Posted by
Laura L. Hollis, JD on Wednesday, April 15, 2009 8:10:20 AM
Newsweek's
recent cover story certainly is getting a lot of attention. It's bad enough that they declare the end of Christianity. But it's laughable for a bunch of arrogant little human specks with some stapled sheets of glossy paper to declare the end of God. Because, of course, that's what they're really doing. God isn't what
He says He is anymore; He's what
we say He is. This week. Or month. Or however often they can publish anymore. And, thus marginalized, He can be disregarded. Won't politics be "calmer" when those bothersome Christians stop trying to bug us all with their morality? Of course, we can still hold some warped notion of Christian morality over their heads and call it "social justice," but that's beside the point.
The
Pravda press are doing with religion what they have done with politics for years: writing the story to CREATE the result they want. The Left loves to demonize all believing Christians as barbarians. (Unless, of course, they actually
are barbarians, like
this one, who calls for human sacrifice and characterizes it "a blessing."
She's cool.)
Here's an idea: why don't all of us Christians just slink back into our churches and leave the Left to fight off the Radical Islamists when they arrive? Then Meacham, Zakaria and their many compatriots in search of "calmer" politics and a "more theologically serious religious life" can discover what religious zealots who
are barbarians do when they "don't have answers to modern problem" or "a worldview that satisfies the aspirations of modern men and women"...
They simply take everyone back to the Stone Age.