The Voice Of One Crying Out In Suburbia

I am sure this will be even-handed....

Richard Ostling, a well-known writer on religious subjects, writes about a new PBS show called The Question of God, a show purporting to examine the question of the existance of God. Red flags immediately go up, as the show looks specifically at Genesis and is hosted by unabashed liberal Bill Moyers.

Ostling wonders aloud if Christians and other people of faith will be overjoyed by the mere raising of the question by PBS...

Believers may be so pleased PBS is even taking the God issue seriously and portraying Lewis' conversion that they'll overlook the tilt against belief.

In a word, no. Ostling goes on to say...

So Question unwittingly indicates that faith remains on the defensive among cultural elitists, notwithstanding popular-level revivals and the supposed Twilight of Atheism proclaimed in a new book by Alister McGrath, a Lewis-style atheist turned Oxford theist.

The programs seem to reflect less of Nicholi, a churchgoing Protestant, than of Tatge, a former Catholic on a "faith journey" wed to an agnostic who co-produced.

So we have a panel of people mostly hostile to faith and a few weak-kneed believers. PBS has tried hard to produce shows about faith but invariably falls short. This may be due to a combinaton of fearing to cross the imaginary line between church and state or it may be based in the inherent leftist hostility to faith. Most likely it is a combination of the two. It is virtually impossible to find common ground behind the self-appointed cultural elites who sneer at people of faith and those same people of faith who disdain the cultural elites. Those in the middle are like those who are lukewarm in the church of Laodicea "I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish that you were cold or hot. So, because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I am going to spit you out of My mouth." (Rev 3:15-16).

If you deny God in all of His Glory to appeal to the pseudo-intellectuals in academia and Hollywood, you lack the changed nature of a Christian. If you are one of th elite and profess a strong faith, you find yourself outcast and ridiculed like Mel Gibson. It is imposible to please the world and please God at the same time, so everyone must choose who they serve. Like Joshua, me and my family choose the Lord.