Jill Carroll on her captivity

Hie theee to The Christian Science Monitor and read Jill Carroll’s story in her own words. JUST DO IT. One reader who pointed the article out over at Chaos Manor Musings responded to the account,

…WE tolerate absurd depictions of Christ without ever demanding that the authors or artists be murdered. They don’t. So we run cowed by their threat? Color me pissed at that cowardice on the part of our media and our government.

Exactly.

Tacked to the walls at TMH’s Bacon Bits (but leaving the backsplash in TMH and his Lovely Wife’s hands), Woman Honor Thyself and Blue Star Chronicles.

Is it just me?

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Is it just me, or is the “news” of contemporary events all—or at least almost all—bad, ranging from the merely dismal to the catestrophic? even the weatherman seems apologetic and tentative when he has good news, as if to say, “Well, the weather will be nice today, but don’t blame me. I’ll be sure to have bad news tomorrow. Besides, haven’t I given y’all the good news in as gloomy a fashion as possible?”

Is it really the case that it’s just human nature to want bad news, so the market’s just feeding us what we want?

Or is it the case that human beings are, as Christian theology teaches, fundamentally self-flawed, sinful creations who typically make bad news, and that in any case, the universe itself is out to get us?

*heh*

Still, there has to be better news out there than the Mass MEdia Podpeople’s Army and all its Hiveminded minions bring us.

Doesn’t there? Somewhere?

Maybe Ferdy has heard some…


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