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What Others Think: Not Something to Think About! From NPR to ABC News, if there's one thing that characterizes the liberal media it is the attempt to influence what you believe by telling you the opinions of others. Folks who accept the truths on which America is founded - God's revelation in the Bible - ought to recognize that tactic as a particularly insidious form of bias. Why's that? Because God tells us three things unequivocally: Man is basically evil - "The heart is deceitful above all things, and deperately wicked" Je. 17:9. All of us - Christians included - still sin - "There is none righteous, not even one; There is none who seeks for God; All have turned aside, together they have become useless." Rom. 3:10-12. Because of our sin, all of us are prone to err - "There is a way which seems right to a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death." Pr. 14:12 What this means is that even a crowd of Christians will have a blind spot - a sin that the majority fail to see and stand against - like slavery in the time of our Founders. But in "modern" America, far fewer people have a relationship with God than in the Founders' time. That means what others believe is much more likely to be full of errors. Nothing illustrates this better than the protesters outside the Republican convention. The causes they are protesting for are manifold - everything from abortion, opposition to capital punishment, gay rights - but the common feature that unites them is they all oppose Scripture. CS urges its readers to tune out from NPR and the liberal mianstream media. These outlets also oppose God, which is why they devote more coverage to a few hundred demonstrators than to the thousands of delegates at the convention. They show the protesters, but not the Catholic priest who prayed against abortion at the convention close on Tuesday, and ended his prayer "we ask in Jesus' name." You don't need to know what others are thinking. God gave you a brain and a Bible so you can decide for yourself what is right. And one day He'll ask how you put the tools He gave you to use.