When was the last time you heard a secularist react to the name of Allah the way he reacts to the name of Jesus Christ?
“You speak the name Jesus Christ…and all hell breaks loose…it has always been thus. It is explosive. And I didn’t even say the name in that way. I simply spoke of the Christian faith, but that was enough to trigger this reaction. It triggers a very powerful reaction in people who do not share the faith and who do not believe in it.” – Brit Hume on The O’Reilly Factor
No other religion offers the kind of redemption the Christian faith offers. The Bible teaches this as a fact, and true Christians believe it. In our PC society, however, a Christian cannot, without stirring up anger, state a plain and powerful (and non-violent) truth taught and illustrated in his own holy book!
It is offensive and insulting, according to some, to say that Buddhism doesn’t offer forgiveness and redemption as the Christian faith does. Why?
Would secularists have had hissy fits if an adherent to Buddhism or follower of Allah had said on a cable news show that so-called Christian Ted Haggard, who solicited a male prostitute, should seek forgiveness and redemption in Buddhism or Islam? Would they be ranting and raving about separation of church and state (more like separation of church and the public arena).
The questions are rhetorical.
No other name on earth generates such strong reactions as the name Jesus Christ. The Gospel message, especially the exclusive claim that no one can enter heaven but through Jesus Christ, the Son of God, is offensive to those who don’t believe it. It has always been that way and will remain so until Christ returns.
If you don’t know Christian apologist James White, you really must listen to his webcast, Reformed or “Calvinist” Christians especially. He addresses the Brit Hume “controversy” on his latest program. Download the show to hear what James says about the quasi-religion of secularism.
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Update: Says Ann Coulter:
“In The Washington Post, Tom Shales demanded that Hume apologize, saying he had ‘dissed about half a billion Buddhists on the planet.’
“Is Buddhism about forgiveness? Because, if so, Buddhists had better start demanding corrections from every book, magazine article and blog posting ever written on the subject, which claims Buddhists don’t believe in God, but try to become their own gods.
“I can’t imagine that anyone thinks Tiger’s problem was that he didn’t sufficiently think of himself as a god, especially after that final putt in the Arnold Palmer Invitational last year.
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“God sent his only son to get the crap beaten out of him, die for our sins and rise from the dead. If you believe that, you’re in. Your sins are washed away from you — sins even worse than adultery! — because of the cross… Cristianity is simultaneously the easiest religion in the world and the hardest religion in the world.”
Related post: Jews Need to be “Perfected”: What Ann Coulter Was Trying to Say
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