The New York Times has been taking quite a bit of heat for its shockingly erroneous understanding of Christianity. Earlier this week, it published a brief story about Pope Francis’ Easter message and went on to say that “Easter is the celebration of the resurrection into heaven of Jesus, three days after he was crucified, the premise for the Christian belief in an everlasting life.”
Now, there are many things wrong with that line, as my kindergartner could tell you.
I thought my write-up of the piece was pretty mild…[but a number of others disagreed]….