Posted on 01/14/2007 6:01:26 AM PST by SHOOT THE MOON bat
Sounds like the Iraqi government. Maybe the Arab disease is catching.
This is actually the Inquirer doing for Hedges what the MSM has been doing for Boxer, and SOP for the Leftist Media-- protecting them by not printing the intensity of the hatred of their comments. I took a look at the dust jacket of the book at the bookstore, and Hedges is quite open in calling the so-called Christian Right fascists. So, obviously that's hate speech and the Inquirer is going to pretend to the vast majority of readers who will never lay eyes on the book that it didn't happen.
FREE PRESS is apparently a Soros entity, and the publisher of this book. Why is the Inquirer promoting it?
Believers, of course, clinging to this magical belief, which is a bizarre form of spiritual Darwinism, will be "raptured" upward, while the rest of us will be tormented with horrors by a warrior Christ and finally extinguished. This obsession with apocalyptic violence is an obsession with revenge. It is what the world, and we who still believe it is worth saving, deserve.
If he knew the rest of the story, this raving writer would soil himself! True, the most commonly held eschatology today, dispensational premillennialism of the ilk propelling the awful "left below" books, assumes that God intends to give the other team uncontested turns at bat.
However, the best thinking isn't happening there.
The future is being shaped by the post-millennial Christians whose scholarship is transforming the best minds of the coming generations. And the traffic is only going one way. Millions of one-time defeatists have become rather fond of "victory in Jesus." I know of no one who's gone the other direction, embracing hopeless fatalism as God's best plan for their lives.
Actually the world has feared the Church from day 1. Jesus said His kingdom wasn't of this world. That's a threat to the kingdoms of earth.
It would appear that the writer did talk with some Christians...but he isn't within a thousand miles of grasping what they said. Very sad, actually.
Good point
Excellent letter,I wonder if they will print it in "Letters to the Editor". If they do,or if you get a response,I hope you will let us know.
Mr. Satullo wrote back; a nice, cordial letter. He disagreed with me, of course.......said the book this was taken from had been well-researched, etc. etc......I replied.....but made it clear that although I respected his journalistic integrity, I wouldn't grant the same to Hedges and gave my reasons why not. I give credit to Mr. Satullo for taking the time to respond (at length) and in a civil manner, however.
Quite a rant.Still,maybe it's not that surprising.
His head is telling him God doesn't exist but his heart is betraying the fact that the Word of God is "a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart"
Coupled with the verse you quoted,it's no wonder that this is the sort of stuff that oozes from some of the wise of this world.
God bless
It sounds a little bit like Hitler's "jewish problem" don'tcha think?
OK, the message is false. Liberals and other unbelievers are driven by despair. Next question?
PING
Did you read this one? What a nutjob! I think he plagiarized Goebbels.
hmmm. If you are incapable of irony, then I misread your original post. I thought you were being ironic.
That was my other personality.
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