An unfortunate consequence of my family's membership in the local gym is that we are subjected to CNN on large screens throughout the joint. I see that they're doing a series called "What Is A Christian?" Since the network puts a graphic on the screen that says, "The Most Trusted Name In News," even though Fox News regularly bodyslams them in the ratings (despite being available in fewer venues), it is obvious that you can't believe every sign or slogan they show us. I found that the title "What Is A Christian?" should have been written, "Why We Oppose Christianity." The first installment that I saw was a story about a pastor & his wife teaching married couples how to enjoy better sex, & how the church publicized the lectures to the community. If the way CNN presented the church's outreach is accurate--you never know--I wouldn't have done it quite that way, but I find no reason to condemn the church. After the story, there was a panel of religious "experts" taking turns criticizing the church's leadership, with no one speaking in defense of the pastor. Not quite "fair and balanced."
Without getting into last night's episode that was at least as hostile to the faith, I'll remind you that CNN was founded by Ted Turner, who has called Christianity "a religion for losers," & Catholics "Jesus Freaks," & pro-lifers "Bozos." Turner is not so mean-spirited to everyone--after once looking gulag-stuffing Soviet leaders "in the eyes," he was eager to defend them--"...they looked like they meant the truth." When asked if he agreed that Christian-torturing Kim Jong Il is evil & despotic, he admitted, "I didn't get to meet him, but he didn't look, in the pictures that I've seen of him on CNN, he didn't look too much different than most other people." http://newsbusters.org/node/8225 Most people look like green-pajamas-clad Elvis impersonators, right? Turner insisted that it can't be so bad in N. Korea, because he "didn't see any" brutality or starvation.
It can't be so bad in the church that was teaching better sex, because "in the pictures I've seen" on CNN, I "didn't see any" brutality or starvation there, either.
