HOLY WEEK, 2006
April 13th, 2006 by Peter
Every Christmas the secularists tell us not to mention “Christmas” in public and every Easter they tell us our beliefs are lies. Lent, 2006 has been no different. This year’s attack began a few weeks ago with the climatologist who claimed that Jesus did not walk on water but on a block of ice. Then the Courant ran that silly front page story on the supposed significance of a text of the Gospel of Judas, a Gnostic work rejected by the Church in the second century. And, of course, there was the Courant editorial lecturing Christian critics of “The DaVinci Code” to get over it. In fact, Christian reaction to the book has been rather mild when compared with the anti-Christian hysteria over Mel Gibson’s “The Passion of the Christ,” but I don’t recall any similar Courant editorial advising anti-Passion secularists to calm down.
Why do the media do this every Easter? Columnist Cal Thomas’ observations in his Apr. 11 piece offers a partial answer:
What is responsible for this flood of skepticism, heresy and outright denial of the biblical record? Why is there not a similar cultural onslaught against other faiths? Only the suicidal would treat Islam in this way. The skeptics sound like those disclaimers for certain drugs sold on TV: Side effects may include vomiting, hair loss, bleeding, dizziness and disorientation. The side effects of believing in Jesus may include loss of friends, disrespect by the academic and journalistic communities and damage to one’s career, not to mention a complete change in the life to which one has become comfortably accustomed.
