OkCupid: Save the Date

On 3 April 2014 Reuters ran the story that, well, «"Mozilla's new CEO, Brendan Eich, is an opponent of equal rights for gay couples," the message said. "We would therefore prefer that our users not use Mozilla software to access OkCupid."»

So let’s all check back with the staff of OkCupid in five years, after the movement for equal rights of those wanting group marriages or marriages with siblings or with inhuman entities has gained ground and become as strident as the Gay Lobby is.  Should it be discovered that OkCupid is equally old-fashioned and hateful in their dealings with the hyper-celebrated social groups of the next zeitgeist, some of us will remember OkCupid’s hypocrisy and what they did to Mozilla back in 2014.

And now that you are done reading this blog post, go out and find yet another Web browser--besides either IE, Chrome, Safari, Firefox, or any other popular one--to use because one thing is certain: there are one or two employees who developed those browsers yet are sexist in their use of insults and slurs; the same people are also unwittingly prejudicial and/or needlessly insulting in their thoughts and dealings with conservatives, Republicans, Southerners, country folk, gun owners, Christians, Muslims, Jews, and really practically any other social group.  (I could pull contemporary anecdotes to support what I am saying here.)  Go ahead and think about drawing up a new Constitution for the United States while you’re at it; freedom of speech per the First Amendment derives from a document written by racist slave owners anyhow.

Why, why, why?

Atty Says School Threatened, Punished Boy Who Opposed Gay Adoption | FOX News & Commentary: Todd Starnes

School Fears “Cougars” Mascot Will Offend Women | FOX News & Commentary: Todd Starnes

‘Occupiers’ Throw Bibles, Allegedly Urinate on Cross | FOX News & Commentary: Todd Starnes

Or rather How? How can any intelligent being be this stupid? How can there be so many complete numbskulls in one universe, let alone one country?

Oh, the Profound Wisdom of Yahoo! Answers

This recent question posted in the Travel > US > NYC section of Y!A was interesting: How do I help stop same sex marriage in New York?!?

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If people lack the intelligence to recognize poor attempts at trolling or satire for what they are, should we be surprised when people are duped by anything else?

If someone wants to start calling someone else a “bible thumper” when no one has even quoted or cited chapter and verse, should anyone be surprised the next time someone starts falsely attributing things to you or anyone else?

And if moral views are not to be imposed upon others--whether legally or otherwise--then do some of the respondents in question believe that White business owners have the right to refuse service to Black people? Were civil rights laws of yesteryear wrong to put an end to having Black patrons of White-owned restaurants eat outside on the street?

Finally, do those who reflexively start hollering “Judge not...” know which part of the Bible they think they’re quoting, much less know the meaning and context of that passage?

All of this is indicative of the secular climate in which Western Christianity now finds itself. That climate is also one which shows that the modern, progressive mind has as much good sense as people four thousand years ago who still lived in mud huts and worshipped graven images.

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As for the “gay agenda” that was mentioned in one of the answers, I’m looking forward to the days when technology catches up with sci-fi and can finally produce an android like Data from Star Trek: TNG. When Data and Tasha Yar fall head over heels for each other and decide to marry, will people not finally figure out the meaning of words such as “simulation,” “emulation,” and “analogy”?

Reuters: "God did not create the universe, says Hawking"

Via Yahoo! News:

"Because there is a law such as gravity, the universe can and will create itself from nothing. Spontaneous creation is the reason there is something rather than nothing, why the universe exists, why we exist," Hawking writes.

Dr. Hawking, I have just one question for you: If a thing creates itself, then isn’t that thing around in the first place to be doing the act of creating itself?

The persistence of those who give up too easily

Personally, I get the impression that inerrantism within Christendom is on its way out the door. This is due to the strident talk of inerrantists, the ease with which one can create doubts, and the fact that a full account of some of the issues of biblical inerrantism requires some time and study (aka, inconvenience). Of course, it bears noting the Christian errantists who reject biblical inerrancy don’t see their rejection of orthodoxy as an act of one’s painting himself into a corner; no, only the biblical inerrantists are thought to have made this mistake.

And the errantists will fail to recognize the nature of their cutting off their nose to spite their face until fifty years down the road, when they see that their numbers have severely dwindled. For there can be only one logical and final conclusion of biblical errantism: pseudo-intuitive universalism, if not wholesale apostasy in the strongest sense.

Now, why do I mention all this? See the link:

AlbertMohler.com – The Inerrancy of Scripture: The Fifty Years’ War . . . and Counting

(HT: Tur8infan fan by way of aomin.org)

"Taunton second-grader sent home over drawing of Jesus"

Massachusetts taxpayers’ dollars at work:
http://www.tauntongazette.com/news/x1903566059/Taunton-second-grader-suspended-over-drawing-of-Jesus

So my question is this: How much truth is there to the claim that my co-worker was making--that public schools are a dumping ground for adults of second-rate intellect? And at what point, if any, should parents with wisdom and conscience just divest from public schools and get their kids outta there? There must be someone here with an opinion on the subject. ;)