I ask because they have an indignant article up about how the air force is no longer requesting that any lodging they use have bibles in the room — and the associated poll is already going the godless way! That’s just not like the Blaze.
Is the Air Force right to remove the Bible requirement?
Yes. 70.3%
Nope. 28.82%
I’m in the middle on this one. 0.87%
I’m feeling redundant. In a good way.
I just voted- 73% and 26%
The link isn’t established and I’m lazy.
No need to thank me, Glenn Beck. You getting hit by a semi because you were pulling your crying bullshit will be thanks enough.
Jesus died for your sins. The least you can do is buy your own damn copy of his fucking book, you lazy, cheap, selfish assholes.
Should the air force provide free copies of the Bhagavad Gita to every one of its airmen and officers who ever stay in a hotel?
Vote below!
Libraries, not bombs? Sure, why not?
Fuck, after reading the comments on that thread I think I’m gonna exercise my 2nd amendment rights and start amassing an arsenal. Those fuckers are seriously crazy, delusional and so worked up they can’t even understand the simple concept of bringing your own bible if you wish to read it.
Trust me: it’s much more satisfying to use your own, bare hands.
Dude, comments were scary. I hope none of them are actually in the military.
Is it possible that Reddit’s /r/atheism has something to do with it? There are about 700,000 subscribers, and sometimes a call to bomb one of these polls makes it to the front page. If it’s a clear church/state separation issue, it’s fairly likely.
The crazies there aren’t very literate either. All the article says is that starting with the next fiscal year, places providing lodgings for Air Force members won’t be REQUIRED to have bibles. Yet looks like 90%+ of the whiners are saying they’re taking their bibles away.
With the state of the USAF I would suspect that most traveling personnel would be carrying bundles of bibles and leaving them strewn about their lodgings like dogs leave fleas.
I cannot believe some of the traction The Blaze is getting.
I’m seeing some of their “articles” in the YAHOO newsfeed. It was rhetorically asking whether the country is heading to Communism. (Guess what the answer was.)
I was literally disgusted to see that their propaganda feed actually is making it into the news bloodstream, like an infectious agent.
Don’t forget to play Hide the Bible next time you’re staying in a hotel.
http://hidethebible.tumblr.com/
I think it’s a software problem. Someone obviously mixed up which option button goes that each question.
According to his obituary, my great-grandfather, one of the founding members of The Gideons, was the one who moved at their annual meeting that they take it as a mission to place Bibles in hotel rooms. I always look to see if Great-Grandaddy’s Bible is there. It pretty much always is.
As someone stated, it probably was all reddit.
I’m guessing Gideon leaves a KJV Bible. What about all the others? Perhaps they should leave one of each. Such ecumenicalism will surely help with poor Rockies revival.
Just after I posted that, I decided to go look. This poll was the second item from the top on the atheism subreddit.
88.4% Yes now…
Oh, boohoo. I can’t tell you how sympathetic I am to such a tragedy. You foolish Christians don’t know enough to pack your own pocket-sized Bible when you go traveling, and you depend on the Gideons to make the world safe for you?
And here I thought the Gideons did that as part of the Christian recruitment drive. You know, to compensate for how Christianity is a choice and not a genetic trait you have to recruit people. You seem to think that Christianity is so wonderfully good that all it takes to convert someone is to leave a Bible in their hotel room so they’ll read it and get hooked.
Ouch. The comments on that poll are unbelievable. My face hurts from the stupidity.
Seems likely.
Latest voting figures as of now :
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Should the Air Force remove the requirement that Bibles be placed in rooms? Take the poll:
Thank you for voting!
Yes. 89.21%
Nope. 10.12%
I’m in the middle on this one. 0.67%
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A pop-up offering folks a direct e-mailing of the Blaze e-newsletter emials summinlike that came up when Ilicked onthesite which may have a role in how us godless heathens are keeping tabs on and “haunting” these maybe?
D’oh! Typos.
I clicked onthe site not licked it!
Also emails not ’emials’ plus more such as the spacing errors. Sigh.
Memo to self : Always preview!
Thinking of typos, I like the the (currently) first comment’s one :
Emphasis added.
Cow towing soudns a bit like cow tipping only some what more challenging – and a possible way to get your bovine supply facilities to give y’all butter instead of milk!
Cow towing. That’s when you use oxen to pull a vehicle out of the ditch, right?
I really should learn not to read the comments on these things. If I can’t manage that, I really must try not to be surprised when all the idiots think that “not requiring (religious thing x)” is actually “banning (religious thing x)”.
Yeah, r/atheism got to this one. :-)
How many Air Force inns and authorized lodgings are there, anyway? We must be talkin’ dozens!
As a former Army member, I’d like to see a requirement that all Army lodgings are insect-resistant, and have floors, roofs, and walls.
Soak that little tidbit of shitty logic in.
So how come the hotels don’t keep a copy of Cosmos by Carl Sagan in the drawer in case I forgot mine at home? Why don’t we just turn every hotel room into a complete library with every book ever printed…just in case someone forgot their own book at home?
Why? It’s not like Fox didn’t infect ages ago and journalists act like frightened toadying cowards at the threat of being labeled ‘biased’ by Fox.
Rev. BigDumbChimp, mmmmmm catch 22s; they’re easier to digest than paradoxes.
Sheesh! Some of those comments were scary.