Hm, looks promising.
But it's the NYT, and I've been hurt before.
Then again, decades ago the LAT did an astonishing objective series on how the abortion issue was being reported. So....
Sigh. I'll check it out.
What on earth does the NYT know about Christianity?
Okay, I'm back.
Typical, they choose someone associated with Christianity Astray. After a promising start, his premise is, "Oh, don't worry about us. We're fractured and ineffective. Besides, you really should be a little more tolerant, 'kay?"
The writer also mentions along the way that, of his four children, three did not grow up to be evangelicals. I know you can't charge kids' sins directly to their parents, but it is something to consider.
Maybe he's bucking for House Evangelical.
Fear God and fear all else less.
Dig the last paragraph:
Evidently we still are. But such is life in a pluralistic nation. Even as book after book sounds the alarm about the evangelical menace — coming in January, Chris Hedges’ “American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America” — conservative evangelical activists are sending out fund-raising letters portraying themselves as a beleaguered remnant. The reality, as usual, is considerably messier.
Chris Hedges is a Timesman, and more representative of the paper, though he goes much further than his colleagues. You can find his essay, "The Christian Right and the Rise of American Fascism," the "article that no major publication would print" on the Internet.
Not a bad article, but not much sense of Christian conviction coming through, either. Any that he has, he is holding back, so as not to offend his audience.
Also, notice that the NYTimes has to bring in an outsider to write this once-yearly caution against demonizing Evangelicals. God forbid that they should hire a genuinely religious person as their own religion writer, to explain things to their readers on a regular basis.