Posted on 10/11/2007 1:23:10 PM PDT by america4vr
NEW YORK Appearing on Donny Deutsch's CNBC show, "The Big Idea," on Monday night, columnist/author Ann Coulter suggested that the U.S. would be a better place if there weren't any Jewish people and that they needed to "perfect" themselves into -- Christians.
It led Deutsch to suggest that surely she couldn't mean that, and when she insisted she did, he said this sounded "anti-Semitic."
Asked by Deutsch whether she wanted to be like "the head of Iran" and "wipe Israel off the Earth," Coulter stated: "No, we just want Jews to be perfected, as they say. ... That's what Christianity is. We believe the Old Testament."
Deutsch told E&P's sibling magazine, Adweek, today, "I was offended. And then, and this was interesting, she started to back off and seemed a little upset."
Asked to gauge her reaction, Deutsch said, "I think she got frightened that maybe she had crossed a line, that this was maybe a faux pas of great proportions. I mean, did it show ignorance? Anti-Semitism? It wasn't just one of those silly things."
A transcript, provided by Media Matters, follows. *
DEUTSCH: Christian -- so we should be Christian? It would be better if we were all Christian?
COULTER: Yes.
DEUTSCH: We should all be Christian?
COULTER: Yes. Would you like to come to church with me, Donny?
DEUTSCH: So I should not be a Jew, I should be a Christian, and this would be a better place?
COULTER: Well, you could be a practicing Jew, but you're not.
DEUTSCH: I actually am. That's not true. I really am. But -- so we would be better if we were - if people -- if there were no Jews, no Buddhists --
COULTER: Whenever I'm harangued by --
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and is a slap in the face to every patriotic Jew who ever did anything for this country, from Haym Solomon on down.
I know who Haym Solomon is, and I don't see how saying something could be better is a slap in the face.
I just went to her website and read it. She hit the nail on the head.
coulter now sounds like a blond amadinajad!!!
selling books is one thing....espousing the nazi views of pat buchanan....F U ann!!!!
and please...I am No stinking liberal democrat!!!
You have cajones the size of beach balls!
I beg your pardon. Perhaps you missed the post I was responding to. Especially this part:
>If you take the name of Jesus, you have a commission to perform, and that is to preach the Gospel. It is error for a Christian to tell someone to choose anyway they want. Their blood will be on that persons hands. If I tell you about Jesus and you reject Him, then I am gathering treasure in Heaven and you are relying on your own righteousness to save you.
I did not suggest that anyone was trying to convert me, but I did wish to point out that it would behoove anyone interested in doing so—I mean, there’s a lot of treasure to gather—to look elsewhere in their efforts.
Funny thing, when I was young, I rarely, perhaps never, came across this sort of Christian. Most of the people I interacted with actually believed in the idea of keeping one’s spirituality to themselves. Does this mean they were not Christians? That certainly would’ve been news to them. I suspect we’re discussing the large margin for different interpretations of the Christian religion here.
But I have come across plenty of Christians in more recent times who did in fact feel it was their duty to try to convert me and others like myself. Seemed strange, especially since I never had a Rabbi instruct me to do any such thing in the name of Judaism.
I have no wish to make more of this issue concerning Coulter’s comments than needs to be. However, the expressed idea that all ‘good’ folks will in fact be burning in hell adds just a bit of vinegar to the discussion.
I would not worship a deity that would treat ‘good’ folks in this manner, and I would do everything I could to oppose Ann’s view of a society where everyone would be a Christian.
Mind you, anyone is free to attempt to convert me, and I am likewise free to politely but firmly tell them to mind their own business.
hey newbie, you have no clout.
BYE BYE Ms Coulter.
The Ann-haters are displaying their ignorance again.
Maybe not today or tomorrow,but.......
IBTZ!!
Yup. Scary, huh?
Thank you for that information.
This was the last straw for me.
I mean, I got no problem with mud slinging talking head punditry, but damn, that’s she’s now way beyond anything I’ll ever see common cause with, there is no way to work with people who want to steal your soul after you die. Damn Mormons with post-mortem baptisms, Evangelicals underhandedly financing conversion efforts, those Christian Israel PAC nutjobs that Lieberman milks for campaign contributions, Lieberman the whore, and now Coulter the out of the closet religious ideologue.
Christians differ among themselves not only about how evangelism should be carried out, some would say by, say, mitzvot more than by words, but also on the, ah, destination of those who do not explicitly embrace Christianity in this life.
Also Catholics until a few decades ago considered themselves too much in a precarious minority status to call attentionto themselves. I was brought up Episcopalian and for many (most) of them the more spectacular and obtrusive types of evangelism just were "not done". I'm personally not much of a salesman. So there are cultural and personal differences.
And because I'm a convert to Catholicism, there are plenty of Christians who think, on that account, that you and I will be sharirng the same fire at the infernal marshmallow toasting.
It's hard to figure out this kind of thing in a pluralistic society.
It seems to me that when there is a vision of the teaching going out from Jerusalem ADDED to Paul's idea that much of what the Torah is is written on the hearts even of gentiles, and when one considers how easy it is to give offense when one ambles up to someone who is content and virtuous and says, "Hi, I'm now going to fix you. Just hold still a second ...." my personal approach is to try to be the best me I can, with constant appeals for Divine help, (without which, my best me isn't very good) and to look prayerfully for the divine word in everyone. (Was that sentence long enough for you?)
PLUS, if anyone is fool enough to ask me what I believe and why, and if there's enough Scotch, I'll give 'em an earful and then some.
>a certain amount of Jews in the Holy Land is necessary for the return of Christ.<
What??? Do you think that because a Jew is saved he is no longer a Jew? There are many, many Messianic Jews (Christian Jews). They are the Jews Christ will return to, along with the rest of Christians bondservants. Jesus said the gate was narrow.
oh the horror.../s
btw.....I wish more Jews were Christian too....the vast majority I’ve known were Jewish identity and rather agnostic in belief.
Ann chewed up the shark, spit it out, and is now going after squid, octopus, killer whales, and all the other PC-brainwashed people who feign incredulity every time she utters something with which they feel uncomfortable.
Ann stated the obvious. The same thing BILLY GRAHAM says in every single sermon he ever gave the past 68 years.
Which is that he, as do most Christians, feel that God has a plan to save mankind from sin and depravity.
And that, yes, converting to Christianity would be a better thing than NOT converting.
If that makes anyone uncomfortable, then maybe is is THEY that have the bias.
Against the principal commandment of New Testament Christianity ... Go ye into the world and preach the Gosple....
I believe we agree more than we disagree.
As an aside, and I am reluctant to bring this up, there is something of a perpetual sensitivity built in to the identity of a Jew. Which in some ways don’t make sense, and the idea of belonging to the culture of victimhood is obviously distasteful, but though I no longer observe the religion, I take that identity seriously, and I believe I have ample reason to.
Spelling out why should be unnecessary. The sensitivity of which I speak should and must be managed carefully, otherwise one is looking for something where it probably doesn’t exist, and faux outrage does nobody any good.
I understand that a lot of people believe that everyone will burn in hell who doesn’t accept Jesus. And that’s fine, to a point. Being exposed to the articulated expression of that view becomes quite annoying over time. Such is a small price to pay for living in a free society. I do have the right to be irritated by it, and to express that irritation.
Coulter either doesn’t consider how her words may be used against her by those only interested in that pursuit, or she doesn’t care. At this point I’m inclined to believe the latter.
But that’s because I happen to believe most people are better served...keeping their spirituality to themselves.
THIS IS NOT A MEDIA MATTERS GOTCHA SMEAR! COULTER DID THIS TO HERSELF.
VIEW THE ENTIRE SEGMENT HERE ON YOUTUBE (pops to new window)
Anyone who would defend this is part of the cadre of the Republican Party are part of the reason the national Republican Party to never gain a majority (or large plurality) of Jewish-American voters and political donors. And Hindi-Americans. And Muslim-Americans. And Agnostics. And Atheists.
Thanks.
Got any Scotch?
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