David French Joins NYT, New Yorker In Bashing Christians On Christmas

[PeteS in CA]

David French Joins NYT, New Yorker In Bashing Christians On Christmas

https://thefederalist.com/2020/12/28/david-french-joins-nyt-new-yorker-in-bashing-christians-on-christmas/

So much for peace on earth and goodwill to men. America’s legacy media elites used the Sunday before Christmas for extra Christian-bashing, with white evangelicals the preferred targets.

Writing in The New Yorker, Michael Luo complained that “white evangelical Protestants, once again, overwhelmingly supported President Trump in the election,” and that “churches, particularly conservative ones, fought lockdown orders and rebuffed public-health warnings.”

New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof interviewed leftist pastor Jim Wallis, with the conversation quickly turning to accusations that “White evangelicalism has destroyed the ‘evangel.’” At The Dispatch, Time columnist David French concluded that much of the scorn white evangelical Christians receive is deserved. He says the world often “rejects Christians because Christians are cruel.”
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To be sure, Christians should humbly accept correction if it is deserved, even when the word of reproof is delivered by pagans. But the above writers’ broad indictments against American evangelicals do not withstand scrutiny.

Although each criticism has particular errors, they are united by two shared mistakes. The first is a failure to account for differences of denomination and devotion. Lumping Pentecostals, Presbyterians, and prosperity-gospel preachers together is sloppy, as is neglecting to distinguish between those who are committed churchgoers and those who are only nominally evangelical.

It might be said that these varieties of white evangelicals have in common an overwhelming political support for Donald Trump, but this retort only highlights the second error shared by these writers: the assumption that voting for Trump was necessarily immoral.

Ah, the media's predictable semi-annual Christian-Bashing Festival, Winter Edition. Featuring the similarly predictable stereotyping and ignorance. Poor Jim Wallis, never able to persuade a majority of mainstream Evangelicals that government should be the means of fulfilling Jesus' commands to believers to aid people in need, stuck in his little bubble, not accepted by most mainstream Evangelicals, distrusted by non-religious Progressives as too Christianish ... trotted out once or twice a year by media people to bash Evangelicals who disagree with him.

I doubt that Luo or Kristof have spent as much as two hours among Evangelicals in the ... well, to be fair, in 2019 (= pre-Covid shutdowns). French, OTOH, is or was an Evangelical. So he knows his claims of racism among Evangelicals are at best exaggerations of a small minority, i.e. mostly false. But his Trump-Hatred makes lying about Trump voters lies in support of a higher good.