How did the pastor of a church of 30 to 50 congregants, someone who was already known locally as a publicity-hungry crank, become so “relevant” and “culture-shaping” that President Obama, General Petraeus, and nearly every Christian leader imaginable felt the need to weigh in?
Mostly because Jones took advantage of an impoverished media environment that values outrage and eyeballs above all else. Publications that have not been able to con-vince their online readers to pay for articles must instead find as many people as possible to read them for free. The more eyeballs, the more ad impressions, the more revenue. Pageviews have become the metric most synonymous with success in our media landscape.
Quite the contrary – it was the media (and even the Moslems trying to push the NYC mosque) that took advantage of the opportunity and Pastor Jones. They magnified and exploited the story in order to vaunt their own agendas – both in the US and globally…and it was this publicity that enraged Moslem mobs to burn an old beautiful school building that had educated over 500 children every year for many years.
The pagan religions seem to so fear Christianity and the Gospel of Love, Truth and Life, that they will slaughter medical teams, rape nuns, murder priests and Christians, burn and bomb schools, hospitals and churches….and when they do not have Christian targets, they mutilate, murder, sell, enslave, rape their women, little boys and girls, even adult males, and trample each other.