🐱 4th Grader Eviscerates Texas GOP Senators For 'Attacking Me Since Pre-K' In Blistering Speech

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On Monday, April 12, 10-year-old Kai Shappley spoke before the Texas Senate State Affairs Committee, imploring them to reconsider the passage of a recent bill that would brand her mother a child abuser for respecting Kai's gender expression.

Shappley, a transgender fourth-grader, told the gathered legislators:

"I do not like spending my free time asking adults to make good choices."
"Texas legislators have been attacking me since Pre-K."
"I am in fourth grade now."
Republican state Senator Charles Perry recently told the committee:

"God created us all in his own image. We went outside that creation by our own accord and suffer with some of the consequences of being outside his will since the garden."
"This is another one of those issues that we find ourselves entangled in that unfortunately, the damage is to our most precious, precious being our children, not our personal lineage, but all of God's children and the children in this state."
Shappley rebuked Perry's argument by saying:

"God made me."
"God loves me for who I am, and God does not make mistakes."
Shappley ended her speech by saying:

"I want to say thank you to those of you who are sticking up for kids like me."
"By the time I'm in college, you will be celebrated in the history books."
Kai's mother, Kimberly Shappley, spoke to Good Housekeeping in 2017 about her experience as a Christian raising a three-year-old child who "was verbalizing that she was a girl at least six times a day."

"I used to lead a small ministry teaching Bible study, and I didn't support or condone those living the LGBTQ lifestyle."
"...There's never been a moment of doubt or regret after making the choice to let Kai transition. I've learned too much about identity and faith in loving my beautiful daughter exactly the way she is."
Social media heaped praise on Kai for her brave, passionate speech.

It's uncertain whether Shappley's testimony will have any impact on the Texas state Senate, but she has won the hearts of many onlookers online.

Her words should surely inspire many young girls in the future.
 
Now, I'm a godless heathen who only ever goes to church to lulz about buying "The God Delusion" from a church rummage sale so take what I say with a bucket of salt, but the way I've attempted to understand this "God makes no mistakes" / "God made me perfect" / "Why did God make me hate myself" nonsense is

God makes you to be perfect. Of course that crying gremlin that pops out of the womb isn't perfect! Nobody says you go to heaven and appear as the best version of yourself and thinks heaven is full of infants! They think the perfect selves that exist in heaven are adults!

God doesn't make mistakes. God makes tests and trials. Some people get external trials, like "Save X from Y". Some people get internal trials like "Deal with your disability". Passing these will make you a more strong and perfect self.

You're failing your test. Can fourth graders even get Fs?
I mean, if you want to be very technical about it (and @Zero Day Defense pretty much nails it) the way they should phrase it is “God made humans perfect BUT then humans messed it up for everyone who came after them.” You could liken sin to a genetic disorder that is inherited by everyone. (I understand, you’re a godless heathen, so you might not care, but I find that inaccuracy is oftentimes one of the things that does kill religion for a lot of more logical people.)

The ironic thing is that people who believe that God made them perfect (and there’s several denominations that do, mainly in the more recent Protestant/‘born again’ groups) completely undermine the whole purpose of Jesus life and sacrifice, which was basically to replace Adam and Eve’s sin and thereby allow God to pardon mankind. If God made you perfect, that sacrifice is unneccesary, and it negates the entire foundation of the New Testament. (Hence why I said, inaccuracy can kill religion for some people.)
 
You'll have 40%'d yourself by then.
And her loon parents will blame viscious transphobes and not their child abuse, see below.
His parents are evangelicals and Kai is the fourth of four boys. Kai’s mother admits to hitting her son when he wouldn’t play with “boy” toys or wear “boys” clothes. They though they could trans the gay away and as a bonus she’d get her perfect little dress up girl doll.
 
How in the hell is Christianity in any way equivalent to preaching about your desire to procure genital mutilation and drugs that make your bones brittle and keep your brain small?
Both are founded on a belief in miracles.

The point, since you seem to have missed it entirely, is that the use of children to push a system of belief is an abuse of those children, but it's only acknowledged as abuse when it's politically expedient.
 
The more sons a woman has, the more likely one of the younger ones will be gay. Some theorize this is due to male fetuses being more taxing on a woman's body, and subsequent male fetuses don't get the resources they need from mom. If that correlation is actually causation, then Kai was merely unlucky enough to be born to a homophobe.

Also, this kid has already been monetized for being trans. He was on Netflix's Babysitter's Club, crying a river over having to wear a blue hospital gown. (Literally every clinic or hospital I've been to had blue gowns for everyone.)
 
The ironic thing is that people who believe that God made them perfect (and there’s several denominations that do, mainly in the more recent Protestant/‘born again’ groups) completely undermine the whole purpose of Jesus life and sacrifice, which was to replace Adam and Eve and thereby allow God to pardon mankind. If God made you perfect, that sacrifice is unneccesary, and it negates the entire foundation of the New Testament. (Hence why I said, inaccuracy can kill religion for some people.)

Predestination is one of those theological ideas that had a huge impact on Western civilization, but has been mostly forgotten by the masses.

The cliff notes version of predestination is that God is all powerful and all knowing. Since he's all powerful and all knowing nothing can happen without it being part of his great design. That means God would decide at the beginning of time who would be saved and who would be damned.

The early form of this doctrine can be found in St. Augustine's teachings that God has perfect foreknowledge of people's merits. According to Augustine, people still had free will but God knew how they would choose ahead of time. Since Martin Luther was an Augustinian monk he also incorporated predestination in the foundation of the Protestant Reformation. Fast-forward to John Calvin and you have the concept of "double predestination" which goes beyond God having just foreknowledge but developing a doctrine that God created some people to go to heaven and some to go to hell. Calvinism is a way of claiming free will is a lie.

The Puritans belief system was solely concerned with who was the Elect of God.

Over time people watered down the fire and brimstone messaging and arrived at the idea that God is an all powerful and all knowing Santa Claus that grants wishes and loves you unconditionally. Since God is all good and all powerful nothing is a mistake.

Thus, we have children mutilating their genitals and taking hormones while claiming God made them this way.
 
Predestination is one of those theological ideas that had a huge impact on Western civilization, but has been mostly forgotten by the masses.

The cliff notes version of predestination is that God is all powerful and all knowing. Since he's all powerful and all knowing nothing can happen without it being part of his great design. That means God would decide at the beginning of time who would be saved and who would be damned.

The early form of this doctrine can be found in St. Augustine's teachings that God has perfect foreknowledge of people's merits. According to Augustine, people still had free will but God knew how they would choose ahead of time. Since Martin Luther was an Augustinian monk he also incorporated predestination in the foundation of the Protestant Reformation. Fast-forward to John Calvin and you have the concept of "double predestination" which goes beyond God having just foreknowledge but developing a doctrine that God created some people to go to heaven and some to go to hell. Calvinism is a way of claiming free will is a lie.

The Puritans belief system was solely concerned with who was the Elect of God.

Over time people watered down the fire and brimstone messaging and arrived at the idea that God is an all powerful and all knowing Santa Claus that grants wishes and loves you unconditionally. Since God is all good and all powerful nothing is a mistake.

Thus, we have children mutilating their genitals and taking hormones while claiming God made them this way.

Trust protests to go from God is so powerfull that like superadvanced computer he can figure out what you will do into WE ARE ALL PUPPETES OF MACHINES.
 
His parents are evangelicals and Kai is the fourth of four boys. Kai’s mother admits to hitting her son when he wouldn’t play with “boy” toys or wear “boys” clothes. They though they could trans the gay away and as a bonus she’d get her perfect little dress up girl doll.
Damn, I'm getting good at this
 
Predestination is one of those theological ideas that had a huge impact on Western civilization, but has been mostly forgotten by the masses.

The cliff notes version of predestination is that God is all powerful and all knowing. Since he's all powerful and all knowing nothing can happen without it being part of his great design. That means God would decide at the beginning of time who would be saved and who would be damned.

The early form of this doctrine can be found in St. Augustine's teachings that God has perfect foreknowledge of people's merits. According to Augustine, people still had free will but God knew how they would choose ahead of time. Since Martin Luther was an Augustinian monk he also incorporated predestination in the foundation of the Protestant Reformation. Fast-forward to John Calvin and you have the concept of "double predestination" which goes beyond God having just foreknowledge but developing a doctrine that God created some people to go to heaven and some to go to hell. Calvinism is a way of claiming free will is a lie.

The Puritans belief system was solely concerned with who was the Elect of God.

Over time people watered down the fire and brimstone messaging and arrived at the idea that God is an all powerful and all knowing Santa Claus that grants wishes and loves you unconditionally. Since God is all good and all powerful nothing is a mistake.

Thus, we have children mutilating their genitals and taking hormones while claiming God made them this way.
Ok, that actually makes sense. I had thought predestination was one of the things that the Protestant Reform opposed, but if not it does make sense that it would show up like this.

Personally, I’m of the belief that there is a difference between God having the ability to know everything about the future and choosing to know everything about the future. (though I’ll stop there because I don‘t want to turn the whole thread into theology debates.)

I can imagine predestination is a comforting thing to some people, since it means that anything bad that happens to them isn’t really their fault. And as you say it’s interesting how that attitude horseshoes right around to the “Born This Way” group, and even to some extent the ”fighting privilege” group, but in a completely secular way.
 
Trust protests to go from God is so powerfull that like superadvanced computer he can figure out what you will do into WE ARE ALL PUPPETES OF MACHINES.

That's what you get when try to interpret Judo-Christian religious concepts with Greek metaphysics.

Ok, that actually makes sense. I had thought predestination was one of the things that the Protestant Reform opposed, but if not it does make sense that it would show up like this.

There is some evidence that the idea of Capitalism emerged in Protestant countries because the idea of predestination allowed people to focus on material wealth. If you believe that everything had been decided by God since the beginning of time than accepting one's place is the highest good, If you're a beggar then you must expect that as your destiny and not complain. If you're a rich banker you're the elect of God.

Puritans brought these concepts to the American colonies and created a static class system from it. That's where the concept of "white trash" comes from in American context.
 
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Ok, that actually makes sense. I had thought predestination was one of the things that the Protestant Reform opposed, but if not it does make sense that it would show up like this.
Predestination, in the Calvinist sense, is only really a feature of Calvinist, or Reformed, Protestant churches or denominations. It's not part of the traditional Protestant views you'd find in tradition Lutheran or Anglican circles, although I believe there are Reformed branches of both, nor is it something you'd find in the Wesleyan tradition churches, like Methodism. Reformed theology is very heavy into the Sovereignty of God and if you accept their base premises, Calvinist theology is rather logically consistent. You can't really separate Predestination from the rest of TULIP.

I'm a Methodist, thus I think their base assumptions are incorrect, but Predestination is by no means the majority view of the Protestant churches. You do run into some Calvinists who do believe that the Elect are basically no longer sinners and the Puritans were super Calvinist.
 
Ok, that actually makes sense. I had thought predestination was one of the things that the Protestant Reform opposed, but if not it does make sense that it would show up like this.

Personally, I’m of the belief that there is a difference between God having the ability to know everything about the future and choosing to know everything about the future. (though I’ll stop there because I don‘t want to turn the whole thread into theology debates.)

I can imagine predestination is a comforting thing to some people, since it means that anything bad that happens to them isn’t really their fault. And as you say it’s interesting how that attitude horseshoes right around to the “Born This Way” group, and even to some extent the ”fighting privilege” group, but in a completely secular way.
Predestination, in the Calvinist sense, is only really a feature of Calvinist, or Reformed, Protestant churches or denominations. It's not part of the traditional Protestant views you'd find in tradition Lutheran or Anglican circles, although I believe there are Reformed branches of both, nor is it something you'd find in the Wesleyan tradition churches, like Methodism. Reformed theology is very heavy into the Sovereignty of God and if you accept their base premises, Calvinist theology is rather logically consistent. You can't really separate Predestination from the rest of TULIP.

I'm a Methodist, thus I think their base assumptions are incorrect, but Predestination is by no means the majority view of the Protestant churches. You do run into some Calvinists who do believe that the Elect are basically no longer sinners and the Puritans were super Calvinist.
predestination usually only refers to a Christian's standing before God. its a counter to Roman Catholic notion of excommunication, or cutting off of salvation: you know youre a christian because its impossible to desire christianity if you werent saved first by the holy spirit. no church can cut you off salvation and youre not judged by your works. its also becomes a strong stance against works based salvation since you are saved or youre not.

like aws says, if you accept the premises, its logically sound. reformed protestantism ks so logical it leads to supralapsarian and infralapsarian arguments.

predestination by itself does lead to other isssues that would seemingly contradict the faith specifically missions and evangeliism, and what do with non christians. i apologize because im going to word this poorly: the effort to do missions might be the trigger for non believers to respond to God's already existing election of them. God has his elect, elected before time but we dont know the exact mechanissm that will get people to respond to the call. ive not been a reformer for a long time and have forgotten most of the arguments in favor of predestination.

one of the pervasive calvinist mottos is "think like a calvinist, live like an armenian" because you have no idea where your place is. reformers dont have a satisfactory answer for when you see faithful christians lose their faith. were they elected at all? or was it just a mirage of salvation. if i cant tell they were elected despite the fruits, how can i know im elected.

hypercalvinism is one where everything was determined by God and life just plays out as planned. God is soverign and you just accept it.


that said i dont see how a reformer could make the argument that a boy ought to have been a girl. which is funny since reformed denominations are struggling with lgbt shit in their midst.

and all im seeing in the article is a very strong case against female clergy. a lot of jen hatmakers around.
 
The more sons a woman has, the more likely one of the younger ones will be gay. Some theorize this is due to male fetuses being more taxing on a woman's body, and subsequent male fetuses don't get the resources they need from mom. If that correlation is actually causation, then Kai was merely unlucky enough to be born to a homophobe.

Also, this kid has already been monetized for being trans. He was on Netflix's Babysitter's Club, crying a river over having to wear a blue hospital gown. (Literally every clinic or hospital I've been to had blue gowns for everyone.)
another show/franchise with a creepy borderline pedo fanbase.
 
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What is this shit the last few years where wokeites seem to think a child saying something gives it more weight, not less? Also I like how the author of the article pretends like they honestly think the child wrote the speech.

Also, this kid has already been monetized for being trans. He was on Netflix's Babysitter's Club, crying a river over having to wear a blue hospital gown. (Literally every clinic or hospital I've been to had blue gowns for everyone.)
He's been on several documentaries, news reports, in magazines, etc. since 2016 when he was four years old. It feels like a recurring theme with many "transgender children" where they're basically groomed into it because mom wants fame and fortune and to have the next Jazz Jennings.
 
Hearing the details of Jazz Jennings show "I am Jazz" is all the evidence I need to think little kids shouldn't be allowed to troon out. There's like a 99% chance he'll never orgasm because he was put on hormone blockers so young. Since he wasn't allowed to go through puberty his penis was like the size of a baby carrot which caused some major problems when Jazz had sexual reassignment surgery because you need that cockmeat to make the neo-vag. His vagina exploded at the seams multiple times because the skin was too tight or some shit. He even tweeted that "The day my vagina fell apart was the worst day of my life." He also has these big weird droopy bowling pin tits. Horrifying stuff. Anyways, best of luck to little Greta Troonberg here.
 
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