TIME Talks Down to Real Christians

 by Ben-Peter Terpstra  

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After a year of self-punishment, I have to ask myself: Do we need the elite media’s green religion?

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After a year of self-punishment, I have to ask myself: Do we need the elite media’s green religion? After all, Time really likes to talk down to Christians.

Time’s 2007 Timeline

January 29, 2007: Time’s “unbiased” Joe Klein reports that Len Munsi, a religious conservative, is “profoundly out of step with public opinion” because he supports a “punitive anti-immigration-policy” and campaigns against “gay marriage.”

Significantly, the Republicans are “best known for extremist fearmongering on the immigration issue.” But don’t worry.  Rocky Mountain Democrats, by way of contrast, in Klein’s so-called report, are “unpretentious; egalitarian and tough” virtuecrats.

Democrats, we also learn, “tend to reflect a Western let-and-let-live [sic] attitude to social issues like abortion and homosexuality.” This, the report claims, is good.

On the down side, Time fails to inform readers that unborn babies (gulp) abhor “live-and-let-live” knives.

February 26, 2007: Australian Prime Minister, John Howard, rejects Time’s myth of the “unpretentious; egalitarian and tough” Democrat.

He bravely asserts: “If I were al-Qaeda in Iraq, I would put a circle around March 2008 and pray, as many times as possible, for a victory not only for Obama but also for the Democrats.”

March 26, 2007: “For preachers like Jerry Falwell, James Dobson, and Pat Robertson, the prospect of hell has always been far more vivid than the possibility of heaven,” huffs Time’s “unbiased” Joe Klein. And yet, for some unfathomable reason, he produces no evidence to back Lucifer’s opinion.

Not only that, but, Klein authoritatively describes soft-on-crime liberals as “Second Commandment Christians.” Still, there is no evidence that he has even read the Bible.

Klein also wonders if the Republicans will reject secularists because they speak too much about “food banks.” Apparently, we hate the poor. He asks: “What will traditional Christians make of all this?”

April 9, 2007: Time stresses that there are “51 things we can do” to save our burning planet. “Can one person slow global warming? Sure!” We also “can create paths,” according to this sensational issue. Some will make us feel good too.

Other devices to convert readers to the cult of “global warming” (and therefore socialistic world treaties), are simply shaman’s wiles. Time’s “live-and-let-live” writers urge readers to “pay the carbon tax” (step 5), “capture the carbon” (step 12), “ride the bus” (step 14), “move to a high rise” (step 15), “skip the steak” (step 22), “wear green eye shadow” (step 22), “plant a bamboo fence” (step 26), “get a carbon budget” (step 40), and, of course, “pay for . . . carbon sins” (step 42). Sure! In a nutshell, become a vegan communist.

May 28, 2007: More on paths. “The path I see is a path that builds consensus,” says Gore, “to the point where it doesn’t matter as much who is running” it. 

Time’s Eric Pooley reports that the Goracle believes in “Gandhi’s concept of truth force.” Most fascinatingly, “Gore is not carrying a mirror. He’s not selling himself; he’s selling a cause, a journey.”

But one reader asks: “How about the nine – nine! – pictures of Gore in this one issue?”  I wonder if 10 photographs per issue will finally prove my case. Gore worships his body.

June 4, 2007: Daniel Williams of Time praises Against Religion, an anti-religious screed, by Tama Pataki.

The flop of a book clumsily lumps all faiths together, and argues that “we must consider the possibility that many people’s religious convictions depend principally . . . on something akin to mental illness.”

Africa demurs. However, while Williams suggests that likening religion to “mental illness is a big call,” he also argues that Pataki “doesn’t seem like the type to be spoiling for a fight.” And, most reassuringly, the brave writer “gets the prize for focused inquiry.”

(Granted, one needs to focus intensely when spitting on “mentally ill” Christians.)

July 23, 2007: Taking political coarseness one step further, Time reminds readers that Monicagate was – I quote with disbelief – Hillary’s “Crisis of Faith.” This is no joke. In the Senator’s godly words, the scandal gave “her the courage and the strength to do what was right.” And, presumably God told her to blame the red states for Bill’s infidelities.

August 13, 2007: Time’s historian, Richard Brookhiser, a pulpit atheist, criticizes Christians.

He preaches: “In 1925, Tennessee made it unlawful for public schools to contradict the ‘Divine creation of man’ by teaching that man instead ‘descended from a lower order of animals.’” As such, intelligent design is narrowly defined as “a stealth creationist theory.”

Real Christians beg to differ. Needless to say, Brookhiser “forgets” that Scopes’ precious textbook, Hunter’s Civic Biology, openly contends, for instance, that the Caucasians were “the civilized white inhabitants of Europe” and are “the highest type of all.”

September 24, 2007: Hillary Clinton, reports Time, stood up against “a Republican-sponsored bill that would have punished those who aid illegal aliens.” Really.

“It would,” she falsely argues, “have criminalized Jesus Christ.” Okay. And, supporting Mary’s right to abort her “Jesus fetus” is biblically sound.

October 8, 2007: More readers (from warming skeptics to questioning believers) challenge Time’s catastrophic prophecies.

In an extremely funny letter, H. Steven Moffic, M.D. (Professor of Psychiatry, Medical College of Wisconsin) writes: “Psychologically speaking, people need to worry more about the present to change. Our brains are hardwired to immediate dangers, not ones that are years away.”

Moffic adds: “And a term like global warming is too benign, especially for those like me who live in a cold climate and might welcome an increase of a few degrees.” 

November 5, 2007: Time’s John Cloud, a self-identified homosexual, criticizes J.K. Rowling for excluding openly gay wizards! But what about Southern Baptists? Mormons, anyone? Come to think of it, I didn’t see many Catholics in Star Wars either.

December, 2007: I don’t renew my anti-Christian subscription to Time. And one more thing: Does wearing green eye shadow really make one feel good?

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