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On Holy Thursday, the New York Times Blames Christianity For Fake News
The Resurgent ^ | 04/14/2017 | Erick Erickson

Posted on 04/15/2017 10:53:53 AM PDT by ForYourChildren

It was only fitting that the liberal editorialists at the New York Times saw fit on Holy Thursday to blame Christianity for the rise of fake news. In a column by Molly Worthen titled “The Evangelical Roots of Our Post-Truth Society”, Worthen relies on former Christian turned Episcopalian Rachel Held Evans to attack Bible believing Christians.

"Conservative evangelicals are not the only ones who think that an authority trusted by the other side is probably lying. But they believe that their own authority — the inerrant Bible — is both supernatural and scientifically sound, and this conviction gives that natural human aversion to unwelcome facts a special power on the right. This religious tradition of fact denial long predates the rise of the culture wars, social media or President Trump, but it has provoked deep conflict among evangelicals themselves."

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TOPICS: Politics; Religion; Society
KEYWORDS: christianity; evangelicals; fakenews; nyslimes

1 posted on 04/15/2017 10:53:53 AM PDT by ForYourChildren
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To: ForYourChildren

The best argument against atheism? Libtards are wrong about everything else, probably wrong here, too.


2 posted on 04/15/2017 10:59:32 AM PDT by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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To: ForYourChildren

But they believe that their own authority — the inerrant Bible — is both supernatural and scientifically sound, and this conviction gives that natural human aversion to unwelcome facts a special power on the right.
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In other words, Christians won’t believe the Lies coming from the spawn of the Father of Lies! Well, they have that correct! Maranatha! Lord Jesus Christ!


3 posted on 04/15/2017 11:01:01 AM PDT by SubMareener (Save us from Quarterly Freepathons! Become a MONTHLY DONOR)
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To: ForYourChildren

former Christian turned Episcopalian


LOL
Oh, wait. You were serious? Never mind.


4 posted on 04/15/2017 11:01:05 AM PDT by sparklite2 (I'm less interested in the rights I have than the liberties I can take.)
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To: ForYourChildren

Rachel Held Evans, now there’s a piece of work.


5 posted on 04/15/2017 11:02:38 AM PDT by kaehurowing
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To: ForYourChildren
"...former Christian turned Episcopalian..." snark alert!
6 posted on 04/15/2017 11:03:08 AM PDT by heterosupremacist (Domine Iesu Christe, Filius Dei, miserere me peccatorem!)
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To: ForYourChildren

“Worthen relies on former Christian turned Episcopalian Rachel Held Evans to attack Bible believing Christians.”

Apparently someone involved in this is a moron - and I’m not even referring to Worthen or Evans at this point.


7 posted on 04/15/2017 11:04:45 AM PDT by vladimir998 (Apparently I'm still living in your head rent free. At least now it isn't empty.)
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To: ForYourChildren

Atheists are the children of Marx, and the enemies of America.


8 posted on 04/15/2017 11:25:44 AM PDT by GenXteacher (You have chosen dishonor to avoid war; you shall have war also.)
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To: ForYourChildren

The left wants to eliminate Christianity, and so will do anything to trash it.


9 posted on 04/15/2017 11:36:55 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Islam mandates warfare against unbelievers and is absolutely incompatible with Western society.)
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To: I want the USA back

Infiltrate, subvert, destroy. The battle plan is slowly working.


10 posted on 04/15/2017 12:02:06 PM PDT by 17th Miss Regt
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To: wastoute

One of the best arguments against atheism is those who practice it


11 posted on 04/15/2017 12:05:30 PM PDT by xzins (Retired US Army chaplain. Those who truly support our troops pray for their victory.)
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To: ForYourChildren

Progressives created alternate facts and have bee using them to beat on conservatives for forty plus years, or maybe they don’t like it when the postmodern and deconstruction theories of Derrida Foucault, Chomsky, Lyotard et al come back to bite them and their ideas.


12 posted on 04/15/2017 1:13:23 PM PDT by xkaydet65
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To: xkaydet65

In postmodernity, facts are relative and illusory.

The postmoderns are disillusioned and are now totally lost. Their worldview based on the science of modernism has been destroyed. Their religion of science has failed them. So they have cognitive dissonance in their worldview.

Their education system has failed them. Their education system had told them that their modern religion of science was the truth. But now they know that science has failed, that “the truth” as they want to see it is not as they see it. Kurt Godel had pointed this out, quantum physics has pointed this out, and Einstein pointed this out.

Everything now points, again, to the one truth, the way and the life. They are rejecting this one truth.

So where do all the snowflakes go? They are melting. As they melt they are attacking outward. They have no place to go but to attack. This is all they have left.

It will be interesting to see what happens next.


13 posted on 04/15/2017 1:18:44 PM PDT by ForYourChildren (Christian Education [ RomanRoadsMedia.com - Classical Christian Approach to Homeschool ])
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To: ForYourChildren
Had she substituted Moslem for Christian and Koran for Bible do you think the Times would have published the article?

Not a chance.

"Ceterum censeo Islam esse delendam."

Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)

LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)

14 posted on 04/15/2017 5:17:40 PM PDT by LonePalm (Commander and Chef)
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To: ForYourChildren
It was only fitting that the liberal editorialists at the New York Times saw fit on Holy Thursday to blame Christianity for the rise of fake news. In a column by Molly Worthen titled “The Evangelical Roots of Our Post-Truth Society”, Worthen relies on former Christian turned Episcopalian Rachel Held Evans to attack Bible believing Christians.

Considering the Prot-bashing that's taken place on FR lately, I wonder what their FReeper names are.

15 posted on 04/15/2017 6:33:36 PM PDT by Zionist Conspirator (Viriycho sogeret umesuggeret mipnei Benei Yisra'el; 'ein yotze' ve'ein ba'.)
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