NPR Reporter Says Christians Should 'Burn'

A National Public Radio (NPR) reporter has resigned after a hateful voice mail message she left for a conservative group was made public.

Rachel Buchman worked for WHYY in Philadelphia, an NPR affiliate, when she called the offices of the Web site laptoplobbyist.com to express her outrage over an e-mail the group sent to her opposing special rights for homosexuals.

"You're evil, horrible people. You're awful people," she said, identifying herself only as "Rachel." "You represent horrible ideas. God hates you and He wants to kill your children. You should all burn."

I am reminded, every time I hear things like this, of Fr. John Hardon's exhortation that we must be witnesses to the truth - and that being a witness means that one must be a martyr. We are reminded that paganism is a culture of untruth and today's paganism, which is different because it has spawned in a once Christian culture, is composed of a culture of death in a society permeated with lies, errors, and untruth. "Truth" in this context could be defines as conformity of the mind with reality.

How are Christians to respond - especially if one is to follow Christ who is Life and Truth? We should remind ourselves that, if we are to follow our Lord, we must be willing to take up our crosses and be ready to suffer with Him and for Him. That is, we are to be, in a word, martyrs - voices of truth, witnesses ready to testify to the Truth and to present evidence of Truth which is Jesus.

Pray for people like Rachel who eyes have been blinded by the culture of death and lies. Offer reparations for the hate and sinfulness of those enslaved by sin.

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