New Year, New Run at Regular Blogging

Well, we'll see how long it lasts this time, anyway.

Today's Washington Post sports section contains a very interesting column by Sally Jenkins about the media phenomenon of hating on Tim Tebow, the current mostly-successful quarterback of the Denver Broncos and a confessed evangelical Christian who makes no effort to hide his faith, mostly by deeds but sometimes by words. She uses as examples the boorish (a polite term) behavior of the so-called comedian Bill Maher and a radio personality named Bill Press. Both of these gentlemen (I use the term loosely) have employed ugly language recently in referring to Mr. Tebow and his professed religion. Ms. Jenkins calls them to task for it, wondering why it's any skin off their noses that Tebow is an admitted Christian, and more or less tells people to back off.

While I generally appreciate Ms. Jenkins's comments they only go so far toward the truth behind the Tebow-hating. At its root is the sinner's rebellion against God, specifically as it expresses itself in hatred for God's Anointed. Jesus told us to remember that if they hate those who bear the name of Christ, they hated him first. And Paul teaches that the faithful Christian will always be loathed by the world, because he is the smell of death to them--he reminds them that death comes and there will be an accounting, and the sinner hates being accountable to God.

It is no good trying to accommodate the "cultured despisers." One way or another they will still hate and they will excuse themselves in the doing of it.