Mark October 17th, 2007

Coulter's an opportunistic punk. You should get her on the big show.

Oh, wait…

Chemical Erik October 17th, 2007

Being serious, I don't consider myself a perfected Jew. I'm a follower of Jesus, the Mesiah prophesied in the "Old Testament". Ann is correct that it would be better for a Jewish person to follow Jesus, but I think her wording was rather poor. The worst part to me was not what that implied about Jewish people (which I consider mildly anit-semitic), but that she implied considers christians perfect.

The anti-semitism part looks overplayed, as she wasn't directly implying anything bad about Jewish people. Her real problem is self-righteousness about being christian. Relying on Jesus should make us humble, knowing we're screwed without him.

Christov October 17th, 2007

Anytime a Christian points out to a Jew that both the scriptures of the old an new testaments, read from a Christian perspective arguably indicate that salvation is in Christ alone, he is accused of being anti-semitic. That accusation is, in my admittedly less than catholic experience, almost always false.

Let's think about it this way – in this culture, what would it take to be considered pro-semitic? Probably embracing some form of modern Judaism.

I have a cousin who is or at least has been a homosexual activist, and her response to any reasoned criticism of homosexuality and her own activist goals is to accuse one of being homophobic. If she had the intellectual honesty to substitute "critical" for "phobic," she would have been correct. The point of her exercise, however, was to cast an aspersion and put me (or any critic, really) on the defensive.

The annoying thing about false accusations/aspersions is that they get in the way of honest discussion.

As to being a perfected Jew, I'm way more down with Paul's Galatians diatribe.

In my opinion, most or many of those appearing or speaking in media are opportunistic, but is that necessarily a bad thing?

jeff October 17th, 2007

Dude. Coulter IS hot.

To help clarify, when Coulter said "Perfected", she really meant "HOT". And when she said "Jew", she really meant "HOTTIE".

Danny Deutch is not hot. He's just jealous.

(Does that make me anti-semitic?)

Vern the Voice October 23rd, 2007

Pray for the peace of Jerusalem.