A part of the “manosphere” community, which promotes masculinity and strongly opposes the feminist movement, Andrew Tate shot to fame in 2022 thanks to his controversial brand of male-targeted ‘self-help”. His content, considered by many to be sexist and misogynistic, regularly garners millions of views on YouTube and TikTok. Additionally, he made some heated remarks about Christianity when comparing it to the “superior” religion of Islam. Because of his controversial remarks, he was recently banned from almost every social media platform.
So, what exactly has this guy said that has sparked such moral outrage? Well, he’s said a lot. Most of it’s garbage and some of it is garbage-lite. But every now and then he hits the nail right on the head only to say something ridiculous or contradict himself moments later. His remarks make a few things abundantly clear though: Andrew Tate does not understand masculinity, women, or Christianity. Let’s dive in.
Andrew Tate Does Not Understand Masculinity
The Alpha male vs Beta male/Soy boy culture is full-tilt right now and Andrew Tate is one of many who are capitalizing off of impressionable young men. And while Tate likes to style his message as being complex and in-depth, it’s actually quite rudimentary:
- “Real” men (Alpha males) sleep with women. Lots of women. You’re not a man until you’ve conquered a woman sexually. Women are commodities to be used and then discarded when you tire of them or find a better commodity.
- “Real” men also have money. Lots of money. If you don’t have money you’re not a high-value man and high-value women won’t want to sleep with you.
- Real men are free–free to do whatever they want whenever they want. If someone is telling you what to do, you aren’t free and you’re not a real man.
“First thing, you need freedom ‘cus you ain’t a man if you’re not free. If you’re working your a** off, you’re a slave.”
“I have everything every man has ever dreamed of. I got a big mansion, I’ve got super cars, I can live anywhere I want, I got unlimited women, I go where I want…I do anything I want all the time. So, I’m an amazing role model.”
Andrew Tate
As Christians, it’s easy to see the problem with Tate’s definition of a “real” man: it gives men a pass to indulge in their most base, fallen sexual natures. Instead of abstaining from sex until marriage as God commands both men and women, Tate tells men to sleep with as many women as possible, as often as possible.
Instead of finding your worth in God (Jeremiah 17:7) and in noble things such as marrying, raising children, and serving your fellow brothers and sisters (Acts 20:35; Phil 2:4), Tate says a man’s worth is in his wallet. Instead of being subject to rulers and authorities (Titus 3:1-3) and living humbly and quietly as Christ commands, Tate says you’re not a man unless you’re free–free from being told what to do.
If Tate wants to know what a real man looks like, he needs to look to Christ. No, not the feminized, long-haired, hippie Jesus hanging over every Catholic grandmother’s fireplace, but Christ, the all powerful son of God who shook the world at his coming and will shake it again at his return.
Christ is the epitome of masculinity, the exemplar of human maleness, the only true Alpha male that has ever walked the planet, and an example every man should strive to emulate. On Earth He served his Bride, He defended his Bride, and He died for his Bride. Now he stands at the Father’s right hand and advocates for his Bride.
How easy it would have been for Christ to give in to temptation in the desert and rule the world as a King, as Satan promised him (Luke 4:5-7). But instead He chose the path of a lowly servant. How easy it would have been for Christ to call down a host of angels to free him from the cross. But instead He chose to suffer for our sake.
It takes no strength or willpower to be a Tate Man. It’s harder to control your sexual desires until the proper time. It’s harder to obey than to disobey; to be subject to an authority than to be “free”. So, in reality, Tate is the very thing he preaches against–a beta male–a slave to sin and his master the devil.
Andrew Tate Does Not Understand Women
Tate’s views on women is where he gets the most pushback from our ultra-feminist society, but it’s this area where he gets the most things right. Unfortunately, he gets a lot wrong too and tends to contradict himself on most points. Here is where he’s spot on:
- Women are physically weaker than men and should be protected
- Women should be mothers
- Women should be modest and not let themselves be taken advantage of by men
- Women are precious and should be cherished and honored
Yes, yes, and yes again! Whether Andrew Tate realizes it or not, he’s hit upon the hallmarks of biblical femininity. In 1 Peter 3:7, Paul talks about women being the weaker vessel and tells men to honor their wives or their prayers will be hindered (Yikes!). In 1 Timothy 5:14, Paul gives instructions to the church and speaks about how young widows should get married and bear children. Furthermore, God’s first command to Adam and Eve was to be fruitful and multiply (Genesis 1:28).
Continuing in 1 Timothy, Paul encourages women to adorn themselves in respectable (modest) apparel, and to let their worth be internal and not external (1 Timothy 2-9-10; 1 Peter 3:3-4). And last, but certainly not least, Paul tells husbands to love and cherish their wives as they love and cherish their own bodies (Ephesians 5:25-30).
Sadly, Andrew Tate has proven himself to be a hypocrite. His actions prove that he does not value, cherish, or respect women, often referring to them as b*****s and calling “cheating” exercise. Tate says real women are modest but brags about having “big booty cuties with their name tattooed on them” and is regularly seen with an entourage of scantily clad women.
Worse still, Tate says women should not let themselves be taken advantage of by men, but regularly takes advantage of them by using their bodies to make money on OnlyFans.
People think I’m running around with these h*es because I like sex. […] I got these b*****s just so everyone knows who the don is.
I go out and [have sex] and I come back to her [his girlfriend] and I don’t care about her [the other woman] and I only love my girl. That’s not cheating, that’s exercise.
How can I use these women to make me money […]? So, I text all my girlfriends […] all five and said ‘you’re all coming here to live with me and work with me’ […]. We’re going to start a webcam business […]. We’re gonna get rich and we’re gonna be a team…
Andrew Tate
The truth is, the high-value woman Tate describes as being worth pursuing (essentially the Proverbs woman), would not be attracted to him. A real woman would not sell her body online for profit. A real woman would not be okay with her husband being promiscuous while she remained monogamous (another wild idea that Tate holds). She would expect and demand fidelity. A real woman would not dress promiscuously and would not allow a man to demean her by calling her a b****.
As such, the only women Tate can get–the only women his male acolytes can get if they follow his advice–are worldly women who lack virtue–“low value women” who are the antithesis to everything he preaches.
Andrew Tate Does Not Understand Christianity
Andrew Tate’s religious beliefs are just as much of a mixed bag as his beliefs about men and women. On one hand he considers himself to be an Orthodox Christian and lives in, and financially supports, an Orthodox Christian community in Romania. On the other hand, he believes that Islam is superior to Christianity and fervently lays out a few reasons why:
- Islam fixes a lot of the problems that men are currently facing.
- The Christian community is tolerant of a lot of things that go against their faith.
- Muslims are the only people who will defend their religion–they refuse to be mocked and insulted.
I can walk through London with a t-shirt that says ‘Jesus is Gay’ and nothing would happen to me. If I did the same thing with the Islamic prophet, I’d be dead before I got to the end of the street.
[In Muslim countries] Every woman is married. Every woman obeys her husband and has four or five, six kids–big families. All the things we’re talking about, all the things we face here, they have none of that […] because of Islam.
Christianity is a dead religion which is confined to the history books. It’s dying out. Your own Pope goes up there and talks LGBTQ s**t. You don’t stand for anything, you don’t believe in anything. You are walked on, you are mocked. The whole thing is a joke.
Andrew Tate – Christian Kickboxing Champion Praises Islam
Whew! Tate certainly holds nothing back in his critique of Christianity. And while there’s a lot wrong with his analysis, he does get one thing right: American evangelical Christianity has become a joke. We’ve let so much filth and godlessness enter the church, that it looks everything like the world and nothing like the Christ-centered churches in the Bible. But this does not make Christianity weak.
Firstly, the validity of a religion should not rest solely on its so-called representatives. The Bible condemns the very things Tate condemns and there are countless Christians here in the U.S. who are faithful, bold, and unwavering in their proclamation of the truth–men and women who call out sin within the church, false teachers like the Pope, and wicked government officials with aplomb. Not to mention the zealous Christian men and women around the world who are dying for their faith daily to advance the Gospel. Christianity is not dead. It’s vibrant and spreading like wildfire around the globe.
Secondly, not everyone who claims to be a Christian is a Christian. The Bible says that we will know false prophets (fake Christians) by the fruit they bear (Matthew 7:15-20) and that a real believer would not continue walking in a pattern of sin.
The person who practices sin belongs to the evil one, because the Devil has been sinning from the beginning. The reason that the Son of God was revealed was to destroy what the Devil has been doing. No one who has been born from God practices sin, because God’s seed abides in him. Indeed, he cannot go on sinning, because he has been born from God. This is how God’s children and the Devil’s children are distinguished. No person who fails to practice righteousness and to love his brother is from God.
1 John 3:8-10
Now, let’s look at Tate’s admiration of Islam. Tate says that Islam fixes a lot of the issues facing men. What are these issues? In a word, women. Tate says Muslim wives obey their husbands and have a lot of babies while American women are unruly and don’t pursue motherhood. We as Christians would readily agree that wives should submit to their husbands and be fruitful and multiply. The difference between Christianity and Islam is that Islam often achieves this through brute force and tyranny.
God tells women to submit to their husbands (Ephesians 5:22-33). He does not tell husbands to submit their wives. The Bible reveres women. As a matter of fact, it is revolutionary in its treatment of women. The Koran, on the other hand, condones the mistreatment and dehumanization of women (for even further proof texts, click here).
Tate also admires Islam because they refuse to be mocked and insulted–conflating defending one’s faith with retaliation. On the surface this may seem like a good thing, but it’s actually a sign of immaturity and weakness. In no other situation would we look at a guy or gal who goes into a fit of rage every time they were insulted as someone worthy of respect. Yes, we would likely avoid saying anything that would offend or insult them, but not out of respect, but because they’re volatile, unpredictable, and dangerous. Islam is known for being reactionary–for retaliating against the “infidels” who dare speak a word against Allah, with deadly results. And while so-called Christians have committed atrocities in the name of God, the Bible condemns those acts and those who perpetrate them. Even if many adherents of Islam live peacefully, Islam is a religion that sanctions force, if necessary.
Christianity on the other hand is characterized by humility and meekness (Luke 22:26). Christ was the prime example of this. He told his disciples that they would be mocked and persecuted (John 15:20), but he didn’t call them to arms. He told them to turn the other cheek (Matthew 5:38-39). He told them to love those who hated them (Luke 6:35-36).
When Christ was arrested and stood before Pontius Pilate to give a defense, he was largely silent. When he was mocked, beaten, spit upon, stripped naked, and nailed to a cross, he remained silent. He even asked God to forgive his beaters and mockers (Luke 23:34). THAT is strength. THAT is power. THAT is worthy of respect and honor.
God isn’t some insecure tyrant who needs his people to come running to his defense every time someone says a mean word about him. God isn’t afraid or confused or depressed about the opposition of man. He laughs at it.
Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain? The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together against the Lord and against his Anointed, saying, “Let us burst their bonds apart and cast away their cords from us.” He who sits in the heavens laughs; the Lord holds them in derision.
Psalm 2:1-4 (emphasis mine)
When juxtaposed against his beliefs on men and women, it’s not hard to see why Tate gravitates towards Islam. It feeds directly into his desire for power, control, and tyrannical dominion over women.
In Conclusion
When speaking about celebrities, we often forget that they’re human beings with eternal souls who will one day stand before the throne of God, as we all will. As such, I genuinely pray that Andrew Tate recognizes his need for a savior, repents, and follows Christ.
In the tons of interviews I watched to prepare for this post, he’s willing to engage with people who ardently oppose his views, and does so with surprising tact. I pray God uses that willingness to turn Tate to Himself, as Tate holds massive influence over our culture right now, and is sadly leading many men, and even women, down a seductively dangerous path.
Until next time, salutations and selah.
Bone of Bones 
Christianity has always been superior to Islam because Christianity teaches strict chastity and absolute monogamy while Islam teaches modified polygamy.
Strict Islamic countries permit more than one wife and even permit temporary (timed) marriages.
The problem is what passes for marriage in churches right now is not valid as marriage but cohabitation or a form of sexless concubinage.
Don’t believe me?
Ask yourselves and your pastors this question: what RELATIONAL change took place from non marriage to marriage? Hint: It’s a huge massive change for a young man and women and the reason for the celebration!
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True! There are many reasons Christianity is superior and truly from God. The Biblical model of chastity and marriage is one such area that makes Christianity shine above the rest and points to it being truly from God. What man would come up with such an idea? Fallen man naturally seeks to do what’s easy, convenient, or gives him the most pleasure. The Bible tells us to deny our flesh. Sadly, like you said, many Christians have adopted unbiblical ideas about sex and marriage, distorting God’s intended purpose. Thanks for reading and engaging!
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You know what it is? There’s a lot of men who are growing up nowadays and compared to previous generations, they’re not getting married at the same rates, they’re not having sex as much as previous generations, and they’re ending up lonely and depressed and addicted to porn because they don’t actually know how to attract women or find a romantic partner. Men like Andrew Tate resonate because he fills that gap that many of these men have in their lives and he tells them exactly how to be a high value man that women are naturally attracted to, and his ideas have a basis in evolutionary psychology so they have a lot of truth to them even if every idea he has isn’t necessarily true. So instead of getting mad at Andrew Tate for telling these young men how to be better versions of themselves, why don’t we do something about this culture that tells men that hitting on women and being assertive and having respect for yourself are embodiments of “toxic masculinity” and that as a man you need to roll over, be a pushover, don’t assert your will over the world, and be a soyboy beta male? The reality is, the church had completely turned a blind eye to the needs of men and has made chastity and purity before marriage the entire scope of its teachings with regards to human sexuality.
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Hey Andrew. You’re absolutely right about Andrew Tate filling the gap many men have in their lives. Gangs do the same thing for men who don’t have good families or a father figure. We can acknowledge the valid reasons men decide to join a gang while simultaneously being upset at the gangs who entice them to join. I’m upset that Andrew Tate is leading men astray with yet another false idea of manhood, but I do understand why men want to follow him. He sprinkles in some truth here and there, which only makes his ideology more dangerous.
I agree with you also that the church has dropped the ball when it comes to properly instructing men (and women) of their roles and worth, and how to pursue the opposite sex. So many churches have made the topic of sex (and even the word sex itself) taboo and dirty when the Bible describes it as anything but. I grew up in a church that never discussed sex or courtship from a Biblical perspective, but thankfully I had parents who did, and I grew up with a healthy understanding and appreciation for it. The church I currently attend doesn’t tip-toe around the subject or make it taboo and I know of many others. When a church teaches the full counsel of God, sex and Biblical manhood/womanhood will naturally be brought up. Churches that are failing to teach this are simply not teaching all of Scripture, but rather picking and choosing what they want to preach.
I actually really like the idea of writing a post about all of this. It’s a serious issue. Thank you for engaging. I appreciate your comment. 🙂
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If you’re going to critique a Muslim, why don’t you talk about the strange similarities between CALVINISM and ISLAM? You are Reformed, after all. Both ideologies insist that God has a dogmatic and immutable will that demands unquestioning submission. Both come from Roman Catholicism in their deep origins, which includes Jew-hatred. Calvin was a Roman Catholic who never renounced his infant baptism for regeneration (which is Roman doctrine and not biblical) and was very codependent upon Augustine for his theology, also another Roman Catholic. That’s rather odd for a religion that says it was started through the rejection of Rome.
You should blog about how Calvinism and reformed theology are deep heresies going back to the Roman Catholic doctrine of replacement theology: that the Christian church has replaced Israel in a form of satanic, ideological Jew-hatred that debases Scripture through allegory (easily a subjective method of interpretation) and that gives no attention to the crucial doctrine of Bible prophecy (which is proven by living in reality and looking around you and studying basic history). It is truly a doctrine of devils, a heresy that laid the foundations for the Holocaust across European societies in the centuries between Calvin/Luther and WWII.
The Bible says the Gospel is to the JEW FIRST and also to the Gentile, but your religion’s history makes Jews shun their Messiah all the more, instead of helping them to trust Him for eternal salvation. Henry Abrahamson is a good start for you to hear what Jews believe of your religion.
Calvinism is anti-evangelism, because you’re too busy trying to master pseudo-Biblical concepts like molinism vs. synergism and prevenient grace vs. common grace and God’s preceptive will vs. His decretive will, etc. etc., and not doing any deep diving into the origins of your religion to match reality outside and of basic history. You talk of knowing God’s sovereignty and mercy, yet you can’t even see it when it comes to His own covenanted Chosen People, even today post-atonement.
Anyway, LUTHER’S JEWS by Kaufmann is a good start for a book written by a German Reformation scholar himself who faces squarely the rancid Jew-hatred of your religion’s forefather. Certainly, none of you are talking about it.
Gritsch has written a book called MARTIN LUTHER’S ANTISEMITISM, also short and insightful as written by an educated Lutheran himself. At least he’s honest.
ISRAEL BETRAYED is a two-volume series about the history of Jew-hatred throughout your religion. Even if you’re not overly anti-Jew or antiZionist, you’re definitely apathetic, silent, and ignorant about God’s Chosen People and the wondrous covenant He has plainly still kept with them to today.
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*Let me correct a name I mentioned earlier: Henry ABRAMSON is a Canadian-Jewish professor who has created a YouTube lecture series about the Holocaust. He discusses church history and the role that Calvinism/Reformed thought played in fostering Europe’s contempt for Jews over the centuries before the rise of the Nazi Party. This is replacement theology, which is official doctrine of Rome the Whore.
Why aren’t you Calvinists talking about these ugly facts and history? If you’re going to wax eloquent about God’s amazing permissive will vs. His decretive will, or His irresistible grace vs. His justifying grace. These are all abstract concepts if they’re even true at all. Why aren’t you talking about tangible, raw, and concrete history and reality that is undeniable? Why do you share a number of alarming things in common with the Romanists, as you claim your religion was founded by REJECTING Rome?
You even play worship music by ecumenical and charismatic musicians like the Gettys and Stuart Townend, who regularly share the stage with Roman Catholic worship artists that do not even believe the true Gospel nor worship the true LORD Jesus Christ. But here you are joyfully sharing their music.
Some Presbyterian churches choose to actively bash Israel by peddling the BDS agenda. These churches embrace replacement theology. Other Presbyterians, such as yourself, just stay completely silent and apathetic on the matter as a passive form of Jew-hatred, and your churches also embrace replacement theology. The Bible commands you to proactively be the exact opposite: you are to pray for the peace of Jerusalem (a physical city under constant attacks and not some allegorical, pie-in-the-sky place), to be a watchman on her walls, to speak tenderly to her that God’s wrath has been appeased now through her Messiah, that His very Gospel is to the JEW FIRST, etc. Endless biblical proof that the curses do not now fall on the Jews, while His promises and blessings in Christ now fall on you.
None of this interests you while you think you’re sitting in “grace” as America collapses all around you.
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Hi Lauren. While we love and encourage discussions on our blog (even if it’s to disagree with what we’ve written), what we won’t tolerate is unloving name-calling and belligerent diatribes that leave no room for conversation. You’ve said a lot in your two comments, but your point was lost in your anger. I don’t know your story or where you are in your journey towards Christ, but I hope God releases you from your anger and that you seek to love all God’s children, even we “apathetic, silent, and ignorant Calvinists” (your words). We could have had an amazing discussion had it begun in better spirits. That being said, since I can’t (and won’t) respond to every point you made, I’ll leave you with this article which addresses one of the more aggregious accusations you made. God bless. https://heidelblog.net/2013/08/covenant-theology-is-not-replacement-theology/
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My words were blunt, but you interpreted that as anger or contempt. I do have much righteous disgust toward your religion as I see the fruits of it, because I am told to judge others by their fruit and that of their beliefs/theology as well. It is the apathy and then arrogance I notice amongst Calvinists that is most disgusting: you do not emphasise missions due to your theology, and if you ever do commit to missions, it is done in spite of your theology. As Tate is now a Muslim, perhaps you have heard rumours that Christianity has been thriving in Iran and Afghanistan as two majority-Muslim nations. I very much doubt that their theology over in the Middle East is Calvinist.
You do also stay in ignorance in my observation, definitely on the topics I’ve mentioned above, because Calvinists are busy waxing eloquent about allegorical, abstract topics not relevant to reality and life outside. It is a trend across most of American “Protestant” Christendom to also devalue/de-emphasise education, while the Roman Catholics actually are getting higher degrees and accomplishing more (according to a study I read about a year ago). I never hear a Calvinist say much about Jews, their history, and their return to their native homeland. If PC(USA) churches like to get into anti-Zionist causes as a form of active Jew-hatred, what is the PCA church’s apathetic silence? Meanwhile, what Calvinists DO talk about seems to have no effect upon dying, crumbling America.
You misinterpreted my pointedness as anger. You misinterpreted my adjectives as name-calling. Perhaps sometime you could listen closely to fellow Calvinists James White and Jeff Durbin. Listen closely to how they sneer, mock, and belittle their opponents as Christians challenging their Calvinism. This is actually exactly how John Calvin himself once spoke of a Jewish rabbi, disparaging and demeaning him because he disagreed over Scripture.
Then you have Martin Luther actually urging MURDER for rabbis in his 1543 treatise! He senselessly blamed arbitrary Jews for his heart attack, rather than his own obesity. The Bible says you are not above your teacher, so actually, you Calvinists mimic the spirit of your teachers Luther and Calvin in your tone, approach, and persecutions.
Note that Calvin, Zwingli, and their followers had Christians put to death, primarily by drowning, because these Christians would not assent to the unbiblical practice of infant baptism and wanted to be re-baptised according to their own consciences before their Creator and Saviour. Going back to my very first point, murderous persecution is how Islam also treats their opponents and infidels. It is also the behaviour of a pope, for a religion that insists it has rejected the papacy.
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(P.S. Since you claim to be an experienced and published writer, somehow it did not occur to you that “aggregious” is not a word in the English language. The actual word is “egregious”. Also, as you are using it in the objective case, “us Calvinists” is appropriate over your very awkwardly stated, “…seek God to love we Calvinists.” You responded to my comments to insist I must be angry, but you sadly prove my point from another angle about Calvinists and their ignorance, and American Protestantism not valuing education.
Don’t conflate anger with obedience to biblical separation, either.)
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You’re not angry but you took the time to try and break me down over a typo and a grammatical error? Interesting approach, but ok. Yes, I made a few errors. I’m a terrible, terrible Calvinist (how you conflate the two is quite remarkable). Published authors have editors for a reason. I was actually in the process of responding to your other comment, but you clearly have an opinion that you don’t care to change, which would make any conversation with you futile. You claim that Calvinists are ignorant and apathetic, but here I am willing to converse, and you shut the conversation down with your vitriol. I actually agree with you on some points about Calvinism, Luther, etc. I’m well aware of it’s many faults. I’ve never met a Calvinist who thinks it’s perfect or that its adherents have it all figured out. But show me a perfect denomination. Show me a church that isn’t deeply flawed. I’m done trying to be civil though. You can continue to comment, but they will be ignored by me. Go with God.
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Your first response said, “we could have had an amazing discussion,” but it won’t happen because you are not going to tolerate “name-calling” and the like. Since you can’t (and won’t) respond to my points, here you are responding to my points to say that “here I am willing to converse.” First you weren’t, but now you are. Which is it?
(To drive it further, this statement from you:
“I’ll leave you with this article which addresses one of the more aggregious [sic] accusations you made. God bless.”
…speaks to ending the discussion, which does not make sense with this following statement that is also from you:
“I was actually in the process of responding to your other comment…”
First you weren’t, but actually, you were. Which is it?)
I make multiple, very pointed observations that you lazily toss off as “vitriol.” As a writer, you don’t seem to focus and read well, either: I claimed more than once that you Calvinists are ignorant and apathetic toward evangelism and especially unto Jews who need to hear the Gospel first, because you Calvinists aren’t interested in evangelising them (or anyone), and you spend your energies on useless pseudo-intellectual endeavours and subject matter as supposed doctrine and ministry. In these statements, there was no name-calling about you particularly. But, I did point out that American Protestants don’t value education, and as of a religion obsessed with abstract concepts, you actually proved my very point here in reality and not in the abstract!
People with no solid education also tend not to get jobs that have strong influence for good upon their society. Be sure not to pass on this tragedy to your children, thus continuing the fruitlessness of your religion.
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It looks like you edited your own latest comment, actually, comparing it published here to the one in the email notification. You edited it to only slightly remove some of your snark, while telling me I’m insulting (I’m blunt for the sake of clarity and brevity). This is how you like to have some sort of snide send-off or last word, it looks like. Again, something tragic not to pass on to your own children, as you claim to have the remedy in your Gospel and Lord. Yeah, you’re definitely blogging “to the glory of God alone” here.
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Right. You edit your own comments to remove your snark and sound more “civil,” but say that I’m insulting or angry. Then you delete comments that aren’t to your liking, or even to your comprehension. This is your god and how you blog “to his glory alone,” truly empowered by his remarkable, sanctifying, maturing, all-encompassing grace.
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I’ll help you out whilst you’re struggling to maintain a blog in basic intellectual honesty and free discussion of ideas: not editing your own responses whilst accusing readers, and not selectively deleting readers’ responses, either.
But let’s see you delete this as well in what I believe you call “cancel culture” and “rules for thee, not for me.” Which is essentially behaving in the same spirit of Islam, isn’t that funny?
ORIGINAL COMMENT:
If you’re going to critique a Muslim, why don’t you talk about the strange similarities between CALVINISM and ISLAM? You are Reformed, after all. Both ideologies insist that God has a dogmatic and immutable will that demands unquestioning submission. Both come from Roman Catholicism in their deep origins, which includes Jew-hatred. Calvin was a Roman Catholic who never renounced his infant baptism for regeneration (which is Roman doctrine and not biblical) and was very codependent upon Augustine for his theology, also another Roman Catholic. That’s rather odd for a religion that says it was started through the rejection of Rome.
You should blog about how Calvinism and reformed theology are deep heresies going back to the Roman Catholic doctrine of replacement theology: that the Christian church has replaced Israel in a form of satanic, ideological Jew-hatred that debases Scripture through allegory (easily a subjective method of interpretation) and that gives no attention to the crucial doctrine of Bible prophecy (which is proven by living in reality and looking around you and studying basic history). It is truly a doctrine of devils, a heresy that laid the foundations for the Holocaust across European societies in the centuries between Calvin/Luther and WWII.
The Bible says the Gospel is to the JEW FIRST and also to the Gentile, but your religion’s history makes Jews shun their Messiah all the more, instead of helping them to trust Him for eternal salvation. Henry Abramson is a good start for you to hear what Jews believe of your religion.
Calvinism is anti-evangelism, because you’re too busy trying to master pseudo-Biblical concepts like molinism vs. synergism and prevenient grace vs. common grace and God’s preceptive will vs. His decretive will, etc. etc., and not doing any deep diving into the origins of your religion to match reality outside and of basic history. You talk of knowing God’s sovereignty and mercy, yet you can’t even see it when it comes to His own covenanted Chosen People, even today post-atonement.
Anyway, LUTHER’S JEWS by Kaufmann is a good start for a book written by a German Reformation scholar himself who faces squarely the rancid Jew-hatred of your religion’s forefather. Certainly, none of you are talking about it.
Gritsch has written a book called MARTIN LUTHER’S ANTISEMITISM, also short and insightful as written by an educated Lutheran himself. At least he’s honest.
ISRAEL BETRAYED is a two-volume series about the history of Jew-hatred throughout your religion. Even if you’re not overly anti-Jew or antiZionist, you’re definitely apathetic, silent, and ignorant about God’s Chosen People and the wondrous covenant He has plainly still kept with them to today.
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I applaud you for permitting that person to speak even when it’s pretty obvious someone is not taking their meds.
Anyways…
Here is a great video on Mr. Tate. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXZy_TPdij0
I honestly don’t really believe Mr. Tate is guilty of sex trafficking despite the fact a quick search reveals lots and lots of self incriminating videos showcasing Mr. Tate boasting of luring in women as a loverboy to sex traffic them.
The romanian authorities have video confessions of the crime which should be a slam dunk but after spending months and months in custody they don’t have the evidence to charge him? In fact, the opposite happened. Many women say he is a good guy. One woman spent the same time in jail and never coughed up the evidence.
I think the videos were the scam to present Mr. Tate as the alpha male and savior to fleece money from young men watching porn and playing video games.
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