Day Bidet #49

Please take mercy on a soldier from the Florida-Georgia line:

1. “[T]he modern world wants you godless and unhappy. Because you buy stuff.”
2. Read this.
3. “Introduction to 1-2 Chronicles”
4. “Progress.” “Progress.” “Progress.” (Remember: Technological progress—which is undeniable—can’t make up for social dissolution.)
5. There is no such thing as “symbolic repentance”—just virtue signaling.
6. “You never loved the sun in heaven as I have loved the rain.”
7. “[T]here are some Easter passages in the Synoptics and John that have some unusual language in common. Jesus addresses his disciples as ‘my brothers’ in Matthew 28:10 and John 20:17.” (Related: “Those of us who know the Gospels extremely well know that of course [John 21] is an allusion to Peter’s having boasted that even if all the other disciples abandoned Jesus, he would stand firm. … But … Peter’s boast, and his contrasting himself to the other disciples, appears nowhere in the Gospel of John! … It is in Matthew 26:33 and in Mark 14:29.”)

More:

Clown World. Clown World. (Related. Related. Related. Related.) Clown World. Clown Conservatism, Inc. (Related.) Demon World. (Related.) Demon World. (Related. Related.) Demon World. Black Mirror World (which, yes, is demonic). But a fascinating and beautiful, beautiful, beautiful world nonetheless.

“Romans had a great deal of anxiety about the people they enslaved running away.”

“Whenever this study has been cited, it has always been for the exact opposite of its actual conclusion. … This demonstrates a persistent bias in which the media only reports what people want to hear instead of reporting the truth.”

“[A]bstain from every form of evil.”