January 10, 2015

Savage Muslim Attacks on Christians and Jews Portrayed As Violence Between Two Parties By PBS




[From article]
Mr. Feiler appears to represent the progressive-humanist view that all religions are equally respectable cultural aggregations offering differing perspectives on the ultimately unknowable spiritual mysteries. Mr. Feiler does not approach these journeys from the perspective of his own relationship with God, but rather in the spirit of enthusiastic, non-judgmental spiritual tourism. Mr. Feiler calls Yoruba “ancient” and Christianity (which arose 1300 years earlier) “contemporary.” This suggests misunderstanding of, if not bias against, the latter faith.
But far worse is the characterization Mr. Feiler makes later when he breezily describes the beheadings, kidnappings, and rapes that Islamic savages are committing against defenseless Christian families as “violence between Muslims and Christians.” This familiar left-wing lie diminishes these hideous crimes; it is equivalent to calling the Holocaust a war between Jews and Nazis.
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The origination mythology of modern humanism and progressivism is that white Christians cause all the problems in America and the world. And they invented slavery.
This is opposite of the truth. The capturing and holding of persons as chattel began with warfare at the dawn of human history. Christianity was the inspiration that decisively ended slavery in the United States. Involuntary servitude is still widely practiced throughout the non-Christian world. A UN study lists Nigeria as having the fourth largest slave population of any country in the world.
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But the religions that provide the moral perimeters of Mr. Feiler’s own life -- an advanced form of monogamy, his beliefs about what constitutes a happy family, the unalienable worth of the human individual as formed in the image of one God -- all derive from Judaism and Christianity.
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But these biases are nothing compared to the filaments of evil unconsciously woven into Mr. Feiler’s offhand reference to a bilateral war between Muslims and Christians.
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The prime minister of Israel recently likened events such as Islamic Boko Haram fiends butchering African children to the Holocaust. To reframe the slaughter of unarmed Christians as a religious war is to provide a rationalization for indifference to this modern Holocaust.

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2015/01/pbs_sping_helps_evil_flourish.html

January 8, 2015
PBS Spin helps Evil Flourish
By Deborah C. Tyler

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