Posted on 01/07/2010 8:41:44 PM PST by Salvation
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I rarely watch Bill O’Reilly anymore. Did anyone see this interview?
Comments on O’Reilly’s column?
I saw it on you tube
Mark 16:15-16 "And he said to them: Go into the whole world and preach the gospel to every creature. 16 He that believes and is baptized shall be saved: but he that believes not shall he condemned. "
You are absolutely correct in saying Christianity is more than a mere philosophy. It is a relationship with God.
It is because he plays both sides. Guess what, Jesus doesn't allow fence sitting.
You are correct. We are commanded to be bold, not timid. Jesus was not timid, we should not be either.
Brit Hume is a commentator. His job is to give his opinion on issues. I did not see his piece, though I heard some of it. He did not do the usual Andy Rooney/Keith Olberman stern secularist lecture, but something individual. That's precisely what a commentator is SUPPOSED to do--why would you hire someone to just toe the line and add on to the media hand-wringing which inevitably follows their weeks of nonstop coverage of the lascivious aspects of such a story?
Hume's "sin" is actually putting forth a point of view some people don't agree with. Wow. I could have sworn that was what the protection of free speech was for--you don't need to protect the speech of those who are saying what everyone else is saying (or everyone who "matters" to the MSM--that is, the MSM).
Does anyone think that if Hume came out and said "Tiger needs to get right with his God" there would be any controversy? Of course not--because it's a completely vanilla thing to say, and without any force of meaning. It's just a cliche people spout as part of the routine we all follow in these cases--again, weeks of photos of the women and coverage of the personal downfall, where we get off on someone powerful getting smashed (due to his own flaws), followed by bullsh*t handwringing about how just terrible it all is, just terrible...oh, wait, there's another hot blonde? Let's get her photo on our front page to sell more copies! Oh, I mean, just terrible, this outrageous behavior...
What Hume did was in one swoop show how full of crap the Olberman's of the world are--he spoke what he was REALLY thinking. This doesn't put one bit of pressure on Woods to do ANYTHING. It's merely one man being honest.
I thought the root of our anger at Woods was that he was dishonest. What hypocrisy to damn Hume for not being dishonest enough.
Be either cold or hot. Lukewarm — I will spit out.
Paraphrasing.
I saw the Hume clip as I was channel surfing, on a televised Don Imus program. After the Hume commentary, Imus made some smug remark, but his side kick Charles McCord,identifying himself as a Christian, defended Hume, and then Imus, lapsed RC that he must be, asked McCord something to the effect of is that a Christian thing to say, as if Imus had just heard of the Christian faith. Anyhow, I have to give Hume a lot of credit for speaking the truth. The Christian faith is the only path to salvation. There is only one way to God, The Father, and that is through His Son, Jesus.
Jesus knew professing Him would be a problem, and even addressed it in the Sermon on the Mount:
“Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake.” Matthew 5:11
My hat is off to Brit for his clear and unequivocal stand for Christianity. Jesus also had something to say about those who would speak up for Him in this world and how He would be there for them in the next.
**Hume’s “sin” is actually putting forth a point of view some people don’t agree with.**
I do agree with Hume and am not afraid to say it.
Just so happens I posted this on my FB just a few minutes ago:
“Christianity is not a designer religion. God is serious about getting us on His agenda. One of the famous prayers that goes around today is “Jesus, come into my life and make me the person that you want me to be.” We find that the person that God wants us to be is someone who engages the world with His truth. One of the sins of this generation is to make religion a private thing. It never was meant to be private, and the discomfort of making our faith public proclaims God’s control in our lives. Do we shrink from this? Then who is in charge? You don’t have to buy a bullhorn or pass out tracts, but you do need to stand out as one who is ready to acknowledge Jesus to those around you. Jesus doesn’t hold back on this truth and neither should we.” Commentary by:
Dave Whitehead, senior pastor, Grace NYC
Indeed. Jesus was not a philosopher—pace, George Bush. There was in the Jewish wisdom writers a kind of convergence between Jerusalem and Rome, but only because some Greek Philosophers had offered radical critiques/rejections of the gods which were like that found in the Torah and the writings of the prophets. There was a climate of opinion in the Holy Land which made the teachings of Our Lord rather conventional. Had he remained in his grave, we would have never heard of him It was the Resurrection, not the sermon on the Mount, that created the “Jesus movement,” which we know as Christianity, and which in a remarkably short while spread throughout the Roman and Persian empires.
Buddhism does not address “sin,” per se, but it certainly has a concept of Right and Wrong. “Right Action” is one of the things Buddhists are supposed to be concerned about. And if you do enough wrong actions, you can find yourself stuck in the Hell Realms for a while, or a very bad reincarnation, or both (consecutively, of course). Buddhism is not neutral on moral issues.
Hume is wrong. Tiger would be smarter to come out as a Muslim because then you can chop off the heads of your enemies while claiming the whole time that yours is a religion of peace and the American media will be terrified to utter one word of condemnation for anything he does in the future.
Hume did well and O’Reilly handled it well.
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