Some MAGA evangelicals are mad at the Philadelphia Eagles:
Let’s start off with some facts The Super Bowl champion Philadelphia Eagles have not rejected an invitation to the White House.
But that did not stop many conservative evangelicals, looking for their next big grievance, to offer knee-jerk social media responses to rumors that the champs refused to make a visit to Washington to see Donald Trump. It looks like conservative media personality Megyn Kelly got things going by responding to an X post claiming the Eagles had rejected the invite:
The MAGA evangelicals smelled red meat and quickly started to stir the pot:
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There seems to be an X feud raging between provocateur’s Megan Basham and Anthony Bradley over race:
“your boy”:
I think you get the idea
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Some of the same folks are also up in arms about Wheaton College. I don’t have time to delve into all the details here, but we have covered this mess at CURRENT here and here and here.
Last night William Wolfe and his crowd at the Center for Baptist Leadership hosted an online event in which Wheaton alumni bashed their alma mater over the Russell Vought issue and a bunch of other stuff. Watch:
The MAGA website The American Reformer is covering this:
Rod Dreher is in the mix:
Tim Bayly believes some rebuking is in order:
Even The New Yorker is paying attention to this:
Timothy Larsen responds:
More Timothy Larsen, the McManis Chair of Christian Thought at Wheaton:
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A theologian associated with Douglas Wilson and the reconstructionist Calvinism he promotes in Moscow, Idaho recently wrote a book titled The Sin of Empathy: Compassion and Its Counterfeits. Here is a description of the book:
The so-called virtue of empathy is the greatest rhetorical tool of manipulation in the 21st century.
Because love is a real virtue, empathy’s power is in posing as selfless care for victims.
A sad polar bear paces as David Attenborough informs you that the family suburban is melting the ice caps.
“Jesus was an asylum seeker!” the sign reads at an Open Borders Rally.
A forlorn Bruno wishes he too could change in the women’s locker room, a place he’s always known he belonged.
“My mom said if we don’t go she’ll be just devastated.”
When you reject the sin of empathy, you reject the manipulation of the media, the manipulation of family and friends, and most importantly, the manipulation of your own heart.
Here is is how Joe Rigney talks about the book:
Rigney’s book caught the attention of Albert Mohler, who hosted him on his podcast. They take shots at everyone from David French to the Pope. Why David French? Because of this column.
Here is a taste of the Rigney-Mohler conversation:
Tom Buck likes the book:
Here is Douglas Wilson:
George Yancey gets it right:
This guy loves what he is seeing:
What would a debate among conservative evangelicals be without someone mentioning Russell Moore:
And this:
Mike Stone ran for president of the Southern Baptist Convention a few years ago:
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And last but not least, the theocratic wing of Reformed Christianity is not happy that Paula White-Cain is now working on “faith issues” for the Trump administration:
Even Mormons are getting into the mix!:
Paula seems unphased: