Rachel Ford is a programmer, and since 8:00 to 5:00 doesn't provide enough opportunity to bask in screen glare, she writes in her spare time. She was raised a very fundamentalist Christian, but eventually "saw the light." Rachel's personal blog is Rachel's Hobbit Hole, where she discusses everything from Tolkien to state politics.
Conservatives seem to be taking ISIS’ fundamentalism as a direct challenge to their own these days. Whether it’s a leading Republican presidential candidate calling for implementation of actual Nazi anti-Semitic policies against Muslims, or not-giving-up-yet Republican Presidential candidates saying that we should only accept refugees who share their faith, conservatives seem to be eager to demonstrate that ISIS isn’t the only pack of fanatics on the block. Perhaps none have been so keenly eager as columnist Burt Prelutsky who, writing for World Net Daily, tackles the question of ISIS with his signature “wit and humor”… which, in practice, seems to be more a really crazy bit of Jesus-based chest-thumping and saber-rattling than anything else. Prelutsky’s idea is simple: just go in there and wipe ISIS out. (See? Easy as pie.) Then go destroy Mecca and massacre a bunch of civilians. Because my God is tougher than yours! No, really. That’s his suggestion: Read more
CBS is reporting an incident at the Greece versus Turkey soccer match earlier this week that goes well beyond bad sportsmanship. During a moment of silence for the victims of the Paris massacre, while players of both side observed the silence respectfully, fans of the Turkish team erupted into jeers and cries of “God is great”: Read more
“May the Force be with the military, their families, and the civilians who work with them.” The above is one of nine new signs the Military Religious Freedom Foundation is requesting on Marine Corps Base Hawaii. They would join the only current religious sign on the base, which reads “God bless the military, their families, and the civilians who work with them.” Read more
No doubt breaking the hearts of women around the world, earlier this week, Pastor Douglas Wilson (below) declared that Christian women are simply prettier than “women in the general population.” Devastated non-Christian women everywhere need not fear, however. There is a remedy! If you want to be perceived as more attractive by Pastor Wilson and those who share his views, all you have to do is be a duly-shamed and submissive doormat. Read more
