The day after the San Bernadino jihadi couple gunned down 14 innocent human beings in cold blood, the New York Daily News thought it was somehow appropriate to lecture Americans: “God Isn’t Fixing This.”
Say what?! Rich Schapiro’s smug assertion is outrageous on so many levels – where to start?
First, as Brent Bozell points out, we need to keep in mind what rabid secularists most of the mainstream media folks really are, they’re just lately ramping up the aggression ~
The media have harbored anti-religious bigotry for years. But now it’s turned vicious. This tragedy drew out liberal animus against those offensive “prayer people” who won’t back gun control. Washington Post columnist Gene Weingarten angrily announced on Twitter: “Dear ‘thoughts and prayers’ people: Please shut up and slink away. You are the problem, and everyone knows it.”
Weingarten wasn’t alone. Unbelievably, while the terrorist attack was still underway in California, leftist journalists took to social media, verbally attacking those offering prayers for the victims ~
“Your thoughts and prayers don’t mean a damn thing,” tweeted one. A reporter at the Huffington Post damned public officials’ “useless thoughts and prayers.” Markos Moulitsas of Daily Kos: “How many dead people did those thoughts and prayers bring back to the life?”
Mollie Hemingway of the Federalist noted that all these denunciations were literally coming in while victims of the shooting were sending out requests for prayer.
[Source: Peggy Noonan – posted at Patriot Post]
Such charming group aren’t they?
Until this recent uptick in crassness, even well-known atheists have been fairly civil in their dissent. As Bozell reminds us, Hitchens and Dawkins certainly didn’t disparage prayer ~
For example, the late atheist Christopher Hitchens thanked the people who were praying for him after he was diagnosed with the cancer that would take his life.
And more recently, Richard Dawkins, author of “The God Delusion,” criticized British theaters for refusing to run a Church of England ad about the Lord’s Prayer. He said “If anybody is ‘offended’ by something so trivial as a prayer, they deserve to be offended.”
Because their animosity toward religion and “prayer” (by which they mean Christianity) is irrational, these “offended” media types have to misrepresent the faith and the faithful. Either out of ignorance, or deliberately, they refuse to acknowledge that the prayers offered up are asking God to be with and comfort the victims – not raise the dead. But by trivializing the faith they can pretend real evil doesn’t exist, and avoid having to face the Truth.
In their mocking of Christians, these leftists also expose their stunning hypocrisy. They’d never ridicule the terrorists’ Religion-of-Peace the way they denigrate Christianity.
Furthermore, the presumption behind the “God Isn’t Fixing This” headline is specious. Were it written to tell the truth rather than to jeer, it could have been “God won’t fix this.” Or, better yet, “God won’t fix this until we turn back to Him with humility and repentance.”
As Ken Ham (Answers in Genesis) wrote ~
Our culture refuses to acknowledge we are living in a fallen world (Genesis 3)—although God is not responsible for the tragedies we see all around. God created a perfect world that was ruined by mankind’s sin—it’s our fault in Adam. Our culture by and large refuses to acknowledge God is the absolute authority. Instead we’ve raised up generations of students who believe they are nothing more than animals and that there is no God who makes the rules. Our culture has worked hard to throw the biblical and true teaching of God out of America, and then expects God to protect America!
This whole “prayer shaming” phenomenon, as it’s been dubbed, is just more evidence of the extreme polarization of Americans these days. One side still believes in and looks to God for strength and comfort when their fellow humans perpetrate inhuman acts of violence. And the other is angry and accusatory, faithless and clueless.
It’s painfully obvious which side the media is on ~
The Lichter-Rothman “Media Elite” surveys back in 1981 revealed that 50 percent of the news media did not believe in God and 86 percent seldom or never went to church or synagogue. You can only surmise that it’s worsened since then. If you don’t want to believe in God, it’s sad but acceptable. But what the Daily News lunged far further, ridiculing people of faith for offering simple prayers after a massacre.
[Source: Brent Bozell, writing at Townhall]
How about you?
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