Ann Coulter’s point is that someone should be trying to reach calloused, hard-hearted Americans, the Ebola Doctor was wrong. I agree that we should be trying hard to reach Americans.
The Ebola Doc, Ann, was earning us the right to get a hearing from those cynical Americans. And the man, himself, will definitely get a hearing from every unbeliever that I know. People like Dawkins are professional skeptics, making this livelihood at being on the atheists’ whos who lists.
But normal, everyday skeptics find Doc Ebola’s compassion worth listening to even if they do initially disagree with him.
Brantly was doing what Jesus commanded us all to do. I certainly don't have his courage or his devotion to Christ. It is the kind of Christianity we should all strive for. To many of these Hard Hearted Americans, Kent Brantly is the only Bible they will ever read. And to many of us weaker vessels, he is someone to be emulated and a vessel we should be praying that we can someday be like.
Coulter's comments show that she is a shallow vessel if a vessel at all. More like an ash tray compared to the 50 gallon drum that Kent Brantly represents. I was rather shocked to read Coulter's comments. She writes books extolling the virtues of Christianity and then when someone actually lives up to those virtues, she questions their motives.
If we all truly had the kind of faith that Kent Brantly had, we would not lose any sleep over the possibility that the guy next to us on the plane has ebola. Brantly is in God's hands and not Ann Coulter's. But Ann Coulter apparently prefers to rest in Ann Coulter's hands rather than God's. That's a pretty normal state for the shallow vessels that occupy the pews in most of the churches in American these days. Perhaps Brantly can show us the way to become deeper vessels.