Newsweek hack job smears The Bible and Christianity

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I decided to put this here, though it could just as easily go in the "Breaking News" forum. Moderators, if you wish, feel free to put it there.

Todd Starnes' American Dispatch: Happy 2015? Newsweek hit piece smears Bible, Christians

Newsweek is launching the New Year with an old school attack on the Bible and Christians. It was just the sort of holiday hit piece that we’ve come to expect from these anti-Christian pinheads.

I imagine the Yuletide season must bring about near celebrations in the hallways of Newsweek as writers giddily try to find new ways to defile the followers of Christ.

This year’s winner was Kurt Eichenwald – and he certainly spun quite a yarn – one truly worthy to be published in a magazine. Mr. Eichenwald is known around literary circles as a man of words – and he certainly used most of them in his verbose essay.

“The Bible – So Misunderstood it’s a Sin,” was the title of his treatise – of such import that editors demanded it grace the cover of the magazine.
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Among other things, the hit piece by Eichenwald portrays evangelical Christians as homophobic right wing fundamentalists who believe an "unbelievable" Bible. Just for good measure, the "article" is illustrated with images of Westboro Baptist Church members making fools of themselves, along with Pat Robertson and snake handlers. So much for objectivity.

He calls us "God's frauds" and "cafeteria Christians" who pick and choose which Bible verses we will keep close and which ones we wish would go away, though I have to admit, I know some churchgoers like that. Doesn't necessarily mean they are Christians, however.

All in all, this is a deliberate butchery. He may as well have attacked us with an ISIS head-separating knife. I've always despised Eichenwald despite God's commands to love my neighbors. I've chosen to use him as a prime example of someone whom I'll have to love with the lvoe of Christ without really liking him in the least.

SBC President Al Mohler has an excellent response that beats the bejeebers out of anything else I could say.
 
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I am not too worried about it. God is going to win in the End.

Anyways, we should pray for men who hate us like that. For they know not what they do. For men loved darkness because they hate the Light. They hate God. Hopefully they will repent while there is time.
 
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It's not funny, but his description sounds like some of the posts I've read here.

"He calls us "God's frauds" and "cafeteria Christians" who pick and choose which Bible verses we will keep close and which ones we wish would go away, though I have to admit, I know some churchgoers like that. Doesn't necessarily mean they are Christians, however."
 
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1 John 3:13
Do not be surprised, brothers, that the world hates you.

Its an honor to be hated for His name sake, bless your enemies and pray for them.
 
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breno785au said:
1 John 3:13
Do not be surprised, brothers, that the world hates you.

Its an honor to be hated for His name sake, bless your enemies and pray for them.
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man Oh man! If we can't take a few insults and name calling now... we're going to be in some serious hurt later when insults become physical harm.
 
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I promise if I ever care what Eichenwald thinks, I'll let him know.
 
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I just read through most of the article, stomach twisting for most of it. The Word of God is foolishness to those who have not the Holy Spirit.

Is there anything productive we can take from this article? Yes. The world does not attack the faith of the Muslim when he takes on a harem or commits sex crimes, and does not slander the Hindu when he engages in ritual orgies and other depravities, and does not call out the Taoist when he gains riches from greed and other hypocrisies, BUT they recognize the truth of Scripture and hate it, and try to undermine it by slandering it's followers and even the Book itself.
Have you ever read a secular article attacking the Quaran for it's contradictions? The world doesn't care about those religions because their souls are not convicted by them.

(I think I am paraphrasing something I read from Spurgeon or someone like that)
 
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Back then, writings from one era could be passed to the next only by copying them by hand. While there were professional scribes whose lives were dedicated to this grueling work, they did not start copying the letters and testaments about Jesus’s time until centuries after they were written. Prior to that, amateurs handled the job.
These manuscripts were originally written in Koiné, or “common” Greek, and not all of the amateur copyists spoke the language or were even fully literate. Some copied the script without understanding the words. And Koiné was written in what is known as scriptio continua—meaning no spaces between words and no punctuation. So, a sentence like weshouldgoeatmom could be interpreted as “We should go eat, Mom,” or “We should go eat Mom.” Sentences can have different meaning depending on where the spaces are placed. For example, godisnowhere could be “God is now here” or “God is nowhere.”
None of this mattered for centuries, because Christians were certain God had guided the hand not only of the original writers but also of all those copyists.
 
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Well I'm sorry but christians today give a lot of ammo to fire with to these sorts. I've been hammering home a ton of it.
Shall we break it down by analyzing the tv evangelists? Then work out from there? I didn't think so.
Until we get our own act together, maybe we should concentrate on our own backyard.
This target thing is 2 fold. Like Israel when they decided to tell God to take a hike, their enemies took advantage of the situation with Gods permission and blessing!
Sin will make the christian a target. To depart from evil will make you a target also.
Which road should we take?
How we rob the poor and how we spew forth vile humor in the church basement chicken dinner would cause the sinner of 1957 to recoil in horror. Hope I just made somebody mad!

Good opportune moment to start repenting. Someone asked me on another thread 'r u serious?' Yea I'm serious!
 
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Yet said:
Until we get our own act together, maybe we should concentrate on our own backyard.
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I am not responsible for the spew of TV evangelists, Westboro, the "name it and claim it" or "prosperity" crowd. That isn't Christianity, and I don't have to "defend" it or chastise it.

By the same token, I am not responsible for the world refusing to hear God's truth and calling it "hate" when they hear it. I can only speak the truth in love.

Yes, there are homophobes among Christians. There are homophobes among non-Christians as well. it is not homophobic to speak the truth about practicing homosexuality, however.

There are KKK members who claim to be Christians. There are KKK members who don't claim to be Christians. Defending our police when they are forced to use deadly force against criminals, black or white, is promoting justice, not being racist.

I am not responsible for anyone but myself, nor will I be chastised by anyone, particularly by someone else who claims to be a brother or sister in Christ with me, but who wants me to stop speaking the truth in love. The Word of God offends those who will not believe it. It should not offend those of us who do believe it.

If we have any "cleaning up" to do, it is in our abdication of responsibility to the world. Jesus will reward those at the end of the Tribulation who have fed the hungry, given drink to the thirsty, sheltered the stranger, clothed the naked, visited the sick and the prisoner. Are we to expect that He will ignore the fact this generation has failed in all that?

I don't think so. Yes, we need to get our act together, not in the sense of apologizing for speaking the truth, but in failing to act on it.
 
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Viligant_Warrior said:
I decided to put this here, though it could just as easily go in the "Breaking News" forum. Moderators, if you wish, feel free to put it there.

Among other things, the hit piece by Eichenwald portrays evangelical Christians as homophobic right wing fundamentalists who believe an "unbelievable" Bible. Just for good measure, the "article" is illustrated with images of Westboro Baptist Church members making fools of themselves, along with Pat Robertson and snake handlers. So much for objectivity.

He calls us "God's frauds" and "cafeteria Christians" who pick and choose which Bible verses we will keep close and which ones we wish would go away, though I have to admit, I know some churchgoers like that. Doesn't necessarily mean they are Christians, however.

All in all, this is a deliberate butchery. He may as well have attacked us with an ISIS head-separating knife. I've always despised Eichenwald despite God's commands to love my neighbors. I've chosen to use him as a prime example of someone whom I'll have to love with the lvoe of Christ without really liking him in the least.

SBC President Al Mohler has an excellent response that beats the bejeebers out of anything else I could say.
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Psalm 16.8 is your friend here-

[SUP]8 [/SUP]I have set the Lord always before me: because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.
 
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Viligant_Warrior said:
I decided to put this here, though it could just as easily go in the "Breaking News" forum. Moderators, if you wish, feel free to put it there.

Among other things, the hit piece by Eichenwald portrays evangelical Christians as homophobic right wing fundamentalists who believe an "unbelievable" Bible. Just for good measure, the "article" is illustrated with images of Westboro Baptist Church members making fools of themselves, along with Pat Robertson and snake handlers. So much for objectivity.

He calls us "God's frauds" and "cafeteria Christians" who pick and choose which Bible verses we will keep close and which ones we wish would go away, though I have to admit, I know some churchgoers like that. Doesn't necessarily mean they are Christians, however.

All in all, this is a deliberate butchery. He may as well have attacked us with an ISIS head-separating knife. I've always despised Eichenwald despite God's commands to love my neighbors. I've chosen to use him as a prime example of someone whom I'll have to love with the lvoe of Christ without really liking him in the least.

SBC President Al Mohler has an excellent response that beats the bejeebers out of anything else I could say.
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Just gotta' love the Southern Baptists and the SBC. . .
 
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Anonimous said:
man Oh man! If we can't take a few insults and name calling now... we're going to be in some serious hurt later when insults become physical harm.
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Amen to that, and when we see Pastors being dragged out of their own churches by the cops....or even local folks.

How worthy would it be to see what Stephen saw.
 
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poor Mr. Eichenwald...i believe i shall pray for him.
 
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Yes, and we should thank them as well for posting it on the internet so that we don't have to buy it and prosper them in their hatred.
 
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They posted this article on Christmas Eve. Nice, eh?

Put this title into a Search and see how many are commenting on it ...

The Bible: So Misunderstood It's a Sin
 
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They are attacking The Word of God ~ Author: The Word of God.


He can handle them. ;)
 
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