{"id":1037471,"date":"2021-11-20T17:44:48","date_gmt":"2021-11-20T22:44:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1037471"},"modified":"2021-11-20T17:44:51","modified_gmt":"2021-11-20T22:44:51","slug":"calls-mount-for-evangelical-publication-to-retract-article-likening-kyle-rittenhouse-to-mass-shooter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/calls-mount-for-evangelical-publication-to-retract-article-likening-kyle-rittenhouse-to-mass-shooter\/","title":{"rendered":"Calls Mount For Evangelical Publication To Retract Article Likening Kyle Rittenhouse To \u2018Mass Shooter\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcalls-mount-for-evangelical-publication-to-retract-article-likening-kyle-rittenhouse-to-mass-shooter%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1037471&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Calls are mounting for evangelical publication The Gospel Coalition to address a piece that called Kyle Rittenhouse an \u201carmed mass shooter,\u201d like the Charleston church shooter.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday afternoon, Kyle Rittenhouse \u2014 an eighteen-year-old who killed two men and injured a third while defending himself during a riot in Kenosha, Wisconsin \u2014 was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/breaking-kyle-rittenhouse-found-not-guilty\">cleared<\/a> of multiple murder charges. Since the August 2020 incident, left-leaning journalists, politicians, and celebrities have used the Rittenhouse case as evidence that the United States and its institutions are irreparably and systemically racist.<\/p>\n<p>Among these voices was The Gospel Coalition \u2014 which, before the onset of COVID-19, the death of George Floyd, and the most recent presidential election, largely had a reputation for upholding conservative theological convictions grounded in the Reformed tradition. Amid the tumult of 2020, however, The Gospel Coalition accelerated its surrender to \u201cwokeness\u201d \u2014 more regularly publishing content that borrows progressive terminology like \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/quarterly.gospelinlife.com\/the-sin-of-racism\/\">systemic racism<\/a>\u201d and \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegospelcoalition.org\/podcasts\/as-in-heaven\/how-racial-trauma-works\/\">microaggression<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In this context, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegospelcoalition.org\/profile\/k-edward-copeland\/\">K. Edward Copeland<\/a> \u2014 a council member of The Gospel Coalition and an Illinois-based pastor \u2014 published an article called \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegospelcoalition.org\/article\/why-i-hate-august\/\">Why I Hate August<\/a>\u201d that joined the Left in arguing that Rittenhouse benefited from an implicit form of privilege:<\/p>\n<p>Kyle Rittenhouse killed people in the middle of the street (on camera and in front of witnesses) and then, smoking rifle at his side, casually strolled past law enforcement. He didn\u2019t run away. He didn\u2019t hide. He showed no fear. He assumed there was something about his person that would allow him to approach law enforcement with a visible semi-automatic weapon that had just taken lives \u2014 and live to tell about it. More than a few witnesses pointed out that he had just shot several people. Yet he was able to leave the scene and the state.<\/p>\n<p>Copeland placed Rittenhouse in the same category as the Charleston church shooter \u2014 a white supremacist who murdered nine African American churchgoers during a 2015 service in Charleston, South Carolina:<\/p>\n<p>When armed mass shooters (Kyle Rittenhouse, [Charleston church shooter], etc.) are apprehended without incident, and unarmed black people are killed out of fear that they might be armed, we have a more insidious problem than \u201ca few bad apples.\u201d This thing is cultural, pervasive, and abominable.<\/p>\n<p>Per Daily Wire policy, the Charleston church shooter will not be named, and quotes containing his name have been altered to read: [Charleston church shooter].<\/p>\n<p>Despite Rittenhouse\u2019s acquittal, Copeland\u2019s assertion has neither been removed nor addressed by The<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Calls are mounting for evangelical publication The Gospel Coalition to address a piece that called Kyle Rittenhouse an \u201carmed mass shooter,\u201d like the Charleston church shooter.On Friday afternoon, Kyle Rittenhouse \u2014 an eighteen-year-old who killed two men and injured a third while defending himself during a riot in Kenosha, Wisconsin \u2014 was cleared of multiple murder charges. Since the August 2020 incident, left-leaning journalists, politicians, and celebrities have used the Rittenhouse case as evidence that the United States and its institutions are irreparably and systemically racist.Among these voices was The Gospel Coalition \u2014 which, before the onset of COVID-19, the death of George Floyd, and the most recent presidential election, largely had a reputation for upholding conservative theological convictions grounded in the Reformed tradition. Amid the tumult of 2020, however, The Gospel Coalition accelerated its surrender to \u201cwokeness\u201d \u2014 more regularly publishing content that borrows progressive terminology like \u201csystemic racism\u201d and \u201cmicroaggression.\u201dIn this context, K. Edward Copeland \u2014 a council member of The Gospel Coalition and an Illinois-based pastor \u2014 published an article called \u201cWhy I Hate August\u201d that joined the Left in arguing that Rittenhouse benefited from an implicit form of privilege:Kyle Rittenhouse killed people in the middle of the street (on camera and in front of witnesses) and then, smoking rifle at his side, casually strolled past law enforcement. He didn\u2019t run away. He didn\u2019t hide. He showed no fear. He assumed there was something about his person that would allow him to approach law enforcement with a visible semi-automatic weapon that had just taken lives \u2014 and live to tell about it. More than a few witnesses pointed out that he had just shot several people. Yet he was able to leave the scene and the state.Copeland placed Rittenhouse in the same category as the Charleston church shooter \u2014 a white supremacist who murdered nine African American churchgoers during a 2015 service in Charleston, South Carolina:When armed mass shooters (Kyle Rittenhouse, [Charleston church shooter], etc.) are apprehended without incident, and unarmed black people are killed out of fear that they might be armed, we have a more insidious problem than \u201ca few bad apples.\u201d This thing is cultural, pervasive, and abominable.Per Daily Wire policy, the Charleston church shooter will not be named, and quotes containing his name have been altered to read: [Charleston church shooter].Despite Rittenhouse\u2019s acquittal, Copeland\u2019s assertion has neither been removed nor addressed by The Gospel Coalition.Though The Gospel Coalition was, unfortunately, not the only Christian publication to negatively characterize Rittenhouse, others have retracted their statements. Mere Orthodoxy recently added an editor\u2019s note to its November 2020 piece entitled \u201cDeath Does Not Come For The Deserving,\u201d apologizing for using words like \u201cmurderer\u201d and \u201ccriminality\u201d to describe Rittenhouse and his actions.But there has been no similar action from The Gospel Coalition, despite several calls to repentance from many Reformed and evangelical theologians, ministers, and writers.\u201cThe Kyle Rittenhouse trial is a shocking and depressing example of injustice. It\u2019s especially saddening that Christian organizations like the Gospel Coalition joined the mob and falsely labeled Rittenhouse a \u2018mass shooter like [the Charleston church shooter],\u2019\u201d commented blogger Samuel Sey. \u201cIt\u2019s shameful.\u201d\u201cThis article by @TGC is one of the reasons why evangelicals have remained divided by social justice. This article ignores the law &#038; villainizes an innocent man by promoting the CRT \/ BLM talking points,\u201d added G3 Ministries director Josh Buice, calling The Gospel Coalition\u2019s actions \u201cirresponsible\u201d and \u201canti-gospel.\u201dAs described by Grace Bible Theological Seminary provost Owen Strachan in a recent interview with The Daily Wire\u2019s Megan Basham, many evangelicals \u201ctragically are being taken captive by an ideology that has nothing to do with Scripture.\u201d\u201cPastors who formerly had a reputation for staunch Reformed doctrine that defied the world and made many disciples now are giving lukewarm lectures based in godless sociology texts,\u201d he argued. \u201cIt is an absolute abdication of biblical conviction.\u201dInstead, pastors should proclaim \u201cthe uniting gospel of Jesus Christ that brings people together from every background, every skin color, every ethnicity, and proclaims that they are presently one family, by virtue of the death of Christ, and saving faith given us by God.\u201d\u201cWhat we are now taught today,\u201d explained Strachan, \u201cis that white people have more sin to confess than they thought they did. They may have thought they had become Christians, and are free now from condemnation. But instead, because of this newfound structural guilt, white people who have been Christians for years and have individually committed no sin of racism are still condemned. Not personally, but structurally. They are not free in Christ, as they once believed.\u201dThe Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. 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