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There Should Be A Double Standard

by David Jeffers

Without question one of the loudest complaints of conservatives is the double standard of the mainstream media (MSM). It would take reams of paper and gallons of ink to document the examples just in year 2012. The question is: should there be a double standard?

Random House Dictionary defines double as “two-fold in amount.” It is without question that the Left, represented by the MSM, has a secular humanist worldview. As a conservative with a biblical worldview, my values and standards are diametrically opposed to that of the MSM. In other words, two worldviews exist consisting of opposing standards. Hence there being a double standard and its necessity.

No doubt the reader could counter that the media is supposed to be objective and report just the facts without spin or commentary. That is “the world of should” and I live in “the world of is.” In “the world of is” wasting time yearning for “the world of should” is being a poor steward of time, and time is a precious resource that cannot be replaced.

Time that is left to save our Republic is quickly dwindling, if in fact it can be rescued. Whatever time we do have left I want to spend shining the Light into the Darkness instead of cursing it. If those in the dark are to ever leave it, they must see the Light. This is how conservatives overcome the double standard.

We must not only maintain high moral standards, we have to share them. Toxic to the dispensation of absolute truth is compromising the premise of that truth. Truth is not relative; it is not what we believe it to be. Our only choice with truth is to accept or reject it. If conservatives really want to oppose media double standards let us begin by never giving up right ground.

The way we stand on right ground is to stop dwelling on the enemy’s activity and busy ourselves by winning converts to conservatism. The quickest way for that to happen is by winning lost souls to Christ. Until I became born again, the truth of Romans 12:1-2 would have never taken root in my life. A mind will never be transformed lest the heart be first.

Three years ago in Reno I had the great pleasure of hearing speak and then meeting privately with the Honorable Judge Paul Pressler, the driving force behind the conservative resurgence in the Southern Baptist Convention. This mighty man of God told the luncheon crowd that if we truly wanted to see Washington DC transformed, then we should win to Jesus those serving there. So simple a plan yet not so easy, nevertheless worthy of our effort.

There is a double standard because there should be. When two opposing worldviews exist, so will different standards. Our job, those of us who follow the One Who is the Way, the Truth, and the Life, is to narrow the gap by being the salt and light Christ has commanded us to be.

Dave Jeffers is the Founder and President of Aletheia Group LLC and the Proprietor of Salt and Light Blog.

  • Bob Eschliman

    I’m not sure I like the idea of surrendering on the media, and I REALLY don’t like the idea of blanket-labeling the entire media as “the enemy.” If our Republican CAN be restored (big if there), it MUST have a media that is restored, as well. There are many of us hard at work to make that happen… you, Steve, and Rebekah among them. Our freedom is endowed within each of us by our Creator, but as Thomas Jefferson very astutely pointed out in 1823, “The only security of all is in a free press. The force of public opinion cannot be resisted when permitted freely to be expressed. The agitation it produces must be submitted to. It is necessary, to keep the waters pure.” You cannot win a war on a single front, battle-by-battle. You must fight on multiple fronts, or each new battle will be more difficult to win than the last, and the war will never end. In our case, that means, fighting in our government, in our society, in our churches, and in our media.

  • Nathanlepper

    I concur that, if I understand Dave correctly, the ultimate battle is a spiritual one, which is at the core of the moral rot of our culture and government.  But though the “strategic level” of this conflict is spirituI, the war is a multifront one, and we cannot surrender turf anywhere.  We must voice opposition to the lies of the liberal media…we cannot remain silent when so many are being so deceived, while concurrently praying for and watching for the doors to come open to share the hope of Christ.

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