Eat at Chick Fil A!!!!!!

[lao tzu]

Your disagreement isn't with me, it is from what Bart Ehrmann himself said when asked to comment on something obviously similar.

That's the same Bart Ehrman who answered a request for his opinion on the DaVinci Code with a reply that the questioner should accept the scholarship of Dan Brown. Dude's got a sarcastic wit and perfect deadpan delivery. Not everybody gets it.

And for the sarcastically challenged, no, Ehrman doesn't support the DaVinci Code.

I can't say I would be braver, in fact, I would probably be just as appropriate to be served at Chick Fil A as he is.

Cannibal.

It is going to be "interesting" when the homosexual activists run into the Islam that getting exported here. I think they will miss the Christians.

It's already happening in Syria, Lebanon, and Egypt. I've seen the blogs. If they're standing up to Islam where it's most dangerous, they'll do the same here. It's not likely we — that's the US for Deeds and me — will be welcoming the kind of radicals as were welcomed into the UK, in any case. The UK offered asylum to muslims who were so radical they'd been expelled as troublemakers from even the most radical states.

Americans are a bit better at distinguishing between muslims in opposition to Islamic states because the states are too "Islamic" and muslims in oppostion to Islamic states because the states aren't "Islamic" enough.

As ever, Jesse

[lao tzu]

PS: If you want to participate in the Muslim area, you have my permission. You have been granted permission many times to post in theist areas. Any particular Muslim thread starter (or non-Muslim thread starter though can overrule my permission for their particular thread if they wish). Go knock yourself out.

can I make the proviso that he has to operate under the presupposition of accepting the existence of God and not arguing for atheism? That is a central reason we have limited the areas to theist only, so that they don't denigrate into arguments about whether God(s) exists or not.

Sparko that is aways the proviso

just wanted it to be clear to jesse.

Don't even think about taking away my last warning, Sparks.

[lao tzu]

(what I DIDN'T say, indeed! )

Yes, indeed, and literally, too.

Y'all should know by now I've my own variations on the FIFY meme.

Telling the joke always spoils it.

Yeah, that's Jaltus fault, too.

[rogue06]

Telling the joke always spoils it.

Nothing to spoil if you never tell it. Now explaining a joke OTOH...

[lao tzu]

Well, since he's only half-black, I hope there was a discount.

/I'm kidding
//welcome me back, everyone
///eat moar chikin

Welcome back, Vinny!

[Sparko]

Don't even think about taking away my last warning, Sparks.

what? now you want retroactive permission to post in restricted areas?

[Cow Poke]

what? now you want retroactive permission to post in restricted areas?

It's easier to get forgiveness than permission.

[rogue06]

It's easier to get forgiveness than permission.

How often did I say that to Mom? And how often did it work?

[Teallaura]

Well, since he's only half-black, I hope there was a discount.

/I'm kidding
//welcome me back, everyone
///eat moar chikin

BV!!!!

[Teallaura]

How often did I say that to Mom?

Be nice! You know CP can't count that high! Heck, I wouldn't do it either - who really wants to spend a month just counting? I mean, besides a certain Sesame Street Resident...

And how often did it work?

He can't count into the negative, either!

[Teallaura]

Don't even think about taking away my last warning, Sparks.

Get busy already!

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[brother vinny]

The Chick-fil-A controversy is, in many ways, a manufactured one--artificial liberal outrage over facts about the company that have been known for several years and sparked by the company's founder's recent comments confirming his worldview in a recent interview. If anything, the controversy and attendant boycott have been a boon for the company: Many people who had never heard of Chick-fil-A have given the restaurant a try, and many Americans who support traditional marriage have taken to eating at Chick-fil-A as a show of support (not to mention to enjoy some delicious chicken).

There's no question which way the zeitgeist is blowing on the gay marriage issue. America seems to be on the fast track to following the Roman Empire's pattern of decline. We have near-insurmountable debt. We have a decline in arts and entertainment (Jersey Shore, anyone?). We have bread and circuses for the poor, in the forms of welfare and pornographic violence and sex available at the click of a mouse. And we have a growing acceptance of the homosexual lifestyle--over half of Americans are in support of so-called gay marriage now.

The Left has now couched the gay marriage issue in terms of the civil rights struggles of the nineteen-sixties, thus giving them carte blanche for spewing the most acerbic vitriol (including insults and death threats) against those who they see as the oppressors. Contrast this to the actual civil rights movement of the sixties, when the oppressed (by and large) let civil discourse rule the day and the vitriol--often in the form of physical violence rather than merely verbal--came from those opposed to change. I do not believe this bodes well.

But I'll be eating at Chick-fil-A on August 1, despite my conviction that the downward spiral we're in may be irreversible.

[technomage]

I mean, besides a certain Sesame Street Resident...

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So many beautiful numbers! Ha Ha Ha!

[Dee Dee Warren]

Excellent post Paul, and good to see you hear.

[Jedidiah]

And good to see you here.