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Reading Between the Lines
Joseph Farah, editor-in-chief at WorldNetDaily, writes a column entitled "Between the Lines." On at least one occasion he has filled the blank space between lines of dialogue with his own prejudice against this Mainstream Baptist. He does that in a diatribe today against me and the documentary about Baptists and Muslims entitled " Different Books, Common Word" that is currently airing on ABC-TV affiliate stations.
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Twisting the facts, while insinuating that I am a "moral relativist," he published a column that portrays me as exclaiming that "Christians are terrorists, too." For the record, I did not say that and Farah knows it -- or, at least, he ought to know it. He goes on to accurately quote me as saying, "We have extremists in both our faiths."
The documentary is about Baptists and Muslims and not about McVeigh, who was a Catholic. Farah focuses on McVeigh to deflect attention from the kind of fundamentalist Christian extremists -- clearly named in the documentary -- who insist on deliberately stoking embers that could promote violent conflict between Christianity and Islam.
I have never corresponded or spoken with Farah. If he had asked me to identify extremists within my own faith -– something which he did not do, though his writing leaves the impression that he did -- I would have quickly identified some Baptists for him -- as I did for the producers of the documentary.
Sincere Christians can ill afford to tolerate journalism and commentary that takes such a cavalier attitude toward the truth. Too many lives are at stake and the credibility of our witness is on the line.
This entry is crossposted from the Mainstream Baptist weblog.
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