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Ann Coulter: IF YOU CAN FIND A BETTER DEAL, TAKE IT! (Hume [and God] Drive Liberals Crazy!)
AnnCoulter.Com ^ | January 6, 2010 | Ann Coulter

Posted on 01/06/2010 2:56:37 PM PST by Syncro

IF YOU CAN FIND A BETTER DEAL, TAKE IT!
January 6, 2010


Someone mentioned Christianity on television recently and liberals reacted with their usual howls of rage and blinking incomprehension.
On a Fox News panel discussing Tiger Woods, Brit Hume said, perfectly accurately:

"The extent to which he can recover, it seems to me, depends on his faith. He is said to be a Buddhist. I don't think that faith offers the kind of forgiveness and redemption that is offered by the Christian faith. So, my message to Tiger would be, 'Tiger, turn to the Christian faith and you can make a total recovery and be a great example to the world."

Hume's words, being 100 percent factually correct, sent liberals into a tizzy of sputtering rage, once again illustrating liberals' copious ignorance of Christianity. (Also illustrating the words of the Bible: "How is it you do not understand me when I speak? It is because you cannot bear to listen to my words." John 8:43.)

In The Washington Post, Tom Shales demanded that Hume apologize, saying he had "dissed about half a billion Buddhists on the planet."

Is Buddhism about forgiveness? Because, if so, Buddhists had better start demanding corrections from every book, magazine article and blog posting ever written on the subject, which claims Buddhists don't believe in God, but try to become their own gods.

I can't imagine that anyone thinks Tiger's problem was that he didn't sufficiently think of himself as a god, especially after that final putt in the Arnold Palmer Invitational last year.

In light of Shales' warning Hume about "what people are saying" about him, I hope Hume's a Christian, but that's not apparent from his inarguable description of Christianity. Of course, given the reaction to his remarks, apparently one has to be a regular New Testament scholar to have so much as a passing familiarity with the basic concept of Christianity.

On MSNBC, David Shuster invoked the "separation of church and television" (a phrase that also doesn't appear in the Constitution), bitterly complaining that Hume had brought up Christianity "out-of-the-blue" on "a political talk show."

Why on earth would Hume mention religion while discussing a public figure who had fallen from grace and was in need of redemption and forgiveness? Boy, talk about coming out of left field!

What religion -- what topic -- induces this sort of babbling idiocy? (If liberals really want to keep people from hearing about God, they should give Him his own show on MSNBC.)

Most perplexing was columnist Dan Savage's indignant accusation that Hume was claiming that Christianity "offers the best deal -- it gives you the get-out-of-adultery-free card that other religions just can't."

In fact, that's exactly what Christianity does. It's the best deal in the universe. (I know it seems strange that a self-described atheist and "radical sex advice columnist faggot" like Savage would miss the central point of Christianity, but there it is.)

God sent his only son to get the crap beaten out of him, die for our sins and rise from the dead. If you believe that, you're in. Your sins are washed away from you -- sins even worse than adultery! -- because of the cross.
"He canceled the record of the charges against us and took it away by nailing it to the cross." Colossians 2:14.

Surely you remember the cross, liberals -- the symbol banned by ACLU lawsuits from public property throughout the land?

Read more at AnnCoulter.Com


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KEYWORDS: anncoulter; brithume; buddhism; coulter; hume; tigerwoods
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To: Syncro; carlo3b; stanz; gakrak; massfreeper; hosepipe; Donald Rumsfeld Fan; MadLibDisease; fffff; ..
Preach it Sister!

With Christianity, your sins are forgiven, the slate is wiped clean and your eternal life is guaranteed through nothing you did yourself, even though you don't deserve it. It's the best deal in the universe.

Let me know if you'd like to be added to the Ann Coulter ping list.

41 posted on 01/06/2010 9:03:07 PM PST by jellybean ( Bookmark http://altfreerepublic.freeforums.org/index.php for when FR is down)
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To: Syncro

What an awesome column!!! No wonder I love this woman, she is right and unafraid to say so. May many souls be won to Christ through your bold proclaimation of the Gospel today. God bless you, sister in the Lord!!!


42 posted on 01/06/2010 10:34:50 PM PST by boatbums (Pro-woman, pro-child, pro-life!)
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To: Anti-Bubba182
I knew there would be trouble.

It's a good kind of trouble, though. "If God be for me, who can be against me.", right?!

43 posted on 01/06/2010 10:36:42 PM PST by boatbums (Pro-woman, pro-child, pro-life!)
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To: Syncro

I Love Ann.


44 posted on 01/06/2010 10:48:16 PM PST by happygrl (Hope and Change or Rope and Chains?)
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To: Syncro
IMHO, she's always at her best when she's testifying of her faith in Christ.
45 posted on 01/07/2010 4:19:27 AM PST by blues_guitarist (Snipers wanted . . . heh, heh, heh! . . . . . . black & humble . . .)
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To: RonDog; Salvation

Yes, wow. What a great witness to our Christian faith. This could be on a Religion thread. Bookmark.


46 posted on 01/07/2010 5:03:59 AM PST by Servant of the Cross (the Truth will set you free)
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To: Syncro
Why on earth would Hume mention religion while discussing a public figure who had fallen from grace and was in need of redemption and forgiveness? Boy, talk about coming out of left field!

Naturally, leftists are assuming the only god to turn to is GOVERNMENT. That'll work (eyes rolling).

47 posted on 01/07/2010 7:12:10 AM PST by subterfuge (BUILD MORE NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS NOW!!!)
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To: jellybean
"With Christianity, your sins are forgiven, the slate is wiped clean and your eternal life is guaranteed through nothing you did yourself, even though you don't deserve it. It's the best deal in the universe!"

OOOOOO-Rah! Ann nails it!

One additional point....a christian can keep this "circle of forgiveness" going "ad infinitum"...after all, God is "All forgiving" so all the christian has to do is just keep asking for forgiveness, and their "trip to heaven" is assured.

Of course, there is always the thorny problem of whether God is more "just" than "forgiving", or more "forgiving" than "just".

But it's only a problem for christians.

48 posted on 01/07/2010 7:46:23 AM PST by Logic n' Reason (Keep your friends close......keep your enemies closer!)
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To: wintertime
Ann called a **LOT** of people CRANKS. I suppose she is just sooooooo much smarter than they are.

Yes, we know you hate Ann. Any comments about this article or are you here simply to cause trouble?

I happen to believe it's her best article ever.

49 posted on 01/07/2010 7:46:57 AM PST by subterfuge (BUILD MORE NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS NOW!!!)
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To: All
Humes response to the criticism

50 posted on 01/07/2010 10:29:01 AM PST by Syncro (TPXIII coming this Spring! March 27th to April 15th 2010, GIANT Rally in DC!)
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To: Syncro

My fave quote from the article:

God sent his only son to get the crap beaten out of him, die for our sins and rise from the dead. If you believe that, you’re in. Your sins are washed away from you — sins even worse than adultery! — because of the cross.
“He canceled the record of the charges against us and took it away by nailing it to the cross.” Colossians 2:14.

Graphic but correct.


51 posted on 01/07/2010 9:25:47 PM PST by reaganaut (Former Mormon, now Christian "I once was lost but now am found, was blind but now I see")
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To: Candor7
I'm not a Buddhist, but I think Brit Hume, though very well-intentioned and sincere, was wrong in asserting that there is no forgiveness in Buddhism. I think Ann was wrong too, in asserting that Buddhists want each man to be a little god.

Please correct me if I am wrong, but my understanding is that Buddhists believe that sins, and good actions, return to one through the law of karma. When one is purified and achieves Nirvana, he is identified with the absolute unmanifest Reality, eternally liberated, and untouched by the effects of his past actions.

Buddhism can seem superficial and selfish, as can Christianity, if one relies on "blog posts" and articles in popular media.

52 posted on 01/08/2010 12:13:24 AM PST by SupplySider
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To: Syncro
With Christianity, your sins are forgiven, the slate is wiped clean and your eternal life is guaranteed through nothing you did yourself, even though you don't deserve it. It's the best deal in the universe.

Love you Ann!

53 posted on 01/08/2010 1:03:21 AM PST by Rummyfan (Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
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