Twice a year the mainstream media launch attacks on Christianity, once during Christmas and the other during the current week designated ‘Holy Week’ climaxing on Easter Sunday, which is the celebration of the Resurrection of Jesus, His victory over sin and death.
This is evidenced by the past weeks anti-Christian articles and televised programs exhibiting the most notable instances of the secular media’s disdain for traditional Christians and the tenets of their faith. Especially during these times of year Anti-Christianism is the most acceptable prejudice on display.
Newsweek has proclaimed April 14th, “The Decline and Fall of Christian America” on its cover. The Washington Post/Newsweek “On Faith” blog featured a post that belittled the significance of Jesus’ death and resurrection. The Discovery Channel aired a documentary that painted Jesus as little more than an opportunistic politician who caught a bad break in a trial. FoxNews’ Bill O’Reilly is set to air a piece on “The Shroud of Turin.”
Easter is so central to understanding Jesus and His purpose, and Christians’ world-view, the escalation of the secular attack during Holy Week takes on a more existential dimensions, questioning Christianity’s relevance in the modern world, the true meaning of Christ’s lessons and ultimately, His divinity.
With this type of misrepresentation of the Christian Faith, it is easy to understand why many on this board would advocate that Jesus is either, a charismatic populist crusader, a doctrinaire Marxist or a “do your own thing” feel-good guru. Anything but the Son of God and full expression of His love to all His Creation.
The ultimate insult this week was delivered by President Obama himself when he declared to the world we are not a Christian Nation.
Although our founding fathers wisely set forth in our founding documents there would be no establishment of a STATE CHURCH, everything in those same documents also establish the fact that our nation was founded on Judeo-Christian values and principles. This is reinforced in the both the personal and public writings of our constitutional framers.
Even Thomas Jefferson declared, April 19, 1803, “I concur…in considering the moral precepts of Jesus, as more pure, correct, and sublime than those of ancient philosophers.”
Advocacy of other views is nothing more than opinions held by revisionist and attempts to further erode the underpinnings of this country.
For many Christian’s across the nation it is more and more difficult to support the President when through his policies and by his actions he is doing all within his power to undermine the very faith his professes to hold.
Like the media, his actions will reveal more about the man than all his eloquent words.
concernedx2 said,
April 12, 2009 at 3:10 am
It is a Biblical fact fact, Saint Matthew, chapter twenty six, verse number seventy three, “AND AFTER A WHILE CAME UNTO HIM THEY THAT STOOD BY, AND SAID TO PETER, SURELY THOU ALSO ART ONE OF THEM; FOR THY SPEECH BEWRAYETH THEE.” Our words are going to find us out as to where we stand on any given subject. I have read through some of the posts and choose not to make a reply that results in a heated debate concerning the reality of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. I believe that Satan is just as real as Jesus, however, I don’t believe “on” Satan. I am also convinced that those who choose to fight against the reality of Jesus Christ are among the greatest of believers in him, howbeit, not “on” him.
I know beyond a shadow of doubt that the Devil is busy and for that reason, I join the Apostle Paul in his estimation outlined in First Corinthians, chapter nine, verse number twenty six, “I THEREFORE SO RUN, NOT AS UNCERTAINLY; SO FIGHT I, NOT AS ONE THAT BEATETH THE AIR:”
I’m not “shadow boxing,” even as I write this comment. I recognize my opponent as the Devil himself, and I believe that most of those who fight against Jesus recognize him as a very present apponent of their way of life and of the master they have chosen to follow.