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AP: Novelist Anne Rice says she's leaving Christianity
Brown Eyes:
--- Quote from: delalluvia on August 06, 2010, 02:43:14 pm ---Who said Rice was angry? One can be fed up without being angry.
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I don't even think there's anything wrong with being angry or expressing anger sometimes (especially in this case where the anger is directed at an intstitution or entity rather than an individual). As long as it isn't hurting someone else, I think well-directed anger can lead to productive change sometimes.
Marge_Innavera:
--- Quote from: brokeplex on August 06, 2010, 01:48:42 pm ---"In the name of Christ," she wrote, "I refuse to be anti-gay. I refuse to be anti-feminist. I refuse to be anti-artificial birth control. I refuse to be anti-Democrat. I refuse to be anti-secular humanism. I refuse to be anti-science. I refuse to be anti-life
but ---- has Rice found the grace to refuse to be angry and to find peace in her life?
and has Pitts found the integrity to be "unbiased"?
I'll pray for them both. :)
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I'm sure they'll both be thrilled -- but for the record, Leonard Pitts is a columnist. He hasn't made any claims to being "unbiased" and his expressing an opinion is no evidence of a lack of integrity.
Ms. Rice would do better to continue looking for a resolution than "finding peace" by backtracking.
delalluvia:
--- Quote from: atz75 on August 06, 2010, 03:12:40 pm ---I don't even think there's anything wrong with being angry or expressing anger sometimes (especially in this case where the anger is directed at an intstitution or entity rather than an individual). As long as it isn't hurting someone else, I think well-directed anger can lead to productive change sometimes.
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Ideally, following Christ is all about forgiving and forgetting offenses. Hence Bill's comment about anger.
brokeplex:
--- Quote from: delalluvia on August 06, 2010, 02:43:14 pm ---Who said Rice was angry? One can be fed up without being angry.
Biased...well, truthful, might be another way of looking at it. ;D
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she sounds angry to me, I could be wrong, but that was my impression. and it seems that she herself is interjecting politics into religion in a way that the author of the commentary piece about her is objecting to in the Republican party. so I would add hypocritical to biased in regard to the author of the op ed piece.
brokeplex:
--- Quote from: serious crayons on August 06, 2010, 03:05:58 pm ---Why would you equate bias with lack of "integrity" for a man whose job it is to offer his personal opinion?
Of course Leonard Pitts is biased, just as Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck and Rachel Maddow are biased. They're supposed to be. Of course, it's fair to criticize the nature and content of those biases if you disagree with them, but makes no sense to criticize them for exhibiting bias in the first place.
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Sure I am familiar with Pitts, some of his columns occasionally appear in the local Startlegram. And yes its an Op-Ed piece and yes its biased, and yes its also partisan and hypocritical, and no it isn't fair to compare a Dinosaur media journalist with pretensions of "evenhandedness" to someone like Limbaugh who is openly biased and eschews the MSM. Now Rachael Madcow is an excellent example of a mainstream journalist who has become extremely partisan and biased, a bit like Pitts.
People like Pitts and Madcow want to have their cake and eat it too, sorry but you can't be regarded both as a professional journalist and turn out biased partisan hit pieces, or in the case of Pitts make it his mission to promote Obama back in 2007 / 2008.
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