Posted by
Christopher on Friday, October 12, 2007 11:49:01 AM
Is right…as usual. In fact, I don’t know when she has been wrong, most people just don’t get her humor. The reality is that Coulter is a free-thinking, intelligent, liberated, opinionated, strong-willed Christian woman and most people hate that. I am proud to defend her.
This latest “over the line” flap is especially stupid because it shows the ignorance of most people regarding Christianity and Judaism. Not the least of who is the dunderheaded Donny Deutsch. Go find a transcript if you haven’t seen the exchange. He is literally dumbfounded by her utterly non-extreme claims about the 2 religions. Here is a piece:
DEUTSCH: "Let's wipe Israel off the earth." I mean, what, no Jews?
COULTER: No, we think — we just want Jews to be perfected, as they say.
DEUTSCH: Wow, you didn't really say that, did you?
COULTER: Yes. That is what Christianity is. We believe the Old Testament, but ours is more like Federal Express. You have to obey laws. We know we're all sinners
DEUTSCH: In my old days, I would have argued — when you say something absurd like that, there's no —
COULTER: What's absurd?
DEUTSCH: Jews are going to be perfected. I'm going to go off and try to perfect myself
COULTER: Well, that's what the New Testament says.
Anyone bother to check the New Testament?
Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.
Hebrews 7:
For the law made nothing perfect, but the bringing in of a better hope did; by the which we draw nigh unto God…By so much was Jesus made a surety of a better testament…For such an high priest became us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens; Who needeth not daily, as those high priests, to offer up sacrifice, first for his own sins, and then for the people's: for this he did once, when he offered up himself. For the law maketh men high priests which have infirmity; but the word of the oath, which was since the law, maketh the Son, who is consecrated for evermore.
Hebrews 10:
For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect…By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all…For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified.
Hebrews 11:
God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect.
2Corinthians 3:
Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great plainness of speech: And not as Moses, which put a vail over his face, that the children of Israel could not stedfastly look to the end of that which is abolished: But their minds were blinded: for until this day remaineth the same vail untaken away in the reading of the old testament; which vail is done away in Christ. But even unto this day, when Moses is read, the vail is upon their heart. Nevertheless when it shall turn to the Lord, the vail shall be taken away.
To Christians, the “Hebrew Bible” is true, but only PART of the story. Hello? McFly? Isn’t this common knowledge?? How can any Christian be faulted for vocalizing what they believe at the most fundamental level? She was accused of “being like the President of Iran” for making such “hateful” statements – when he is the one who is agreeing with the Mullahs! No Christian Proselytizing! Of course, Coulter is just doing what all Christians should do, spread the Gospel. Heard of “The Great Commission”?
And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth. Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen.
Sounds to me like Ann Coulter is just echoing Paul when he said:
For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.
What she said was not anything close to “hate speech”, it was the polar opposite.