I do not watch FOX news. I don't even know if we have it in our basic cable package. Reed and I try to limit our tv time to one hour per day. I am not going to spend that hour watching the same news stories over and over or researching things to be worried about. Many of the same people who ridicule the idea that without our environmental intervention the planet is doomed, are equally convinced that without our political intervention the country is doomed. Too bad the God in control of the planet does not control our politics. Oh wait, he does.
Each Christian should do what God has called them to and I greatly admire Christians willing to run for political office, knowing they will be subject to scrutiny and attack, ala Herman Cain. I also believe God calls Christians to support conservative candidates and legislation with their time and finances. But I don't believe God calls any of us to criticism and despair. I want the overflow of my life to be about Christ, not politics, and I find that very hard to do when I fill my mind with media encouragement to look down on people who don't see things my way. If even spiritual truth is a clashing cymbal without love, what must our trashing cynicism sound like to God? If I find something on FOX that helps me fulfill Phil. 4:8, I will watch it, but frankly, the overflow of my news junkie Christian friends is seldom pure, lovely or of good report. I don't need help to be arrogant and critical. I can do that all by myself.
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