That first one reminds me of why The Charity Formerly Known As Christian Children’s Fund changed its name to “ChildFund International”. Some other Christian groups complained that the charity wasn’t behaving in a properly Christian manner: after all, it was only providing desperately poor children with trivial things like food and shelter and medical care — all that pathetically unimportant feeding-the-hungry-clothing-the-naked stuff — but not doing the important things like preaching the Gospel and telling children they were going to Hell.
Chris Rodda is the author of Liars For Jesus: The Religious Right's Alternate Version of American History and Debunking David Barton's Jefferson Lies: #2 - Jefferson Founded a Secular University. Since the release of Liars For Jesus in 2006, Chris has been blogging at Talk2Action.org, Huffington Post, and elsewhere about the use of historical revisionism in everything from education to legislation. Chris's blog on Freethoughtblogs.com will eventually accompany a weekly podcast, "This Week in Christian Nationalism," if Chris can ever find the time to launch it. In the meantime, the name of her blog will continue to make no sense.
Chris is also the Senior Research Director for the Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF), but the opinions expressed by her on this blog are her personal opinions, and not necessarily those of MRFF.
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StevoR
May 13, 2012 at 7:31 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Solant green is being served today, Wendy’s?! Wow. I really *am* living in the future!
StevoR
May 13, 2012 at 7:37 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Soylant Green, I mean. D’oh!
nedchamplain
May 13, 2012 at 8:39 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Name change from “Eating Raoul”?
paulburnett
May 13, 2012 at 10:35 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Actually, Steve, it’s “soylent green” – see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soylent_Green
Trebuchet
May 13, 2012 at 11:35 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
The first one is NOT funny, but oh, so true.
StevoR
May 14, 2012 at 12:34 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
@paulburnett : D’oh! Again. Oh well – cheers.
cactuswren
May 14, 2012 at 5:36 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
That first one reminds me of why The Charity Formerly Known As Christian Children’s Fund changed its name to “ChildFund International”. Some other Christian groups complained that the charity wasn’t behaving in a properly Christian manner: after all, it was only providing desperately poor children with trivial things like food and shelter and medical care — all that pathetically unimportant feeding-the-hungry-clothing-the-naked stuff — but not doing the important things like preaching the Gospel and telling children they were going to Hell.
jefferylanam
May 14, 2012 at 5:18 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
No, that is not the Wendy’s where a woman “found” a finger in her chili.