Posted on 09/18/2009 2:25:16 PM PDT by Borges
All journalists want to write a story that makes a big splash. John T. Elson, the religion editor at Time magazine, was no exception. But in 1966 he got more than he bargained for.
For more than a year, Mr. Elson had labored over an article examining radical new approaches to thinking about God that were gaining currency in seminaries and universities and spilling over to the public at large.
When finally completed, it became the cover story for the issue of April 8, as Easter and Passover approached. The cover itself was eye-catching, the first one in Time’s 43-year history to appear without a photograph or an illustration. Giant blood-red letters against a black background spelled out the question “Is God Dead?”
The issue caused an uproar, equaled only by John Lennon’s offhand remark, published in a magazine for teenagers a few months later, that the Beatles were more popular than Jesus. The “Is God Dead?” issue gave Time its biggest newsstand sales in more than 20 years and elicited 3,500 letters to the editor, the most in its history to that point. It remains a signpost of the 1960s, testimony to the wrenching social changes transforming the United States.
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“God is dead”—Elson
“Elson is dead”—God
Yes I am well aware of what the word Allah stands for and what our God and Savior mean.. But here is the 64 K question I do not recall where he rejected past statements and Embraced the Lord God. Or did he die like that other famous Heathen crying out for salvation?
Side note these Lefty's do not defame Allah they are too scared to do that so they instead go for the Christian God where the other cheek will be turned
Now he knows. RIP.
I won’t pass judgement as to whether he’s in Heaven or hell, just a quick prayer for his soul and the hope that he got it right with God before he died.
Editors of magazines like this oversee thousands of articles on various hot button topics of the day. I don’t think they concern themselves with rejecting this one or that one. They probably don’t even buy half of them.
In the end God always wins. He will either show is infinite mercy or his infinite justice.
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