Jesus Christ & The Media Narrative: The Tactics Of The Media In Subverting Christianity

-Religious leaders and beliefs were portrayed as mostly negative.

-Fox was the most anti-religious network, with 49.3% of portrayals being negative.

-NBC was second with 39.3% negative coverage

-Nearly half of religious institutions and denominations were given 47.6% negative coverage, and in contrast only 18% of religious institutions received positive coverage.

A few recent examples I can think are Lucifer on Fox, portraying Satan himself as a playboy who is actually trying to help people, the Daily Show constantly trashing Christians, Bill Nye Saves the World, Impastor - about a gay man who impersonates a pastor, Real Time with Bill Maher, and Dan Savage's show The Real O'Neals.

This is one of the most effective techniques because it scares good men and good women into silence. Don't be silent, don't be afraid, and stand up for what you believe in!

8. "Didn't Moses Build the Ark?"

Bible illiteracy is a sad state of affairs in the church, and unfortunately we're so bombarded by information in our world that we don't really know what the Bible says. We don't know what the Bible really teaches. But this isn't solely the fault of the media pushing non-Christian views, it's the fact that we've allowed the media to distract us from the word of God. Thankfully more and more Christians are coming to know the word and it's power. We've got great groups like the Bible Project putting together videos of the books of the Bible, and we have sites like GodTube and Youtube where we can view sermons. Additionally we can go on sites like Biblegateway.com and listen to audio Bibles or read free commentaries, so it's all at our finger tips today and I do think we're seeing improvements in this area.

Is the church impacting culture? Or is the culture impacting the church? We have to know our Bible and believe our Bible. Let's look less to the television and to secular news, and let's look more to the word of God and our Christian worldview.

We need to understand these tactics of media that leave us wondering why we're losing the culture and why we're losing young people. This will be a long battle to fight to try and regain the narrative from the media. But we can do this, and we have to, for the sake of our children and grandchildren, and more so, for the sake of the living gospel and how it saves us. The door is open, and everyone needs Jesus Christ.

Jesus Christ is made to appear evil by the mainstream media, and we need to change that. We need to combat the false narrative in the media with the true narrative of America, which is this: America is nation of faith in Jesus Christ. America is a nation that values liberty and truth. America is a nation that values morality, decency, and reasonable ethics. America is not a nation that should be divided up by race, class, wealth or gender. We're one people. America is a largely liberty-driven society, not a progressive or revolutionary society.