In an earlier era, Tim Alberta was a reporter for the National Review, one of too many small NRs that later joined the liberal media zoo. Alberta is now part of The Atlantic, one of America’s most intense producers of frothy left-wing nonsense.
It seems every left-wing network has invited Alberta to trash conservative Christians through his latest book, “The Kingdom, the Power and the Glory: American Evangelicals in the Age of Extremism.” It is billed as Alberta’s “deeply personal examination of the divisions that threaten to destroy the American evangelical movement.” Evangelical Christians are perhaps the most polarizing — and least understood — people living in America today.
Wait. No one in these interviews questions the extreme cultural polarization of the libertine left. This extreme is the discourse of the left-wing media, on the corner of GLAAD and Planned Parenthood Street.
Interviewers loved the Alberta funeral story. On “PBS NewsHour,” anchor Geoff Bennett began: “I asked Tim about a searing moment he describes, when, at his own father’s funeral, a church elder chastised him for not not having fully accepted Donald Trump as God’s chosen leader.
Is this an accurate quote? Alberta responded: “Once I was able to understand that, because it was a surreal moment, I just buried my father – you’re in this state of grief and shock, and you don’t know if it is really real? …If I could be treated this way, if I could be considered a member of the deep state, as an enemy of the Church, as an apostate – if I could be treated this way, then how do we treat those who are outside the Church? ?”
On NPR’s “Fresh Air,” host Terry Gross also loved the funeral tale: “Let me go back and say that Rush Limbaugh started quoting and attacking you on his radio show.” What did he say about you?
Alberta said: “Rush Limbaugh was on his show describing some of my unflattering characterizations of Donald Trump and the evangelical movement. Trump himself was tweeting about my book. I was getting a lot of threats, a lot of nasty emails, a lot of criticism from right-wing media. » So “people were asking me if I was really still a Christian, if I was on the right side of good versus evil…and all the while, of course, my father is in a box 30 meters away.”
Gross then asked, “If they saw that in you, their pastor’s son, you, who many of them had known all their lives, what about the people they don’t know?” Is it easy to dehumanize them and make enemies of them?
Funerals shouldn’t be the scene of a political fight, which is why they love this fun portrait of conservative Christians. But Alberta wrote this book to argue that Christians who support Trump are apostates and enemies of democracy. PBS, NPR and others regularly “dehumanize” conservatives.
Alberta was bitterly angry at his pastor father for voting for Trump in 2016. So what kind of Christian is he? Hillary Clinton funder? Why doesn’t his pro-abortion “division” of evangelicalism “threaten to destroy it”?
Alberta and its media aids I can’t find the cultural context of our time. Aren’t the arrival of “same-sex marriage”, naturally followed by drag queen twerk shows for children, books of a sexual nature in school libraries, and “gender-affirming care” for minors, not why do Christians feel like something is missing?
Is there nothing “extremist” about this? Do Alberta’s Model Christians offer a remedy or resistance to these trends? Nobody asked.
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