We may be pessimists, but we are prepared to give an account of our hope. We may be skeptics, but we are ever faithful. We may look down with sorrow on the human condition--but this sorrow begets charity. We are heralds of the dusk, but like watchmen we await the new dawn.
Contra Mozilla
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Firefox users we wanted to take this space to let you know what Mozilla, the company that makes Firefox has been doing, and it's not good. Mozilla recently forced its CEO to resign because he had, 6 years ago, donated $1,000 to a pro-family political group. Apparently Mozilla is intolerant of anyone that disagrees with their Liberal/progressive view of politics. To read more please visit WhyFirefoxIsBlocked.com. We aren't blocking Firefox, but we feel it is important to let you know what's going on. For those who are curious, the reason why we are not blocking firefox is that the script to do so also blocks a variety of firefox alternatives, such as IceDragon and others which are similar to firefox and based on the same open-source code. We do think it is important to push back on this issue: for starters, you can leave firefox a comment here. You can also switch to another browser: here are six more free browsers (besides IceDragon) which are supposed to be similar to FireFox (because they are based on the same open-source code) but which are not otherwise affiliated with Mozilla.
Monday, July 29, 2013
Two Articles from CNN on Religion
I don't generally find CNN to be a particularly good news source (nor a particularly true views source), but they do have a pair of interesting articles in their religion section. The first breaks down atheists into 6 distinct (but are they different?) groups. The second article is about why the writer thinks many Millennials are leaving religion (and in particular, evangelicalism). My comment on the first article is that there is nothing particularly surprising about there being different kinds of atheists, since any large movement or organization will tend to break into smaller and oftentimes opposing parties or factions. My comment on the second article is that it may be right, but that it does contain a strange contradiction. That contradiction is the claim that many "young" people (call it the under-30 crowd, since we're talking about Millennials) crave the old "high Church" style of liturgical worship, but reject the old creeds and especially the old moral teachings that should go with it. It takes all three (creed, code, and worship) to make a religion. A lot of people are weary of the culture wars, I know; and a lot complain about the simple moral teachings of the "conservative" denominations, sects, and churches. But this is really no reason for a church to stop teaching those things (though it may be a sign that those teachings could be made more clearly).
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