January 2010 Archives
Fox News analyst Brit Hume said "widespread media bias against Christianity" was to blame for criticism of his suggestion that Tiger Woods should embrace Christianity to find redemption. "Instead of urging that Tiger Woods turn to Christianity, if I had said what he needed to do was to strengthen his Buddhist commitment or turn to Hinduism, I don't think anybody would have said a word," Hume told Christianity Today. "It's Christ and Christianity that get people stirred up."
I don't know about you, but I think it's awesome that Christ is still stirring people up! It's easy to become discouraged, as a Christian, when surrounded by so much negativity towards Christ and Christianity. But then I think, if Christ wasn't really the Way the Truth and the Life no one would care, so we must be on the right track!
Religious Freedom a Casualty of Growing Information Curtain
21 January 2010, Washington, DC-US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton delivered a major policy speech on internet freedom in Washington today in which she warned, "With the spread of...restrictive practices, a new information curtain is descending across much of the world." She identified religious freedom as one of the casualties of this growing information curtain. Secretary Clinton elaborated:
