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Faith Under Fire: Are Evangelical Christians Really Being Called "God's Frauds" by Newsweek?
Evangelical Christians are under attack in a newly released piece by Newsweek which calls those of the faith "God's frauds." (Photo: Evangelical Christians from around the world sing and recite prayers as they attend the 2013 Jerusalem Chairman's Conference hosted by the Israel Allies Foundation, at the International Convention Center in Jerusalem, on September 22, 2013. Around 3,000 Evangelical Christians from around the world attended the event, expressing their support for the Jewish state. Flash 90) In its pre-Christmas issue, the magazine launched a vitriolic war on the Bible in an article by Kurt Eichenwald, titled "The Bible: So Misunderstood It's a Sin." Eichenwald's attempts to discredit the Bible—both the Old Testament and New Testament—and casts Christians as evil hypocrites. "They are God's frauds, cafeteria Christians who pick and choose which Bible verses they heed with less care than they exercise in selecting side order for lunch," the author writes. "They are joined by religious rationalizers—fundamentalists who, unable to find Scripture supporting their biases and beliefs, twist phrases and modify translations to prove they are honoring the Bible's words," he continues. Eichenwald maintains that he seeks to fight against the "illiteracy of self-proclaimed Biblical literalists" while he himself selectively interprets Biblical themes to prove his point. His mission "is designed to shine a light on a book that has been abused by people who claim to revere it but don't read it, in the process creating misery for others." Pointing to what he calls the "many contradictions" of the Bible, Eichenwald questions some of the more famous passages such as the veracity of the Biblical account of creation as told in Genesis and [Noah and] the flood… what he calls "the literary equivalent of a hall of mirrors." In his quest to disprove the New Testament, Eichenwald recalls a passage that any person familiar with Christian theology would recognize: "He that is without sin among you, let him cast the first stone at her." (John 7:53) Claiming that "scribes made it up sometime in the Middle Ages," Eichenwald adds that this account is just one of many events that "simply never happened." Read more here.
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