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A followup to my previous blog entry about Cindy Klassen, my newest Canadian sports hero…
The largely untold story of the great Cindy Klassen is that she gives full credit not to the Canadian government, as the liberal-left would demand and expect because they think they’re responsible for, and in control of, Canadian life itself; and as you’d expect most “post-modern progressive” Canadians to dutifully do. Rather, she makes a point of praising… God. Jesus Christ.
Judging by how most of the liberal media are dealing with this horrendous state of overtly pro-Christian affairs, it must be driving most liberals and their media utterly batty. How do we NOT report this?, they must be asking themselves.
In fact I believe it is driving them to fits of unprofessionalism, at least at the state-run media.
It’s hard or impossible to find a video clip in the state-run media’s web site, CBC.ca, showing her praising God. I couldn’t find one. There are videos there depicting young boys having their testicles waxed and lots of quasi porno flicks as well, at the state-run liberal-leftist CBC (see blog entries here, here and here), but none of this Klassen/God business.
She’s our country’s biggest winner in our Olympic history, so there ought to be lots of video clips and news stories. She makes a point of giving credit to God and Jesus Christ. Again, she makes a point of it. She’s made dozens of quotes to that effect. Those quotes are in the other media. Not, as far as I can tell, on the state-run CBC’s video archives or Olympics web pages, or in their written stories, not even once.
If I dared to be un-Canadian and complained, I don’t doubt that they’d cite the liberals’ imaginary Canadian clarion call against “Church and state! Church and state!” —as the reason for never mentioning the importance of God to Klassen even once in all the video the CBC has produced and the stories the CBC has written about Klassen.
I’m as proud of her Canadian Olympic medals as I am the fact that she so unapologetically and in such an un-Liberal-like way praises God and “comes out” as such a fan of Christianity. But the fact that the CBC has failed to produce one utterance of those words tell me they’re hiding that fact from Canadians. And that freaks me out.
That’s an anti-Christian bias by omission of facts, if it’s true. Again, I can’t find any mention of it in a CBC story—and I’ve looked hard. In order to prove a bias by omission, I’d have to be able to prove that no CBC reporter or writer had ever heard her give full credit to God for her success, and I can’t.
But I don’t even care if I am proven wrong. The bigger picture is that she’s brave enough to come out and do it.
Here are some quotes from and about Canadian (yes, Canadian) Christian Olympian hero Cindy Klassen:
From Challies.com blog:
Ken Reddig, director of the Center for Mennonite Brethren Studies, says “Her faith in Christ is very important to her. She does not ask that we pray for her to win, just that she can perform at her peak. I greatly respect that humble, confident but also mature attitude.”
From Living Light News (older story):
“But that very day,” she recalls, “I received an e-mail from the students at my old high school (Mennonite Brethren Collegiate Institute). [It] was packed with notes of encouragement, telling me they were cheering [and] praying for me.”
“And that’s when it hit me,” Klassen continues. “This is just another race. [God] knows the outcome. All I can do is use what He’s given me. All I can do is do the best I can. So, that’s what I did.”
[…] Klassen desires to be as open about her faith as former teammate and gold medalist, Catriona LeMay Doan, who told City Light News, “It’s my relationship with Jesus that gives me true significance.”
Inspired by Doan’s boldness, Klassen says, “I want to use the publicity I’ve gotten through my success for His glory. I go back to my old high school and talk to the students. I … let people know I’m a Christian.”
One of the ways Klassen prepares herself for a race is through prayer and reading her Bible.
Raised in a Mennonite family, Klassen said her religion gives her strength.
“Every time I go to do something I want to do it like I’m working for God,” she said. “I think that pushes me and helps me put in 100 per cent effort.
“I’ve been given a gift from God to do this. I want to go out there and do the best I can. If I don’t use the gift to the best of my ability, it’s not right.”
From the Mennonite Weekly Review:
“When I go out to skate, it hits me how fortunate I am,” Klassen said. “I’m thankful for everything God has given me. . . . God has given me this gift to be able to skate and race, and he wants 100 percent of me.”
From Sportsnet.ca and CTV.CA:
One of the ways Klassen prepares herself for a race is through prayer and reading her Bible.
Raised in a Mennonite family, Klassen said her religion gives her strength.
“Every time I go to do something I want to do it like I’m working for God,” she said. “I think that pushes me and helps me put in 100 per cent effort.
“I’ve been given a gift from God to do this. I want to go out there and do the best I can. If I don’t use the gift to the best of my ability, it’s not right.”
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