Christian Science and Jihadists

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I am not particularly familiar with The Christian  Science Monitor. It does not appear to be connected to “mainstream” Christianity - and is instead evidently another Obama administration support organ, like MSNBC, but with a religious slant.

In a recent article, they speak favorably of the Muslim Brotherhood, a “people-powered political movement”

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[deckardcanine]

Years ago, an atheistic LJ-er surprised me by citing the CSM. He said that despite his own expectations, it was the best source he knew for unbiased news.

You probably remember him: Orv, the boyfriend of the LJ-er formerly known as Rain Luong. The latter, at least, thought the NYT too conservative.

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I do remember him. "Gullible" in at least one sense, as I recall.

It makes sense that "pro-left" could be seen as unbiased by an uncritical leftist. However, this is doing himself an injustice, because he is filtering out his own ability to judge such things.

I regularly read sources from all over the political spectrum; each has a bias, but each can yet be useful. And the biases become understood, and part of the filtering process, applied intelligently.

===|==============/ Keith DeHavelle

[ext_40416]

I haven't followed the monitor for years, but I remember as a teenager during the first gulf war listening to the CS Monitor's shortwave station (according with Wikipedia it was shut down in 1997). It was very anti war and the reports sounded to me like years of guerrilla warfare were immanent. Of course we were then awed by how effectively we could bomb Bagdad and destroy supply lines in the desert without their soldier including the Republican Guard being able to mount a effective counter attack.

I think the real issue is that most news organizations have employed multiple generations of journalists who are taught that governments and corporations are evil, technology is inherently bad and must be carefully channeled to prevent damage, and that people who aren't westerners (who developed the last wave a technology) are noble savages who should be admired.

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That teaching, the current public education system in the US, is a problem and getting worse. It is not quite as corrosive as the UN-sponsored school textbooks in Palestine portion of Israel teaching that Jews are "pigs and apes" and that the West must be destroyed, but it is pointing in that direction.

===|==============/ Keith DeHavelle

[kharmii]

CSM used to show up on my home page a lot. They always had blatantly left leaning titles to their articles and spend a lot of time putting down the tea party. I have to wonder if the religion itself is less about Christianity and more about evangelizing about leftist causes.