Posted on 01/27/2007 12:07:05 AM PST by JohnHuang2
Liberals in America despise Christians of true faith.
They do this because in doing so their own guilt is appeased, their anger is justified, and they can finally lay blame for their own misery at someone else's feet.
Last night, Alexandra Pelosi's newest documentary, "Friends of God," aired on HBO. In that Alexandra is the daughter of the nation's first feminist, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, it was all too easy to pre-judge where Alexandra's work would land. An expose to uncover the hidden secrets of evangelicals in America, produced by the leftist daughter of the most prominent liberal feminist in America – hmm, what would she say?
In fairness, the first 50 minutes of the hour-long presentation take us behind the scenes of some varied examples of Christians living out their faith – in bold ways. From the "Cruisers for Christ" car club to a family whom the producers attempted to cast as an off-shoot of "Big Love" (HBO's series surrounding a polygamist "family"), from a truck stop featuring a chapel service for weary drivers to a man who is attempting to place five giant crosses in every state of the union (to the cost of $25,000 per cross) – Pelosi's work is largely un-narrated. Yet even in the selection of the cuts used, Pelosi's point is clear: Cause Christians to appear as goofy, somewhat odd and backwards as possible. The fish-eye effect of the camera angles alone accomplish this without Pelosi having to comment over the footage.
At roughly minute 51, Pelosi turns even more sinister:
Off camera she asks, "So do you realize in places that I'm from, like San Francisco and New York, they think evangelicals are all haters. Like your truth is the only truth and everyone should believe the way you believe?" She asks this of the now disgraced Ted Haggard, former president of the National Association of Evangelicals.
His response, "If you believe anything, then some people feel bad about that. We say marriage is a heterosexual relationship between a man and a woman. We say that moral purity is better than immorality. We say telling the truth is better than telling a lie. And anytime we say anything, and we've got 1,500 pages of those things we say – the Bible – there are groups of people that are going to get nervous about that."
Pelosi then cuts to a graphic: "One year after this interview, Pastor Haggard was accused of having homosexual encounters with a male prostitute. He admitted this to his congregation: 'There is a part of my life that is so repulsive and dark that I've been warring against it all of my life.'"
Pelosi then turns the camera over to the most dishonest voice in the entire presentation. Mel White, a former ghostwriter for Jerry Falwell and now a gay activist, states, "Gay people love God and are in every church and have been since the beginning of recorded history."
He reads some of Falwell's fund-raising letters for the camera. Pelosi then follows him to a worship service at Falwell's church, which shows him weeping during the singing of God Bless America.
The message could not be clearer. Evangelicals are bizarre, odd, hypocritical and, yes, they hate gays.
Pelosi knows she's telling a lie. She even reveals it in one of the earlier cuts in dialogue with the man who is spending money out of his own pocket to place the crosses in different states. She comments to the soft-spoken man how amazed she is that "everyone" she has talked to has asked her to sit in their cars and try to win her to Christ. In one of the scenes with the homeschool family of 10, even though she remarks about how different her friends would view motherhood, she cannot help but laugh and coo a bit over the kids.
Pelosi knows that for the one voice of hypocrisy she documented in Haggard, she visited 100 pastors and churches that are committed to their calling, their families and their God.
The conviction she documents of younger Christians is striking in the episode. And she is even to be commended for allowing several strong points to at least be verbalized by her subjects, who were doing so ad lib and as the fish-eye lens distorted their facial features across the screen.
But for liberals, the resentment that will rise from her film toward Christians will be based in part on her out-of-context use of Haggard and White to make her point about homosexuality.
Though Haggard's life did not live up to his own words, the words are true nonetheless.
Saying that I believe in something and that what I believe is, in fact, authoritative and exclusive is offensive to those who do not believe. Moral purity (abstinence before marriage and fidelity in marriage, for life) is, in fact, a better life than one of multiple random partners. And telling the truth is better than telling a lie – even when it may embarrass some people.
Pelosi's real anger should not be directed at Christians, who are at best broken examples of what God is and is about. But rather, she should be angry with God Himself. It is He who says, "I am THE way, THE truth and THE life."
The saddest part of all of this is that while Pelosi sees the true peace, earnest conviction and real-life change in the Christians across the nation, she most likely believes herself to be beyond the reach of Christ or of acceptance by his people. What she and every liberal reading this would find instead is just the opposite.
While they may think that evangelicals are filled with hate, if they were but to ask, they would find instead the wellspring of grace, mercy and love.
Evangelicals know that we are all sinners, none righteous but Him. He calls us to follow Him. We are expected to, and in doing so we will see that life's economy runs best when following His plan. We do not behead those who choose not to; we simply want them to know the joy, peace, contentment and purpose we find in Him.
And it is the reality in seeing the joy, peace and contentment that we have and that they do not that drives liberals to draw angry conclusions.
Conclusions that will send them to a Godless eternity ...
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They talk about the secular civil war in Iraq?
What about the one that is about to happen here? And I mean an all out shooting war since the bantering about is already being done.
I was with a group of "Pro Choicers" a few years ago and their comments chilled me to the bone. They spoke about being "overrun by the wrong kinds of people" without the slightest hint of remorse. "Who's going to pay for all these babies?" was a question that kept recurring.
I asked about the morality of dealing with poverty by preventing poor people from being born. They simply dismissed me as a kook. Then one other voice in the room added softly: "It's called genocide."
I'd like to see a documentary on the "Choice" movement that explores this aspect of their philosophy. I wonder what the MSM reaction would be.
But doesn't Mama profess to be Catholic when it's convenient?
Yikes.
"Who's going to pay for all these babies?" was a question that kept recurring.
One of the more cogent arguments that pro-choicers have made is that the pro-Life movement is more pro-birth than it is pro-life. Filled with people who love the idea of babies being born, but without the willingness to pay for those things that are necessary for the child to thrive in the world.
Not saying that I agree, just saying.
It would be a very short documentary.
This is very strong language. Is Mel White really dishonest? Or is the only "lie" he tells is his opinion that God loves gay people the way they are? Or that he considers his former employer Jerry Falwell and other evangelicals to be intolerant because they do not believe as he does about the morality of gays? I wish the author would have detailed specific lies that White has told--or else refrain from this kind of characterization.
It's not a cogent argument. It's a snotty stock reply designed to end the conversation. What they mean is this: "If you don't support every hare-brained Socialist scheme of the American Left you have nothing to say about the 50 million babies that have been slaughtered since 1973."
In one respect, no one is beyond the reach of Christ. In another, there are those who reject throughout their entire lives, and they then are numbered with the eternally lost.
She could well be in that latter group. From our perspective, time will tell. From God's, He already knows.
.....'"Like your truth is the only truth and everyone should believe the way you believe?" ""
I have never met a Liberal who didn't believe this about ther own philosophy as they try to make illegal any dissenting poinion.
But there IS this difference between Liberals and Christians:One: God is on record as saying that Belief cannot be shoved down anyones' throat
And Two: A Christian can be exposed as a hypocrite.
This is because a Christians Truths are OUTSIDE himself and therefore immutable.
Since liberals are each the author of their own truth they cannot ever be hypocritical. They are gods. Practically speaking, they never fail, they never lie, they are incapable of being wrong. They are jealous, and they are vengeful.
It's called (raw) human nature.
Liberals hate Christians because they believe they can establish a better world than can God. They believe their rules are better than His. Therefore, God must be placed in a secondary position to their ideals about how the world should be.
Leftists hate real Christians. They love those who call themselves Christians but promote values contrary to their religion.
"Liberals in America despise Christians of true faith.
They do this because in doing so their own guilt is appeased, their anger is justified, and they can finally lay blame for their own misery at someone else's feet."
And they do it because deep down inside, they doubt the legitimacy of their own heresy, and it frightens them.
"This is the God they innately know they will have to deal with someday."
Everyone knows there is a God, even the muslims.
Some people, like Ms. Pelosi, think that by acting brave against Him, he will leave them alone. Or, maybe they think that satan will act as their attorney on their Day of Judgement.
We Christians, by Faith, follow Christ's lead. We know the Truth. We should hold fast, through each test we encounter.
I feel sorry for Ms. Pelosi. She apparently has not needed, nor heeded, God's loving hand yet. I truly hope she will, soon.
My response is that money does not make one thrive in the world. A child doesn't have to material goods to have a worthwhile life...and especially to have a life that furthers God's plan.
They do this because in doing so their own guilt is appeased, their anger is justified, and they can finally lay blame for their own misery at someone else's feet.
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YUP
I can't help but ponder if (in an alternate universe) back when Republicans took over the House in '94, if the son of Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich had released a documentary revealing the lies and hypocrisy of the left, exposing the America-hating un-intelligentsia of (for example) New York and L.A. society, if there would be such fawning reviews of such a work as we're seeing with the daughter of 'Madam Speaker'?
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Great point.
It's much simpler than the author describes. Liberals (secular religionists) want to control people's behavior - and can't do it as easily when a Church who also wants to control people's behavior gets there first. It's a rivalry for adherents. If the predominant religion in America was Hinduism, liberals would hate Hindus just as much.
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