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PBS Blames Churches Following The Bible
For 'Politicization Of Religion'

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Posted By: Imright, 4/5/2024 7:55:11 PM

Correspondent Sarah McCammon joined her NPR colleague Michel Martin on Thursday’s Amanpour and Company on PBS to discuss her book, The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church because public broadcasting networks stick together. Naturally, Evangelicals’ relationship with Donald Trump and the “politicization of religion” was a big part of the conversation, but McCammon made it clear that her definition of politicization was that Christians do not bend their beliefs to appease the LGBTQ crowd.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: enemyofthestate 4/5/2024 8:20:06 PM (No. 1693552)
This confirms my continuing refusal to donate one single dime to the local PBS television station.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: rikkitikki 4/5/2024 8:26:10 PM (No. 1693558)
The truth is that McCammon and friends are in denial that religion has been politicized in America and its Constitution from their founding, because both were founded on Christian principles. It will never be possible to separate Church from State, because laws must be based on beliefs, and beliefs are religion, even if you don't call it that. It is McCammon et al who are trying to replace America's Christian underpinnings with those of another religion...in their case, humanistic, pelagian hedonism.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: Northcross 4/5/2024 8:29:05 PM (No. 1693560)
It wont be long until the secular elitists in power outlaw Christianity as a purveyor of hate for not cheering on every form of sexual perversion.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: Boomerdeplorable 4/5/2024 8:49:36 PM (No. 1693576)
I pray for these ignorant people.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: DVC 4/5/2024 8:54:02 PM (No. 1693581)
The Bible isn't political at all. But then, Professional Bull Sh**, doesn't have anyone who actually has read a Bible, or owns one.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: FormerDem 4/5/2024 9:02:20 PM (No. 1693588)
Our reporters are stupid and uninformed. Religions are allowed to be politicized in the US. Does the right have all the reporters who sometimes read books written long ago and who are familiar with the Constitution and why in its historical context they would have done it this way? I do think that may be the case.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: Californian 4/5/2024 9:46:43 PM (No. 1693611)
What? Are they talking about black churches which have been political for generations?
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Reply 8 - Posted by: Gordon Mills 4/5/2024 10:16:33 PM (No. 1693616)
When are the cowardly r's going to pull the funding from PBS/NPR? They've had multiple opportunities in the last couple of decades and they punt.
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Reply 9 - Posted by: LLAMA 4/6/2024 6:41:47 AM (No. 1693744)
I agree with #1, but only wish that the US Congress would do the same.
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Reply 10 - Posted by: BarryNo 4/6/2024 8:02:23 AM (No. 1693789)
Projection, as usual. If we decry evil, it is politicization. Like the left hasn't been infiltration and twisting the Word of God since the Founding.
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Reply 11 - Posted by: Dodge Boy 4/6/2024 8:18:32 AM (No. 1693797)
Huh. Just wondering. What about Pope Frank, then.
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Reply 12 - Posted by: msjena 4/6/2024 8:30:00 AM (No. 1693804)
What is the "evangelical church?" There is no such official church or denomination. An example of an evangelical Christian is Billy Graham. He was a reformed Protestant--not of any particular denomination-- who followed the Bible as the sole authority, include the command to to and preach the gospel. There are branches of Presbyterians and of course, Baptists, and other Protestant denominations that believe the same things that Billy Graham believed. They perhaps are not as overtly trying to evanglize, though all have mission trips and/or support missionaries. But their beliefs are the same.
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Reply 13 - Posted by: janjan 4/6/2024 9:44:29 AM (No. 1693850)
The Bible has been around for a lot longer than these ignorant women and will indeed outlive us all. It is not subject to ‘polls’ and does not bend itself to anyone’s personal beliefs. Read it or not, believe it or not, but don’t dare try to lecture me.
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Reply 14 - Posted by: stablemoney 4/6/2024 9:54:22 AM (No. 1693860)
I didn't like the changes of leadership at PBS in the mid-nineties, and have not watched them since.
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Reply 15 - Posted by: Zigrid 4/6/2024 11:38:35 AM (No. 1693970)
The muslim in the White House running the show...Barack HUSSEIN Obama...is once again attacking the Christian faith...he is so predictable. he gives money to Iran to attack Israel and our Holy places to make himself feel better about his faith....he's a twisted foreign born fool...who hates Americans...so obvious....
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Reply 16 - Posted by: Hermoine 4/6/2024 12:04:42 PM (No. 1693990)
For the question I'm about to ask, I don't care enough to read her book, but honestly, your grandmother dies and your EIGHTY year old grandfather decides he's gay and that is in the spark that leads you doubt your faith and leave Christianity? You don't say to yourself, my granddad is 80 and probably has some form of dementia and while sad, I think he is simply misguided and confused? Andy by the way, who does a newly "out" 80-year old gay man pick up?
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Reply 17 - Posted by: Luckychosenfew 4/6/2024 7:46:10 PM (No. 1694173)
Religion is the politics of Theology!
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