Eschaton: why are thoughtful Christians letting
the loons represent them?
I’ve been puzzled for some time why Christians seem to be tolerant of the fact that Jerry Falwell is the media face of Christianity. I’m not exactly sure there’s all that much they can do about it, but I’d be pretty livid if my deeply held beliefs were represented by someone like that. Of course Falwell and his fellow travellers do have a genuine following, but their brand of Christianity is highly overrepresented on TV – sort of like the the way prosecutors are kind of overrepresented by really really angry blonde women.