Posted on 01/05/2010 2:50:45 PM PST by Rufus2007
If you're going to call out someone for hypocrisy, make sure you're not guilty of the same thing. Guest columnist and Christian minister Welton Gaddy, a pastor for preaching and worship at Northminster (Baptist) Church in Monroe, La. and MSNBC regular, apparently had no qualms with calling out former Fox News "Special Report" anchor Brit Hume in a Jan. 4 column, but is committing the same transgression.
Gaddy took issue with the Fox News senior political analyst's 39-second spiritual commentary on redemption for the recently disgraced Tiger Woods. And although Gaddy failed to mention that Hume publicly stepped out of his role as anchor/reporter in 2008, Gaddy revealed his disgust with the apparent preachy hypocrisy emanating from the "reporter" (emphasis added).
"The picture on the television screen and the audio of reporter Brit Hume's words struck me as contradictory," Gaddy wrote. "Just below the image of the reporter's face, the insignia ‘Fox News' appeared in three different places. Yet, the content of Mr. Hume's comments was not that of a news reporter so much as that of a televangelist."
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Jealousy!
It says that this “preacher”, who claims to be a Baptist, participates in “Interfaith” activities. I’ll bet you a steak dinner that this bird is one of the “Jimmy Carter” Baptists.
Okay, I don’t know who this guy is but what kind of ‘Christian minister’ objects to someone pointing another to Christ?
Doesn't that tell us all we need to know?
an unsaved one
The Baptist name means nothing. That can describe all kinds of folks all over the worldview spectrum. Shoot, even Rick Warren is a Baptist.
AirAmerica - I had almost forgotten about that bughouse. I get it via XM and haven't taken a listen in a while. For me, it's good to keep some track of where the kook left is at.
THanks
“Rev. Gaddy is the host of State of Belief, a weekly radio show by The Interfaith Alliance that is carried on AirAmerica. State of Belief is based on the proposition that religion has a positive and healing role to play in the life of the nation. Rev Gaddy is one of 20 international religious leaders on the Council of 100 Leaders, a group created by the World Economic Forum to improve dialogue and understanding between the Western and Islamic worlds.”
http://www.interfaithalliance.org/about/meet-our-president
For the record, in roughly 30 years as a Baptist, I’ve never met a Baptist pastor who was called “Reverend”. Not saying they don’t exist, but those that do probably support “improve[d] dialogue and understanding between the Western and Islamic worlds”!
Jesus’s name really does cause the devil to pop up all over,just as Britt pointed out.
Well, OK I attributed the devil, not Britt.
"THR: WHAT OTHER THINGS WOULD YOU LIKE TO DO IN RETIREMENT?
"Hume: I certainly want to pursue my faith more ardently than I have done. I'm not claiming it's impossible to do when you work in this business. I was kind of a nominal Christian for the longest time. When my son died (by suicide in 1998), I came to Christ in a way that was very meaningful to me. If a person is a Christian and tries to face up to the implications of what you say you believe, it's a pretty big thing. If you do it part time, you're not really living it."
Now, the "preacher's" objections sound a little like the ruckus kicked up by the Left when Candidate George Bush responded to a simple question about who his favorite political philosopher was by saying, "Jesus Christ, because he changed . . . ." Immediately, he was pooh-poohed by the so-called "intellectuals," who displayed their own ignorance, because none other than their "separation-of-church-and-state" Thomas Jefferson wrote:
"His [Jesus']moral doctrines...were more pure and perfect than those of the most correct of the philosophers...and they went far beyond both in inculcating universal philanthropy, not only to kindred and friends, to neighbors and countrymen, but to all mankind, gathering all into one family, under the bonds of love, charity, peace, common wants, and common aids," which, Jefferson said, "will evince the peculiar superiority of the system of Jesus over all others."
Was Jefferson "denigrating" (what some are accusing Hume of) other religions? Or, was he, like Hume, only speaking of the "love, charity, peace" he saw in Christ's philosophy?
(fake) preacher meet the TRUTH..!
He was (Hume) not specifically denigrating Bhuddism, howeve to be a Christian one does denegrate Bhuddism since not every idea in the war for what is true can be true at the same time.
I would say that Brit Hume was saing the truth that there is redemption in Christ (and in no other), as he pointed out in Bhuddism (was he spedifically denegrating it: no), but by pointing to Christ one is choosing Him, as “The way” exclusively and softly creating negative crisism of Bhuddism- This is what the Devil hates and why there was controversy over Brit Hume’s argument! GOOD FOR BRIT FOR NOT backing down!
Reverend is the correct title for a clergyman. If you do not call him Reverend, what do you call him? Just curious.
Mostly Pastor. In the Baptist Church I attend now, most folks call him “George”...
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