Comments Which Conservatives Block From Their Blogs For April 21, 2021

 April 14

To R. Scott Clark and his blogpost that provides a Project Veritas link that tries to document a person saying that the MSM has an agenda. This appeared in Heidelblog.

First, that the news media has an agenda is nothing new. Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky used actual statistics, rather than questionable hidden videos to point this out in their book Manufacturing Consent published in 1988. It wasn't that the MSM was publishing false stories as much as it was biased in terms of what it was reporting and what it emphasized. And the bias was there to favor the advertisers and what people would accept versus what they would not accept. So there was bias in favor of American Exceptionalism and against leftist regimes.

And a similar conservative friendly bias is shown by conservatives when they point to the agenda of non-conservative MSMs and neglect to mention the agenda of those conservative news media sources.

Also, one needs to consider the source. Below is a factual reporting rating on Project Veritas (see  https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/project-veritas/  ).

Finally, one needs to consider what Proverbs 18:17 says (see  https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=proverbs+18%3A17&version=NIV  ).

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April 20

To R. Scott Clark and his blogpost on how the Reformed Confessions can help Christians. The article compares some Reformed perspectives on how to interact with the secular world. This appeared in Heidelblog.

If I were to think about how the Reformed Confessions could help Christians and churches interact with the world today, I would not spend as much time comparing different reformed perspectives. Rather, I would be comparing Reformed perspectives with the Scriptures.

We all have heroes and favorite ideologies, remembering that a theology is a religious ideology. And so as Christians, we need to continually remind ourselves of Mark 7 so that those sacred cows are never put on too high a pedestal. When we put them on pedestals that are too high, then we, like the religious leaders mention in Mark 7, become vulnerable to replacing what the Scriptures say with what was/is said by our heroes and favorite ideologies.