Npr Commentator Apologizes For Remark

National Public Radio made an on-air apology Friday evening for a commentator’s remark on the return of Christ, after the Christian Coalition complained that the comment was anti-Christian.

The remark by humorist Andrei Codrescu occurred last Tuesday during a commentary on NPR’s highly popular program “All Things Considered”

Codrescu, who is on contract with NPR but not a full-time employee, was discussing religious theology and the resurrection of Christ when he criticized beliefs held by some that all believers will go to heaven and nonbelievers automatically are destined for hell.

“The evaporation of four million (people) who believe in this crap would leave the world a better place,” he said, referring to those who abide by this belief.

The apology broadcast Friday evening on NPR’s national feed of “All Things Considered” said Codrescu’s “remarks crossed a line of taste and tolerance that we should have defended with greater vigilance.”