Posted on 10/11/2007 10:36:00 AM PDT by Froufrou
Slash-and-burn columnist Ann Coulter shocked a cable TV talk-show audience Monday when she declared that Jews need to be "perfected" by becoming Christians, and that America would be better off if everyone were Christian.
Coulter made the remarkable statements during an often heated appearance to promote her new book on advertising guru Danny Deutsch's CNBC show "The Big Idea."
In response to a question from Deutsch asking Coulter if "it would be better if we were all Christian," the controversial columnist responded: "Yes."
"We should all be Christian?" Deutsch repeated.
"Yes," Coulter responded, asking Deutsch, who is Jewish, if he would like to "come to church with me."
Deutsch, pressing Coulter further, asked, "We should just throw Judaism away and we should all be Christians?" She responded: "Yeah."
Coulter deflected Deutsch's assertion that her comments were anti-Semitic, matter-of-factly telling the show's obviously upset host, "That is what Christians consider themselves: perfected Jews."
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Oh my, I'll bet she's shaking in her shoes! not!
Oh my, I'll bet she's shaking in her shoes! not!
I don’t see the problem. Maybe the perfected Jew part needs to go, but all Jews should become Christian, along with everyone else, and this country would be better off, so would the rest of the world. We just don’t need any governments trying to do it, or any churches, for that matter. Leave it up to Christ. Ann is on the right track.
Woohoo! Man, they’ll roast her alive for this one!
Way to go, Miss Coulter!
“....If jews would stop voting left, and I can’t understand why they do, they would be a lot better off. The Democrats do NOT have the jews best interest at heart(or any interest except for getting their vote).”
I could not agree more. And that particular Jewish stanch continues to fascinate me.
I think the more accurate term for Jewish Christians is “completed”.
Becoming a Christian, for a Jew, does not mean jettisoning their Jewish tradition. If anything, it should become even more meaningful, as Jesus fulfills the Messianic prophecies in the Old Testament.
The book of Matthew and the letters of Paul (who was a Pharisee) are excellent resources in terms of proof of who Jesus is.
“She...will have to take the consequences of her words.”
Don’t you mean the consequences of somebody else not being able to handle the truth? Christ was a Jew. Christ was the Messiah. Does that mean Christ was anti-semitic? Now there’s an absurdity for you.
Media Matters is the instigator for this story.
That is incorrect. Gentiles have been grafted into the tree of judaism. Rom 11:17 I do not condsider myself a perfected jew. Only Jesus was that.
You go around telling people, "You have B.O.", "You're a fat slob", "I can tell that's a toupee", etc?
You must get beaten up a lot....
Worked for the Apostle Paul.
And all the other Apostles, too.
This is basic Christian doctrine. That’s why they stoned Stephen.
Now they want to throw stones at Ann.
She’s got more stones than all of them put together.
The act is getting old Ann. Try to come up with a new way to get publicity will ya.
Shocking? I don't think so.
She’s in the Celeb Shock Death Spiral in which everything she says has to be more shocking than the last thing she said.
She could have added that a person can still be a Jew and a Christian..........
That was beautifully stated. Thank you.
The title was longer; I copy pasted it in and had to delete some, but it is otherwise in the FOX original form.
Doesn’t persecution of Jews EVER go out of style? Does being Jewish mean someone will ALWAYS ‘blame’ you for something? Oy vey, already.
All she did was point out what ought to be obvious to Jews and Christians alike - that evangelical Christians think Jews (and everyone else) should convert, and Jews (and everyone else) have not done so.
Given that evangelical Christians also emphasize that conversion only counts if it is willing and sincere, how can anyone object?
I don’t mind Muslims wanting me to become Muslim - I only object because they think my free will in the matter is irrelevant.
What is not well known about her is that she attends a Reformed-Outlook Presb. Church, if IIRC. Such teaching in itself is greatly at odds with the, overwhelmingly, mainstream Christian free will theology - the ardent Pro-Zion John Hagee type of theology. Reformed theology is seen as terribly ‘anti-semitic’ from an end times point of view from the start, largely because it is Zionism neutral, at best, and even more so, due to the Covenant Replacement/Supersession offense.
The arguement is basically that Ann’s type of Christianity fuels the kind of anti-semitism that leads to hatred (the hatred that that is of the the ‘indifference’ variety) of Jews, which leads to the deaths of Jews.
That said, her comments are largely consistent with the end times outlook of reformed theology. If Christ is indeed the Jewish agent of Law fulfilment and more importantly, the new conventant, then Jew, Greek, Slave, Free, we all are to first Obey the law all the way to perfection.
The specific verse states: Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect. MATT 5:48. And this is in the context of Jesus telling the listener it doesn’t do any good to overlook the fact the the common grace, for example, of rain falls among the most just as well as the others.
It would be anti-biblical, in other words, to say that ‘perfection’ is attainable’ in any other fashion. More specifically, it would be akin to denying the Trinity, especially the Father part of the God Head. (It is quite interesting that the total number of times that God is directly labeled as “Father” is just once: in the Old Testament, in Isiah).
In short, the issue, as Ann honestly put it, is about the content of the New Testament itself. If it is not true, then her anti-semitism is of the exact same Rank as the Islamists points of view - but if it is true, her anti-semitism is a slander from the outside only, and what she is actually doing is preaching the gospel.
So, the bottom line is quite simple: it’s not about Ann, or, whether or not she is educated. It is simply whether or not the New Testament is Black or White, true or false. And in this world, the greatest sin is denying the only statement this is allowed to be black and white: “Black and White thinking is evil”. The world loves the grey.
ahem....I would normally do my customary silent lurking but as someone else pointed out there are the RULES!! Somebody help.
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