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Mark McEntire

@markmcentire.bsky.social
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Professor of Biblical Studies in Nashville, Tennessee. Former writer of books.

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Eric Vanden Eykel @evandeneykel.bsky.social · 32m
1/13 We’ve talked a bit about Ron Wyatt in connection with Durupınar. Noah’s Ark was only one of an extraordinary number of “discoveries” he claimed to have made, but without any evidence to back those claims up. So let’s spend a little time with Mr. Wyatt. 🧵 #NoahsArk #Archaeology ronwyatt.com
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The Discoveries of Ron Wyatt - Official Website
Explore Ron Wyatt's archaeological discoveries including Noah's Ark, Red Sea Crossing, Mount Sinai, Sodom & Gomorrah, Ark of the Covenant, and Joseph's Pyramids.
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Mark McEntire @markmcentire.bsky.social · 22h
Somebody from Iowa please tell me that everybody who lives in the state knows the steel mill thing is a scam.
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Mark McEntire @markmcentire.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
My reading of Matt 6:1-6 is not the same as everyone else's. That's okay. I hear Jesus warning his hearers about putting their piety/religious practice on public display. Large swaths of Christianity resist this. People like Tim Tebow make millions of dollars putting their faith on public display.
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Mark McEntire @markmcentire.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Saying you are going to "engage culture" implies that there are times when you are not engaging it. It's nonsense, like deciding I'm going to engage the air today.
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Mark McEntire @markmcentire.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
People of Tennessee, can we just stop trying to be horrible!
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Mark McEntire @markmcentire.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"Christian influencers" should not be a thing.
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Mark McEntire @markmcentire.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Tennessee. Even when all we are trying to do is be the worst state in the country, we fail at that. Can we finally stop state supported murder?
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Mark McEntire @markmcentire.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Cubs need to visit the Wizard of Oz. No heart. No courage. No brains.
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Mark McEntire @markmcentire.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I don't even understand why persons who are not government officials are signing their names on executive orders.
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Mark McEntire @markmcentire.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Can we back up and note that Eric Schmitt had apparently decided before this that tying his own political future to JD Vance was a brilliant move?
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Mark McEntire @markmcentire.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The guy just did the dumbest , most embarrassing thing in the 250 year history of the United States Senate, and he is pretending it all went according to plan.
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Mark McEntire @markmcentire.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I want to borrow Jack Smith's What-the-F**k-Are-You-Talking-About face.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The response when progressive policies that help millions of people are proposed... "How will you pay for it?" The response when the richest 1% ask for tax cuts, or banks ask for bailouts, or defense contractors ask for more contracts... "How much do you need?" It doesn't have to be this way.
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Mark McEntire @markmcentire.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
So, when Thiel publishes his lectures on the Anti-Christ in print form, will it be classified under autobiography?
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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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Mark McEntire @markmcentire.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
First law for the new Congress in January: If you create an AI tool and it commits a crime, it's the same as if you did it personally.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The biggest divide is not between “right” and “left." It’s between democracy and oligarchy. The billionaires who control our economy and democracy seek to divide us. They want us to turn on each other so we don't look up and see that they have all the wealth and power. Remember this.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Five corporations control 90% of the US media. Airlines have merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today. A handful of companies control the pharmaceutical industry. Four giants control 80% of meat processing. The evidence of corporate concentration is everywhere.
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Rev. Benjamin Cremer @brcremer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
It is such a weak and fragile god who needs a political party, a president, a Supreme Court, and a nation to defend them and fight their battles for them. God does not need your defense. The poor, the hungry, the sick, the disabled, the children, the immigrant, and the powerless do.
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Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This needs to be a much bigger story. "Those officials said some Pentagon personnel knew within hours that the United States had hit the school, and they described a cascade of preventable failures that included an overreliance on an AI tool built by Palantir."
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Pentagon Investigators Say Overreliance on Palantir AI Tech Contributed to U.S. Strike That Killed 123 Iranian Children
An unreleased Pentagon probe investigated the kill chain that hit a school in Minab.
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Mark McEntire @markmcentire.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
People are concerned about Abdul El-Sayed gaining access to classified information if elected to the U. S. Senate. This is the same access we gave to Louis Gohmert, Lauren Boebert, Michelle Bachman, Matt Gaetz, Madison Cawthorn, Marjorie Taylor Greene, George Santos...need I go on?
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Mark McEntire @markmcentire.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Very much like a run-in with law enforcement from my own youth. We were asked to leave town and followed to the city limits.
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Mark McEntire @markmcentire.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Only one out of 435 was right. That would seem to end against all odds.
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Mark McEntire @markmcentire.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
If the Pentagon really is lying about the number of American military personnel killed in the Iran war, doesn't every Congressional race become 100-0?
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
For 33 years, McConnell has voted against family and medical leave for working Americans. Then he disappears from the Senate for 92 days and keeps collecting his full paycheck. Apparently, paid leave is only a problem when someone else gets it.
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Mark McEntire @markmcentire.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Does this start a new set of three after Dolly, Wendell, and Gloria I'm going to be dreading reading the news. I read Pilgrim with a lot of students over the years. Her brilliance as an observer of the world astonished me.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Reminder: voter fraud is not a thing. Voter suppression is.
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The Mouthy Renegade Writer @mouthyrenegade.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Our health care system in America is disgusting. A clear indication that our government doesn't give a fuck if we live or die.
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Mark McEntire @markmcentire.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
And here's me thinking that the victim of bestiality could only be the animal.
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Robert P. Jones @robertpjones.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Trump's call to abandon democracy in the name of God--this is one of the central themes of my new book BACKSLIDE: Reclaiming a Faith and a Nation after the Christian Turn Against Democracy. bookshop.org/a/56272/9781...
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Backslide: Reclaiming a Faith and a Nation After the Christian Turn Against Democracy
“Bracing—Jones presents a vision of America as “fallen into... apostasy.” But he remains hopeful, noting that “backsliding is not irreversible,” as “repentance is possible... with confession” and the ...
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Mark McEntire @markmcentire.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I'm not saying they're bad, but somehow I got through 23 years of schooling as a student without ever seeing a grading rubric. I never even heard the word. I would have had to look it up.
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Mark McEntire @markmcentire.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I hate how GWB was sanctified for the easiest, most obvious actions in the aftermath.
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Mark McEntire @markmcentire.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I just confirmed my voter registration in Tennessee. It took 30 seconds. It's a good time to check yours too. tnmap.tn.gov/voterlookup/...
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TN Voter Registration Information Lookup
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Mark McEntire @markmcentire.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
There has to be an investigation. That was ridiculous. The game was obviously over. If Michigan had any honor they would forfeit the game. How embarrassing for Michigan and the officials.
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Mark McEntire @markmcentire.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Referees cheating for Michigan.
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Mark McEntire @markmcentire.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
My choice for the greatest song line has shifted from time to time. RIght now it is Sam Beam (Iron &Wine) in "The Trapeze Swinger", who imagines three lines of "eloquent graffiti" written on the pearly gates: Will we meet again? F*ck the man! and Tell my Mother not to worry.
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Mark McEntire @markmcentire.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
And now we have lost Wendell Berry.
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Mark McEntire @markmcentire.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Biggest misses on Cubs anniversary team. Glenn Beckert Ken Holtzman Carlos Zambrano #Cubs150
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Mark McEntire @markmcentire.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Whenever somebody really wants me to believe something, I turn it upside down and give it a good shake. - Jackson Lamb
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Mark McEntire @markmcentire.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
People who think Christianity should be about getting a particular sentence just the way they want it then coercing other people to recite it with them are weird and destructive.
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Mark McEntire @markmcentire.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Let me get this straight. I mail something to my state and the US Post Office gets to decide whether to deliver it. Seriously?
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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
An Amazon worker died in one of Amazon's warehouses. As he lay on the floor dying, management told the other workers: "Just turn around and don't look. Get back to work." That was a human being. A child of God. Sacrificed on the altar of corporate greed.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
We're being told that if we sacrifice the rights of some people, then the rest of us get to keep our rights. We all know that's some BS.
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Michael J. Stern @michaeljstern.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Hey Jon Ossoff, you got Melania to come out of hibernation by mentioning Natalie Harp. Can you get Mitch McConnell to reappear? 
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Mark McEntire @markmcentire.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Is Natalie Harp a modern Abishag?
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Mark McEntire @markmcentire.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Pretty soon MS Now is going to be Ali Velshi for six hours every night. I like Ali alright, but enough.
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Senator Chris Larson @senchrislarson.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Instead of fighting senseless wars, we should be fighting climate change. Instead of building data centers, we should be building housing. Instead of corporate welfare give us universal healthcare.
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God @thegodshow.com · 19/08/2026
Call me crazy, but perhaps being related to a Senator who died doesn’t qualify you to be a Senator.
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Mark McEntire @markmcentire.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Imagine university administration wanting to disperse information and asking faculty to put this information into the document students are most notorious for not reading.
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Mark McEntire @markmcentire.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
I'm grateful she is saying things this stupid out loud. Everybody knows who's who.
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