I am done with her unless and until she changes her ways. She’s just gone too far this time.
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.
I would never characterize them as "slinking off", but the choice of "cultural crap here, vs. diseases there" may be worth some reflection. JMHO
So much fail. I was going to fisk this thing in detail, but suffice it to say that there are men and women, here and elsewhere, who every day risk (and sometimes lose) their lives to serve God and humanity, and there are many more men and women here and elsewhere who try to walk the Christian walk in a world that doesn’t always appreciate it, and suffer for it. I’m somewhat less than clear what Ann Coulter has done that qualifies her to sit in informed judgment on either group.
When a Christian helps a person and does not explain that the reason he helps them is because of the grace of God who saved him and saves all those who believe in Christ, he has done nothing more than a kind atheist or agnostic might have done, i.e. “social justice”, a tool of communism. I doubt most Christian servants realize this.
Liberia is where the money is.
You can’t get nearly as much in the collection plate for a town in Texas as you can get for a town in Liberia.
Besides that, youth groups from churches across the south take care of the small American towns. Youth missions accomplish more than one doctor
She’s right. All of our problems here at home are solved? Right?
No?
So... Why bother helping those who will hate us no matter what we do?
Wouldn’t the “right thing”, the “moral thing”, be to get our own House in order before going anywhere else?
I hate to agree with the living matchstick but she asks a valid question.
Many who are Christians like to think of “charity”’as going off to some exotic location for (at most) a few months in a year or a few years of life. Or only donating money or clothing or even volunteer time to a charity (no matter how noble that organization is), and there’s a bonus for such “charity”: it’s usually tax-deductible.
There’s a common thread to most “charitable” activities though, and that is: the more distant, the more separate, from one’s own soul, one’s heart, one’s life, the better. This is a tendency we all have as fallen human beings. Compartmentalizing all our activities, putting them in neat categories, easily managed, not really impacting us. Not really a threat to us. Minimizing and mitigating any negative emotion or real turmoil that comes when one actually gets “down and dirty” with charity, in other words letting the people one is “helping” actually become someone of importance in one’s life. A person one grows to care about and wants to know everything there is to know about that person. A person who is truly loved in other words.
The missionaries come closest to this but even they miss it when they eventually leave, to come back home where it’s safe, safe from the misery of reality.
This is, though, what Jesus wants from all of us. He wants us to engage in the drama of life, with all it’s joy AND pain. This is true charity. And this is found at home, in listening to your husband or wife when they want to just have an ear to hear their pain. Or spending time with your children, being part of their life in a meaningful way. Or in helping your neighbor down the street shovel his sidewalk, or bringing food to a shut in in your neighborhood and spending time with them just talking. Or visiting that crazy relative no one else wants to visit. Or helping some homeless get off the street not just by giving them money or driving them to a shelter but being Christ for them in whatever way you can.
It’s hard. It sucks. It’s local. That’s charity. It’s what we were made for; anything else is mere substitution.
I think that Dr Brantly had no right to expose his young family to anything they might have picked up in Africa.
http://www.sgberman.com/2014/08/07/ann-coulter-is-great-but-id-rather-be-like-kent-brantly/
OK she’s not “great” but it makes a good title.