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Title: If Ann Coulter's A Christian, I'll Be Damned
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URL Source: http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0610-23.htm
Published: Jun 10, 2006
Author: by Tony Norman
Post Date: 2006-06-11 10:02:53 by Mind_Virus
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Published on Saturday, June 10, 2006 by http://CommonDreams.org If Ann Coulter's A Christian, I'll Be Damned by Tony Norman Now that its original meaning has been hopelessly distorted by hatred and bad vibes, the term "Christian" really should be banished to the hall of linguistic abominations where it belongs. Say "Christian" in mixed company and the image of a bejeweled evangelist hawking a right-wing social agenda will come immediately to mind. Very few think of Christians as the same folks who embraced lepers and other social outcasts even before faith-based tax credits kicked in to provide "incentives" for doing the Lord's work. Once upon a time, being called a Christian was an invitation to participate in one's own beheading. When Christians weren't worshipping in catacombs or refusing to bend a knee to the emperor, they were turning up their noses at every form of social control. Christians were once anarchists who believed in a kingdom that transcended the petty ambitions of politicians and assorted antichrists. A mere three centuries after the Galilean Jew who got the ball rolling was strapped to a gurney and executed, Emperor Constantine "legitimized" the wild-eyed cult of peace by turning it into the mascot of imperial power it has remained ever since. Over the centuries, the term "Christian" has become identified with piety and economic striving for its own sake. Lost in the scramble for respectability is a sense of indignation at the machinations of empire. Never mind the example set by the itinerant rabbi Christians claim to follow. Not too many of them seem to notice the religious wars, pogroms, inquisitions and rationales for chattel slavery that occur whenever hands clasped firmly in prayer also clutch the reins of temporal power. In a country that flatters itself with the sobriquet "Christian nation," the majority of American "Christians" support the death penalty without experiencing a second of cognitive dissonance. A disturbing number of Christians can't get past the book of Leviticus without gathering rocks to stone every stray "sodomite" crossing their path. Alas, the Jesus that reigns over America takes delight in schemes to expel illegal aliens from the land. Because her blond mane and feral eyes give her an uncanny resemblance to all four horses of the Apocalypse, the American Jesus has a soft spot for Ann Coulter, despite her hateful shtick. In her latest best-selling tirade "Godless: The Church of Liberalism," Ms. Coulter demonstrates why she's a "Christian" and her political opponents are the spawn of Satan. In "Godless," a book that proves there is often truth in advertising as far as titles are concerned, Ms. Coulter proves her love for humanity by questioning the motives of the widows who successfully lobbied for the creation of the 9/11 Commission. When she's through with her shoddy hit-piece that includes speculation about whether the widows' husbands were planning to divorce them before al-Qaida spared them a visit to divorce court, you can't help but feel you're in the presence of something supernaturally despicable. No one slings mud imported straight from the Stygian depths quite like Ms. Coulter, a McCarthyite-smear artist who loves generating revulsion across the political spectrum every time she has a book to flog. Her exaggerations, hackery, lies and bad faith are dutifully pointed out by critics every time she hits the book circuit, but the insincerity of her Christian profession is rarely commented upon. This has always bothered me. Recently, I realized that Ann Coulter's gall in calling herself a "Christian" isn't any of my business. The problem is my own stupidity in identifying myself as a "Christian" when the word is devoid of its original meaning and has even come to stand for its metaphysical opposite. I continue to believe in the things I've always believed about the faith, but I can't be a Christian in a world where Ann Coulter can call herself a Christian without fear of contradiction. I'm open to suggestions about a new spiritual handle since I've already removed "Christian" from my lexicon of spiritual name-dropping. I wouldn't mind being called a Jew of some sort, but I don't think those good people will have me. Since they're only 3 percent of the population, you'd think a brother could catch a break. Alas, I bring too much baggage to the table.
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#1. To: Mind_Virus (#0)
LOL. Now that's a great line. She is and you will be! No real follower of Jesus could post such things.
Exactly. Ann Coulter is only taken seriously to an unrealistic degree by people who love the religion of sociopathic hate mongering. If people like TLBShow love this person uncritcally and adopt her unrealisticly framed fantasies of hate, that is proof enough for me that this person makes nothing of substance worth serious consideration politically or socially.
Christian theologian and 9-11 truth researcher David Ray Griffin has a new book coming out in a couple weeks addressed directly at fake Christians like Ann Coulter and (apparently) alwaysontheright. I can't wait to read it: Here's its description: Book Description
Amazon link: Christian Faith and the Truth Behind 9/11: A Call to Reflection and Action. The two books Neo-Conned! and Neo-Conned! Again examine Bush's Iraq war from the Catholic just war perspective.
Coulter lives by WWJD? Coulter is an admitted deadhead... What Would Jerry Do?
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She is and you will be!
#2. To: alwaysontheright (#1)
Because her blond mane and feral eyes give her an uncanny resemblance to all four horses of the Apocalypse, the American Jesus has a soft spot for Ann Coulter, despite her hateful shtick.
#5. To: Arator (#2)
"No real follower of Jesus could post such things."
#6. To: Ferret Mike, alwaysontheright (#5)
Probing disturbing questions that beg for a response from the Christian community, distinguished scholar of religion and popular writer David Ray Griffin provides a hard-hitting analysis of the official accounts of the events of September 11, 2001. A tireless investigator, Griffin has sorted through enormous amounts of government and independent data and brought to the surface some very unsettling inconsistencies about what really happened. In this, his latest book, he analyzes the evidence about 9/11 and then explores a distinctively Christian perspective on these issues, taking seriously what we know about Jesus’ life, death, and teachings. Drawing a parallel between the Roman Empire of antiquity and the American Empire of today, he applies Jesus’ teachings to the current political administration, and he explores how Christian churches, as a community intending to be an incarnation of the divine, can and should respond.
#10. To: Arator (#6)
#11. To: aristeides (#10)
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