Steve Easterling retweeted
İncil’de tek bir cümleyle geçiştirilen ama diğer mektuplarla ve arkeolojiyle birleştirince insanı hayrete düşüren gerçek bir hayat hikayesi var: İsa’nın çarmıhını taşıyan Kireneli Simun.
Olayı biliyorsunuz; İsa kırbaçlanmaktan kan kaybettiği için çarmıhını taşıyamaz hale gelince, Romalı askerler o sırada tarladan dönen "Kireneli Simun" adında bir yabancıyı zorla çevirip çarmıhı ona taşıtıyorlar. Adam sadece Fısıh bayramı için Kuzey Afrika’dan (Kirene/Libya) Kudüs’e gelmiş sıradan bir ziyaretçi.
Fakat bu olayı anlatan üç İncil’den sadece Markos (15:21) durup dururken parantez açıp çok ilginç bir detay veriyor: "Oradan geçmekte olan Kireneli Simun adında birine, İskender ile Rufus’un babasına çarmıhı yüklediler."
İnsan okurken soruyor tabii; Markos niye birdenbire bu adamın oğullarının adını yazma gereği duydu? İskender ve Rufus kim ki?
Cevabı yıllar sonra Pavlus’un Roma’daki kiliseye yazdığı mektupta (Romalılar 16:13) karşımıza çıkıyor! Pavlus mektubun sonunda Roma’daki imanlılara selam gönderirken şöyle diyor: "Rab yolunda seçkin biri olan Rufus’a ve bana da annelik eden annesine selam söyleyin."
Meğer Markos kendi İncil’ini Roma’daki Hristiyanlar için yazarken, kilisedeki herkesin yakından tanıdığı Rufus’u işaret ederek "Bakın, her pazar yanınızda oturan Rufus ile İskender var ya; işte İsa’nın çarmıhını taşıyan adam onların babasıydı!" diyor.
O gün Romalı askerlerin rastgele yakasından tutup zorla çarmıh taşıttığı o adam, o kanlı yürüyüşte İsa’da ne gördüyse bütün ailesiyle birlikte iman ediyor; eşi ve oğulları yıllar sonra kilisenin en önemli isimleri haline geliyor. Hatta 1941 yılında Kudüs’te Kidron Vadisi’nde yapılan kazılarda, üzerinde "Kireneli İskender, Simun’un oğlu" yazan 1. yüzyıldan kalma aile kemik kutusu (ossuary) bile bulundu. İki bin yıllık metindeki iki ismin arkeolojiden çıkıp gelmesi inanılmaz bir şey.
Steve Easterling retweeted
🚨: South Florida takes down Florida in Gainesville for the first time since 1977, defeating the Gators, 72-70.
The Bulls hand the SEC its first loss of the season!
▪️ Stefanie Ingram: 25 PTS, 6 REB, 6 AST, 10-16 FG
▪️ Hannah Kuhn: 12 PTS, 2 REB, 5-12 FG
▪️ Kendall Puryear: 10 PTS, 5 REB, 5-7 FG
Hey @RaysBaseball let’s make sure our guy is here one the bay to stay!!
Junior Caminero finishes 2nd in AL MVP voting following a stellar 2026!
162 games played
42 HR
101 RBI
100 R
.885 OPS
ALT Junior Caminero (Tampa Bay Rays) hype graphic Junior Caminero looks onward while wearing a home white Tampa Bay Rays uniform and dark blue Tampa Bay Rays cap (back). Junior Caminero swings a bat while wearing a home white Tampa Bay Rays uniform and dark blue Tampa Bay Rays helmet (front).
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Steve Easterling retweeted
Junior Caminero finishes 2nd in AL MVP voting following a stellar 2026!
162 games played
42 HR
101 RBI
100 R
.885 OPS
ALT Junior Caminero (Tampa Bay Rays) hype graphic Junior Caminero looks onward while wearing a home white Tampa Bay Rays uniform and dark blue Tampa Bay Rays cap (back). Junior Caminero swings a bat while wearing a home white Tampa Bay Rays uniform and dark blue Tampa Bay Rays helmet (front).
Steve Easterling retweeted
Yes, it can be pastorally awkward to talk about, but there is only one political party that does this to Christians *everywhere* they get power.
And there are prominent pastors (and entire Christian leadership networks, publishing arms, media platforms) who consistently create permission structures for Christians to keep voting for what is legitimately Christian persecution and national sin.
Steve Easterling retweeted
I believe @RepThomasMassie is the best chance we currently have for real change in America.
And a lot of people see this as well.
If anyone could put a third party into a competitive spot against the uniparty it’s him.
His support nationally is severely underestimated.
For example, I live in a deep blue state, I’m not a republican and I sure as hell aren’t a democrat, I’ve seen what democrats can do with a super majority, and I I’ve seen how the republican party will simply abandon voters in states they don’t think they can win.
People like me have to rely on the make up of the house and senate in Washington DC. So I pay attention to the representatives and senators of other states because my local races are a lost cause.
Thomas Massie, while fighting for his constituents in Kentucky, was one of only a few if not the only one fighting for the people of my state as well. That effort did not go unnoticed outside of the MAGA echo chamber.
We are at a point where MAGA has become an Israel cult, republicans have become democrats, and democrats have become mental asylum patients and most of the country knows this.
This is the best time for change, people are sick of the two party system, especially because people are waking up every day to the fact that it’s really one party split into two factions working together to monopolize the vote.
The normal people in this country are effectively politically homeless and now is the time to capitalize on Americans frustrations with the political system, while the betrayal of both parties is fresh, and before republicans start their two year campaign of lies and promises they have no intention of keeping.
Steve Easterling retweeted
No, we don't outlaw tragic accidents or deaths by natural causes.
Yes, zygote is one of the earliest stages of our lives.
No, sperm and eggs aren't people. Once they meet in fertilization a person is created. This is basic biology.
Steve Easterling retweeted
People simply don't understand that making "millions of deaths" arguments to true communists doesn't work, because they've already priced that into the decision.
They want that to happen, because they believe you will be part of the dead and they will be left alive.
That's the entire point, lol.
That's why they don't want you armed, and that's why the smart ones on their side advocate being armed themselves.
There is no point in bringing this up unless your motive is to simply point out that we feel we'd win in a gunfight and we're more than willing to find out if they're game.
Hasan Piker hits a wall when he tries to tell a man born in the Soviet Union that Americans are just as controlled as people under communism.
Konstantin Kisin shuts down the comparison and lays out the difference.
When he’s done, even Piker admits he’s right.
HASAN PIKER: “A lot of people think, well, as long as I can eat a Big Mac, you know, as long as I can watch TV, as long as I can consume porn [...] then, you know, things are probably fine.”
“It’s a different mechanism of control that makes you think that you are actually an active participant in this.”
Kisin isn’t buying it.
KONSTANTIN KISIN: “The difference between those countries is not that they can’t eat a Big Mac.”
“The difference is that if they criticize the government, in Russia today even, but of course in the Soviet Union previously, you’re going to get killed, right? In America, that’s not what happens, right? In America, you don’t get put in jail.”
HASAN PIKER: “We don’t know yet.”
That’s his whole defense: what MIGHT happen in America.
So Kisin makes it personal.
KONSTANTIN KISIN: “You in China or in the Soviet Union would be killed if you were critical of that regime.”
HASAN PIKER: “I would definitely be jailed, for sure.”
And there it is. Piker makes Kisin’s argument for him.
KONSTANTIN KISIN: “So that’s the difference between these countries and America. It’s not a Big Mac, it’s freedom.”
Only in a free country can you build a career telling people they aren’t free.
CONTEXT: Communist regimes don’t just jail their critics.
Under Stalin, the Soviet secret police executed 681,692 people in two years, by the regime’s own records. That’s more than 900 a day.
Under Mao, the Great Leap Forward killed at least 45 million people in four years, per historian Frank Dikötter.
Under Pol Pot, nearly a quarter of Cambodia’s population was dead within four years.
Steve Easterling retweeted
“With guns in the hands of the public, there may be tragedies, but without them, there will be genocides"
This is historically irrefutable.
Steve Easterling retweeted
I've said it before, but nobody ever realises they're Umbridge - and yet she's the most common type of villain in the world.
Let’s go Bulls!! What an incredible comeback! Let’s keep stampeding and finish this with a win!! @USFFootball
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Steve Easterling retweeted
Self-defense is the most basic form of preparedness, and it shouldn't depend on whether you can afford the fees and the day off work. Whatever your state's rules are, training is the part worth paying for.
