The Huffington Post is adding a section on religion, which seems intent on redefining it away from Christianity. Full story here.
As evidence for the prosecution, here’s a quote from the editor of the new section:
HuffPost Religion aims to more accurately reflect the large cross section of insights provided by religious people beyond the more narrow range commonly depicted. Religion far transcends politics and moves beyond right versus left. Our goal is to create a place for a dialogue about the many aspects of religion and spirituality that is open, intelligent, forward-thinking, and unafraid of challenging the conventional wisdom.
Meaning: Christianity is all about politics and making excuses for exploitation of the weak; and we, on the other hand, are all about loving, kindhearted spirituality. See Avatar. Whee.
You’re right, Jim, that this is about politics not religion, per se.
That’s made clear in the first example of what they say HuffPoRel editor Paul Brandeis Raushenbush will cover: the site will “focus on topics including how personal religious commitments influence politicians.” Emphasis added.
This is nothing more than an anthropological foray by intellectual posers into how the masses buy into religious mumbo-jumbo, and how these fanatics use their faith-based magical thinking to poison the body politic.
And I have to say, I chafe at calling the War against Islamo-Nazism a “Clash of Civilizations.” It is a clash of Western Civilization against barbarism, but stating that makes me a hated propagator of “Orientalism.” Well, then so be it.
It’s deeper than that, Dan. (And, yes, I realize your post was brief and light so you didn’t get into this fully.)
HuffPost comes at this from the idea that religion is about politics, and not about individuals finding their paths to God. That, itself, is revealing.
And, as you infer, HuffPost and the Hollywood left considers traditional practice of religion to not be “intelligent.” (Though I’d put the pope against the HuffPost’s best any day in a battle of intellect.) And the site wants to promote “forward thinking” that is “unafraid” to challenge “the conventional wisdom” of theology.
Let’s just say it’s safe to assume HuffPost won’t be challenging the “conventional wisdom” of Wahhabism, the strain of “mainstream” Islam that has fostered murderous jihad. No. HuffPost will be “challenging” safe targets that wouldn’t think of reacting in violence — namely, devout Christians who take their religion seriously and have endured being the butt of jokes and jibes with dignity and “intelligence.”
What brave souls over there at HuffPost.