They Should Exercise Their Minds a Bit, Too
I have a couple of OneNeuronNow articles for you today. First up is “A Call for Humble Prayer on Sunday”.
Sunday (July 5) is “Call 2 Fall,” a prayer rally organized by the Family Research Council.
It is a call to Christians and their churches to take three to five minutes during the Sunday services, go to their knees, and pray for repentance and a return of America to moral greatness.
Where were these people in the last eight years? Or does an unprovoked and unjustified war leaving upwards of 100,000 Iraqi civilians dead not count as immoral?
I guess it’s OK as long as none of the soldiers doing that killing in our name are homosexuals.
“There really isn’t a new political agenda we can pull out of the hat or any other form of medicine for America,” he states. “It’s only prayer and fasting.”
Well the prayer won’t accomplish anything, but I think the fasting is a good idea.
The second article has the results of the polls that ONN ran last week. In most of these, observe how the most popular answers give you a lot of insight into the folks who read ONN. (Sorry they’re hard to read. I’m reproducing these full size.)
For the first one, note how the question has already come to a conclusion. They’re just asking how to justify their hatred.
Why is it impossible to have a ‘meaningful, personal commitment’ to Christ and still practice the sin of homosexuality?
On the next one, note how ONN readers are sure that Obama couldn’t possibly be referring just to government policy.
What was President Obama referring to when he knocked ‘old attitudes’ regarding homosexuality?
Two of the options in this question imply that Muslims couldn’t possibly have the right faith.
What might be the reaction to Rick Warren’s speech before the Islamic Society of North America this weekend?
This question doesn’t really care which answer you give. Anything but the gays is OK!
What should be a higher priority for the National Education Association than promoting the homosexual agenda?
July 6th, 2009 at 1:35 pm
This is the part that gets me: “a return of America to moral greatness.” When was this time of “moral greatness” that we should return to? Our history is filled with racial and socioeconomic inequity and oppression, unfettered and dangerous child labor, legalized gender bias, corruption, slavery, greed, and bigotry. Which one of those ideals represents the “moral greatness” to which we ought to return? (It must be the shining Prohibition years!)
July 6th, 2009 at 2:13 pm
They say they would want to promote basic education skills of children, but somehow I think they would not approve adding more classes on critical thinking and evolution. Bible study, ID and abstinence classes is probably more what they’re thinking of…
July 6th, 2009 at 4:28 pm
I think those may be what they mean…
(By the way, I have no idea how to quote)
July 6th, 2009 at 6:20 pm
4ndyman – That’s exactly what they mean with moral greatness. Slavery (et al) are all perfectly acceptible biblical morals.
July 6th, 2009 at 6:20 pm
Oops Kevin beat me to it. lol
July 6th, 2009 at 7:09 pm
FYI, ‘ONN’ is Onion News Network.
July 6th, 2009 at 9:15 pm
Kevin:
Just use the HTML blockquote tag like this:
<blockquote>Bite me!</blockquote>
renders as:
BTW, if anybody out there is running a WordPress blog, and you’re using some sort of plugin that gives the users simple formatting, and if you’re happy with that plugin, please let me know. I know there are a bunch of them, but I haven’t gotten around to trying a few to see what I like. There are a lot of little improvements I want to do to this blog, but my personal life seems to suffer one disruption after another and I never have time to get to them.
July 6th, 2009 at 9:30 pm
Chakolate:
Actually, it’s both a floor wax and a dessert topping!
And FBI is both Federal Bureau of Investigation and Flying Buffalo, Inc. That reference is completely wasted on you people, though. Among this blog’s potential readership, maybe only Mike Stackpole would know that. He was at TAM 5.5 (which I missed), but I’ve never seen him at the integer TAMs. I guess he and I don’t move in the same circles anymore.
July 7th, 2009 at 3:57 am
It’s not wasted on me, Ron. I’ve been playing Nuclear War for thirty years.
July 7th, 2009 at 6:54 am
Ron – Very few rich text editors render full W3C HTML compliant code. You’ll see tags like <center> and so on. I know that’s important to you.
July 7th, 2009 at 7:35 am
griffon8:
I was hoping someone out there would get the reference. It’s strange how you can unexpectedly run into people with FBI connections. I once interviewed someone for a job who had previously worked there.
July 7th, 2009 at 7:41 am
Parrotlover:
I know stand-alone programs choke on real HTML, but I’m hoping that a plugin that allows simple formatting can pull it off. How hard can it be? This is 2009, not 1999. Two-thirds of my visitors use Firefox, not some crappy third-rate browser that insisted on using its own tags in the early days and has contaminated the web ever since because moron web developers only bothered to check if their site rendered properly on their own machine.
July 8th, 2009 at 7:25 am
You would be surprised! The archaic tags are easy and CSS is “hard,” so they use them. If you find a good one, let me know. It has been a couple years since I checked, but the last time I did, all kinds of crazy non-compliant tags were used.
Incidentally, <center> renders perfectly in every browser, even if it is deprecated.
Same for it’s younger sibling, <p align=”center”>.
July 8th, 2009 at 3:19 pm