God's Warriors?

Last night concluded the final installment of Christiane Amanpour's series on CNN entitled "God's Warriors." Tuesday night she explored "God's Jewish Warriors," Wednesday night was "God's Muslim Warriors," and last night was "God's Christian Warriors." I watched the first and last episodes, but missed the middle one. Thankfully, there is an encore presentation starting Friday, Aug. 24 through Sunday, Aug. 26, at 9 p.m. ET. (Check the CNN TV schedule.)

Unfortunately, despite Ms. Amanpour's seemingly best efforts, bias abounds. I wondered why she excluded "God's Hindu Warriors," for militant Hinduism is certainly on the rise. She also excluded "The Anti-God Warriors: Secularists;" that would have been an interesting expose. Aren't secularists on a crusade to rid the public square of all references to religion? Is the ACLU a docile, tame, organization? What about "The Economic Warriors: Communists." Both of these movements are also quite militant, or at least we could say they have their militant elements. I also noticed that only the "conservative" wings of these movements were considered warriors, as if being liberal disqualifies a person from being militant. But wouldn't Gene Robinson, the gay bishop in New England, be considered "militant," since he is taking the church in a radically different direction?

Aside from the obligatory reference at the beginning to rabid killers of abortionists (who speak for no sizeable block of Christendom), Amanpour essentially spent her time on "God's Christian Warriors" examining various conservative religious groups who were attempting to motivate a voting block. I kept thinking, "All this is legal! Why is she focusing on an example of 'democracy in action'?" I thought it was quite unfair to draw a moral equvalency between, on the one hand, Jewish settlers in occupied territories who violate both Israeli and international law, and Islamic jihadists who are training to wage war on all infidels, and, on the other hand, conservative evangelical Christians who are working very hard to accomplish their political/cultural goals within the American political system. One thing should have been very clear: given her definition of "warriors," among Christians, THERE ARE NONE. Hmmm....

What do my readers think?