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
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.
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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!!!
It's a good kind of trouble, though. "If God be for me, who can be against me.", right?!
I Love Ann.
Yes, wow. What a great witness to our Christian faith. This could be on a Religion thread. Bookmark.
Naturally, leftists are assuming the only god to turn to is GOVERNMENT. That'll work (eyes rolling).
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.
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.
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.
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.
Love you Ann!
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