The universal cover story in recent days has been the controversial
covers of two magazines – one much more visible than the other.
Newsweek, a dying American journal, tried to resurrect itself by crucifying Christianity in a December twenty-third cover piece written by Kurt Eichenwald.
Charlie
Hebdo, a scrappy French magazine, intensified its reputation for
outrage by sometimes running scurrilous depictions of Mohammed on its
cover. The magazine will not die but its primary staff did.
In the midst of this fiery journalistic confluence the striking difference between two worldviews became clearer than ever.
Newsweek titled its Christmas-week cover story "The Bible: So Misunderstood It's a Sin." Most evangelicals and many other Christians would agree with Al Mohler's view that the Eichenwald article is a hit-piece, laden with inaccuracies chronicled by Mohler.
If Charlie Hebdo was offensive in its cartoons of Mohammed and other religious figures, Newsweek's Eichenwald was repellent to many Christians in his characterization of evangelical conservatives and pro-life, pro-traditional marriage Catholics as, among other things, "God's frauds."
Thus we have two magazines, each exercising their right
of free expression – however insulting. The murderers who attacked
Charlie Hebdo offices to avenge their prophet revealed how some within
their religion believe they should have responded to what they regarded
as a provocation.
Continued, here.
Newsweek, a dying American journal, tried to resurrect itself by crucifying Christianity in a December twenty-third cover piece written by Kurt Eichenwald.
In the midst of this fiery journalistic confluence the striking difference between two worldviews became clearer than ever.
Newsweek titled its Christmas-week cover story "The Bible: So Misunderstood It's a Sin." Most evangelicals and many other Christians would agree with Al Mohler's view that the Eichenwald article is a hit-piece, laden with inaccuracies chronicled by Mohler.
If Charlie Hebdo was offensive in its cartoons of Mohammed and other religious figures, Newsweek's Eichenwald was repellent to many Christians in his characterization of evangelical conservatives and pro-life, pro-traditional marriage Catholics as, among other things, "God's frauds."
Thus we have two magazines, each exercising their right
of free expression – however insulting. The murderers who attacked
Charlie Hebdo offices to avenge their prophet revealed how some within
their religion believe they should have responded to what they regarded
as a provocation.Continued, here.
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