-on and on

(This started at least in the 1930s with William Randolph Hurst and films and news, although history is full of examples.) Source

May 1 • 17 tweets • 6 min read
John MacArthur, 2012:

“It is a little strange that we have such an aversion to slavery because historically there have been abuses you know there have been abuses in marriage we don't have an aversion to marriage particularly because there have been abuses.”

“There are parents who abuse their children we don't have an aversion to having children because some parents have been abusive.”

“In any kind of human relationship, there can be abuses, there can also be benefits. For many people—poor people, perhaps people who weren’t educated, perhaps who had no other opportunity working for a gentle, caring, loving Master was the best of all possible worlds. If you had the right master, everything was taken care of.”

[Good thing American enslaved people had a choice.]

“We have to go back and take a more honest look at slavery [apparently others are dishonest] and understand that God has, in a sense, legitimized it when it is handled correctly by saying this is the way that you are to view your relationship with Jesus Christ—the perfect, all wise, all loving, all compassionate, all beneficent Lord—and you willing to be his slave because of such unique care provided by him.”

“Slavery is not objectionable if you have the right master, it is the perfect scenario. Everything you need is need and met in a caring and loving environment where God provides all that we need through Christ. That’s what it means to be a Christian.”

🧵/1 This ideology is called “Neo-Confederate.” It comes straight from Robert Dabney and other Presbyterians that owned people. It’s how they justified what they did.

Douglas Wilson and Steve Wilkins were injecting this ideology into the mainstream of evangelicalism in the 90s.

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Apr 27 • 14 tweets • 5 min read
Francis Schaeffer’s 1982 A Christian Manifesto was not Schaeffer’s original material.

1. John Whitehead, Rushdoony’s disciple, wrote the first draft

2. Accusations of plagiarism were made after publication

Who were the accusers? Reconstructionists.

Come see who and how

🧵/1 Image First, John Whitehead had been with RJ Rushdoony and studied using Rushdoony’s library, but left team Chalcedon to join Team Schaeffer.

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Mar 23 • 27 tweets • 9 min read
Purity culture — why?

Where did it come from?

Rushdoony & Gothard 👀

Come see how and who else!

Tweet 21 is the 😱

🧵/1 Image As I was reading Joshua Harris’s book, I see the Rushdoony, Van Til phrases.

“God’s lordship in my life”

And law-obsessed Reformed:

“Obeying Him”
“Please Him”

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Mar 17 • 19 tweets • 6 min read
Despite what the Moral Majority guys expected, Ronald Reagan decided to side with the NAACP & allow segregated schools to have tax-exemption revoked.

What did RJ Rushdoony say when he got a meeting with Reagan lawyers?

You won’t believe it. 😳😳
Tweet 11 is the shocker.

🧵/1 Image Falwell, LaHaye, Oral Roberts, Bakker, D James Kennedy, Charles Stanley met with Jimmy Carter in 1980 and were SOOO angry about Carter’s support for equal rights for women (ERA) & Roe v Wade that they decided to get him out of office.

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Mar 15 • 18 tweets • 6 min read
Want to see how

RJ Rushdoony
Howard & Roberta Ahmanson (below)
Marvin Olasky

were able to:

-Get Gingrich to flip congress
-Make Doug Wilson famous
-Get GW Bush elected
-Pave the way for Trcmp

Buckle up!

🧵/1 Image Howard Fieldstead Ahmanson, Sr died and left Howard, Jr the equivalent of $2.5 billion from a Savings & Loans company.

Howard and Rushdoony became friends and Howard wanted to use this money to spread the Rushdoony “dominion” theology.

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Mar 9 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Bill Bright, 1986:

“We might also start various ‘front’ groups. One of the most effective Christian movements in the late '60s and early '70s was the Christian World Liberation Front at the University of California, Berkeley.”

🧵/1 > this is nuts, come see Image Bill Bright, 1986:

“It was organized to counteract the radical movement on campus. Few people knew that its leaders were on the staff of Campus Crusade for Christ.”

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Mar 2 • 9 tweets • 4 min read
Dane Ortlund, 2012

Reconstructionist?

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“In this marvelously useful book David Bostrom gives all of us back our God-given personhood, coaching us into a clearer and deeper vision of why we are on the planet, according to Scripture. This book has blessed and strengthened me, and it will do the same for you.”Image Dane Ortlund enforcing the book along side:

Randy Booth (CREC)
Steve Wilkins (League of the South, 2001)
George Grant (Coral Ridge reconstruction)

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Feb 25 • 37 tweets • 14 min read
This story will blow your mind 🤯, stun, shock and educate.

INSIDE: Paul Pressler, OPC, John Birch Society, NBC News, media intimidation, guns, immigration

Philip Blair Jones, Presbyterian

Don’t miss the end. 😱

🧵/1 Image Let’s start in Houston Texas in 1962. Philip Blair Jones is the pastor of eight families wanting a church that was “elder-led, conservative in doctrine and evangelistic in outreach…”

They named it Bethel Independent Presbyterian Church.

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Feb 19 • 22 tweets • 7 min read
So how did Douglas Wilson become famous?

You won’t believe the story.

And don’t miss the last tweet.

🧵/1 Image Once upon a time, Doug Wilson opens a school & publishing house and starts advertising in World Magazine.

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Feb 17 • 14 tweets • 5 min read
Let’s play Six Degrees of Greg Bahnsen.

This time — Douglas Wilson.

Bahnsen died in 1995 and DW was still on-the-rise.

🧵/1 Image It wasn’t until 1996 that Douglas Wilson and the PCA’s Steve Wilkins wrote their slavery apologetics book that seemed to boost their respective profiles.

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Feb 11 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Bill Bright was deeply influenced and helped by Henrietta Mears, who may be one of the most influential teachers in all of American evangelicalism (believe it or not).

She was head of education at a mega Presbyterian church in Hollywood, CA in the 1940s.

🧵/1 Image At Mears’s church, Bright met Ronald Reagan’s mother (late 1940s to early 50s) and became Ronald Reagan’s friend during Vietnam War protest days.

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Jan 28 • 11 tweets • 4 min read
Long before Bill Gothard and RJ Rushdoony and Douglas Wilson — there was Robert Dabney’s umbrella.

God (who is law)
☂️
Church + civil authorities
☂️
Husband
☂️
Wife
☂️
Children

🧵/1 Douglas Wilson’s theology leans heavily on Robert Dabney.

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Jan 27 • 20 tweets • 7 min read
In Paul Pressler’s autobiography, he claims that he resigned from his Bethel Independent Presbyterian Church (Houston) Youth Group (after 16 years!) in Feb 1979.

Why does this not match what happened in court filings?

Let’s see

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Image According to @RobertDownen_ , Pressler was forced out of the Bethel Presby youth group post in 1978.

“He was ousted from that position in 1978 after church officials received information about "an alleged incident," according to a letter introduced into the court file.”

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Jan 21 • 13 tweets • 5 min read
How & why did Albert Mohler flip from Egalitarian to Complementarian?

Carl FH Henry and Stephen B. Clarke

Come see how it went down.

🧵/1 Image Carl CF Henry was a giant. He was at the center of J Howard Pew’s plan to create a movement against the “social gospel.”

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Dec 24, 2023 • 13 tweets • 5 min read
I haven’t traced Tim LaHaye so far.

He took ideas from Rushdoony and Francis Schaeffer and John Whitehead and packaged them for popular consumption.

Courtesy @julieingersoll

🧵/1 Image Tim LaHaye was an inspiration to Jerry Falwell and they formed the Moral Majority together.



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Dec 22, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Douglas Wilson, 2009:

Francis "Schaeffer was just a gateway drug for some of us."

Wilson watched the movies about Schaeffer funded by Richard DeVos.

Schaeffer was making Rushdoony's ideas pour into the consciousness of American Evangelicalism.

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Image Douglas Wilson, 2009:

Francis Schaeffer >
Gregg Singer >
RJ Rushdoony >
Robert Dabney >
Randall Terry >
Gary North >
David Hagopian >
Doug Jones

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Dec 9, 2023 • 10 tweets • 5 min read
Robert C. Cannada (attorney from Jackson, AL) and W. Jack Williamson (attorney from Greenville, AL) — both critical in the founding of the PCA — quoting from James Thornwell:

“Ruling Elders, as the representatives of the people, form a part of all ecclesiastical assemblies, and partake in all authoritative acts equally with the Teaching Elders; and in which, by a series of judicatories rising one above another, each individual church is under the watch and care of its appropriate judicatory; and the whole body, by a system of review and control, is bound together as one homogeneous community.”

“Wherever this system is found in operation in the Church of God, there is Presbyterianism. The only permanent officers in the Church of God, which our Constitution recognizes, are Bishops, Elders, and Deacons; the only courts are Sessions, Presbyteries, Synods and the General Assembly.”

“These officers and these courts are treated in our Constitution as abundantly adequate to meet all the exigencies of the church, and to do all that God requires her to do in her ecclesiastical capacity.”

“We profess to trace this system to the Scriptures. We believe that it embodies the leading principles of church government established by the Apostles of the Lord; and we cannot question its sufficiency without bringing a serious and blasphemous reproach upon the Spirit of inspiration"

(Taken from The Collected Writings of J.H. Thornwell, IV, 148-149). Just for fun, here are the pages that Cannada and Williamson are quoting.

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Nov 17, 2023 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
See that phrase, “patriarchal character?”

That was used by Wayne Grudem and Vern Poythress in the wars to kill the TNIV.

🧵/1 > see how solid this connection is
Image The same Vern Poythress in the Journal of Christian Reconstruction

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