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• joe says:

  October 27, 2004 at 1:06 am

  Great series – thanks, Joe. Cal is one of the best role models for Christians in public life. He consistently espouses the right beliefs and virtues without waving the “Christian” banner. He is one of the few who shares the faith but does not promote it as a sphere of corporate membership.
• Rich Shipe says:

  October 27, 2004 at 12:43 pm

  Some Christians who don’t think Christians should have ANY involvement in politics or government try to incorrectly claim Thomas as their own. The other extreme are Christians (Reconstructionists like Pat Robertson) that blast Thomas for saying that cultural renewal can’t come through government law.
  I think both are wrong and both misunderstand the subtlety of Cal Thomas
• Rob Ryan says:

  October 27, 2004 at 4:31 pm

  Like Gary Bauer, Cal Thomas is as scary as he looks. I never miss his column, and I note with chagrin his many appearances on Fox News programs. He is like a Rush Limbaugh with a brain or an Ann Coulter with tact. That is why he is so scary.
  Please go away, Cal.
• tommythecat says:

  October 28, 2004 at 8:30 am

  he is much more of a politician than an evengelical. fox can hardly be called a news station.
• Tom Grey - Liberty Dad says:

  October 28, 2004 at 9:42 am

  Because Love cannot be forced, the beauty, joy, and peace of Christianity cannot come from government.
  Government is force.
  The right place to use gov’t force is to punish those people society has said, through its laws, should be punished.
  Unfortunately, in this secular age, too many folk substitute big, active State in the place that God should be. The places in their own hearts, and in the desire to make their version of right and wrong exactly match legal and illegal.
  Fox, by reasonably objective measures, is THE best news station. Reviled by Leftists because it doesn’t support the radical PC bias of what is news.
• rider of the apocalypse says:

  October 28, 2004 at 11:36 am

  ‘Fox, by reasonably objective measures, is THE best news station. ‘
  it doesn’t matter which politician they are promoting, when a station has the vast majority of it’s opinions coming from one side, it isn’t news. it doesn’t matter how much they flash ‘fair and balanced,’ it isn’t. air america isn’t news either, but it doesn’t pretend to be.
• Robbo says:

  October 28, 2004 at 8:12 pm

  Rob Ryan wrote: “Please go away, Cal.”
  So, please let me make sure I’ve got this right… you’d prefer to listen to people with no tact or brains? You’d rather have our political discourse be brownshirts and Marxists screaming, yelling and throwing rocks at each other? Did I miss a sarcasm tag?
  [Robbo shakes his head, lamenting how much more contemporary USA is looking like 1930's Europe every day...]
  IMO, I’d rather have folks like Thomas and Christopher Hitchens giving us their opinions ANY day than the likes of Limbaugh (or his liberal, unkempt alter ego, Michael Moore).
  OT: Well, if Fox isn’t news, neither are any of the big 3 networks (most notably, CBS!) In one way, it’s impossible to be completely objective. However, much of the mainstream media (CBS most notably) has stepped WAAAY beyond that, and just plays the spin that supports their agenda. I don’t watch any TV news much. What I do get from the broadcast media is generally radio, and mostly NPR. NPR does let it’s bias creep in on occasion, but they do allow fair airplay for the other side, most of the time. I’m always sickened when I’ve heard NPR cover an issue, giving each side their chance to state their case, and then end up at my parents house when they watch one of the big 3’s evening news programs. It’s like having read Shakespeare and appreciating it’s beauty, and then have the Gestapo thrust it’s “official” version of Shakespeare in front of you and try to tell you it’s the “real” Shakespeare. IMO, what NBC, CBS and ABC broadcast is more nauseating than the month old leftovers you find hiding in a forgotten tupperware container in the back of the fridge!
• Rob Ryan says:

  October 30, 2004 at 8:45 am

  Let me explain, Robbo, since you’re jumping to some pretty wild conclusions. My problem with Cal is that he disguises the evil of his worldview with a thin veneer of reason and civility.
  Is that better?
• Steve says:

  October 30, 2004 at 10:44 am

  “My problem with Cal is that he disguises the evil of his worldview with a thin veneer of reason and civility.” — RobRyan
  Rob: So what is it you’re REALLY trying to say?
  Two observations about Cal when he visited Cedarville University back in 1997.
  1. He is VERY tall and VERY thin. He literally stood head and shoulders above everyone else in the foyer area when I spied him.
  2. He has his eye on the proper ball because he was there to announce the formation of a scholarship for students who wanted to pursue media careers. He knows the value and power of the media and he also knows the power that comes from a worldview shaping and guiding actions. His intent was to encourage Christians to pursue media careers as a way of influencing the larger culture. He is a fine man.

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