SANDOVAL: Mainstream Media Accidentally Proves They’ve Never Met A Christian Before

The New York Times has discovered a “hot accessory”: Jesus Christ. To be precise, his cross, worn as a pendant on a necklace.

The outlet ran an article in their style section dissecting the prevalence and political implications of this “trend.” They concede the cross is a “millenniums-old symbol of Christian faith” and therefore appears “somewhat immune to trendiness.” But, they suspect, the cross in necklace form may be growing in popularity “as some feel more comfortable embracing their faith and seek community with others.”  

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The New York Times covers non-metropole American culture like an anthropologist venturing into the deepest recesses of the Amazon. One imagines their intrepid reporters puzzling over apple pie: “A strange concoction native to the Heartland, often served at Fourth of Joo-lie gatherings…”

The article mentions pop stars Chappell Roan and Sabrina Carpenter, neither of whom publicly identify themselves as Christians but have worn the cross, before pivoting to their real focus: casting thinly veiled aspersions on the Trump administration. “While cross necklaces are often worn apolitically, their appearance in the political sphere in the United States has introduced implications of partisan politics,” writes the outlet, citing an assistant fashion professor for the insight. 

The Trump administration has “welcomed religion,” writes The New York Times, establishing the White House Faith Office and inviting “pastors with Christian nationalist beliefs” to the West Wing. 

Read: “High-profile Christians aren’t hiding their faith and we don’t like that.”

And if that may be too uncharitable of an interpretation to attribute to The New York Times itself, it is certainly true of their readers. What the outlet refrains from saying outright, their comment section does not.

“I like the cross on figures like Chappell Roan because, in a way, it’s a subversion of norms for a queer person to wear it,” writes a commenter under the name Edith. “It’s a lot more meaningful for me when she has it on as a sapphic person instead of someone trying to take away our rights like [Attorney General Pam] Bondi.” 

“Subversion” is an appropriately deranged goal for the left. The word, in its earliest form, was synonymous with destruction, demolition, and ruination. Leftists are more than happy to see the cross demolished into parts for their own twisted religion — one which vaunts the unnatural and ugly to the heights of adoration. Carpenter herself filmed a macabre music video inside a Catholic church, twirling around the altar surrounded by coffins of men she’d axed in the prior scenes. Carpenter offered a flippant response to critics, telling Variety, “Jesus was a carpenter.” (RELATED: Trump Cracks Down On Left’s Favorite Way To Discriminate) 

Readers also appeared confused about the concept of separation of church and state, as leftists often are. “It’s inappropriate for a government official, while conducting government business, to wear a symbol of a specific religious affiliation,” reads a comment. “It implies that the government will favor that religion over another, or over none.”

Let’s check in on the separation of church and state under the Biden administration:

US President Joe Biden speaks during a Pride celebration on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, DC, on June 10, 2023. (Photo by Brendan Smialowski / AFP) (Photo by BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images)

Wokeness has no formal church, so it easily escapes the same restrictions and critiques one attracts by wearing a cross necklace. But make no mistake: its adherents have their unassailable articles of faith. They have their priests and sacred cows, too. The nation’s most prestigious universities are little more than seminary schools. (RELATED: NBC Poll Reveals Radical Opinions Of College-Educated White Women) 

Liberals like to frame Christianity as an ancillary imposition on a “neutral” reality. This neutrality, of course, is not — it is a bundle of leftist priors which asserts itself as apolitical fact. The most pious Woke bristle, even if they don’t quite know why, when they see Christians worshipping a different god. 

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