Friday, July 23, 2004
Mainline Christian Views are Now Extreme.
A Bush nominee to a Federal Judgeship is coming under fire from Democrats and some congressional women for an article he wrote with his wife in American Catholic Review, arguing that women should submit to the authority of husbands.\
How do the headline writers at FOX News present it? "Controversial Nominee Known For Extreme Views"
News flash to hedonist Manhattan headline writers:
This sentiment, or variations on it, are not "extreme" among Christians. It's very much accepted in many mainline Protestant and Catholic congregations alike. In many congregations, it's not even a matter of significant controversy, although there are lots of discussions over exactly what that means.
But the basic idea was embraced by such moderate writers as C.S. Lewis, and is pretty much accepted by significant memberships, if not majorities, in all but the more liberal congregations.
As Christians go, this guy's not extreme at all. He's very much within the fat part of the bell curve.
And it has nothing to do with equality under the law.
The argument is rooted in this line from Paul's Epistle to the Ephesians:
The writer's problem: He's too culturally illiterate even to understand the context of the story. FOX lazily quotes the soundbites from the nominee's critics like Diane Feinstein, et. al., and they get their points across without a problem.
The nominee protests that his remarks were taken out of context. But the reporter, inexplicably, neglects to provide any context whatsoever, and so fails to give the reader the tools to make an assessment for himself.
Well, most Christians have traveled this road before, and will immediately notice that this FOX reporter is an idiot who has no idea what it is he's writing about.
The fact is that this passage from Ephesians has an incredibly rich body of commentary about it. And anyone passingly familiar with the issue would also know that this passage is just one part of a long passage admonishing husbands with the awesome responsibility of loving his wife, even as Christ loved the church, and laid down his very life for it.
Think about what that means to a believing Christian.
The burden expected of the husband is huge.
And the importance and worth of the wife is elevated immensely because of it.
This is really the more important passage of the equation, by an order of magnitude.
And FOX News misses it completely.
It's not a matter of conscious bias. It's not that FOX News was out to slam a Bush appointee.
It's that the FOX News staffers in Manhattan are not culturaly literate enough to wrap their brains around this issue. Not only is it not extremist; it's a bigger thought than any of them imagine.
Splash, out
Jason
How do the headline writers at FOX News present it? "Controversial Nominee Known For Extreme Views"
News flash to hedonist Manhattan headline writers:
This sentiment, or variations on it, are not "extreme" among Christians. It's very much accepted in many mainline Protestant and Catholic congregations alike. In many congregations, it's not even a matter of significant controversy, although there are lots of discussions over exactly what that means.
But the basic idea was embraced by such moderate writers as C.S. Lewis, and is pretty much accepted by significant memberships, if not majorities, in all but the more liberal congregations.
As Christians go, this guy's not extreme at all. He's very much within the fat part of the bell curve.
And it has nothing to do with equality under the law.
The argument is rooted in this line from Paul's Epistle to the Ephesians:
"Wives, submit to your husbands, as to the Lord. For the Husband is head of the wife, as Christ is the head of the Church, His body, of which He is the savior. Now, as the Church submits to Christ, so also should wives submit to their husbands in everything"
The writer's problem: He's too culturally illiterate even to understand the context of the story. FOX lazily quotes the soundbites from the nominee's critics like Diane Feinstein, et. al., and they get their points across without a problem.
The nominee protests that his remarks were taken out of context. But the reporter, inexplicably, neglects to provide any context whatsoever, and so fails to give the reader the tools to make an assessment for himself.
Well, most Christians have traveled this road before, and will immediately notice that this FOX reporter is an idiot who has no idea what it is he's writing about.
The fact is that this passage from Ephesians has an incredibly rich body of commentary about it. And anyone passingly familiar with the issue would also know that this passage is just one part of a long passage admonishing husbands with the awesome responsibility of loving his wife, even as Christ loved the church, and laid down his very life for it.
Think about what that means to a believing Christian.
The burden expected of the husband is huge.
And the importance and worth of the wife is elevated immensely because of it.
This is really the more important passage of the equation, by an order of magnitude.
And FOX News misses it completely.
It's not a matter of conscious bias. It's not that FOX News was out to slam a Bush appointee.
It's that the FOX News staffers in Manhattan are not culturaly literate enough to wrap their brains around this issue. Not only is it not extremist; it's a bigger thought than any of them imagine.
Splash, out
Jason
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