Joe Newby is an IT professional who also writes as a conservative columnist for Examiner.com covering politics, crime, elections and social issues, and offers hard-hitting commentary at his blog, the Conservative Firing Line.
Walter Slonopas, a 52-year-old maintenance worker from Clarksville, Tenn., quit his job with Contech Casting LLC last week when he received a W-2 form bearing the number "666," the Biblical mark of the beast mentioned in Revelation, the Tennessean reported Thursday.
"Slonopas said that after getting the W-2, he could either go to work or go to hell," the Tennessean reported.
Despite the best efforts of some in the so-called "mainstream media," a surprising new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll published this week says that more Americans blame bad parenting and Hollywood for mass shootings than they do guns.
Guns actually came in fifth place, behind parenting, effective treatment for mental health, media coverage of mass shootings and violence in movies and video games.
No, because the Bible says that as a born-again Christian, I am a new creation. "Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!," 2 Corinthians 5:17.
It seems that some liberals — notably the Freedom from Religion Foundation and MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell — are upset that the swearing-in ceremony for the president of the United States includes references to religion and the use of a Bible.
While speaking with Saddleback Church Pastor Rick Warren on CNN's "Piers Morgan Tonight" on Christmas Eve, host Piers Morgan suggested amending the Bible to fit his liberal worldview on gay rights and same-sex marriage.
Newsbusters' Randy Hall said that Morgan referenced a passage "that states adultery is punishable by being stoned to death."