The Washington Post has delivered yet another low blow to Christians everywhere by publishing a “perspective” piece called “White Christianity is in big trouble. And it’s its own biggest threat.”
Written by the Charles Mathewes, a professor of Religious Studies at the University of Virginia, the faithless opinion culls together a vast wasteland of anti-Christian sentiment that reflects a mangled, atheistic perspective on American Evangelicals.
Mathewes opens by maligning those that take exception to the secularization of the holidays. He offers a back-handed criticism that sets out to make people of faith appear hysterical for expressing the opinion that the greeting “Merry Christmas” is somehow unworthy. Devoted Christians are considered ridiculous for thinking the generic “Happy Holidays” catch-all phrase bandied by the previous White House as less than religious.
In a grotesque interpretation of the Trump Administration’s return to “Merry Christmas,” and desire for the restoration of the Christian greetings across the land, the academic elitist calls this “the terrible assaults on the Christian heritage of our nation.” Apparently, the insulated professor has lost touch with everyday Christians that view the thousands-year-old greeting as part of a rich, positive tradition. Perhaps he’d like to silence the Salvation Army bell-ringers as well.
Smoke and Secular Mirrors
In an effort to cloak secular rights as just and religious freedom as bullying, the WaPo piece peers through anti-Christian glasses. It attempts to denigrate the actions of a Colorado cakemaker in a recent U.S. Supreme Court case who declined to participate in a gay wedding. Although opinions vary from Christian to Christian on the matter, religious convictions and how each chooses to serve God deserves respect. Forcing a cakemaker to do something contrary to his faith is bullying, not his respectful declining.
It wouldn’t be part of the secular media without judgement. The piece calls into question Alabama voters who supported candidate Roy Moore at the polls. The op-ed says, “we witnessed the spectacle of white Christians in Alabama who convinced themselves either that the man they hoped to elect as their senator was not so creepy around young girls as to get himself banned from a mall.” While reports from the then-mall manager refute the ban, WaPo aggressively moves forward condemning the long-time judge who refused to remove the Ten Commandments from his courtroom.
Although no charges or claims have been substantiated against Moore, Mathewes proves himself willing to call out Evangelicals as sinners for considering a man innocent until proven guilty.
In a disgusting attack on Christians, the WaPo states, “When we’ve reached a place where good Christian folk think it’s a matter of major theological principle not to sell pastries to gay people but are willing to give pedophiles a pass, I think it’s safe to say that American Christianity today — white American Christianity in particular — is in a pretty sorry state.”
The Wolf in WaPo Identity Politics Clothing
Despite railing against “White” people of faith, Mathewes employs the soothsaying tactics common to anti-Christian elitists. In a twisted application of simple logic, he would have you believe that in some altered reality, he’s one of us.
“But perhaps most importantly, white Christians seem unwilling to be guided by the plain truth of our shared faith,” Mathewes states.
While true Christians falter and repent straying from the teachings of Jesus Christ, this claim that the author ranks among our trusted fellowship appears to be nothing but a ruse. Perhaps we should all take that first bite of the apple just to be certain, right?
The faulty attempt to align the reader with the author falls apart quickly as White Evangelicals are condemned as hypocrites.
“White evangelical Christians like guns, for example, and do not especially like immigrants. Compared to other demographics, we’re excited about the death penalty, indifferent to those who are impoverished or infirm, and blind to racial and gender inequalities. We claim to read the Bible and hear Jesus’ teachings, but we think poor people deserve what they (don’t) get, and the inmates of our prisons deserve, if anything, worse than the horrors they already receive. For believers in a religion whose Scriptures teach compassion, we’re a breathtakingly cruel bunch,” the WaPo articles sates.
It would be remarkable if the Protestant writer lumped other Christian races into these claims. But any good WaPo piece serves the left-leaning Identity Politics institutions best when it targets Whites as devils.
Regardless of the so-called religious credentials and Protestant affiliation Prof. Charles Mathewes has on his resume, this WaPo “perspective” is just another faithless, anti-Christian attack on the White Evangelicals.
~ Christian Patriot Daily
