Media must rethink its Christian bias

On Christmas Day amid the joy of celebrating Christ's birth, as a Christian I was moved to ”weep with those who weep” (Romans 15.14). I learned that 58 fellow Christians had been gunned down in the oldest Catholic Church in Bagdad, Iraq during their Christmas Eve service. Christians worldwide, among them Pope Benedict, mourned this wicked martyrdom and asked the government of Iraq to put an end to the persecution of Christians.

One week later, again Christians were called on to ”weep with those weep” as a car bomb exploded, killing seven worshippers at the close of the New Year's worship service of more than 1,000 Coptic Christians in Alexandria, Egypt. The number injured was not reported, though one of the priests reported that “people's bodies were in flames.”

Somehow, The Associated Press report seemed to draw a moral equivalence when the Christians came out of the church enraged and throwing stones at their killers and tormentors, as if the worshippers, expressing anger at the atrocity, was just as evil as the car bomb attack. In other words, their anger was not justified but the car bombing was.

It is time for our so-called “mainstream media” to rethink their ”politically correct” bias against Christians minorities around the world who are expected to give religious freedom to others but not receive such freedom themselves.

Priscilla Weese

Wheaton