[Rictor]

http://www.nationalreview.com/dreher/dreher041102.asp

So, in three years we find out exactly how crazy the various religious extremists really are. Hmmmm.

[WMCoolmon]

What the hell is wrong with that page?

Grey text on a white background? Methinks someone forgot to specify the default text color.

[Rictor]

Try reloading it. It's black on white, perfectly normal.

[Night Hammer]

time warp

[Ace]

The real issue with this problem is it's a damned if you do-damned if you don't scenario. Literally for the religiosos.

Any strong leader who attempts a sane secular solution in the region will wind up being labeled the anti-christ by the parties involved, and thus would wind up destabilizing the region further.

[WMCoolmon]

Originally posted by Rictor
Try reloading it. It's black on white, perfectly normal.

Not if your default color scheme is grey-on-black. (Using my night theme here) They force the background to white, but don't bother to force the foreground color to something to suit that.

But Re: the article, I'm not sure what the point is...I'm not reading it as well as I could given the color scheme (and can't be arsed to switch everything to a blasting whit to read it). While I think religion is strong, I disagree that the western world has a "secular" view of things. When they say "Cultural elite", I can't help but wonder who they're referring to. Politicians certainly don't advertise themselves as committed atheists.

If the point was to understand, I think anybody can understand, okay, they're more religious than us - but until they actually talk to them, they can't really get that, and all the exposition is useless.

And I'm just plain tired of hearing people blame religion for the world's problems, so I really hope that wasn't the point of the article either. Good ol' human greed, stupidity, and simple misunderstanding will just take over to fill whatever void is left if you remove religion.

Edit: Changed a phrase as I wrote it.

[Mongoose]

You might get a few fundamentalists making a big deal out of this, but I highly doubt that the majority of Jews, Christians, and Muslims have even heard of this stipulation about a pure red heifer being required to reconstruct the Temple, which would bring about the Apocalypse.  I know I hadn't up until today.  Besides that, not every Christian, Muslim, or Jew takes apocalyptic writings literally.  I have the feeling that this is what amounts to much ado about nothing.

[Sandwich]

Notice the date on that article...

[Flipside]

Originally posted by WMCoolmon
What the hell is wrong with that page?

Grey text on a white background? Methinks someone forgot to specify the default text color.

I've noticed a few pages doing that, I tend to use white text on a black background, but it can cripple some Web-pages which change the font to black, but forget to change to background colour

And Rictor, surely you can see how important it is that we find the right Cow, it's very very important to have the right kind of cow...

[aldo_14]

Originally posted by Sandwich
Notice the date on that article...

Still here.

Moo.

[Rictor]

woah, that was completely my bad, I just read the April 10 part, and quite naturally assumed the rest said 2005. What are the chances.

[Flipside]

So, the three years were up 2 days ago... Just as Israel started expanding settlements to the West of the site of the old temples.... It could still be the Moo of Doom

[redmenace]

Suprised Rictor reads the National Review.