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. . . I am going to do a thorough writeup of a particularly irritating journalistic genre: “I was raised Catholic, and I was taught [x, which is not something the Catholic Church actually teaches].” An example from the New York Times:
I grew up Catholic, the type of Catholic that is encouraged to bargain. At the age of 7 I was fervently being told by a priest in a box that if I simply said half a dozen Hail Marys I’d be forgiven for being mean to my sister.
This is, of course, pure ignorance. Dean Baquet is right that the New York Times simply doesn’t “get religion,” though instead of “religion” he ought to have said what he means, which is, “We don’t get Christianity.” When the editor of the New York Times says his newspaper is too New Yorky to “get religion,” he isn’t talking about Mahayana Buddhism.
I imagine this kind of thing gets through the editing process in roughly this way: “Oh, the author is Irish, she must know Catholic stuff.” Soft bigotry of low expectations, as someone once put it.
The author says she now prays to “a different higher power. Science, maybe. Or the government.” I wonder whether she knows anything about those, either.
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She should have said, ‘We don’t get Catholicism,’ as Christianity is much more than Catholicism.
You better believe that the NYT “gets Islam”! They don’t get Christianity because they know that the good and decent people in this country are part of this religious belief.
Honestly, the New York Times doesn’t get very much, Period.
The Times is free to disagree with any religious system they choose, however they should understand that which they oppose.
Historic Christianity believes that we were created by a designer outside of and greater than the system we inhabit. That designer, God, had standards for us, yet we all fall short of fulfilling them all and therefore deserve judgement. God knew we could never reach His standards, so He came Himself to pay the price we could never pay. He came as a baby, Jesus, lived a life without failures, and was executed as a criminal on our behalf. In short, He paid the penalty for our failures, then defeated death itself by rising from the grave three days later. He paid my sin mortgage.
He offers us this gift of a clean, expunged record for free if we simply trust Him for it and ask. There are numerous scriptures to support this, but John 3:16 is the best known.
Simply acknowledging that I have failed, asking Him to apply His death to me and help me to live accordingly is what has become known as Christianity.
Amen! Jesus died for the sins of all humanity (past, present, and future). His sacrifice paid the price. One has to only accept Him as savior, repent of one’s sins (be sorry for them and reject them), and believe He is the Christ (Son of God) that has risen from the grave and conquered death.
This is the ONLY way to salvation, and is clearly explained in The New Testament of The Bible.
Spread The Good News!
There is none good, no not one!
All have sinned!
All sins have been paid for by Jesus’ sacrifice!
Accept Jesus as Lord & Savior for eternal salvation.