Jones: I want to bring theology into this because you have all these people that want to give thoughts and prayers. But I was a minister, and that is a form of theological malpractice—when you pray for something you have the power to change.
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This is brilliant and clear.
aug 30, 2025, 8:52 pm • 6 0 • view
Amen. Children's lives are more important than gun industry profits (& campaign funds!)
aug 30, 2025, 10:53 pm • 0 0 • view
Agreed.
aug 31, 2025, 3:42 am • 1 0 • view
THOU SHALT NOT KILL I guess you'll have to start using your guns for...I dunno... ART?
aug 31, 2025, 12:36 am • 1 0 • view
AMEN! PRAYER IS POWER NOT CONCESSION!
aug 31, 2025, 12:28 am • 2 0 • view
Exactly MAN MADE PROBLEMS ARE NOT GOD SOLVED.
aug 31, 2025, 1:36 pm • 0 0 • view
Good way to look at it.
aug 31, 2025, 7:49 pm • 1 0 • view
God gave us brains for a purpose-we’re supposed to use them to solve problems.
aug 30, 2025, 11:42 pm • 1 0 • view
Jones is such a callous jerk. The self-unawareness of so many leftists is what truly stands out to the rest of us. That along with the double standards. The hypocrisy. The mean-spiritedness. You know, the usual stuff.
aug 30, 2025, 9:33 pm • 0 0 • view
How many "rest of us" are in the room with you right now?
aug 30, 2025, 9:44 pm • 1 0 • view
You’re never alone with a schizophrenic.
aug 30, 2025, 11:41 pm • 0 0 • view
ZERO
aug 30, 2025, 11:06 pm • 1 0 • view
Hmm. The two Justins are about the only good thing in Tennessee politics as far as I can see. He’s just holding up a mirror and you don’t like the reflection.
aug 30, 2025, 11:18 pm • 0 0 • view
Justin’s a minister, don’t ya know. Minister of 🐂💩.
aug 30, 2025, 11:44 pm • 0 0 • view
It’s absolutely precious how you cling to elementary school level of discourse. I’m sure that’s helped you change so many minds.
aug 31, 2025, 12:29 am • 0 0 • view
When your mind is empty there is no sense in someone else trying to change it for you. There is no ‘there’ there to begin with.
aug 31, 2025, 3:43 am • 0 0 • view
Oh. So you have been doing some self reflection. I commend you.
aug 31, 2025, 4:10 am • 0 0 • view
Wow truth
aug 31, 2025, 5:49 pm • 0 0 • view
it's abuse
aug 30, 2025, 9:36 pm • 1 0 • view
They ain’t praying for it.
aug 30, 2025, 10:20 pm • 1 0 • view
Well said!
aug 30, 2025, 11:49 pm • 0 0 • view
That is one of the truest statements I have ever read!
aug 31, 2025, 2:50 am • 0 0 • view
It’s called hypocrisy.
aug 31, 2025, 5:29 am • 0 0 • view
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aug 30, 2025, 8:49 pm • 0 0 • view
“There is something deeply hypocritical about praying for a problem you are unwilling to resolve." - Miroslav Volf
aug 31, 2025, 2:21 am • 0 0 • view
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aug 30, 2025, 10:01 pm • 0 0 • view
"Theological malpractice," makes Theology sound like a science that deserves licensing. Theology is not a science; it is an art. It happens to be the art of bullshiting, but it's certainly nothing that can be practiced beyond practicing how to lie, convincingly
aug 30, 2025, 10:17 pm • 0 0 • view
Mark Meadows did his own burning of documents. It was so bad trump didn't even want the destroyers to see them.
aug 31, 2025, 3:23 pm • 1 0 • view
Reminds me of the story of the guy who died waiting for God to save him, waving away boats & planes who tried. When he met God, asking why He didn't save him, God replies "I sent 2 boats and a plane!" Back when this kind of thing could BE the stuff of jokes. Now we are one.
sep 1, 2025, 12:32 am • 2 0 • view
Exactly
aug 31, 2025, 1:01 am • 0 0 • view
Has Agent Orange said a single word about the Minneapolis shooting? He doesn't give a rat's ass about dead and maimed children or gun violence as a whole. The entire GOP is monstrous.
aug 30, 2025, 9:48 pm • 5 2 • view
Thoughts and prayers unnecessary when you can change things if you want to.👍
aug 31, 2025, 12:58 pm • 1 0 • view
"I prayed for freedom for twenty years, but received no answer until I prayed with my legs…" -Frederick Douglass
aug 31, 2025, 2:43 am • 2 0 • view
Use our power to change.
aug 30, 2025, 9:00 pm • 1 0 • view
Thank you 🙏🏻.
aug 31, 2025, 12:13 am • 0 0 • view
Amen to that. I love that term, "theological malpractice"... I think I'll be using that one against my Christian Nationalist neighbors.
aug 30, 2025, 11:55 pm • 1 0 • view
Rep. Jones' perfectly voices the grim truth. As the Republicans rally behind the shield of religion yet again it's imperative their wilful endangerment of Americans is acknowledged for the treason it is. The brazen refusal to actually stop such school mass shootings while pontificating about 1/
aug 31, 2025, 12:48 am • 1 0 • view
religion as they practise fake Christianity is an insult to all but especially to Victims of said shootings all across your country 😡
aug 31, 2025, 12:50 am • 1 0 • view
Absolutely an abduction of rational, compassionate thoughts for others. Irrational fear and self-absorption by the carload.
aug 30, 2025, 9:27 pm • 0 0 • view
Excellent argument re: "thoughts and prayers" - I like this and the Dems should use it.
aug 30, 2025, 8:54 pm • 14 0 • view
aug 31, 2025, 12:42 am • 0 0 • view
Somewhere on the planet, someone has the ability to change just about everything (not the same person all the time, of course, but I have to say it so I'm not misunderstood), so why are so many gullible religious observers still praying?
aug 31, 2025, 3:17 am • 1 1 • view
This guy is a rising star in TN. Yes, Tennessee. It’s a shame the MAGA lead TN house doesn’t debate. They just try to silence him every day. They’re scared of Justin.
aug 30, 2025, 9:53 pm • 3 0 • view
Such powerful wisdom.
aug 30, 2025, 11:07 pm • 0 0 • view
I like his approach. 'Theological Malpractice' is a phrase more critics should adopt.
aug 30, 2025, 8:53 pm • 155 17 • view
I agree.
aug 31, 2025, 12:30 am • 0 0 • view
Agreed!
aug 31, 2025, 12:47 am • 0 0 • view
#THEperfectREPOST to Karoline Leavitt’s abuse of the bully pulpit, denunciation of Jen Psaki (who had rejected the invocation of thoughts and prayers as inadequate response to mass child murder) KLclaims Psaki is “incredibly disrespectful to deride the power of prayer”🤮 youtu.be/C_BcjujL0_w
aug 30, 2025, 9:50 pm • 22 4 • view
Here we go 😒
aug 31, 2025, 9:28 am • 1 0 • view
I am unsurprised, unshocked, yet disgusted by the extent to which the TrumpRegime cloak themselves in Sanctimony. #GaslightingbyGodliness
aug 31, 2025, 9:40 am • 2 0 • view
deflection.. politicians have the power to protect us... they CHOOSE NOT TO.
aug 30, 2025, 10:29 pm • 39 3 • view
Complaining about being “disrespectful” is rich coming from Trump’s paid mouthpiece. Trump is THE most disrespectful public figure on the planet.
aug 31, 2025, 3:16 am • 4 1 • view
Her stupid little ferret face and weasel talk really annoy me. Just spewing out endless verbal diarrhea to try to con and harm Americans, and getting paid for it. With that stupid, vapid face.
aug 31, 2025, 3:37 pm • 2 1 • view
What is the power of prayer in this context? Are the kids less dead after the prayers? Are their families comforted? Are there fewer mass shootings? No, maybe (but probably not much), and no.
aug 30, 2025, 11:11 pm • 4 0 • view
absolutely correct - praying is supposed to be for the things mankind can't change, not things it can easily change but chooses not to. That's being an un-Christian lying maggot who knows who his true master is
aug 31, 2025, 2:07 am • 2 0 • view
It’s like spiritual bypassing
aug 31, 2025, 3:02 pm • 0 0 • view
I really respect this young man. He is the future.
aug 30, 2025, 10:17 pm • 1 0 • view
Love him
aug 31, 2025, 12:31 am • 1 0 • view
#repeal2A
aug 31, 2025, 2:54 pm • 0 0 • view
Do nothing.. cause the corporations putting money in the pockets of the pigs in the legislature pull the strings. Thoughts and Prayers my A$$.
aug 30, 2025, 10:27 pm • 0 0 • view
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aug 30, 2025, 11:26 pm • 0 0 • view
I don’t know that Jones was a minister. Look forward to seeing how far he goes in politics!
aug 31, 2025, 3:13 am • 2 0 • view
Thank you
aug 30, 2025, 9:24 pm • 0 0 • view
Thank you!
aug 30, 2025, 10:05 pm • 0 0 • view
If one of you says to them, 'Go in peace; keep warm and well fed,' but does nothing about their physical needs, what good is it?" -- James 2:15-16
aug 30, 2025, 9:13 pm • 10 1 • view
Well said. We are expected to be Christ's hands on earth to serve others. To pray and not take action means you don't serve Him.
aug 30, 2025, 9:09 pm • 5 0 • view
aug 30, 2025, 11:14 pm • 0 0 • view
He's a keeper👍🙏
aug 31, 2025, 10:32 am • 0 0 • view
ROFL Yes Make Gender Dysphoria a Mental illness
aug 31, 2025, 12:02 am • 0 0 • view
Exactly🩵💚💙💕
aug 31, 2025, 11:06 am • 0 0 • view
Yes! He is correct!!
aug 31, 2025, 11:11 am • 0 0 • view
theological malpractice
aug 30, 2025, 9:04 pm • 4 0 • view
#repeal2A
aug 31, 2025, 2:56 pm • 0 0 • view
Yes Yes You want to pray, become the prayer!!
aug 31, 2025, 12:38 am • 3 0 • view
Brilliant response.
aug 31, 2025, 3:45 am • 1 0 • view
Release the Epstein files, Release the Epstein files, Release the Epstein files, Release the Epstein files, Release the Epstein files, Release the Epstein files, Release the Epstein files, Release the Epstein files, Release the Epstein files and furthermore...Release the Epstein files...
aug 31, 2025, 3:07 pm • 2 0 • view
Uh oh. Get ready for a shit ton of more thoughts and prayers...and more innocent victims of gun slaughter.
aug 31, 2025, 3:07 pm • 0 0 • view
"Theological malpractice" describes most of organised, institutional Christianity anyway.🥴
aug 31, 2025, 5:27 am • 0 0 • view
I will say this every day, EVERY DAY, the olds in the D party needs to get the hell out of the way and let these young representatives get to work! Just stand down for God’s sake.
aug 30, 2025, 11:39 pm • 3 0 • view
Amen brother
aug 31, 2025, 5:03 pm • 0 0 • view
SO WELL SAID! 👏👏👏👏👏
aug 30, 2025, 8:50 pm • 5 0 • view
We have learned “thoughts & prayers” by certain groups of domestic terrorists, known and unknown, are a chef’s kiss from their behinds. It blows fecal matter directly onto American ppl in all directions.
aug 31, 2025, 6:30 am • 0 0 • view
Don’t you ppl believe that “god” helps those who help themselves??? Find a way to explain it through god. I’m sure there’s a way.
aug 31, 2025, 9:14 am • 0 0 • view
I REALLY want both of the TN Justin's to run for federal office......they are amazing
aug 30, 2025, 9:03 pm • 10 1 • view
I believe there should be a way to compromise about gun control. The checks & balance systems in place are flawed. The fact gun supporters don't want to address it tells me many wouldn't meet those checks or aren't mentally stable enough to have them. We can still own guns with controls in place.
aug 30, 2025, 10:12 pm • 0 0 • view
There's no compromise with fascists. Their entire schtick is well, beating you with a stick until they get their way with no concessions. They are anti-compromise, they view it as weakness. They have rolled back every single sensible gun control law. It's the fucking wild West out there.
aug 30, 2025, 10:22 pm • 2 0 • view
Bravo!
aug 30, 2025, 11:54 pm • 0 0 • view
I like him so much. I think he, Talarico, Mamdani, Kat A. and their coalition is going to have to be the future. Moral democracy not sadistic capitalism.
aug 31, 2025, 4:00 pm • 0 0 • view
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aug 31, 2025, 1:05 am • 2 1 • view
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aug 31, 2025, 8:52 pm • 0 0 • view
Justin Jones needs to run for Fed Hse. He's a scrapper and I love it!🥰
aug 30, 2025, 9:05 pm • 4 0 • view
And while I'm no minister, I was always taught that we are God's agents in the world. Meaning, it's up to us to act.
aug 30, 2025, 11:34 pm • 1 0 • view
I love this approach! He is spot on!
aug 31, 2025, 1:52 pm • 0 0 • view
Faith w/out works is dead. We have to do something too. Puts legs on those prayers.
aug 30, 2025, 8:58 pm • 6 0 • view
Preach it, Brother Jones!! 🔥🔥💯
aug 30, 2025, 9:30 pm • 1 0 • view
The sickest thing I've heard from the orange slug is that he will 'pray' for the people involved. These kids were praying when they were murdered.
aug 31, 2025, 2:30 am • 4 2 • view
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aug 30, 2025, 10:02 pm • 11 0 • view
Been looking into when "thoughts and prayers" became the standard excuse for not doing something. Some suggest after Katrina, others after Columbine or Parkland. Here's an interesting take. "1. The Republicans were sensitive to the memes that were mocking the usage of the term and
aug 30, 2025, 11:32 pm • 3 1 • view
decided to use the phrase with less frequency. "2. More Democrats began to use the term in a mocking way on Twitter. Text analysis is terrific but it does not yet have the ability to pick up on context such as satire or condescension."
aug 30, 2025, 11:32 pm • 3 0 • view
aug 31, 2025, 12:44 am • 1 0 • view
Yep. Scripture says you must first do all YOU can!
aug 31, 2025, 9:23 am • 0 0 • view
Here’s some theology for you—the gods you worship suck.
aug 31, 2025, 12:55 pm • 0 0 • view
pro tip: prayer doesn't work...no matter what political side you are on. There's nobody up there. Just us.
aug 30, 2025, 8:56 pm • 21 0 • view
I'll add as a counter point, if you assume that you are created by the divine, then the divine gave us the potential to solve problems ourselves, and one presume he did that for reason.. That if after being given everything we need, we refuse to do the work, well that's on us, no matter what...
aug 30, 2025, 9:01 pm • 21 0 • view
I will add as a counterpoint that the divine identifies as “they”.
aug 30, 2025, 9:33 pm • 6 0 • view
Sure, make this a religious debate. I'm sure that will help. No one has tried that before
aug 30, 2025, 9:39 pm • 0 0 • view
Americas True Religion While Moses was on the mountain, the Americans, growing impatient, built and worshipped a golden calf. In a rage, Moses descended and smashed the tablets upon seeing their idolatry.
aug 31, 2025, 10:23 am • 2 0 • view
So well said and RIGHT ON!
aug 31, 2025, 5:14 am • 0 0 • view
The answer to their Prayers, assuming they Pray, is to be put in the position to do something substantive against mass shootings & gun violence. They choose not to. The PAC money’s too good. No worries, I don’t think they truly believe in a Creator who sees and will hold them accountable, anyhow.
aug 30, 2025, 10:02 pm • 1 0 • view
here's a much simpler definition of "theological malpractice": believing in any deity
aug 31, 2025, 4:21 am • 0 0 • view
God expects us to do our part if possible. He isn’t Santa Claus.
aug 31, 2025, 2:13 am • 0 0 • view
Make the calls, Demand saner gun control laws! How many more children must die, how many families will be destroyed due to the loss of a family member? Get the NRA OUT of Politics!
aug 30, 2025, 11:48 pm • 0 0 • view
Yes!
aug 31, 2025, 2:12 pm • 0 0 • view
Platitudes signifying an intention to do nothing to improve the situation.
aug 30, 2025, 9:43 pm • 1 0 • view
My Mom's used to say, "God helps those that help themselves," and right now, we're not helping ourselves in regards to the slowing down the number of mass shootings I believe.
aug 30, 2025, 9:01 pm • 3 0 • view
Theology has worked so well so far
aug 31, 2025, 3:27 am • 0 0 • view
When someone reaches out to you for help. You should never say "I'll pray that God will help you." Instead, for that moment, you should become an atheist - imagine there is no God who could help, and say "I will help you".
aug 30, 2025, 8:59 pm • 13 0 • view
When someone tells me they will pray for me (which happens fairly frequently) I tend to respond “if that makes you feel better”
aug 30, 2025, 9:15 pm • 17 0 • view
My response would be, "fine and I will think for you."
aug 31, 2025, 11:37 am • 0 0 • view
Ohhh I like that. Especially because it is exactly what I should have said several times in the past few weeks.
aug 30, 2025, 9:31 pm • 3 0 • view
I really enjoy this man’s point of view.
aug 30, 2025, 10:41 pm • 0 0 • view
Jones is the kind of young leader we need right now.
aug 31, 2025, 12:45 am • 1 0 • view
It’s why God gave us free will.
aug 31, 2025, 11:00 am • 0 0 • view
Yes!
aug 31, 2025, 10:59 am • 0 0 • view
In discussing why folks are MAGA w/ people, "victimhood" seems to be the common thread as a primary cause. It occurs to me that religion is victimhood. There's nothing I can do: it's god's fault (uh, I mean "will"). Makes sense that the "religious" Right embraces MAGAhood so strongly - victimhood.
aug 31, 2025, 12:49 pm • 0 0 • view
As my mom would often tell me when I was praying for something: “God helps those who help themselves”
aug 30, 2025, 9:27 pm • 1 0 • view
"Theological malpractice." Yes.
aug 30, 2025, 9:59 pm • 4 0 • view
"The Gods are not exactly lazy, but they are self-respecting and refuse to waste good mystery on work that we should do ourselves." Talbot Mundy January 1926
aug 30, 2025, 10:03 pm • 0 0 • view
aug 30, 2025, 10:35 pm • 1 1 • view
Good point. It needs to be made and thrown in their faces every time they post that dreck.
aug 30, 2025, 8:53 pm • 24 2 • view
Agreed
aug 30, 2025, 8:56 pm • 10 0 • view
Or, hear me out, there is no god, so we as humans that have the ability (for our smallest level of minuscule existence) to do what we find morally right. ☺️ Don’t be a child of “Christ.” Do better than some ancient text written by countless men yearning for power during their time. 🤷🏻♂️ Simple.
aug 30, 2025, 11:13 pm • 1 0 • view
Very well said!
aug 30, 2025, 11:20 pm • 0 0 • view
aug 30, 2025, 11:10 pm • 2 0 • view
Pure lunacy.
aug 30, 2025, 10:47 pm • 4 0 • view
aug 30, 2025, 10:03 pm • 1 1 • view
It is also a theological fraud. You can't really believe in God when you use him to avoid acting on a very great evil that you don't want to confront or change. If you believed in God you would be concerned about retribution for using his name in vain.
aug 30, 2025, 9:35 pm • 6 1 • view
ineffective prayer goes along with magical thinking. is a waste of time and source os disillusionment. Ppl have to be careful
aug 30, 2025, 10:23 pm • 1 0 • view
Praying is USELESS
aug 30, 2025, 11:11 pm • 0 0 • view
Exactly!! thank you!
aug 30, 2025, 11:21 pm • 0 0 • view
One of the most important, truest comments about thoughts and prayers-pray silently but speak with courage about how we create real life change. Does it take YOUR child or grandchild’s loss to say ENOUGH?!
aug 31, 2025, 2:04 am • 0 0 • view
Most ministers indoctrinate that you only receive relief through prayer and tithe. The God provides all, you know. VOTE
aug 31, 2025, 1:25 pm • 0 0 • view
Nice
aug 31, 2025, 12:06 am • 0 0 • view
God helps those who help themselves. Prayer requires action or it's a wasted exercise.
aug 31, 2025, 1:24 am • 0 0 • view
The 2nd Amendment is a firearms regulation amendment. In America it is constitutional to regulate firearms. In America it is constitutional to restrict private ownership of automatic and semi-automatic firearms. In America it is constitutional to ban those firearms from private ownership.
aug 30, 2025, 9:02 pm • 12 1 • view
You’re interpretation of the 2A doesn’t go along with any of the Justices of the USSC. What do you think the founders meant by making it a right of THE PEOPLE TO KEEP AND BEAR ARMS? They said why it was necessary. What weapons would THE PEOPLE need to protect our free state?
aug 30, 2025, 9:16 pm • 0 0 • view
Also, what has been amended once can be amended again. The Eighteenth Amendment was repealed. The Second Amendment can be changed or repealed, if that's the democratic outcome. The right to bear arms is not god-given. It was made by humans, and humans can revoke it.
aug 30, 2025, 9:23 pm • 6 0 • view
Just another way to do absolutely nothing at all. I know, let's pretend there's a guy in the sky that controls all this shit!
aug 31, 2025, 2:51 pm • 1 0 • view
Thoughts and prayers are the best way to do nothing.
aug 30, 2025, 10:01 pm • 0 0 • view
Rep. Justin Jones makes a strong point! It's like saying, "Lord, I can't be bothered. You fix it."
aug 30, 2025, 9:33 pm • 1 0 • view
Even if they are the good ones (now), it's still weird to hear religious arguments in relation to politics. You don't have a separation of church and state in the US?
aug 30, 2025, 9:52 pm • 1 0 • view
What a great quote!
aug 30, 2025, 10:19 pm • 1 0 • view
Faith without works is dead.
aug 30, 2025, 9:23 pm • 0 0 • view
Excellent point.
aug 30, 2025, 9:28 pm • 0 0 • view
I saw on YouTube, the sickness of the Evangelicals. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xu7U...
aug 30, 2025, 10:14 pm • 0 0 • view
LONG since past time to de-center white evangelicalism as the default definition of "Christianity" in this place.
aug 30, 2025, 10:26 pm • 1 0 • view
Excellent point.
aug 31, 2025, 12:58 am • 0 0 • view
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aug 30, 2025, 9:45 pm • 1 0 • view
This guy is so special!
aug 30, 2025, 8:51 pm • 8 0 • view
GREAT POINT @brotherjones.bsky.social is making! ‘It is theological malpractice when you pray for something that you have the power to change.” What a completely honest thing for a person of faith to say, something Maya Angelou herself would have been proud of him for saying out loud.
aug 30, 2025, 9:21 pm • 65 10 • view
Why don’t they just pray for violence in cities to end?
aug 31, 2025, 3:48 am • 6 1 • view
A lot cheaper than sending in an occupying force. More Constitutional, too. Ben Franklin was right about everything!
aug 31, 2025, 4:56 am • 5 0 • view
Hurts the bottom line of munitions manufacturers
aug 31, 2025, 3:03 pm • 0 0 • view
THIS YOUNG MAN HAS THE FIRE OF THE HOLY GHOST⚡️
aug 31, 2025, 9:58 pm • 1 0 • view
Have to respond. It’s not about theology. It’s about what’s right for all of us.
aug 30, 2025, 9:19 pm • 3 0 • view
Amen, Brother Jones! As the old proverb says, "Pray to God, but row for the shore!"
aug 30, 2025, 9:49 pm • 5 0 • view
I always heard: pray to god, but tie up your horse.
aug 31, 2025, 3:37 am • 0 0 • view
🤣🤣🤣 I like that 👆🏾
aug 30, 2025, 11:29 pm • 2 0 • view
Being hypocritical in the face of the very God they profess to believe in. We should call this one thing - Evil. Use their own language against them. We need way more young people in politics like this young man.
aug 30, 2025, 9:37 pm • 0 0 • view
This man should have a real future in politics. I admire him so much for standing up respectfully and strong for his constituents.
aug 30, 2025, 8:58 pm • 4 0 • view
On Friday I did a presentation on TOXIC THEOLOGY at a conference in the Netherlands. Because of the shooting at the Catholic school in Minneapolis, I changed the focus of my talk at the last minute. You can read it here on my Substack: drterridaniel535413.substack.com/p/where-were...
aug 31, 2025, 12:50 pm • 0 0 • view
A C T I O N S‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️ Prayers don’t disarm—policy does
aug 30, 2025, 8:52 pm • 6 0 • view
Do people, on the left, want the government, that they insist is a fascist dictatorship, to take the guns from the people?
aug 30, 2025, 9:19 pm • 0 0 • view
GOP message for 3+ decades: "Fuck off and pray"
aug 31, 2025, 1:53 am • 0 0 • view
Faith without works...
aug 31, 2025, 2:10 am • 1 0 • view
Ooo I love this guy. This is what we all need to say. Theological malpractice, indeed!
aug 30, 2025, 9:01 pm • 3 0 • view
"But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead?" (James 2:20). Any Christian who offers thoughts and prayers, without also taking concrete action to prevent these atrocities from happening again - their faith is dead.
aug 30, 2025, 9:18 pm • 30 10 • view
👏👏👏 yes yes yes, exactly!!
aug 30, 2025, 9:37 pm • 2 0 • view
Keep making TN proud Brother Jones.
aug 31, 2025, 4:20 pm • 0 0 • view
Change is in our representatives hands. Period. The Republican congresspeople REFUSE to do it. They are simply are being paid by the NRA to refuse. Stop lobbying and we might see some actual representation.
aug 30, 2025, 9:29 pm • 0 0 • view
"When you pray, you move your hands and feet." This is a simple, powerful message.
aug 30, 2025, 9:04 pm • 3 0 • view
Thank you Rep Jones for speaking truth to power. The “thoughts and prayers” cult is just another way of saying they do not give a damn about dead children
aug 30, 2025, 9:41 pm • 16 0 • view
Preach!!
aug 30, 2025, 11:08 pm • 0 0 • view
Indeed.
aug 30, 2025, 9:07 pm • 0 0 • view
"The lord helps those who help themselves." Not actually in the Bible, but righteous advice attributable to the ancient Greeks, and my Mom.
aug 30, 2025, 9:01 pm • 3 0 • view
🖕 religion We can and have done much better. Humans have been around much longer than organized religion.
aug 30, 2025, 10:32 pm • 1 0 • view
Justin Jones is great.
aug 31, 2025, 3:01 am • 0 0 • view
As the principal at Annunciation quoted, ''...When you pray, use your feet...''
aug 31, 2025, 6:59 am • 0 0 • view
I'm pretty convinced at this point that God's not going to answer any prayers until we actually do stuff to prevent things from happening.
aug 30, 2025, 10:19 pm • 0 0 • view
And actions work
aug 30, 2025, 11:34 pm • 0 0 • view
Exactly. If you claim to care about the teachings of Christ, Jesus didn't ask his followers to pray for the poor and the sick and the hungry. He asked them to HELP the poor and the sick and the hungry.
aug 30, 2025, 9:06 pm • 17 2 • view
Faith used to be the reason why you do what you do. Now it's an excuse to do nothing.
aug 30, 2025, 9:35 pm • 4 1 • view
or an excuse to do worse.
aug 30, 2025, 10:17 pm • 2 0 • view
Love this kid!
aug 31, 2025, 5:01 am • 0 0 • view
Faith without works is dead
aug 31, 2025, 3:01 pm • 1 0 • view
We were already shaming "thoughts and prayers" types but now that actual faith leaders are doing it too... I have hope that poor people in Red states will eventually have had enough of Republican nonsense.
aug 31, 2025, 1:34 pm • 1 0 • view
“Thoughts and prayers” is meant to be meaningless. It says, “We will not change gun laws even when confronted by children being murdered.” It’s a cynical phrase.
aug 31, 2025, 10:06 am • 0 0 • view
If praying worked, Trump would not have been elected and well.......he'd be six feet under already. I guess we need to pray harder.
aug 31, 2025, 10:48 am • 1 0 • view
aug 31, 2025, 4:11 am • 0 0 • view
My Swiss grandmother (1884-1966), a devout Catholic who went to mass every morning, lived by the maxim: Help Yourself And God will Help You. Her principle predates Stephen Covey’s “Principle of Choice”. (Google)
aug 31, 2025, 3:40 pm • 0 0 • view
It says in James 2 faith without works is dead.
aug 30, 2025, 9:06 pm • 37 2 • view
Who? What? Where?
aug 30, 2025, 10:12 pm • 4 0 • view
Prayer, like masturbation, makes you feel as if you’ve accomplished something. Unlike prayer though, masturbation does accomplish something.
aug 31, 2025, 2:35 am • 0 0 • view
“When you pray, you move your hands and feet” - I love it
aug 30, 2025, 9:34 pm • 3 0 • view
And ignorance. My mom prayed for help for dad’s cancer. Ppl came to the door with food. Mom turned them away saying they didn’t need handouts. 😳
aug 31, 2025, 10:43 am • 0 0 • view
Yes. God gives us tools and watches to see if we do good with them. We CHOOSE to waste the potential of society and lay waste to everything. If we're being tested we are failing to levels that are surely shocking to God who must be face-palming every 5 seconds.
aug 30, 2025, 8:58 pm • 0 0 • view
And the other false belief is 'manifestations'. It blows my mind how many people believe that uttering words can make things come true. How has that become a thing? It's nearly universal. 'My child hasn't come home.' 'Have you called hospitals?' 'How dare you! Why would you say (manifest) that!'
sep 1, 2025, 12:57 am • 0 0 • view
this this this this this! call them OUT and shame them non-stop. The religious hypocrisy is what galls me most of all.
aug 31, 2025, 1:24 pm • 0 0 • view
Preach.
aug 31, 2025, 12:45 am • 1 0 • view
Pray for things you have NO control over CHANGE the things YOU DO have CONTROL OVER and can't stand
aug 31, 2025, 12:53 am • 2 0 • view
This guy is always on point!
aug 31, 2025, 3:00 am • 0 0 • view
Damn correct. They say thoughts and prayers and forget they have the power to do something to alleviate the situation. God works through people. GOP dumbasses.
aug 30, 2025, 8:54 pm • 48 2 • view
God helps those who help themselves
aug 30, 2025, 10:25 pm • 7 0 • view
That quote is technically not in the Bible and it's usually used to abuse the powerless who can't help themselves, towards whom God's heart actually bends. But yeah what the politicians are trying to do is malpractice.. they're beating a faith that's dead.
aug 30, 2025, 11:26 pm • 12 1 • view
That quote is indeed scary in the evil ways it is often used. It's was a favorite for the same clowns who loved using the word "bootstraps". They were disingenuous too.
aug 30, 2025, 11:42 pm • 4 0 • view
No He doesn’t, read Job.
aug 31, 2025, 2:22 pm • 0 0 • view
Whole ass book talking about how what you do in the kingdoms of men means nothing to whether the Kingdom of God is owed to you, and every two-bit CCD Sunday School dipshit just ignores it. Christ on a Cross, if this is Christianity, we’re fucked.
aug 31, 2025, 2:23 pm • 0 0 • view
Faith without works is dead
aug 31, 2025, 3:04 pm • 1 0 • view
Boom
aug 30, 2025, 10:52 pm • 0 0 • view
I like Talarico’s take in this clip. He uses charity as the subject, but the point is more broadly about affecting lasting change: “We are called to do more than charity. We are called to challenge the systems that make charity necessary.”
aug 30, 2025, 9:06 pm • 37 8 • view
Our nation needs Talarico 🫶
aug 31, 2025, 12:19 am • 5 1 • view
Amen
aug 30, 2025, 11:04 pm • 0 0 • view
Great to see this being said by those that spent considerable time in church services.
aug 31, 2025, 12:30 pm • 0 0 • view
Amen
aug 30, 2025, 11:11 pm • 0 0 • view
God only helps those who help themselves.
aug 31, 2025, 11:50 am • 0 0 • view
I can't love this man enough.
aug 30, 2025, 10:15 pm • 0 0 • view
I wonder what their all powerful god thinks when Republicans supposedly pray to him to stop these gun rampages yet literally do nothing within their own power. Kind of like when they go to confess their sins with no solemn plan to not sin any further.
aug 31, 2025, 12:41 pm • 0 0 • view
In the 1980s it was God helps those who help themselves. The same 1980s that saw Lifestyles of the Rich & Famous & Donald Trump move from slum lord to "legitimacy."
aug 30, 2025, 10:04 pm • 1 0 • view
👍
sep 1, 2025, 12:50 am • 0 0 • view
And, you can’t pray for something to change that has already happened. These people need to learn their own religion
aug 31, 2025, 4:35 am • 0 0 • view
We need action not words!
aug 30, 2025, 10:36 pm • 0 0 • view