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Why the Liberal Media Don?t Show Sympathy for Murdered Christians
Apr 28th, 2019
CommentaryJONATHON VAN MAREN/BRIDGEHEAD.CA
Categories: Persecution

It is difficult to get surprised by the mainstream media's utter ignorance of religion, but last week I spotted a headline that almost seemed to be an intentional parody of that fact. 

It was an Associated Press headline by Nicole Winfield and Colleen Barry, on an article intended to helpfully give context to the events surrounding the fire at the great Paris cathedral: "Tourist mecca Notre Dame also revered as place of worship." The article with that car crash of a title was filed, of all places, from Vatican City.

Following the reaction to the fire at Notre Dame, there were the responses of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton to the ruthless massacres of Christians celebrating Easter across Sri Lanka, resulting in the deaths of 321 men, women, and children and the injury of hundreds more. 

While condemnations of the recent atrocities at mosques in New Zealand by a white supremacist killer were specific in naming the ideology that sparked the murders and the faith that made the victims a target, Obama and Clinton responded to the bombing of Christians by Islamist terrorists by referring to an attack on "Easter worshippers," prompting nearly universal mockery and demands that they actually call the victims what they were: Christians, butchered in their churches because they were Christians.

In the case of the former president and the wannabe president, it may not be sheer ignorance that drove the decision to cast Christians in terms that make them sound as if they regularly sacrifice farm animals to strange statues on Easter Island. 

Because orthodox Christians are the primary opponents (or targets) of progressives in the ongoing culture wars in the West, there is also the ulterior motive of seeking to deny Christians any sympathy that could call into question their rock-bottom placement on the intersectional totem pole. 

Muslim victims suit the progressive narrative of Western white supremacy as the predominant threat to civilization, second only to climate change. The growing heaps of dead Christians from Nigeria to Sri Lanka are an inconvenient truth.

In fact, the Washington Post actually published a column rather giving the game away, unbelievably titled, "Christianity under attack? Sri Lanka church bombings stoke far-right anger in the West." The authors list a number of apparently sinister condolences sent out by leaders such as Marine Le Pen and say analysts claim that the majority of terror victims are Muslim (conveniently leaving out the fact that Christians are the most persecuted faith group in the world). 

They also questioned the "far-right" outrage by citing this fact: "French government statistics do show hundreds of incidents of vandalism against churches last year, although the vast majority of acts were minor." Well, that's not such a big deal, then. Hard to imagine why people are getting so worked up. If this were said about an arson spree targeting mosques, it might be said, it would trigger paroxysms of rage and accusations of Islamophobia from the same media set.

The mainstream media consistently display a profound and embarrassing ignorance of Christianity's core tenets and practice, which is unsurprising, considering the fact that increasingly, the public's knowledge of Scripture comes from trashy and inaccurate Hollywood movies, and a mere 11% of them have read the entire Bible. 

One of the few things our media class (which is populated by journalists who, for the most part, never darken the doorway of a church) knows about orthodox Christianity is what it has to say about sexuality, the protection of human life, and the fundamental and foundational nature of the family. In short, the media see it as a collection of oppressive beliefs that should be treated with contempt. That they appear to be blissfully unaware of Islam's teachings on these same subjects is one of progressivism's strangest contradictions.

It is a sad fact that non-Western Christians facing violent persecution (in 144 countries, according to the Pew Research Center) receive less sympathy than almost any other group from the Western media due to the progressive Left's hatred of Western Christians -- at least, those who refuse to go galloping along with the metastasizing Sexual Revolution. Progressives may be fantastically ignorant as to what Christianity actually teaches, but they know just enough to despise it and the unwelcome restraints it places on human behavior. 

Thus, the mass killings of Christians can prompt solemn condolences to the "Easter worshippers"; journalists bemoaning the fact that "far-right" figures are condemning the bombing of innocent men, women, and children; and columnists reminding us that the vandals burning down French churches are committing only "minor" crimes.

Let the Headlines Speak
Apr 28th, 2019
Daily NewsFrom the Internet
Categories: Today's Headlines

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New York Times internationally prints antisemitic cartoon of Trump, Netanyahu 
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Israel releases two Syrian prisoners in ‘goodwill gesture’ 
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Maria Butina: Putin ‘outraged’ at sentencing of Russian spy
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Pope donates $500,000 for migrants stranded in Mexico
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Muslims in hiding in Sri Lanka as tensions rise after bombings 
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Iran’s foreign minister to visit North Korea
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Planned Parenthood Defends Dismemberment Abortions Tearing Off Babies’ Limbs
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California Bill Would Require Free Abortions at Every College and University
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Poland Slams LGBT: ‘A Threat to our Nation, Identity, and Existence’ 
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Orwell Goes Retail: Stores Now Track Where You Shop… And Sleep 
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GCHQ chief Robert Hannigan quits 
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Is God Collectivity Warning Us Through Disturbing Dreams and Visions?
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Creepy Joe Biden Saying ‘I like Kids Better Than Pizza”
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One Dead, Multiple Injured In San Diego-Area Synagogue Shooting; Suspect May Have Torched Mosque Weeks Ago
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God never overlooks one of His own
Apr 28th, 2019
Morning MeditationMorning Meditation
Categories: Meditation;Inspirational;Book Study

Elijah and the Secret of His Power - Chapter 13, by F.B. Meyer

Elijah thought that he alone was left as a lover and worshiper of God. It was a great mistake. God had Many hidden ones: "Yet I have left me seven thousand in Israel, all the knees which have not bowed unto Baal, and every mouth which hath not kissed him" (1 Kings 19:18). We know nothing of their names or history. They were probably unknown in camp or court; obscure, simple-hearted, and humble. Their only testimony was one long refusal to the solicitations of the foul rites of idolatry. They groaned and wept in secret and spake often one to another, while the Lord hearkened and heard. But they were all known to God and enrolled among His jewels and counted as a shepherd tells his sheep. He cared for them with an infinite solicitude, and it was for their sake that He raised up the good and gentle Elisha to carry on the nurture and discipline of their souls.

It has often been a subject of wonder to me how these seven thousand secret disciples could keep so close as to be unknown by their great leader. Attar of a rose will always betray its presence, hide it as we may. When salt has not lost its savor, it cannot be hid. And the work of God in human hearts must, sooner or later, discover itself. It is to be feared, therefore, that the godliness of these hidden ones was very vague and colorless, needing the eye of omniscience to detect it. But for all that, God did detect it, and He prized it. He did not quench the smoking flax, but fanned it. He did not despise the grain of mustard seed, He watched its growth with tender love and care.

You may be very weak and insignificant -- not counted in the numberings of God's captains, nor deemed worthy of a name or place among His avowed servants. Yet if you have but a spark of faith and love, if you strive to keep yourself untainted by the world, you will be owned by Him whose scepter is stretched out to the most timid suppliant. But remember, if your inner life be genuine, it will not remain forever secret. It will break out as a long hidden fire; it will force its way into the light as the buried seed in which there is the spark of life.

It may be that God, by these lines, will speak to some backslider, saying: Go, return! Return to Me, from whom you have wandered. Return to My work, which you have deserted. Return to the posture of faith, from which you have fallen. Return to the happy, holy childlikeness of former years. "Return, ye backsliding children, and I will heal your backslidings" (Jeremiah 3:22). Oh that the response may be, "Behold, we come unto thee; for thou art the LORD our God" (Jeremiah 3:22). - F. B. Meyer