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Hi, I'm Jim Denison with Denisonformed, and this is the Daily Article for Tuesday,

April 6, 2021. The title is, The Los Angeles Times publishes Easter articles attacking Easter

Faith, Three Steps to Biblical Thinking for Biblical Living. There was a day when Easter Sunday

elicited cover stories and headlines on Easter themes in American

media. I remember sympathetic biographies of biblical figures, along with reflective essays

on the abiding lessons of Jesus' resurrection. Well, things have changed. While Los Angeles

Times ran an op-ed on Easter Sunday titled How Christians Came to Believe in Heaven,

Hell, and the Immortal Soul. Written by Bart Erman, one of the most notorious anti-Christian

critics in contemporary culture, it's an astonishingly false portrait of Judeo-Christian faith in history.

The book on which the essay is based has already been soundly debunked, but many who read

Erman's Easter article may nonetheless be persuaded by the falsehoods it perpetrates. Two days earlier,

the Los Angeles Times published a different op-ed, this one for Good Friday, titled, quote,

Why America's Record Godlessness is Good News for the nation. The article responds to the

recent Gallup report, the church membership has fallen below 50% for the first time. The author

celebrates what he calls organic secularization, by which he says, quote, members of a society

become better educated, more prosperous, and live safer, more secure,

and more peaceful lives, and he says thus turn from religion. In his view, so-called highly

secular democracies do what he calls a much better job of meeting human needs and faith-based

charities. As a result, he concludes that we should celebrate the growing secularism

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