The Easter "Hit" Parade

From Cybercast News Service:

Christians and Jews are accustomed to cultural elites trying to undermine their religious faith during Lent, Passover and Easter -- but it's never been as bad as this year.

Beginning on February 26, the news and entertainment media have fired a stunning barrage of criticism at religious beliefs, religious practice and religious symbols. Nothing is too sacred to attack this year, not even the most crucial teachings of Judaism and Christianity.

-- On Easter Sunday, the History Channel will question whether the Bible is God's genuine revelation to mankind.

-- The current -- Holy Week -- issue of Newsweek teases readers with the headline "Is God Real?" and features a debate between a prominent evangelical pastor and an outspoken atheist. National Public Radio also carried an atheist/Christian debate.

-- An April 3 New York Times article dismisses the story of Moses parting the Red Sea as a "myth."

-- Newsweek's March 19 cover story, "The Evolution Revolution," showcases the latest evolutionary theories attempting to explain the development of humanity without God. A March 4 New York Times Magazine piece, "Darwin's God," describes religious belief as "an outgrowth of brain architecture that evolved during early human history."

-- The arts world has mocked Jesus with a life-sized, nude, anatomically correct sculpture made of chocolate, reducing Him to the level of the Easter Bunny.

-- On March 4, the Discovery Channel took the prize. Discovery aired a documentary, "The Lost Tomb of Jesus," that claims to have disproved the foundational belief of Christianity: that Jesus rose from the dead.

This year's Easter "Hit" Parade began just five days after the beginning of Lent, at a February 26 press conference. Hollywood uber-director James Cameron and Emmy Award-winning director Simcha Jacobovici announced to the world that they have found Jesus' remains, thereby knocking the central pillar out from under the Christian edifice.

As the apostle Paul wrote, "If Christ is not risen, your faith is futile; you are still in your sins!" (1 Corinthians 15:17). Cameron's and Jacobovici's conclusions were quickly shredded by a phalanx of Jewish, Christian and secular scholars, but the media's Easter "Hit" Parade marched on.

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My Comments:
Actually, I don't believe this year's secularist attack on Judeo-Christian faith has been any worse than in previous years. The media and the secular left always pull this crap during Lent and Holy Week (a.k.a. "Anti-Christian Sweeps Week").