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  • For the Media, It's Un-Holy Week

    04/08/2009 7:23:52 AM PDT · by Bean74 · 9 replies · 646+ views
    Culture and Media Institute ^ | April 7, 2009 | Colleen Raezler
    Most regular church-goers have heard their less scrupulously observant fellows called “Christmas and Easter Christians.” Well, they also have their counterparts in the mainstream media: “Christmas and Easter Anti-Christians.” How else to explain the spate of skeptical, negative stories that inevitably accompany the two most important Christian holy days? This Holy Week has been typical. Newsweek proclaimed “The Decline and Fall of Chrisitan America” on its cover. The Washington Post/Newsweek “On Faith” blog featured a post that belittled the significance of Jesus’ death and resurrection. The Discovery Channel aired a documentary that painted Jesus as little more than an opportunistic...