Albert Mohler:Alert the Media -- A Pastor Believes in Hell

Wednesday, September 10, 2008

Excerpt:
But what makes Lisa Miller's article most interesting has nothing directly to do with abortion, marriage, or any social issue. The most interesting (and revealing) part of her article is a sentence that does not refer to her campaign, nor to her role as Governor, but to her church:

The senior pastor of that church, in sermons that circulated online before they were taken down last week, preaches hell for anyone who isn't saved by Jesus.

In the event a reader might miss that sentence, the magazine put the words, "The senior pastor of Palin's church preaches hellfire for anyone who isn't saved by Jesus" in large type in both print and electronic editions. In other words, these words are intended to catch a reader's eye as newsworthy -- an attention grabber.

Miller went on to explain that the fact that her pastor preaches such a message "puts her squarely in the tradition of the old-school religious right." the rest image