You can disagree with their conclusions, but let them have too much influence on what you think about and what you discuss with other people. Disagreeing with them about the coronavirus, racial issues, or guns isn't enough if they're getting you to spend too much time thinking and talking about the coronavirus, racial issues, or guns.
On the hand, for the discerning Christian he can help others see the bankruptcy of their views. Take BLM. It presents a good opportunity to inform others the hypocrisy of this movement by showing how much fatherlessness and the over 300,000 murdered black babies by abortion every year. That should be talked about as much as possible. Same goes for other issues. Get informed and refute the nonsense.
ReplyDeleteThe issues should be talked about, but not "as much as possible". People have limited time, attention, money, etc. We have to prioritize. And since so many people are already talking about issues like race and abortion, the organizations that specialize in such issues are getting so much funding, etc., there's less of a need for others to talk about them accordingly. Many of the most important issues in life get far less attention than they should while people give far too much of their lives to thinking about and talking about presidential politics, racial issues, school shootings, hurricanes, viruses, guns, police issues, or whatever else the media, including conservative media, are focused on at the time. The degree to which people's lives are shaped by what the media are focused on (including the false priorities of conservative media) is a problem.
DeleteThere are a lot of people who aren't influenced much by these things because they're so apathetic, lazy, and such. Instead of following the latest controversies surrounding racial issues or presidential politics, they watch movies, do housework, joke around, or take a walk. Even if they're avoiding some of the corrupting influences of the media, what they're replacing that media influence with is something that has a lot of its own problems and is worse in many ways. They're the sort of people I referred to in my last post, who find more meaning in life in their family than in God, can't name a single Supreme Court justice, can't name the four gospels, etc.
What we ought to be doing is avoiding both of the lifestyles I've summarized above. We should pay some attention to matters like race and presidential politics, but not nearly as much as the media and others encourage us to. And when we walk away from the corrupting influences of sources like the media, we should walk away to do significant things, not to live the sort of trivial life the large majority of Americans (and others) are so satisfied with. There's a tremendous amount of work that needs done in missions, evangelism, apologetics, ethics, philosophy, history, the paranormal, Bible translation, changing people's priorities, changing their time management, etc., and that work largely isn't being done. Instead, the vast majority of people, including the vast majority of conservative Evangelicals, want to live one of the two lifestyles described above or some alternative that's similarly problematic.
Much to agree with. We should also remember how biased the media is. I've come to the conclusion that most "journalists" are just activist bloggers. They no longer deserve our respect.
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