The Great Smoky Mountain Journal
Posted: Tuesday, January 01, 2019 02:44 PM
OUR VIEW: Host Chuck Todd Of The Nothing But Crap Network Shames Himself By Mocking Christians On Good Friday, Easter
Todd tweeted: “I’m a bit hokey when it comes to ‘Good Friday.’ I don’t mean disrespect to the religious aspect of the day, but I love the idea of reminding folks that any day can become ‘good,’ all it takes is a little selflessness on our own part. Works EVERY time.”
That was not done by mistake as is the case in any situation where the left decides it's more than ok to mock the Christian faith.
Thomas Jefferson, author of the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom, must be shaking his head. We lose our appreciation for history – and in the process, for each other – by inches. And we lost something important this past week, when a major media outlet attacked Christians preparing for Easter.
Evidence of accidental or intentional disinterest in America’s Christian heritage, the long beam undergirding American history, continues to pile up.
The modern media promotes our forgetting, and seems increasingly
comfortable deriding the Christian faith.
This past weekend, however, represents an acute example of what ails the
nation: an absence of respect for what many Americans consider the
compass of their lives – their faith, in this case Christian faith.
Easter was also the day Jewish Passover began.
Since before our nation’s founding, respect for another American’s faith
has been a cornerstone of who we are. Yet the media tramples with
increasing frequency on this fundamental American right, as if it did
not exist.
On one of the holiest of Christian days, a day when billions of people
around the world commemorate the wonder of extreme humility and
sacrifice, and give thanks for the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was put
to death that salvation might be possible, the media was tone deaf.
As if aiming to demonstrate the widening chasm between average Americans
and media elites (like ABC’s Joy Behar who called Christianity a “mental
illness”), Mr. Todd deployed his multimillion-dollar, FCC-sanctioned
pulpit to declare Good Friday, that sober Christian day of worship, as
“hokey.”
He then went on to lecture some 200 million Christians in
America and 2.2 billion Christians worldwide – nearly a third of the
world – on how banal the day really was, in his book.
“Any day” could be good, he instructed, adding that he “loved the idea
of reminding folks” (that would be us, the great unwashed) to be “good.”
He wasn’t finished. “All it takes is a little selflessness on our own
part,” he continued, and the world will improve – presumably by all of
us becoming more like him. Wow!
The Todd statement is bigger than a mere offense against Christianity,
or against people of faith, supposing that he does not understand a holy
day’s meaning and is comfortable contentedly taking down another
American’s faith as “hokey.”
It is more than his swinging the heavy sword of media power to deride
others, debasing his own role as a public intermediary.
It was the soft bigotry of condescension to people of faith and less
than subtle plug for atheism, in a world where
24-hour media seem omniscient, to themselves and others, almost
God-like.
The real offense is against America, and what we stand for – even in the
media. It is against longstanding respect for American history, premised
on simple respect for matters of religious faith.
What member of the Founding generation, descended from those who risked
everything for freedom to worship, would counsel mocking another’s
sincere faith? None. They built that respect into the Constitution.
What American veteran, tasked with defending that Constitution with his
or her life, would counsel mocking the faith of another American? None.
The solemnity of prayer, dialogue with God has always been sacrosanct.
So, this is a sorry moment – one in which media elites feel empowered to
line up against average Americans who are simply living out their faith.
The true goodness of America – founded on respect for history, for
faith, and for each other – is that we have room for such dividers.
The eternal hope is that they, too, will see that demeaning the faith of
fellow Americans is utterly out of place. It disrespects American
history, demeans them and their media colleagues, and ultimately hurts
all Americans – in this case, it is a slap at about half the country.
Thomas
Jefferson himself once said, “The ground of liberty is to be gained by
inches,” just as our liberty is lost by inches. Respect for each other
is the same.
The media elites should be silent or honor those who honor the enormity of a day like Good Friday, not deride them as part of something “hokey.”
We have come to expect
nothing less however from the Nothing But Crap network with its star
nothing but crap anchor.
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Christopher McDonald, Publisher, Editor in Charge
Great Smoky Mountain Journal
