Suffering from existential despair, the New York Times found itself a new scapegoat -- Christians Who Support Trump

American Thinker ^ | 03/28/2020 | Andrea Widburg

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One can feel the existential anguish oozing off every page and pixel at The New York Times.  That's not because the coronavirus is approaching apocalyptic proportions, with mass die-offs comparable to the year 1348, when the Black Death was at its apex.  Instead, the Times is confronting a different problem: President Donald Trump's poll numbers are doing very well.  His recent town hall was the most watched town hall in cable history.  His daily press conferences enthrall so many people that the media are desperate to stop televising them.

Clearly, the Times had to bring out the big guns to ensure that Americans understand that not only is Trump the ultimate "Orange Man Bad," but also that his supporters must continue to be recognized as the "Deplorables" they are.  To that end, the Times published one of the most vicious opinion pieces ever seen in its pages, and that's saying a lot.

Katherine Stewart has a bee in her bonnet, and that bee is her hatred for Christianity.  She's written a book with the giveaway title The Power Worshippers: Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism.  That makes her the perfect person to write an opinion piece stating that "The Religious  Right's Hostility to Science Is Crippling Our Coronavirus Response: Trump's response to the pandemic has been haunted by the science denialism of  his ultraconservative religious allies."

With that title, one would think the opinion piece has specific and detailed information about the many times that Donald Trump ignored the advice coming from Dr. Anthony Fauci or Dr. Deborah Birx.  Or perhaps Stewart would write about the faith-healing sessions Trump was hosting in the Oval Office.  Or maybe we'd hear that Trump, instead of closing borders and mobilizing America to provide health care providers with masks and ventilators, was, instead, broadcasting daily evangelical prayers from the White House.

[Berosus]

While there is a shortage of toilet paper, we may need to keep a copy of the NYT handy.

[Redwood71]

As Adrian Cronauer said as Gomer, “Oh, you’re going straight to hell for that one. Watch out over there.”

rwood

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Have you ever had a reasoned discussion with a pro-choicer about these things? Neither have I ......

I have tried.

Four facts.

The baby is a human person. DNA proves that. (Science!)

The baby is a separate person from the mother. DNA proves this. (Science!)

The baby is alive. (Science!)

Killing a person because they are inconvenient is wrong. (universal civilized social conviction)

Do you know what they come back with?

"But does it have a soul?"

I respond that I am not talking metaphysics but objective reality. And in objective reality it is wrong to kill a human baby.

"Yeah, but does it have a soul?"

Every. Single. Time.

Even the atheists who maintain that none of us have souls.

[bert]

-——Do you know what they come back with?——

“It’s the mother’s right to choose”

The rights of the mother are superior ti those of an unborn child

That is their argument

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

One of them tried it.

I told him that if it is "the mother's right to choose" then why do we jail mothers for maternal filicide?

Objective reality.

[JungleGoat77]

Maybe one should hire or only hire persons from one’s own church or social group. The Left do this. No need to advertise already filled jobs.