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Sunday, November 3. 2013

Fox News' Highly Reluctant Jesus Follower


Kirsten Powers: "Of all people surprised that I became an evangelical Christian, I'm the most surprised."



Then he said the magic words for a liberal: "Do you think you could keep an open mind about it?" Well, of course. "I'm very open-minded!" Even though I wasn't at all. I derided Christians as anti-intellectual bigots who were too weak to face the reality that there is no rhyme or reason to the world. I had found this man's church attendance an oddity to overlook, not a point in his favor.

As he talked, I grew conflicted. On the one hand, I was creeped out. On the other hand, I had enormous respect for him. He is smart, educated, and intellectually curious. I remember thinking, What if this is true, and I'm not even willing to consider it?


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Very interesting. I believe but have my doubts. But I also don't think it matters if it's true as long as you follow Christ's teachings. At the bottom of it is how to live with your fellow man.

I'm jealous of her experience and her new outlook. It seems she has found something very valuable - far beyond the value of humility to your self and society as a whole.

Speaking politically, I hope she grasps the lack of humility in the left and that she is called to help her fellow man, not to hand that responsibility to a bureaucracy.
#1 mudbug on 2013-11-03 16:26 (Reply)
http://pjmedia.com/richardfernandez/?s=the+woman+of+calcutta&submit.x=-1179&submit.y=-137&search_sortby=date

Doubt is no contradiction to faith, but very likely an element of it, a very important part. We need to learn to appreciate the ambiguities. But little things do matter, often a lot.

The link above is to an essay by Richard Fernandez of the Belmont Club.
#1.1 Mark on 2013-11-03 22:22 (Reply)
Thanks Mark. I don't take my doubts as a contradiction of my faith but as you say, a part of it. I would think that if someone has faith (believing something for which there is no physical evidence) and no doubts at all that it would not be very healthy. After all, Jesus asked His father whey he had forsaken him.

At the same time, I would like to have that unambiguous experience of what I have faith in.
#1.1.1 mudbug on 2013-11-03 23:12 (Reply)
Her experience is very like my own. "What if this is true, and you're not even willing to consider it?"
#2 Texan99 on 2013-11-04 13:51 (Reply)
She has plainly been corrupted by her association with the Devil, Fox News.
#3 Henry Bowman on 2013-11-07 17:18 (Reply)

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