All sorts of NYT writers just say stuff about religion, without much caring whether any of it is true. A lovely recent example is this column by Howard Gardner… About strangers, Gardner assures us, traditional morality has nothing to say.
Mr. Gardner, may I introduce you to Leviticus 19?… [T]he people of Israel are not only commanded to love their neighbors as themselves, but also love strangers as themselves. And notice also that in an ethnically diverse and multicultural ancient Middle East, the Israelites knew what it was like to be strangers in a strange land.
Alan Jacobs, whose arrival at The American Conservative we ought to have mentioned last week, thinks the New York Times’ habitual ignorance of the Bible is funny. Luckily, GetReligion is on it.
