Fun with Google Suggest: Christian Edition
You may or may not know this, but Google has a feature known as Google Suggest which suggests search phrases as you begin typing. According to their FAQ, it offers suggestions based on the popularity of various searches.
So, let’s conduct a little experiment and see what the world searches for when it comes to Christianity …
Want to know what people want to know about Christianity? There you go.
Congrats California Christians
You stopped same-sex marriage but your 15 year-old daughter can still get an abortion without you knowing.
This was my first election as a non-Californian. It was a bit strange being on the outside looking in. Not only strange, but disappointing.
Nice Priorites
I read about your Prop 8 prayer vigils. Your fasting. The $35+ million you spent to promote the initiative. I read the website. But I still don’t get it.
I don’t get why I never heard about Prop 4 until the night of the election (as I was browsing latimes.com). It was never mentioned on the news here in Oregon. I never heard about protests. Or prayer vigils in football stadiums. Or controversial commercials. And, yet, Prop 4 only lost by four percentage points and change. Maybe you should have spent some of that money on educating people about why Prop 4 actually matters.
So, let me get this straight. It’s more important to you to stop gay people from getting a marriage certificate than it is knowing that your teenage daughter is going to get an abortion?
Protect Divor–errr … Marriage
The whole campaign of protecting marriage is interesting as well. Especially considering the dichotomy of views within the church on divorce and the fact born-again Christians are just as likely to divorce as non-believers. So, California Christian, exactly who or what are you trying to protect marriage from?
Let’s face it, biblical marriage and civil marriage are not the same. If you were to ask me, the biggest threat to biblical marriage in America isn’t gay people. It’s Christians.
Convince Me
I really don’t think I would have voted for Prop 8. To be honest, I probably would have left it blank.
Trust me, I understand your arguments. I just don’t think they’re very strong. I don’t think you don’t need to spend $35 million to keep first graders from attending a gay wedding. Kids don’t learn about marriage at school–they learn about marriage from their parents marriage. Do you feel me yet?
I have yet to hear a sound, logical argument on why Prop 8 was this important. Or why Prop 4 wasn’t as important. So, here’s your chance. Leave a comment.
Back from Hiatus
So, I took a little time off from this blog–primarily because (a) I went on a week-long baseball trip in September with some friends/brothers/co-workers, (b) I really didn’t want to write about politics, and (c) I was really busy.
I’m back at it now and I’ve got plenty of posts and ideas for the site. For now, enjoy this image of a perfect morning in Seattle.
