Update: Chaplain suspended for sharing the Gospel. Shameful. Telling someone that without Christ they are damned, as the Bible teaches, is called “hatred.” Suppose you’re an atheist who doesn’t believe in hell. Why would you be offended because someone said that’s where you were going? So if someone asks me a question about my beliefs, telling them what I believe means I’m “hateful?” A Christian chaplain was suspended because he answered a question about the Bible. That’s his job! Freedom of religion, my eye. Freedom from Christianity is more like it. (Hat tip: Renee)
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If you happen to be in or near La Mirada, California, on October 13-15, come to the God Blog Convention 2005. And if you’re so inclined, you may contribute to my GodBlogCon fund:
— Speaking of God, Blogs4God has a new look (press release).
— Michael King is leaving the blogosphere. He’s found a day job, and he can’t rant and rave online anymore. 
— If you’re in town, join us at the Baltimore-DC-Northern Virginia bloggers meet-up on September 30, 2005, at 6:30 p.m. We’ll meet at Buca Di Beppo’s in Gaithersburg, MD. See David Wayne for details.
— The New York Times and some other liberal paper are laying off staff because they can’t pay them because regular people (not liberals) don’t want to read anti-American garbage. We’re just funny that way. More from Mark in Mexico.
— BelieverThinker has a few words for the Washington Post.
— Speaking of leftists, we know that most major newspapers are written by liberals, so I try not to transfer my disgust for reporters onto people they’re writing about in the story. Remember the Hmong murder case? Well the murderer was found guilty, and the reporter writes, “Minorities question how a white jury could know how a Hmong hunter must have felt that day.” If that isn’t the stupidest sentence I’ve ever read.
So-called minorities should be insulted, in my opinion, for being set apart based on their skin color, as though they’re a subhuman species incapable of meeting the same standards as everyone else. But so many accept it like pabulum. If the word “whites” had been used in place of “minorities,” we’d never hear the end of it. Years from know people would still be ranting about it. David Downing has more.
— Pundit Guy parses an anti-Bush editorial disguised as a news story.
— Check out these hurricane-related job blogs: Hurricane Job Hunter and Katrina Jobs Blog.
— Blogs served a valuable function during the disaster in the Gulf region by bringing lost families together and providing neighborhood-specific information. One of these blogs is the Slidell Hurricane Damage Blog (related story).
— Theologically conservative Evangelical women (RENEW Network) in the United Methodist Church will debate another group within the church called the Women’s Division, who are what’d you’d call “liberal Christians.” One of the topics for discussion: Whether conscientious Christians can have legitimate differences in matters of Biblical interpretation and about appropriate social engagements in the world. The debate, organized by the Beverly LaHaye Institute, will take place this morning at 10:00 a.m. at the Wesley Theological Seminary.
— Meet Vernice Jones, a black homeschooling mother, and the Praying Woman.
— The godless are the new “Amoral Minority,” says Scott Ott.
— I guess I’m out of the loop because I didn’t know Cindy Sheehan was still considered newsworthy. RedState is organizing a counter-protest this weekend. There’s a protest this weekend? As I said, out of the loop…
— A RedState blogger will testify before Congress.
— Newsflash: Despite high per pupil spending, government schools still stink. More from The New Editor.
Duncan at The Blog Herald has this to say about a new book on blogging:
Its (sic) a view of the world that always looks at top down instead of button up. Sure, there’s some good people on this list who probably contributed to a sound book (when Calacanis speaks for example it’s nearly always interesting) but where’s the diversity of people that make the blogosphere the wonderful place it is?
I agree.
— Check out The Language Artist.
— Plain silly. Even sillier: blacks are complaining because Red Cross volunteers are white! What a gaggle of numbskulls.
— Was Iraq involved in the Oklahoma City bombing? Mark Tapscott looks at the evidence.
— Other posts of interest from Impacted Wisdom, The Therapist, Iowa Voice, Stop the ACLU, NoSpeedBumps, Area417, Howard Grant…
