Christianity for Dummies

Robert Stacy McCain has a post on today's Destroy Carrie Prejean tactic. I'm not linking directly to the pictures, but there's almost no use avoiding links to them. Not only can the most basic net users access them in .000002 seconds; the entire country is destined to be barraged by them one way or another no later than 8:00pm tonight, if it even takes that long. 

I think the pro-gay marriage gestapo is over-estimating the effect these pictures will have on Prejean's reputation among conservatives. Take their line of attack featured on the insufferably low-brow site peddling the pictures:

Exclusive: Self-proclaimed bible thumper Miss California, Carrie Prejean, should start pointing the finger at herself for her own indiscretions. TheDirty.com has received exclusive images of the homophobic debutante that would clearly strip her of her Miss California crown. So much for being a good role model for the state of California Carrie. Looks like your Dirty photo shoot makes you a sinner too. I decided.

Thanks, Dirty, for explaining to a Christian that she too is a sinner. 

These people obviously don't know the fundamentals of Christianity very well, at least not as well as they know how to fish for nude pictures to hurt people's reputations. Let's fill them in on some Christianity 101.

Christians recognize that all people are born with a sin nature and therefore need to repent and be saved by the blood of Christ. Salvation is open to all mankind. Everyone sins. Everyone needs saved. If one doesn't believe that, then he is of a belief that defies any need for salvation for all, the very cornerstone of the faith Prejean and I both share.  

Take Prejean's statement:

"Recently, photos taken of me as a teenager have been released surreptitiously to a tabloid Web site that openly mocks me for my Christian faith. I am not perfect, and I will never claim to be.”

She never claimed to be a non-sinner. Prejean made some decisions in her teen years I'm sure she's not proud of, just like the rest of us. It's not so far fetched that a model, with Prejean's looks, once modeled some underwear like this. If everyone looked like her, this particular mistake would probably be much more popular among the various infractions typically committed by young people. That's the truth, not an excuse.

If making a mistake in your life exempts you from taking a stance against other actions you disagree with for the rest of your life, then every person on earth would have to remain completely silent on every ethical or moral issue forever. Is that what they want?

So, Dirty.com, before you go calling people Bible thumpers and trying to play the part of one yourself mockingly, you best go read some of that book that's being thumped. Otherwise you'll never understand it, and you will continue to show your ignorance to people who do with statements like the one above.

Update -

Robert Stacy McCain, who has more on this topic, added an appropriate Bible verse to his post:

As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one. . . . Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God. Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin. . . . For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God.
--Romans 3:10-23 (KJV)

Updates -

The Other McCain takes the story over to Taki's Magazine.

Maggie Gallagher, President of the National Organization of Marriage, released a statement in defense of Prejean.

Wendy Wright, President of Concerned Women for America, also opined with a Christian attitude on the subject.

Allahpundit at Hotair.com agrees this won't be as effective as intended.

Will this cost her the crown?

Updates-

Ann Coulter echoes the sentiment (right column news feed).

Good NRO column on this here.