- Via WaPo: Rove is still a pompous ass, Lynne Cheney loves the Drudge Report, Dems don't understand this 'new media' thing, Drudge is a smearmonger who loves kissing Republican butt, and Cheney thinks this is all a barrel of monkeys. Stay tuned next week when we'll find out that Cheney is actually the real president and Bush is the worst.commander.in.chief ever.
- Teenagers of evangelicals are waking up and smelling reality and it doesn't smell like mom, dad or crystal palaces for Jesus.
At an unusual series of leadership meetings in 44 cities this fall, more than 6,000 pastors are hearing dire forecasts from some of the biggest names in the conservative evangelical movement.
Their alarm has been stoked by a highly suspect claim that if current trends continue, only 4 percent of teenagers will be “Bible-believing Christians” as adults. That would be a sharp decline compared with 35 percent of the current generation of baby boomers, and before that, 65 percent of the World War II generation.
“I’m looking at the data,” said Ron Luce, who organized the meetings and founded Teen Mania, a 20-year-old youth ministry, “and we’ve become post-Christian America, like post-Christian Europe. We’ve been working as hard as we know how to work — everyone in youth ministry is working hard — but we’re losing.”
Can't they just pray about it or get Bush to pass a constitutional amendment banning rap music and MySpace or something?
- Oh, I'm sorry, was that 'intolerant' of me? (Whiny right-wing wankers!)
The affront is in suggesting that there should be an ideological litmus test to determine which Canadians may enter public service based on their moral beliefs.
Yes, that is the affront and we liberals are damn tired of grouchy, old-style, traditional values pushing, anti-modernity, repressed, stale, and cranky-ass [fill in the blank] conservatives criticizing us for our moral beliefs. Stick that in your outrage pipe and smoke it.
- Alrighty then. That felt good. Moving on...
- I have no idea why CTV thinks this is news. Without revealing anything that might violate my anonymity, let's just say that those of us who lived in Weyburn at the time knew what was going on and more.
- In a related vein, this is Mental Illness Awareness Week in Canada. Too many people still live with the stigma that society imposes upon people with mental illnesses. Until that improves, people who really need help won't get it and/or will continue to believe that they need to hide in shame. Please educate yourself and others. As a lifelong sufferer of chronic, treatment- resistant depression and a survivor of PTSD for 11 years now, I know that pain. The mentally ill don't need your pity or fear. They need your support and appropriate funding for crucial, life-saving health services - the kind that have helped me tremendously.
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