This is utterly priceless. The New York Times printed an article on Israeli tourism which contained a reference to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, "marking the site where many Christians believe that Jesus is buried."
Huh?
The Times, apparently, is blissfully ignorant of the fact that the central belief of Christianity, a religion which boasts some 2.2 billion adherents worldwide and is intimately bound up in our own history and culture, is that Jesus was resurrected. Other than the cross itself, there is no more comprehensive symbol of Christian belief than the empty tomb.
It's sort of like not knowing that baseball involves hitting a ball with a bat or that milk comes from cows.
Here's Rod Dreher at the American Conservative on the Times' major gaffe:
I can understand someone living in Pakistan, or Sichuan province, not getting that all of Christianity, in its many versions throughout the ages, rests on the resurrection of Jesus. I don’t understand how an educated American, whatever his beliefs, can not know that. Yet that story got through several layers of editing at the Times before making it into print. It’s staggering.As Dreher points out, it's one thing to disagree with this belief, but to simply be ignorant of it is inexcusable for the nation's most prestigious newspaper.
Read the rest here. HT: Rick Garrett at Mirror of Justice.
7 comments:
I bet the New York Times thinks the animals surrounding Jesus in the manger included a Judas goat.
2.2 billion
Maybe it was just a mistake of tense...change is buried to was buried?
How does Martin withstand such terrible persecution?
Show me how you infer Martin is complaining about persecution...?
Lee,
Maybe Anonymous made a mistake in verbs. Perhaps he meant to say, "How does Martin [consistently dish out] such terrible persecution?
Billy, that's an oppressed minority I never even dreamed of thinking were oppressed: upscale liberal journalists. Who knew?
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