Ann Coulter: W.W.J.K.: WHO WOULD JESUS KILL?

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[No Fool]

Our favorite person, this one's amazing.

[moodyskeptic]

I've said it before: she's too skinny for my taste, but Ann is the sharpest wit in America. Damn, this one is brutally on point. No writer today matches her guts and bravura. P.J. O'rourke dissappeared entirely.

Steyn is a favorite second.

Just damn.

[Pharmboy]

EXCELLENT point, my friend...

[GOPJ]

Ann rules:

Let's see: It was a Roman who ordered Christ's execution, and Romans who did all the flaying, taunting and crucifying. Perhaps Safire is indulging in his own negative stereotyping about Jews by assuming they simply viewed Romans as "the help."

[Pharmboy]

Pardner, you're new around these here parts...thars jes' one thing I wanta say to ya...WELCOME.

[writer33]

You're a welcome. I never met me no educated man like you before. :) HA!

[Wycowboy]

Check out Romans chapter 10 verse 9. Reason this out: Why else would He die? In that manner?

[Old Professer]

As I asked before, how many religions were there at the time?

[Old Professer]

Elucidate?

[Plutarch]

The religion that toppled the Roman Empire -- anyone?

Aha! A Coulter factual error.

Constantine was the first Roman Emperor to endorse Christianity. He legalized and strongly supported Christianity with the Edict of Milan (313 AD), but he neither made paganism illegal nor made Christianity the state religion. Theodosius (379-395) declared Christianity the state religion of Rome; he made all pagan religions illegal. In 410, the Visigoths, captured and sacked Rome. In 455, the Vandals, another Germanic tribe, conquered Rome. Finally, in 476, Odoacer deposed the Roman emperor and made himself emperor, which essentially ends the Roman Empire.

Thus Christianity did not "topple" the Roman Empire, it was there at its fall at the hands of pagan barbarians.

Now, were we liberals, we would state that Coulter's piece was "ridden with factual errors", and thus nothing she writes is valid.

[alnick]

I just returned from seeing The Passion in time to read Ann's column.

What an amazing movie.

Republican logging executives. LOL.

[Kaslin]

History of the Passion Play in Oberammergau

[Pharmboy]

Those Germanic tribes sure know how to cause trouble...

[hopespringseternal]

Thus Christianity did not "topple" the Roman Empire, it was there at its fall at the hands of pagan barbarians.

The prophet Daniel disagrees with you, as does a correct reading of Revelation.

[Objective Reality]

About 40 years ago I read a Sci Fi short story about a man who tried to go back in time to rescue Jesus. The other scientists who had invented the time machine tried to stop him because they knew that Jesus had to die to save the souls of mankind.

I believe in Einstein and Rod Serling's assertion that history is infragile. If one were to go back in time to try to assassinate Hitler in 1920, he would fail, because Hitler has, obviously, already happened. So, obviously, something intervened to stop that time traveler. Otherwise, we live in an infinite number of parallel, possible and impossible universes, and every decision made or not made results in a tangential fracture of the universe. Did you go to work today? If so, there's a parallel universe in which you didn't. Have soup for dinner? There's a parallel universe in which you had a chicken sandwich. And one in which you had a steak. There's also an infinite number in which you died today, and an infinite number in which you never existed. And so on.

It's been my observation that God doesn't work that way. God is stupefyingly simple in His stupefying complexity. Photosynthesis can be reduced to: "Plants use sunlight to make food." Two hydrogen atoms plus one oxygen equals a water molecule. Reality exists because of the relative gravitational strength of the particles of an atom. The Earth sits in the exact right spot within the habitable zone of Sol. Et Cetera.

[Terpfen]

"Otherwise, we live in an infinite number of parallel, possible and impossible universes, and every decision made or not made results in a tangential fracture of the universe. Did you go to work today? If so, there's a parallel universe in which you didn't. Have soup for dinner? There's a parallel universe in which you had a chicken sandwich. And one in which you had a steak. There's also an infinite number in which you died today, and an infinite number in which you never existed. And so on."

You've just stumbled upon the modern description of reality as defined by quantum physics.

[Objective Reality]

You've just stumbled upon the modern description of reality as defined by quantum physics.

Yes - in itself, as much a "leap of faith" as ever demanded by any religion in the history of humankind.

[PGalt]

Beautiful Mind

[NutCrackerBoy]

Ann Coulter is not a woman for all seasons. Acerbic doesn't work for me on this issue. -NutCrackerBoy, #11

Elucidate?

I would, but lucid is not my style. (/self-deprecating humor)

A man (or woman) for all seasons is ever able to strike the appropriate tone: sunny, sorrowful, angry, conciliatory, ... Ann has only one tone: acerbic. That's OK: acerbic works for me almost always; I love acerbic. I've read and enjoyed everything she's written for the past several years. Last week was terrific: Ann Coulter made the New York Times her bitch.

This week, even though the subject is similar, acerbic falls flat. For one thing, I feel a deep sympathy for the ones whose oxen are being gored. If Ann Coulter were just a little more "woman for all seasons", she could have accomplished something wise, rather than flattening all in her path with controversialism.