At Hot Air, Michelle Malkin writes approvingly about a series of stories that’s been running in the Seattle Times about a little girl’s fight against neuroblastoma. Her family is a religious one, and the story tracks how their deep faith h…

Allahpundit is the lead blogger here for a reason. Several reasons, actually: He’s smart, funny, engaging, funny, addictive, combative, contrarian, prickly, funny, and, oh, the hardest working man in the blogosphere.

Ditto that..

If you can’t take heat and give it back, on religion or any other matter, get out of our kitchen.
Thank you.
Michelle on September 16, 2007 at 11:42 PM

I’m using your quote over and over when appropiate…..I’m sure you won’t mind.

Well, as usual, I see I’m invisible on this site and no one is going to answer my question. Enjoy your discussion.
Annie
speed911 on September 16, 2007 at 9:29 PM

My #1 rule is to comment based on what I think….no matter whether or not someone else believes it or even comments on it.

You simply have to have backbone and no knee jerk reaction to response/no response from others and love debate to survive in here…..this is the debate kitchen after all.

Michelle on September 16, 2007 at 11:42 PM

Showing my FR roots, I’ll bump your post, if you don’t mind.

Those of you in the Pacific Northwest won’t be surprised to learn that some Times’ readers have complained about the focus on the family’s daily prayer vigils and reliance on faith to get them through hard times.

I am not a believer in the ‘power of prayer’, but why in the world would the Times’ readers *complain* about this story about prayer vigils for little Gloria? The paper is reporting a story, a human events story, about a human being who believes differently then the average Times Reader. I don’t for the life of me understand what is so offensive and shocking.

We disagree about many things. We agree about more.

If you can’t take heat and give it back, on religion or any other matter, get out of our kitchen.

Thank you.

By the way, the series on Gloria is really very touching. Good way to get some perspective.

The salient point is that if you remove Christianity from any society, secular socialism will replace it, then Islam will replace that. That is how the dominoes fall. We are witnessing that in Europe. I don’t care for evangelicals or preachy Christians either, but I see in them a valuable resource to prevent what is happening in Europe, from happening to us over here. The cultural influence of Christianity, with all of its idiosyncracies, is critical to our cultural survival.

jihadwatcher on September 16, 2007 at 9:24 PM

I meant to say earlier that I agree with you completely about this.

I think we should just take in the message of the story, it seems disrespectful to have the fight here, we oughta be focusing on the kid’s fight, not our own fights. It just seems needless when people can have this fight anywhere else at nearly anytime.

He’s got a lot of integrity and his posts/comments show he cares about what’s true, not what’s convenient. Totally conservative, and he’s a bloggin’ machine to boot!

In fact, if you put up an iPhone donation badge, I’ll contribute.

John on September 16, 2007 at 10:14 PM

Seconded. Allah, why don’t you put one up? You’d get an iPhone in no time flat. Go on, you deserve it.

Depends on who you’re praying to
and what you’re praying for…

Tony737 on September 16,2007 at 3:49PM.

Tony737,yup your right,I believe,and Im Anglican.
I’m going to go on a limb here,whoever Achmed is praying
to is a false G!d,because the one he’s praying to is full
of hate and suicide.

What?

Huh?

Michelle Malkin posted the thread?

Oh. Well, it was probably a ramble designed to bait Christians!

What? It wasn’t? What was the post about, anyway?

Oh. Mainstream media treatment of Christianity?

Ah ha! So that’s it. It was just echoing the media bashing Christians, so really it’s just Michelle baiting Christians by proxy for Allahpundit by echoing the media. I knew it!

What?

Huh?

What do you mean … the article was fair to Christians? It reported faith in a good light?

Weird.

Well, anyway, getting back to atheism …

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Shorter version: barf.

I blame the Mormons.

I think a post in which atheists suggest that other atheists may be going too far in their criticism of religion isn’t exactly parallel to asking “Where was God during the VT massacre?”. I see several differences. So in answer to your question…Why didn’t anyone protest the atheist post? Cause it was pretty weak tea as far ideological indictments go.

That aside, you’re one of the best conservative bloggers on the web and we’re lucky to have you. In fact, if you put up an iPhone donation badge, I’ll contribute.

Leftists think that if we “do the right thing” the world would be peachy keen, there would be world peace, and we would live happily ever after. But their ideas of what we need to do get there are abhorrent, and what they would do “for the greater good” could mean the end to civilization as we know it if we permitted them to institute their grand plans for all of us.

However, we cannot win by silencing them. We have to win by having better ideas.

As threatening as they appear at the moment, aren’t groups like Moveon.org ultimately going to self-destruct because they don’t tolerate dissenting opinions?

When has Allah been guilty of Christian-baiting and what do you people consider to be Christian-baiting?

speed911 on September 16, 2007 at 8:21 PM

I think they mean the pictures of the raw steak when AP puts up a post he thinks will there will be a lot of commenting on.

I think no one answered your question because only a minority here actually think it is Christian-baiting.

Indeed I think it is odd, that for an editor who prides himself on the atheist mantle of holding religion in contempt, we never read any dissing of Hinduism or
Buddhism

jihadwatcher on September 16, 2007 at 8:18 PM

No complaint about the 1000:1 ratio between digs at Muslims and digs at Christians, though, huh?

Allahpundit on September 16, 2007 at 9:24 PM

Okay, this is getting silly.

There is no reason to bash Buddhism or Hinduism that I know of, unless you can demonstrate that they pose some sort of threat, like Islamofascism. Indeed, if there are any Buddhist or Hindu readers of Hot Air, I’d be very interested in hearing from them if they are conservatives.

But saying that because you do so much Muslim bashing it’s okay to bash Christians once in a awhile is a pretty weak argument. Just because you beat up a bunch of bad guys doesn’t mean that you are now obligated to go after some good guys just to be fair.

What I hope to continue to see here is not identity of beliefs, but respect for the individual integrity of others, insofar as the beliefs are honest, good faith and reasonable.

It has to do with people (or fanatics) being convinced that they are “doing the right thing” and it all being in the eye of the beholder.

But we don’t see that in Christianity as we see that in Islam, so use that angle?

No complaint about the 1000:1 ratio between digs at Muslims and digs at Christians, though, huh?

Islam we can all agree on, you know that. Islam is a cancer. I have yet to see the atheist in you find fault with Buddhism or Hinduism. I will keep count of that ratio.