{"id":114,"date":"2007-08-24T20:38:04","date_gmt":"2007-08-25T03:38:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=114"},"modified":"2009-11-21T21:38:04","modified_gmt":"2009-11-22T05:38:04","slug":"national-review-cnn-espousing-equivalency-of-ideology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/24\/national-review-cnn-espousing-equivalency-of-ideology\/","title":{"rendered":"National Review: CNN Espousing &#8220;equivalency of ideology&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Carter of the National Review wrote an <a href=\"http:\/\/article.nationalreview.com\/?q=N2IwMzIzYzM2ZTVkZmNmYzVjOTJmNTQzMDVkMWE3MGM=\">article<\/a> on CNN&#8217;s &#8220;God&#8217;s Warriors&#8221; in which he noted that while many people are concerned about CNN juxtaposing assassins and Falwell, what CNN is really doing is proposing &#8220;equivalency of ideology.&#8221;\u00a0 That is, Islam, Judaism, and Christianity are &#8220;equal.&#8221;\u00a0 He notes, for example,\u00a0that while &#8220;theocracy&#8221; is a theology most aligned with Islam, it is more often attributed to Protestant Christians.\u00a0 In fact,\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>more than half of American evangelicals are either Baptists or nondenominational \u2014 groups that don\u2019t even want a centralized <em>church<\/em> government much less a central government controlled by the church.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Culture and Media Institute also wrote an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cultureandmediainstitute.org\/articles\/2007\/20070824135046.aspx\">article<\/a> on the CNN series.\u00a0 It contains some positive and negative things about the shows, including Amanpour&#8217;s comparison of Christian calls for &#8220;modest dress&#8221; as equivalent with the Taliban calls for burkas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Carter of the National Review wrote an article on CNN&#8217;s &#8220;God&#8217;s Warriors&#8221; in which he noted that while many people are concerned about CNN juxtaposing assassins and Falwell, what CNN is really doing is proposing &#8220;equivalency of ideology.&#8221;\u00a0 That is, Islam, Judaism, and Christianity are &#8220;equal.&#8221;\u00a0 He notes, for example,\u00a0that while &#8220;theocracy&#8221; is a theology most aligned with Islam, [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[4,2,10],"class_list":["post-114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","tag-churchandstate","tag-military","tag-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}