Raping and Beheading the Faithful; Gay marriage and the death of freedom; Just say NO to Ouija...more

Raping and Beheading the Faithful: Muslim Persecution of Christians  ...Muslims beheading Christians was a visibly growing spectacle throughout the month of August. Islamic State [IS] militants cut off a Christian man's head—after compelling him to say the shehada, the Islamic profession of faith, "There is no god but Allah and Muhammad is his messenger." When the shehada is spoken before Muslim witnesses, the speaker becomes Muslim and thus, in theory, safeguards his life and possessions from the jihad. Not so for this hapless man, who, after renouncing his Christian faith for Islam, was still slaughtered on camera...

Why I Left Feminism (Or, How Feminism Left Me) ...Here’s how it happened...

Return of the Rhythm Method ...As of 2010, only about 22 percent of women used “periodic abstinence," an umbrella term that includes counting days, measuring temperature, and tracking cervical mucus to predict fertility. Women with a master’s degree or higher were far more likely to use these methods than their less-educated peers. Their ranks may grow, though, as new apps and other technologies make it easier to manage the historically error-prone task of measuring, recording, and analyzing one’s cycle in order to stay baby-free...

Gay marriage and the death of freedom ...I hate to rain on this fabulous parade, but there’s a massive problem with this happy-clappy rallying cry. And it’s this: everywhere gay marriage has been introduced it has battered freedom, not boosted it. Debate has been chilled, dissenters harried, critics tear-gassed. Love and marriage might go together like horse and carriage, but freedom and gay marriage certainly do not. The double-thinking ‘freedom to marry’ has done more to power the elbow of the state than it has to expand the liberty of men and women.
There are awkward questions the ‘freedom to marry’ folks just can’t answer. Like: if gay marriage is a liberal cause, how come it’s been attended by authoritarianism wherever it’s been introduced?...

Just say NO to Ouija
...A Ouija board is not, in any way, a game. Let’s be honest. People use them to contact spirits, whether of the dead or of any other sort. It is worth stating here that the Bible makes it clear that there is a spiritual world beyond our physical senses. It contains good and evil forces, and we are not to seek to communicate with these either for news of the future or for any other purpose. Good spirits are off limits because we are commanded to pray to the God they serve, and bad spirits are forbidden because they always seek to deceive and harm us. Some relevant Bible verses include:

'Do not turn to mediums or seek out spiritists, for you will be defiled by them. I am the Lord your God' (Leviticus 19:31)

'Let no one be found among you who…practises divination or sorcery, interprets omens, engages in witchcraft, or casts spells, or who is a medium or spiritist or who consults the dead. Anyone who does these things is detestable to the Lord…' (Deuteronomy 18:10-12)...

Facebook Army to Police GOP Candidates The digital army sprung to life with a click of a mouse in a nondescript office park in Alexandria. Less than 10 miles away, at the White House, the phones began to light up. One call came into the switchboard and then another. Thousands of people flooded the phone lines.

It was early August 2014, and the callers were conservatives lambasting President Obama for promising what they described as "executive amnesty." The deluge of angry activists was not the work of a heavily coordinated national campaign, a pricey phone-banking operation, or really an exhaustive effort of any kind.

It resulted from a single post on Facebook...