Pastor emeritus Nathan Bickel has left a new comment on your post "MSNBC: Network of bigotry hate mongering and racis...":
Ichabod -
Thank you for posting this. I believe that Christian audiences need to witness some spotlight exposure upon our nation's mainstream media. Too often have Christians been a complacent element in the selection of unfit, unworthy and immoral political leaders. Exposing particular network media and individual media personalities (who influence Christians) for whom those media people are, can be helpful for Christian voters who are too prone to capriciously and indiscriminately vote their pocket books and union affiliations.
I think a good rule of thumb for Christian voters, is to understand who these angry, bigoted and racist media people are endorsing. Once that is clear; Christian voters (then) need to support and endorse the opposite political leaders who are the immoral scorn of these nasty media people.
Having stated the above; I must say that I am very disappointed in the "Christian" vote in states such as Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Michigan where there is a high concentration of "Christian" voters, - and, among them, "good" Lutherans. It is simply astounding that these 3 states in the recent past presidential elections have voted for the less moral (and less "Christian") presidential candidates; giving their electoral votes to the radical left political party which endorses unrestricted and partial birth abortion (the culture of death).
Somehow, I conclude that these "Christians" aren't connecting the important dots. They certainly don't fit into the Christian disciple category of which Dietrich Bonhoeffer wrote when he stated: "He, who believes, obeys; and he who obeys, believes." In other words; many of these "Christians," must be going through the motions. Maybe that reckless course of action speaks to their flawed and erroneous belief of "universal objective justification." That flawed belief can and does numb the spiritual senses. And, once the spiritual senses are stupefied; love for God and country are driven back seat to selfish and immoral values.
Nathan M. Bickel
www.thechristianmessage.org
www.moralmatters.org
