I sometimes wonder if Joy Behar, Keith Olbermann and CNN anchor Kyra Phillips are in a contest to say the most outrageously anti-Christian statement each day. Well, today CNN anchor Kyra Phillips may have won.
Check out the bias in her questions:
Al Kresta labeled it the most “outrageous statement of the day” and I must agree.
HT Newsbusters
November 10, 2010 at 8:09 pm
well, she did say "there's more to it than just saying 'this is archaic thinking' etc". I take that to mean that she is saying "you can't just criticize orthodox Christians by calling them 'archaic'". In her circles saying "those people are primitive" is probably the closest she gets to reasoned thinking; this might be an improvement.
November 10, 2010 at 9:01 pm
Calling Christian teaching and the Bible archaic is hardly new. It's par for the course these days. All tradition is archaic to these people. Any idea or custom or belief that doesn't change with the times is archaic, outdated and irrelevant to the "progressives."
November 10, 2010 at 9:31 pm
All hail the false god of Progress! Progressing toward what, I wonder?
November 10, 2010 at 9:52 pm
My first thought was about the "opens doors to gays" tagline at the bottom. As opposed to other churches which shut their doors? The Catholic Church opens its doors to gays and invites them in. But that's far too nuanced and complicated for "progressives" to understand, I guess.
November 10, 2010 at 11:42 pm
Is there a question in there somewhere…or was that a sermon?
November 11, 2010 at 12:07 am
She really believes she is onto something new.
November 11, 2010 at 12:58 am
She will go to Hell and all us Believers will go to Heaven. Plain and simple. There is nothing archaic about it. And all divorcees, masturbators, people who have sex out of wedlock and eat fish on fridays, homosexuals, liars, etc. will go to Hell with her!!!
November 11, 2010 at 1:04 am
I think she's exchanged her head for her arse. Ahem.
November 11, 2010 at 1:18 am
@Felix–that's eat MEAT on Fridays. Duh.
November 11, 2010 at 2:03 am
@ Anon – Why would people eat meat on Fridays? That's crazy!?
November 11, 2010 at 4:22 am
She's still breathing, pray for her.
November 11, 2010 at 6:14 am
She's an ignoramus. Really, really tragic. Poor thing probably has Dawkins and Hitchens as her theological advisers. Jim Wallis?
Yes, do pray for her.
Angel of God, Kyra's guardian dear, to whom God's love….
November 11, 2010 at 7:53 am
So, I guess back when the Bible was newer, by her reasoning of going with the times, it was totally okay to hate homosexuals? Or maybe right and wrong should stand outside of time… hmmm…
And we do open our doors to homosexuals. I've been praying for a chaste gay saint, actually – I think it would be wonderful to have such a courageous example of Christian sacrifice and faithfulness for all of us, and especially those who think that there is no room for them in the Church, because there is!
November 11, 2010 at 9:44 am
@ Nzie: you are as stupid as the CNN commentator. Homosexuals are sinners if they have sex. The gay agenda and women rights agenda is ruining the Church. Gay and women can't be priest for a reason. They are not qualified to be Priest. They must learn this and stop asking for equal rights. Lesser beings should not be treated equal. They need to know their place in life. The bible is not archaic. It true for all times, forever and ever.
November 11, 2010 at 1:24 pm
Suzzie,
Nzie actually wrote a "chaste" gay saint; not a saint who is actively living a homosexual lifestyle, including sex. There is a distinction.
I think that she means "chaste" in the virtuous-meaning of the word (as far as I know, there is no another meaning).
Having a homosexual orientation is not sinful. In the same manner, having a dispostion toward alcoholism is not sinful.
Choosing to act on the inclination; choosing to support that inclination; choosing to promote that inclination: that would be sinful.
November 11, 2010 at 2:28 pm
Joy's comments are an example of what Chris Johnson called elitist douchebags donning pith helmets and going into savage lands to find out what makes them tick.
November 11, 2010 at 2:39 pm
Actually, she is right that the teachings are archaic, if by that you mean really really old. Where she is wrong is claiming that we have progressed or changed or that somehow now the human condition is different from a moral perspective. Technology obviously has changed, but human nature has not.
November 11, 2010 at 4:55 pm
Interesting perspective she has, considering that this last century has
been the bloodiest in human history, with so many new ideologies–
communism, nazism, eugenics/abortion–vying to produce the biggest
heap of corpses.
I'll take 'archaic' any day, thank you.
November 11, 2010 at 8:50 pm
I think Voltaire and other proponents of Enlightenment said the same thing in the 18th Century. The CNN reporter reminds me of M. Homais from Madame Bovary. Flaubert wrote this totally vain, egocentric buffoon to illustrate how corrupting Enlightenment thinking could be if taken to its logical ends.
It wasn't too long ago that athieists used to be very educated; some even had wisdom. And while many were not sympathetic to Christianity, they could see the beauty of its worhsip (Mencken), and its social benefits (Saul Bellow). Today's Progressive animus is much vulgarer, and anti-intellectual. It's almost jeuvinile in its rage and stridency.
Of course, not all of today's Progressive's are avowed athieists. They all seem to have a soft spot for Islam -especially if it is at Christianity's expense.
November 11, 2010 at 8:55 pm
Never pay any attention to idiots like her–
you are better off listening to croaking frogs or birds chirping. At least you don't have to make sense out of them.. and they are doing what they should.