This is an interesting piece from NY Times.
What does Hillary, Obama and Huckabee show to us (sex, race and Christianity)?
At a New York or Los Angeles cocktail party, few would dare make a pejorative comment about Barack Obama’s race or Hillary Clinton’s sex. Yet it would be easy to get away with deriding Mike Huckabee’s religious faith. Liberals believe deeply in tolerance and over the last century have led the battles against prejudices of all kinds, but we have a blind spot about Christian evangelicals. They constitute one of the few minorities that, on the American coasts or university campuses, it remains fashionable to mock.
What has the libs done? Why are they not in Darfur, Burma, Laos, Tibet or Iraq helping someone in great need? Many are busy mocking the Christians or indulging in their own flesh…
In parts of Africa where bandits and warlords shoot or rape anything that moves, you often find that the only groups still operating are Doctors Without Borders and religious aid workers: crazy doctors and crazy Christians. In the town of Rutshuru in war-ravaged Congo, I found starving children, raped widows and shellshocked survivors. And there was a determined Catholic nun from Poland, serenely running a church clinic.
That is why the challenge by Greg Bahnsen in the great debate to the atheists still left unanswered till today!
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You wrote:
“…few would dare make a pejorative comment about Barack Obama’s race or Hillary Clinton’s sex. Yet it would be easy to get away with deriding Mike Huckabee’s religious faith. ”
Ancestry and gender are inherent matters. Religious belief, however, is a matter of choice and standards of personal judgment, and should be open to examination because it may have great influence on behavior and also is revelatory of a candidate’s ability to think and reason in an objective and realistic manner.
Yet nobody dares to say anything which could even be misconstrued as being offensive to homosexuals, even though that is a chosen lifestyle.
Why post a quote when your comment diverges from the main point?
Are you implying “[making] a pejorative comment” is your version of “examining” a religious belief?
The post was quoting an article form the New York Times about “deriding Mike Huckabee’s religious faith,” talking about the fashion of mocking Christianity in America, pointing out that “scorning people for their faith is intrinsically repugnant.”
Justifying why religion be open to examination when the post is talking about mocking a person for their religious belief.
hokku,
you know it is hard to take seriously someone with no name. hokku is not a name and you provide no links to your blog or website. why should anyone respond to you?
Hokku,
Examining and mocking are two different things, your comment is irrevelent to this entry
Hokku,
I would define inherent matters as traits about us only God himself can change. All religions of the world are free for man to choose…except Christianity. The Bible clearly says that God chooses us and give us the faith to believe in Him. It also says that if left to themselves not a single person would choose to come to God. Being a Christian is a matter of who you are, other religions are a matter of what you have choosen in your sinful heart to believe.
If someone wants to examine my sex, race, or the fact I’m a Christian they may do so.
Reblogged this on Tnmusicman's Blog and commented:
Had to reblog as I experience mockery on a daily basis. S’okay though–I try to set the example anyway. Sometimes I blow it big time. I’m glad I have the grace of God for those times.