Ann Coulter's 'Idiotic' Response to Christian Missions

One of the essential lessons of clear thinking is to avoid specious “either/or” dichotomies. Ann Coulter violated this basic standard in her intentionally sensational article, “Ebola Doc’s Condition Downgraded to ‘Idiotic.’" She wondered why missionary doctor Kent Brantly didn’t stay in the U.S. to “serve Christ” instead of going to Liberia, where he “risked making his wife a widow and his children fatherless.” In other words, in Ann’s opinion, Christian service is limited to one of two options: serve in the U.S., or abandon wife and children to “slink off” to do “heroic” “good works” in “Third World countries” that are “disease-ridden cesspools.” Obviously to folks with Ann’s infantile perspective, such “idiocy” is merely to “impress” people like the NY Times columnist Nicholas Kristof.

It is ironic that someone as so publicity-obsessed as Coulter would have the gall to assert that if missionaries weren’t so “narcissistic” and had courage or weren’t burned out over all the social problems in the U.S., they’d stay in “some deadbeat town” in the U.S. and forego all the “superlatives” they get for serving as foreign missionaries.

I probably is a waste of time to ask the question: did you really mean to reveal how shallow your thinking can be?

Ann Coulter has “made a living” by saying “outrageous, shocking” things, wrote Dr. Russell D. Moore, president of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention. Moore focuses his remarks on the lack of “discernment and wisdom” shown by those who fall for “hucksters and demagogues” like Coulter and Donald Trump, who even earned the ire of Nigerians when he suggested that missionaries had to be willing to “suffer the consequences” when they enter Christian service.

Ann has come out against Evangelical Christians, and finally doing it in the open, she has been hinting at this for years as she supported gay penetration of the GOP and Mitt Romney for at least 7 years, etc.

I wonder if she will write on Spain and the Catholic church?
“”“A Spanish priest who contracted Ebola while working in a hospital in Liberia was flown back to Spain for treatment, along with a nun who is to be isolated in case of infection.”””

exactly - God placed me here....why should I expend resources to go over the xxxxx where Im culturally and societally unaccepted?

What makes better sense is training someone who is culturally relevant to impact change from within.

Ann Coulter was an idiot from the get-go. An obvious circus clown.

Her obnoxious style is old and worn and it isn’t good for conservatives.

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