Amanpour's "God's Warriors" Airs on CNN
Christiane Amanpour is going to "clear up" all the confusion about religious fundamentalism:
NEW YORK - Christiane Amanpour's work on the documentary series "God's Warriors" took her directly to intersections of extreme religious and secular thinking.(emphasis and editorial commentary added)
She watched, fascinated, as demonstrators in San Francisco accused teenagers in the fundamentalist Christian group BattleCry of intolerance in a clash of two cultures that will probably never understand each other.
Understanding is what Amanpour is trying to promote in "God's Warriors," which takes up six prime-time hours on CNN this week. The series on religious fundamentalism among Christians, Muslims and Jews [ED.: Yeah, you'll promote a lot of "understanding" by lumping theologically and socially conservative Christians in with Islamic extremists.] airs in three parts, 9 p.m. EDT Tuesday through Thursday.
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The segment on Christians explores BattleCry in some depth, digging at the roots of an organization that fights against some of the cruder elements of popular culture and urges teenagers to be chaste. In noting how girls at some BattleCry events are encouraged to wear long dresses, Amanpour asks the group's leader how it is different from the Taliban. [ED.: Uhhhhh, how about because "encouraged to wear long dresses" does not equal "commanded to wear burkhas", and the penalty for noncompliance is not a bullet in the back of the head during halftime of a soccer match?]
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[Amanpour is] leaving her home base of London to move to New York with her husband, former U.S. State Department spokesman James Rubin.
"This is really a personal move for my husband,who has lived eight years out of his own country and wants to come back," she said. [ED.: Translation: Now that the Bushitler regime is nearly over, Jamie feels safe to repatriate back to the States in hopes of scoring a position in the next Clinton Administration.]
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Previous Pro Ecclesia posts on this subject:
San Francisco: Intolerant City
California Assemblyman Calls Evangelical Youth "Loud ... Obnoxious ... Disgusting"
Labels: "Religious Right", God and Country, Media, Religion of Peace, Religious Persecution, Theology
posted by Pro Ecclesia 11:39 AM
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James Rubin has been a Bush basher for years. He has a blog, albeit only two entries, on Huffingtonpost, that home for all things moonbat, and has spent his years in exile from his academic post at the London School of Economics launching verbal darts at the Bush administration. In 2004 he was a top foreign policy advisor for John F. Kerry.
Surely Christiane Amanpour will get to the bottom of all this.
I'm sorry to go off topic, but has anyone seen the documentary "Jesus Camp?" My wife picked it up off Netflix, and I'm wondering if it's worth watching at all.
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