{"id":5973,"date":"2005-12-02T09:12:59","date_gmt":"2005-12-02T14:12:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/?p=5973"},"modified":"2005-12-02T09:12:59","modified_gmt":"2005-12-02T14:12:59","slug":"john-gibson-will-tolerate-non-christians-as-long-as-they-behave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/john-gibson-will-tolerate-non-christians-as-long-as-they-behave\/","title":{"rendered":"John Gibson will tolerate non-Christians — as long as they ‘behave’"},"content":{"rendered":"

I realize that Fox News’ John Gibson is worked up about Christmas — he did, after all, recently publish a book<\/a> about “the liberal plot to ban the sacred Christian holiday” — but he took his lunacy to disturbing levels<\/a> recently, during an appearance on Janet Parshall’s nationally syndicated right-wing radio program.<\/p>\n

Gibson: If you figure that — listen, we get a little theological here, and it’s probably a bit over my head, but I would think if somebody is going to be — have to answer for following the wrong religion, they’re not going to have to answer to me. We know who they’re going to have to answer to.<\/p>\n

Parshall: Right.<\/p>\n

Gibson: And that’s fine. Let ’em. But in the meantime, as long as they’re civil and behave, we tolerate the presence of other religions around us without causing trouble, and I think most Americans are fine with that tradition. <\/p>\n

Parshall: I agree.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It’s not surprising that Gibson would describe minority faiths as “following the wrong religion”; everybody more or less seems to believe that other traditions are wrong while their own is right. Fine. But I’m not quite sure where Gibson was going with his willingness to “tolerate the presence” of those with whom he disagrees.<\/p>\n

Non-Christians, as far as Gibson is concerned, can co-exist in American society so long as they behave as Gibson believes they should. Here’s a question: what would Gibson recommend if non-Christians didn’t? What kind of “trouble” would this Fox News personality suggest Christians cause?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I realize that Fox News’ John Gibson is worked up about Christmas — he did, after all, recently publish a book about “the liberal plot to ban the sacred Christian holiday” — but he took his lunacy to disturbing levels recently, during an appearance on Janet Parshall’s nationally syndicated right-wing radio program. Gibson: If you […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5973\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}