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Top Seven Acts of Christian Bashing in America of 2007
FT. LAUDERDALE, Florida, Jan. 9 /Christian Newswire/ -- "From murder and intimidation, to the crass and the blasphemous, 2007 was a horrendous year of Christian bashing," said Dr. Gary L. Cass, Chairman and CEO of the Christian Anti-Defamation Commission. "Anti-Christian sentiments are being fomented in the culture and are becoming more deadly and cynical," said Cass. "Impressionable young people are being swept up in anti-Christian hysteria, aided and abetted by a greedy, a-moral entertainment industry. Mocking Christians, blaspheming their faith and ridiculing their values has become the easy way for 'entertainers' to shock their way to the top."
"The Christian Anti-Defamation Commission (CADC) calls on anti-Christian politicians, Hollywood and New York media elites to stop the Christian bashing and take responsibility for the culture of hate towards Christians they have helped to create. The CADC will work aggressively to stop this dangerous and irresponsible Christian bashing in 2008."
1.) Colorado Church Murders--"You Christians brought this on yourselves I'm coming for EVERYONE soon and I WILL be armed to the @#%$ teeth and I WILL shoot to kill. ... God, I can't wait till I can kill you people. Feel no remorse, no sense of shame, I don't care if I live or die. ..." Posted by a troubled young man, Matthew Murray, ten hours after killing two at the Arvada missionary base and two hours before killing two at a Colorado Springs church. Churches used to be considered sanctuaries, but now they are targets for the hateful and the deranged. The CADC calls on every church to be prepared to use deadly force, if necessary, to protect their congregations.
2.) Federal Hate Crimes Bill--The 2007 Federal Hate Crimes Bill which threatens religious liberties and lays the groundwork for "thought crime," which has no place in American law and violates the concept of equal protection under the law. As has occurred in other nations, these laws pave the way for Christians to be silenced and even arrested because they believe that homosexual acts are sinful. It is totalitarian regimes which punish thoughts, not free societies. Thomas Jefferson declares that "the legitimate powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions."
3.) Violence on San Francisco Church--In September, Christians in San Francisco spoke out against a blasphemous anti-Christian advertisement for the Folsom Street Fair, a perverted "fair" for the sadomasochistic, leather fetish community. The ad mimics the classic Christian painting of Christ at the Last Supper. In the ad, Christ and the 12 Disciples are portrayed as sexual deviants provocatively posed before a table of sex toys.
4.) Attack on Jerry Falwell--CNN reached a new low when Anderson Cooper invited Christopher Hitchens, editor of Vanity Fair Magazine, on his show the day of Jerry Falwell's death to make critical remarks about Falwell. Hitchens made the most reprehensible and offensive remarks one can imagine against a Christian minister, Jerry Falwell, even on the day of his death. Christopher Hitchens called Falwell "a little toad ... a horrible little person...an evil old man...a conscious charlatan and bully and fraud...an actual danger to democracy, to culture, to civilization."
5.) CNN's "God's Warriors" and "Friends of God"--Two biased, anti-Christian documentaries were produced and aired. One by Nancy Pelosi's daughter, Alexandra, "Friends of God" on HBO and the other by CNN's Christiane Amanpour, "God's Warriors." At least they tried to act as if they wanted to be fair. Of course, they failed. Evangelicals are almost 100 million strong and very diverse but are reduced to clichéd caricatures or are portrayed as the moral equivalents of Islamic terrorists.
6.) John Edwards's Campaign Bloggers who called Christian supporters of President Bush his "wing nut Christofascist base." One asked, 'What if Mary had taken Plan B after the Lord filled her with his hot, white, sticky Holy Spirit,' to which she replied, 'You'd have to justify your misogyny with another ancient mythology.' They posed the thoughtful question of religious conservatives, "What don't you lousy %#*@!+# understand about keeping your noses out of our britches, our beds and our families?"
7.) Golden Compass, the Movie--Phillip Pullman's atheistic answer to C.S. Lewis' Chronicles of Narnia series because destroying the church and killing God in the mind of every child is the best revenge. Why be damned alone when you can take a few million souls with you and get rich on the proceeds.
CNN Says Mitt Romney Is Dishonest
"WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Two negative ads recently launched by Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, who has spent more on advertising than any other candidate, either misrepresent his rival's records or include distortions, according to a CNN analysis of the commercials." (Read more . . . )
CNN/YouTube Republican Presidential Candidates Debate
Tomorrow, Wednesday November 28, at 8:00 p.m. ET, the Republican presidential hopefuls will meet in St. Petersburg, Florida to face off in the CNN/YouTube debate.
The CNN producers have culled through more than 3,500 video submissions to select about 40 to be used in the debate.
CNN's political director, Sam Feist has given us an idea of what to expect, "The questions are funny. Some of them are striking. Some of them are sad. They are incredibly meaningful."
And, for those of you who just can't wait for tomorrow, I share below a clip from a previous Republican debate.
Huckabee Has One Client To Please
An excerpt from CNN online;
Huckabee is the surprise of the Republican race, and a real-time lesson in the often blurry line between God and politics.
"I put my head on the pillow and I just want to make sure that the father above is pleased," Huckabee told CNN when a recent interview turned to the subject of his his faith influences his politics. "In essence, I can say that I have one client I have to please."
This past Sunday, he demonstrated his comfort at the pulpit in a Baptist church in South Carolina.
"I am here today to talk about Jesus and not to talk about me," Huckabee told congregants.
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Republican Presidential Candidates On The Sunday News
James Carville, appearing on Meet The Press, shared his thoughts on the Republican race. "I think that Huckabee is the most interesting, and the best politician, and the best campaigner of the Republicans."
Meanwhile, over at CNN Late Edition, Wolf Blitzer was interviewing Huckabee. Huckabee's strength is his emphasis upon domestic issues, however, he spoke eloquently on foreign policy issues related to Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and the Israeli-Palestinian peace process.
Carville's wife, Mary Matalin, (politics makes strange bedfellows) must have aching eye muscles after her appearance alongside her husband on Meet The Press. She is a Fred Thompson supporter, and every time someone said something negative about Fred she rolled her eyes so far back in her head that I thought she was going into convulsions.
And, she had plenty of opportunity to roll her eyes because there were plenty of negative things said about Thompson, -- some quite colorful.
"With all due respect, I think Fred Thompson is running like a dry creek," commented Bob Shrum, a Democrat strategist.
But it wasn't just Democrats poking fun at Thompson. Mike Murphy, a Republican strategist said, "And Fred's gotta do something. Fred's a friend of mine, but watching him campaign is like watching a big bear stand up and try to dance on ice."
Meanwhile, over on Fox News Sunday, Chris Wallace was interviewing Thompson. I thought it was one of Thompson's better interviews, meaning that he only said "uh" about 300 times. Thompson became quite upset when confronted with his declining poll results and statements from two Fox contributors who criticized his campaign. Thompson accused Fox of a history of only saying negative things about him. That is probably true. Fox has been blatant in its support of Giuliani, while trying to present a facade of "fair and balanced." Nevertheless, there have been plenty of legitimately negative things to say about Thompson and his campaign.
Over at CNN Late Edition, Ron Brownstein, author of The Second Civil War
Giuliani is a liberal. He does not deny it. In fact, he seems to be proud of it.
However, it was funny to hear Mitt Romney attack Mike Huckabee as a liberal. He was quoted on CNN Late Edition, "Republican voters are looking for a conservative, and he is a liberal. I'm a conservative." Romney is panicking about the sudden decompression and loss of altitude of his campaign in Iowa. The oxygen masks have fallen from overhead but evidently Romney is breathing in something other than oxygen. His attempts to portray Huckabee as a liberal are not sticking. In fact, Huckabee has become the candidate of choice for evangelical social conservatives in Iowa and leads Romney by more than 2:1.
Huckabee is the only consistent conservative in the first tier of the race. However, the humor comes not just from Romney's desperation, but the irony of him having the audacity to call anyone a liberal. Consider the following video;
It was a fun Sunday news day. I can hardly wait till next week.
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