Doonesbury Say What?

[thewayne]

"This guy isn't a serious Christian. He's a devoted New York Times reader, and he's an extremely well-read guy."
— Mark Steyn on Anders Breivik

HUH? Christianity is based on self-identifying as a follower of Christ's teachings and performing certain rituals. So I guess Steyn's standard is that a literary and well-educated person can't be a Christian? Christianity requires self-imposed ignorance? Looking at Steyn's bio page on Wikipedia, his political views on Eurabia seem to converge nicely with what Breivik was claiming was going to happen. Maybe he's disappointed that Breivik didn't score a higher body count and didn't kill any actual Muslims.

Comments

[silveradept]

Since when does reading a paper count as not being Christian? One would think there has to be some apostasy involved... or perhaps, he could say "Because the dude killed people, he's no Christian" - although there's lots of documentation that the very best Christians are the ones that kill lots...