Posted on 10/02/2001 9:14:04 AM PDT by truthandlife
Conservative columnist Ann Coulter, fired from her contributing editor perch at the National Review Online, blames it on free-speech hysteria in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks. In a recent online column, Coulter opined that the United States should respond forcefully to the terrorist attacks: "We should invade their countries, kill their leaders, and convert them to Christianity," she said. The comment provoked an uproar, and the National Review Online subsequently refused to run another Coulter piece in which she referred to "swarthy males." When Coulter complained, she was fired. Tuesday's Washington Post quotes Coulter as saying she doesn't need friends like that. "Every once in awhile they'll throw one of their people to the wolves to get good press in left-wing publications," she told the newspaper. National Review Online Editor Jonah Goldberg told the Post, "We didn't feel we wanted to be associated with the comments expressed in those two columns." Coulter told the Washington Post she's getting great publicity as a result of the flap.
I've wondered for months now how National Review could stoop so low as to hire some no-talent hack like Jonah Goldberg. He does not write well. I've yet to see from him a single example of original thinking. Heck, I get embarassed for NR every time I read his column.
Nevertheless, they still have many excellent articles by top-notch writers, and I consider it a must-read publication. I'll just choose to ignore Jonah.
Let me quote her again:
"We should invade their countries, kill their leaders, and convert them to Christianity"
How can you read this to suggest something other than forced conversion? She didn't say "preach them the gospel". She said "convert them". If you see anything in her words which suggests she favors allowing them a choice, please explain it to me.
DERIVATIVE? or devisive? Stick to your guns and bombs, Anne. Turn all Islam toward Christianity.
Kool, - - It's about that you took a breath! - (and read a dictionary or two)
You're not one to believe that hyperbole has a place in creative writing?
Being a Christian, I would no more want those people in my religion as I would hyenas.
You obviously don't know OWK very well. Also, have the courtesy to flag a person when you are talking about them.
Small correction:
"Coulter, Browne, Falwell, Robertson, Maher, Owk... and counting."
Thanks, Physicist. You said it better than I did.
By gosh, you're right. Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, and Albert Einstein were all devout Christians.
Now the word of the LORD came to Jonah the second time, saying, "Arise, go to Nineveh the great city and proclaim to it the proclamation which I am going to tell you." So Jonah arose and went to Nineveh according to the word of the LORD. Now Nineveh was an exceedingly great city, a three days' walk. Then Jonah began to go through the city one day's walk; and he cried out and said, "Yet forty days and Nineveh will be overthrown." Then the people of Nineveh believed in God; and they called a fast and put on sackcloth from the greatest to the least of them. When the word reached the king of Nineveh, he arose from his throne, laid aside his robe from him, covered himself with sackcloth and sat on the ashes. He issued a proclamation and it said, "In Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles: Do not let man, beast, herd, or flock taste a thing. Do not let them eat or drink water. But both man and beast must be covered with sackcloth; and let men call on God earnestly that each may turn from his wicked way and from the violence which is in his hands. Who knows, God may turn and relent and withdraw His burning anger so that we will not perish." When God saw their deeds, that they turned from their wicked way, then God relented concerning the calamity which He had declared He would bring upon them. And He did not do it. -- Book of the Prophet Jonah, Chapter 3, NASB
Question #1: Do you contend that there is no ethical distinction whatsoever between Jonah warning Nineveh of God's impending judgment (leaving their response thereunto in their own hands), and Ann Coulter's advocacy of forced conversion?
Question #2: Do you contend that God specifically told Ann Coulter what to say, as He told Jonah?
Conversion by the Sword:
1.) Is unBiblical; and
2.) Doesn't work.
"It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life... And he said, Therefore said I unto you, that no man can come unto me, except it were given unto him of my Father." -- John 6: 63, 65 KJV
Muslims have freedoms?
Care to list which countries?
You wouldn't be parsing your words would you?
either you are with us or against us......boycott national review here at FR freep anyone that puts up some spew from them here. Their phones are ringing off the hook today LOL
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