ABC Pulls a “Rather” with “Huckabee’s Pardon” Story
Media Brian Cherry, Associate Editor
December 7, 2007

I haven’t yet figured out why you hang out on here. Does it make you feel like you’re a better Christian?”

She enjoys bashing people with the log that’s sticking out of her eye.

Like people from Arkansas? I think you have shown insufficient tolerance toward them and their perceived point of view.

Tolerance is neither a virtue or a vice. In and of itself, it is an empty notion. It can only be seen intelligently in relation to what is being tolerated.

Neither have I.

I haven’t yet figured out why you hang out on here. Does it make you feel like you’re a better Christian?

A magazine cannot be Christian, technically. But the people who write for it can be Christians (though they are bound to be imperfect), and it can have a Christian perspective. And World does. If that’s not good enough for you, you’re more than welcome to go elsewhere.

But I do think people are getting wiser to the principle of church/state separation. They’ve grown increasingly uncomfortable with the “marriage” between religion and politics in America.

As for Europe, on hears conflicting reports on it’s religiosity. Evangelicals have always looked with askance on our friends across the pond when it comes to religion. That’s too bad.

What those who are religious in America should take from Europe’s experience is the knowledge that when one marries religion to the state as many European countries have done it dilutes, distorts, and eventually destroys Faith.

There will always be tension in America between religion and the state. Sometimes it goes to far, and Americans instinctively pull back. As I’ve said on other blogs, I think the Terry Schiavo case was a turning point for many Americans on the “religion in politics” thing. With the passing of people like Falwell and the emergence of new leaders who are less political, I think the pendulum has started swinging back again. At least I hope so.

And if God was so inlove with all that he created while drown all of it in the case of Noah or send a big chunk of it to hell as is postulated He will do later on. My point it is i admire the christian attitude toward charity but the core shows that there is and would be little tolerance for those who are of a different view point.

If Arkansas does not describe the United States as a whole, what does? Your point is a non-sequiter. It’s pointless. No particular place can be or describe “the United States as a whole.” It’s a diverse nation and Arkansas is part of that diversity.

As the maker of all things that were created, God is also the author of diversity. Celebrate it, my friend!

The Bible is full of instructions to be kind and generous to strangers and sojourners in the land.

I find in general that Christians have far more resepct for their critics and opponents than their critics and opponents have toward Christians. Just my observation.