He was diagnosed with bipolar a few years ago. He's actually talked about his struggles on that point. He's also taken medication for anxiety, depression and paranoia. It's not a question of whether he has mental illness, so much as what role, if any, is it playing in his current behavior. I would say his erratic behavior punctuated by his performance on Alex Jones is a pretty good sign that it is.
He clearly does more so than majority of populace, he's just not great at expressing it clearly, which is understandable, as there's very few people who've expressed such things to begin with.
No, you just support him because you sympathize with his positions.
It's not that hard to explain "love the sinner, hate the sin", especially if someone is a Christian as he claims to be. This isn't groundbreaking or new or innovative. Christians have been saying this forever.
Your lack of understanding of his points doesn't mean he's crazy, it just means you aren't familiar enough with critique of liberalism to process them properly, or for that matter, haven't listened to everything he's said in context and parsed it properly. Much of what he focused when it comes to nazis/etc is specifically something I've been talking about for a while, which is that "racism," along with other -isms, "communism," "nazism," "fascism," etc, are liberal heresies and villains who are entirely (and purposefully) manufactured by the very system, and serve various things.
You and I aren't going to agree on this.
It's because he's Christian.
I'm a Christian. He's speaking Christian words and phrases. That doesn't make him a Christian.
So is of most Christians. People are fallible, imperfect creatures.
He's arrogant, worldly, profane and immoral. He puts himself on a pedestal second only to Jesus. He's releases music filled with worldliness, profanity and immorality. He married a worldly and sinful woman. These are not things that a Christian does.
I hope he's actually loves Jesus, but if he does, he is even more tormented than I thought because someone who loves Jesus doesn't live a life so publicly and blatantly immoral and in contradiction to everything that Jesus calls us to be. His flavor of Christianity resembles the type of Christianity practiced in the black culture where everyone talks the talk as a performance but do not actually walk the Christian walk outside of Sunday services.
And he claims to be misdiagnosed, and pumped full of drugs (something that the message by Harley seems to conform).
He's admitted it, then denied it, then admitted it again, and so on. It depends what mood he's in. Coincidentally, also a symptom of being bipolar.
Divergent behavior isn't mental illness. But once again, I'll ask you: Do you talk to white people, given racism is considered mental illness and whites are considered inherently racist? Do you talk to people in general and value what they say, despite the fact that around 50% of people - meaning every other person - get diagnosed with mental illness in their lives? It's a simple question. Why are you avoiding it?
I never said racism is mental illness.
It goes way further than that, and the point is that stating such things in particular terms is controversial in liberal society in which we live in.
Let me guess, you're one of the few people who apparently knows what Kanye really means?
Obviously, because you believe in liberalism and its heresies. I'll re-state what I've already said: Racism, anti-semitism, nazism, communism, socialism, aren't a thing. They have no concrete existence, in fact their entire existence is manufactured by liberal capitalism.
I haven't seen any evidence you even understand what liberalism means. You brushed off the fact that you were misusing the liberal definition of equality, and you seem to avoid specifics, preferring to use generalities. Because of this it's hard to take anything you say seriously.
Obviously, because you believe in liberalism and its heresies. I'll re-state what I've already said: Racism, anti-semitism, nazism, communism, socialism, aren't a thing. They have no concrete existence, in fact their entire existence is manufactured by liberal capitalism.
Sure they are.
Christianity itself has caused untold suffering, and was (often violently) imposed upon some of my people, but you'll see few if any no offer a defense of Christianity either way, or they'll go the way of "no true scotsman," which itself serves as deflection and defense of Christianity.
"No True Scotsman" is a fallacy of ambiguity. It's only fallacy when the terms involved are poorly defined or a non-sequitur to the point. If you clearly define a "True Scotsman" as someone born in Scotland, then you can point to someone not born in Scotland and say they're "no true Scotsman" without being fallacious. A Christian is someone who has repented from their sins, and turned from their old self in order to follow Jesus Christ. This isn't a fallacious claim.
Not everyone who claims to be a Christian or speaks Christian words is a Christian. This was stated by Jesus Himself.
...have you considered that to some, you self identifying as a Christian might be as it's to your or libs for that matter seeing Kanye call himself a Nazi?
Kanye never called himself a Nazi.
Honestly, most of what you're saying is nonsense, unsubstantiated by evidence and completely disconnected from reality. I don't really see a point in discussing this further.
He was diagnosed with bipolar a few years ago. He's actually talked about his struggles on that point. He's also taken medication for anxiety, depression and paranoia. It's not a question of whether he has mental illness, so much as what role, if any, is it playing in his current behavior. I would say his erratic behavior punctuated by his performance on Alex Jones is a pretty good sign that it is.
No, you just support him because you sympathize with his positions.
It's not that hard to explain "love the sinner, hate the sin", especially if someone is a Christian as he claims to be. This isn't groundbreaking or new or innovative. Christians have been saying this forever.
You and I aren't going to agree on this.
I'm a Christian. He's speaking Christian words and phrases. That doesn't make him a Christian.
He's arrogant, worldly, profane and immoral. He puts himself on a pedestal second only to Jesus. He's releases music filled with worldliness, profanity and immorality. He married a worldly and sinful woman. These are not things that a Christian does.
I hope he's actually loves Jesus, but if he does, he is even more tormented than I thought because someone who loves Jesus doesn't live a life so publicly and blatantly immoral and in contradiction to everything that Jesus calls us to be. His flavor of Christianity resembles the type of Christianity practiced in the black culture where everyone talks the talk as a performance but do not actually walk the Christian walk outside of Sunday services.
He's admitted it, then denied it, then admitted it again, and so on. It depends what mood he's in. Coincidentally, also a symptom of being bipolar.
I never said racism is mental illness.
Let me guess, you're one of the few people who apparently knows what Kanye really means?
I haven't seen any evidence you even understand what liberalism means. You brushed off the fact that you were misusing the liberal definition of equality, and you seem to avoid specifics, preferring to use generalities. Because of this it's hard to take anything you say seriously.
Sure they are.
"No True Scotsman" is a fallacy of ambiguity. It's only fallacy when the terms involved are poorly defined or a non-sequitur to the point. If you clearly define a "True Scotsman" as someone born in Scotland, then you can point to someone not born in Scotland and say they're "no true Scotsman" without being fallacious. A Christian is someone who has repented from their sins, and turned from their old self in order to follow Jesus Christ. This isn't a fallacious claim.
Not everyone who claims to be a Christian or speaks Christian words is a Christian. This was stated by Jesus Himself.
Kanye never called himself a Nazi.
Honestly, most of what you're saying is nonsense, unsubstantiated by evidence and completely disconnected from reality. I don't really see a point in discussing this further.