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paula rinehart's avatar

Rod, I am a long time reader of yours, a therapist in Raleigh, married to a guy in the ministry. I’ve moved in many Protestant circles, as well as the parachurch world for years. I have followed the anguish of your marriage loss and felt that with you. What I have wanted to say to you is that, over and over again, a place of unjust suffering seems to accompany the life of someone who has enormous Kingdom impact. It’s uncanny to me, as a person who has heard a thousand stories by now. It brings to mind, often, the old expression—the devil takes his pound of flesh. I know that doesn’t compensate for lost family—but it does bring a measure of comfort, in that Life is being poured out in a thousand places through a wound that should have never happened in your life. In the unseen world, you are clearly “disturbing the universe,” to borrow T.S. Eliot’s words. I pray for you often, as my brother who is shaking things up :)

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"His was a donor class move."

It absolutely was, but therein lies a problem we don't talk about much but looms large over this landscape.

Campaign cash makes the world go round - gets pols elected and re-elected. Yes, the donor class trends left and will continue to do so - the more people seek out higher education, the bigger the "credentialed class," and that class prides itself on being not just smarter than than the short-fingered vulgarian class, but more virtuous. Cutting the breasts off a psychologically confused teenaged girl is seen as the moral thing to do, increasingly, by those who have the most money to give.

Those who oppose such things tend to have less money. They may constitute an outright majority of the population (not sure about that, but maybe); but if they're not giving campaign cash, their voice matters less; they are yappy plebs to be kept at bay while the REAL work of the GOP, doling out tax breaks and other favors to the special interests, takes precedence.

When the people with the money who give the money favor wokism, how are those who don't have the money and don't give the money to resist?

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