{"id":20995,"date":"2014-02-17T13:10:28","date_gmt":"2014-02-17T18:10:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/slacktivist\/?p=20995"},"modified":"2014-02-17T13:10:28","modified_gmt":"2014-02-17T18:10:28","slug":"id-change-the-world-but-it-wont-bend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/slacktivist\/2014\/02\/17\/id-change-the-world-but-it-wont-bend\/","title":{"rendered":"I’d change the world but it won’t bend"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

\u2022 Credit where credit is due \u2014 \u201cChick Fil-A to (Eventually) Stop Using Antibiotic-Filled Chicken<\/a>\u201c: \u201cIn a move that could (hopefully) have a positive ripple effect on the rest of the fast food industry, Chick fil-A announced today that it will phase out the use of chickens raised using medically unnecessary antibiotics over the next five years.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2022 This is not what they mean by \u201cnetworking<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Mallory Ortberg mourns the death of a holy fool<\/a>. \u201cLove Jesus and keep it simple,\u201d Leonard Knight said. He was not wrong.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>\u2022 During our recent string of snow, snow, ice, and more snow, Pennsylvania formally declared a \u201cstate of emergency.\u201d That meant, among other things, that the state\u2019s \u201cprice-gouging laws\u201d were put into effect.<\/p>\n

So \u2026 what then? I guess price-gouging is legal<\/em> when it\u2019s not snowing? It\u2019s perfectly fine to rip off desperate people just as long as it\u2019s a nice day outside? That seems wrong.<\/p>\n

\u2022 I am glad no one was injured when a giant 40-foot sinkhole opened beneath the National Corvette Museum<\/a> last week, swallowing eight vintage cars at the Bowling Green museum.<\/p>\n

It would be fun to witness the theological speculation that might accompany such an event if something similar were to happen at another<\/em> Kentucky museum not far from there. A sinkhole in the karst region near Mammoth Cave is not in any way an indication of supernatural divine intervention, but if such a sinkhole were to swallow up eight fiberglass dinosaurs or a replica of Noah\u2019s Ark \u2026 well, John Piper\u2019s Twitter feed might be briefly interesting.<\/p>\n

\u2022 \u201cSorry folks. The Song of Solomon doesn\u2019t teach that<\/a>. I may not be 100-percent sure what it does teach, but I know without a doubt that\u2019s\u00a0not<\/em>\u00a0it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2022 This piece from The Onion<\/em> is funny because no one will ever, ever<\/em> say this \u2014 not even if you\u2019re wearing your coolest, edgiest witnessing-tool Christian T-shirt<\/a>: \u201cHello, Do You Have A Moment To Tell Me About Jesus Christ?<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2022 I learned, belatedly, from Emily Graslie<\/a>, that Saturday was World Pangolin Day<\/a>. I suppose that\u2019s why so many schools and businesses are closed today \u2014 as they should<\/em> be, because pangolins are awesome:<\/p>\n