Kristof: News Media Overwhelmingly Out of Touch with Born-Agains
From Janus comes word of this interesting Op-Ed piece at the New York Times: God, Satan and the Media. The author, Nicholas D. Kristof, has some interesting statistics on the percentage of people in the U.S. who are evangelical Christians (like Dubya), and the gulf that separates such folks from virtually everyone in the news media.
March 4th, 2003 at 3:58 pm
So what of those who are non-religious, don’t believe a god-or-satan exist, but yet don’t disbelieve their existence?
I used to think I was athiest, until I learned the word agnostic. Then I thought I was agnostic until this week when I realized that agnostisism is still a “disbelief until proven otherwise”…
Is there a word to describe those in my situation? Maybe just “over-objective”… too bad there isn’t more of that in the media…
March 4th, 2003 at 5:36 pm
Deism might fit what you’re describing. I used to fall into that camp until I realized I wasn’t sure why I was believing in a personally-defined god if I wasn’t comfortable with any of the millions of others out there.
Er… wait, sorry being an American these days means having faith in god, doesn’t it. Go Jesus!
March 4th, 2003 at 7:02 pm
heh, cool, thanks for the term. I’ll try it out. Although my thing is not really a personal-defined god as much as it is just an intentional non-definition.
Being American these days seems to mean being a nazi during the fall of Rome.
As for a belief in a Christian “god” — I can’t imagine such a benevolent entity would allow the horrors as Bush proposes to be committed in its name.
August 6th, 2003 at 12:09 pm
Do any of you ever wonder why humans wonder about diety? Do any of you ever wonder why humans and humans alone spend so much of their thought lives debating with themselves and others the existence of God? Know this. It isn’t because He isn’t there