Menopause much, Miss Coulter?
I think she makes a good point, which is that many Christians are afraid of serving God in the US because of pushbacks and would rather do in another country.
But her focus on this specific doctor is unfair because she doesn’t know him and she doesn’t know his reasons for going there.
Ann seems to think snarky equals clever. This is just peevish and mean.
Christians need to server both at home and abroad - wherever they are called to do so. If I am a missionary serving overseas, I might answer Ann by saying "I left plenty of Christians in America to do the job you are asking me to do. God has called me to do work here."
Ms. Coulter should be ashamed of herself for this article.
If anything Ann has written that puts the lie to her claim of being a Christian, it is this piece.
If they both weren’t gay, I think she and Putin would make a really cute couple.
This one is just mean spirited and dumb.
How long will it take for Ann to stick the other foot in her mouth.
Ann,
Narcissism refers to self love. How does this ultimate level of sacrifice qualify in anyway as selfishness? It is true that the execution of their mission should be heavily criticized. Lots of shortcuts were taken and it is doubtful that everyone involved was properly trained. The methods and procedures should be criticized and learned from and those who made these mistakes have paid dearly in life and coin, but the act of self sacrifice is nothing but virtuous.
Her commentary is so vile it makes me wonder about her sanity. She has turned into a self-righteous prig Id like to know how much of her time and money is spent addressing the ills here that she thinks OTHERS should donate their time and resources on.
His wife had flown home for a family wedding and he had planned to join them, but became sick. The Ebola outbreak started in March and Dr. Brantly was thrown into the situation and acted heroically. He stepped up to treat the Ebola patients in a special ward he set up in a hospital chapel. He was not an exotic infectious disease specialist and tried his best to help the people in Africa.
They do not wear those special suits 24/7 and a colleague probably infected both him and Mrs. Writebol when they were not wearing the special suits. It is Africa and hard to fight a deadly virus in primitive conditions where they do not have access to the most basic medical supplies.
I'm proud Dr. Brantly stepped up to help these people in their desperate condition. I would have run as fast as possible at the first mention of Ebola. We have the facilities to safely help them in Atlanta, so we should do the right thing. Samaritan’s Purse spent millions to get them safely here, but I'm sure many, many people are writing checks right now to help them. I will be.
If this virus is so deadly that the special unit at Emory can't contain it with the best infectious disease doctors in the world, then this virus is going to kill everyone anyway. I'm betting on the doctors at Emory though and glad that Brantly and Writebol have consented to be test subjects so they can learn more about this deadly virus. They really are heroes and deserve our best.
Shame on your Ann.
Statements I approve:
Can't anyone serve Christ in America anymore?
-- because we're doing just fine. America, the most powerful, influential nation on Earth, is merely in a pitched battle for its soul.
About 15,000 people are murdered in the U.S. every year. More than 38,000 die of drug overdoses, half of them from prescription drugs. More than 40 percent of babies are born out of wedlock. Despite the runaway success of "midnight basketball," a healthy chunk of those children go on to murder other children, rape grandmothers, bury little girls alive -- and then eat a sandwich. A power-mad president has thrown approximately 10 percent of all Americans off their health insurance -- the rest of you to come! All our elite cultural institutions laugh at virginity and celebrate promiscuity.
So no, there's nothing for a Christian to do here.
If Dr. Brantly had practiced at Cedars-Sinai hospital in Los Angeles and turned one single Hollywood power-broker to Christ, he would have done more good for the entire world than anything he could accomplish in a century spent in Liberia. Ebola kills only the body; the virus of spiritual bankruptcy and moral decadence spread by so many Hollywood movies infects the world.
If he had provided health care for the uninsured editors, writers, videographers and pundits in Gotham and managed to open one set of eyes, he would have done more good than marinating himself in medieval diseases of the Third World.
Which explains why American Christians go on "mission trips" to disease-ridden cesspools. They're tired of fighting the culture war in the U.S., tired of being called homophobes, racists, sexists and bigots. So they slink off to Third World countries, away from American culture to do good works, forgetting that the first rule of life on a riverbank is that any good that one attempts downstream is quickly overtaken by what happens upstream.
America is the most consequential nation on Earth, and in desperate need of God at the moment. If America falls, it will be a thousand years of darkness for the entire planet.
Not only that, but it's our country. Your country is like your family. We're supposed to take care of our own first. The same Bible that commands us to "go ye into all the world and preach the Gospel" also says: "For there will never cease to be poor in the land. Therefore I command you, 'You shall open wide your hand to your brother, to the needy and to the poor, in your land.'"
Right there in Texas, near where Dr. Brantly left his wife and children to fly to Liberia and get Ebola, is one of the poorest counties in the nation, Zavala County -- where he wouldn't have risked making his wife a widow and his children fatherless.
But serving the needy in some deadbeat town in Texas wouldn't have been "heroic." We wouldn't hear all the superlatives about Dr. Brantly's "unusual drive to help the less fortunate" or his membership in the "Gold Humanism Honor Society." Leaving his family behind in Texas to help the poor 6,000 miles away -- that's the ticket.
Today's Christians are aces at sacrifice, amazing at serving others, but strangely timid for people who have been given eternal life. They need to buck up, serve their own country, and remind themselves every day of Christ's words: "If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you."
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As she said, 'charity begins at home'.
This country is in bad shape, there are too many sick and needy of our own to care for before flying off to Africa to care for their needs.
Same goes for Bill Gates and other billionaires who pour millions into foreign countries. Help our own first!
And cut off government aid to foreign countries who hate us:
The average American hasn’t a CLUE how much of our tax money Obama has sent down Muslim sh*t holes while he plans to slash the military, CUTS MEDICARE and threatens to withhold senior’s social security checks!
BILLIONS FOR JIHAD! Obamas 2009 Supplemental Appropriations for Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Pandemic Flu was revised and passed by the full committee. It gives billions of U.S. taxpayer dollars to countries and entities that support Sharia law and/or harbor, hide and support those who want to destroy the U.S. and our allies. http://creepingsharia.wordpress.com/2009/05/1...
Read the summary from David Obeys office that was quietly released last week with nary a word from any media.
$3.6 BILLION, matching the request, to expand and improve capabilities of the Afghan security forces
$400 MILLION, as requested, to build the counterinsurgency capabilities of the Pakistani security forces
AFGHANISTAN: $1.52 BILLION, $86 MILLION above the request WEST BANK AND GAZA: $665 MILLION in bilateral economic, humanitarian, and security assistance for the West Bank and Gaza
JORDAN: $250 million,$250 million above the request, including $100 million for economic and $150 million for security assistance
EGYPT: $360 MILLION, $310 million above the request, including $50 million for economic assistance,$50 million for border security, and $260 million for security assistance
PAKISTAN:$1.9 billion,$591 million above the request
IRAQ:$968 MILLION,$336 million above the request
Oversight: $20 million,$13 million above the request, to expand oversight capacity of the State Department, USAID, and the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan to review programs in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq
Lebanon:$74 million
International Food Assistance:$500 MILLION,$200 million above the request, for PL 480 international food assistance to alleviate suffering during the global economic crisis
REFUGEE ASSISTANCE:$343 MILLION,$50 million above the request, including humanitarian assistance for Gaza.
Funding for the UN Relief and Works Agency programs in the West Bank and Gaza is limited to $119 million (Note: Gaza = Hamas)
Disaster Assistance: $200 MILLION to avert famines and provide life-saving assistance during natural disasters and for internally displaced people around the world, including Somalia, Zimbabwe, Ethiopia, the Middle East and South Asia
Peacekeeping:$837 MILLION FOR UNITED NATIONS peacekeeping operations, including an expanded mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and a new mission in Chad and the Central African Republic
Department of Justice: $17 million, matching the request, for counter-terrorism activities and to provide training and assistance for the Iraqi criminal justice system
OBAMA GIVES YOUR TAX DOLLARS TO REBUILD MUSLIM MOSQUES AROUND THE WORLD! http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/... #
ACCORDING TO THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION WILL GIVE AWAY NEARLY $6 MILLION OF AMERICAN TAX DOLLARS TO RESTORE 63 HISTORIC AND CULTURAL SITES, INCLUDING ISLAMIC MOSQUES AND MINARETS, IN 55 NATIONS. See the State Department document here. http://exchanges.state.gov/media/pdfs/office-...
And THAT’S just the tip of the iceberg.
THIS will blow your mind!! http://gbk.eads.usaidallnet.gov/ They should have 2010 up, but they don’t. That’s where you’ll find Obama’s largesse towards Muslim countries really go off the charts.
http://www.foreignassistance.gov/DataView.aspx charts: http://gbk.eads.usaidallnet.gov/data/fast-facts.html .
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Obama Increased Foreign Aid 80%; Spent 76% More on Foreign Aid Than Border Security cnsnews
CNSNews.com) - From fiscal 2008 to fiscal 2011, according to the U.S. Treasury, the federal government increased spending on foreign aid by 80 percent and, in fiscal 2011, spent 76 percent more on foreign aid than it did securing the borders of the United States.
In fiscal 2008, the government spent a total of $11.427 billion in international assistance programs, according to the Monthly Treasury Statement. In fiscal 2011, according to the statement, it spent $20.599 billion—an increase of $9.172 billion, or 80 percent, from 2008.
http://cnsnews.com/news/article/obama-increased-foreign-aid-80-spent-76-more-foreign-aid-border-security
Just think what we could do for America and our own people if these billions poured into sh*thole countries who hate us were kept at home to help our own ! !
"Official" government welfare and compassion are almost as deadly to the human spirit as Ebola is to the body. It just kills and mutates it.
Ann should stick to subjects she knows more about like Chris Christie, diets, and hair primping.
The two aid workers with ebola were allowed into this country to move 60,000 kids with chicken pox out of the news and insignificant.
Excellent rant about moral decline from the Log Cabin Republicans’ girl mascot.
Ann, you blew it big time! It isn't narcissists that go where they sense the Lord is sending them, it takes a servant heart with a total sacrifice of self to answer the call of God. We have no business condemning those who are willing to go anywhere for the gospel!
She has turned into an aging media whore. Sad. Love of power and money will do that to you.
Last Coulter column i read. She is an idiot. And a pretend Christian. While we need mission work here desperately, we are also sent to ALL nations. Caring for one of Christs children dying of a terrible disease thousands of miles away is as important in His eyes as building a thousand cathedrals - maybe more important. How dare she....