Faith Well Grounded

I won't spend a lot of time commenting on this, because hopefully the content should speak for itself. The embedded video of Bill Oreilly's segment which hosted the leader of the new youth movement "BattleCry", and a representative from the "World Can't Wait Advisory Board", Sunsara Taylor, shows a shocking level of hate, bigotry, malice and narrow-mindedness-- and not from the Christians!. Irony is beautiful isn't it? The very traits that Christians are being accused of daily are in full bloom by those who accuse us-- while they are accusing us! Beautiful. And kudos to the "Battlecry" group for not stooping to return fire. Love your enemies. Be a proper example when representing our Lord.

It is striking to me that "Fundamentalist" Christianity is labeled as so closed minded, out to subvert others' rights, so intent on forcing our beliefs on others, etc... There are few in the media that seem to look at the political left, and their tendency to force their agenda. It seems an uneven playing field to me.

Bill Oreilly-- either love him or hate him-- should be commended for pointing out this double standard. Sunsara Taylor seemed shocked that she was forced to face such bitter reality. Of note in the segment is the apparent expectation that the liberal left have opportunity to use the creation of laws to their benefit, but not the conservative, religious right. Also, Ms. Taylor seemed to fall into the trap of the argument to emotion. She threw out lots of statements which expect an emotional response, yet ignored facts when they were entered into the discussion.

When faced with the AMA study on abortion, and the start of human life, Ms. Taylor could only appeal to more emotion, in that the evil religious right has scared the AMA into publishing anti-fact. I give her a perfect 10 in the discussion for creativity.

I won't turn this into an abortion debate on the apologetics blog. My main intent here is just to run the video and let everyone see the tactics for themselves.

Blessings...

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