The Revenge of the Blue Collar White Guy, January 13th, 2025.

Preamble to any commentary.

For anyone who wants to do more than just have opinions about the California fires, I have a few recommendations for you.

Here are some links to folks who are doing good, reliable work.

The first is here, and here is a link to Grace Community,

and a friend in California thinks that Franklin Graham's Samaritan Purse is on the ground there.

I may update links here as I learn about more options, and I'm leaving the comments open so the needs can be made known here.

Remember that a lot of the long-haul relief work will not be able to begin until the fires are out.

Also remember that God has a lot of his people who are still in California,

and so indiscriminate hooting and derision is out of line.

There are still many people there who hate what has happened to their state,

including the causes of what has happened to their state.

Targeted criticism is fully appropriate and most necessary, for which please see below.

But a lot of mercy work needs to be an ongoing commitment for us. Consider a donation to be the

ticket price for the privilege of making fun of rainbow fire hydrants. Pure and undefiled religion

doesn't go along with any of the assumptions

of the California ruling class. It really does keep itself unstained by the world, and that includes

not participating in the various insanities of the world, but it also includes caring for the fatherless

and the widow, James 127. So with all that said, there are certain obvious things about this situation that need

to be said now. When the hand of the Lord is heavy, that is the time to seek an understanding of what

he is doing. Introduction. When it comes to identity politics, the California fires have set quite the

dilemma before us. On the one hand, for a generation or more, the kind of people who want to fight

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