Surprisingly, neither of the news articles I’ll be commenting on were reported today. ” Coulter: Christians as ‘Perfected Jews’ ” appears under the date of October 11, 2007, while “Gore and U.N. Panel Win Peace Prize for Climate Work” appears under the date of October 13, 2007. Whoever invented the time machine to allow that article to be written should win the Nobel Prize in physics!
I’ll start off with the article about Coulter. All quotes are from the New York Times article here.
“We just want Jews to be perfected,” Ms. Coulter said, explaining why she thinks a Christian America would be ideal.
That’s the meat of the article, if you can call it that. Her viewpoint, summed up in one sentece. Cheery, ‘aint it?
Pressed to elaborate, she said, “People were happy. They’re Christian. They’re tolerant. They defend America.”
Is Ms. Coulter aware that, according to the CIA World Factbook, 2007 edition, 10% of our country is non-religious? Is she also aware that 2% are either Muslim or Jewish? That’s a whopping 12% of our country right there who are not Christian.
Let’s continue, shall we?
Ms. Coulter: No. I’m sorry. It [the comment about perfecting Jews] is not intended to be. I don’t think you should take it that way, but that is what Christians consider themselves: perfected Jews. We believe the Old Testament. As you know from the Old Testament, God was constantly getting fed up with humans for not being able to, you know, live up to all the laws. What Christians believe — this is just a statement of what the New Testament is — is that that’s why Christ came and died for our sins. Christians believe the Old Testament. You don’t believe our testament.
Mr. Deutsch: You said — your exact words were, “Jews need to be perfected.” Those are the words out of your mouth.
Ms. Coulter: No, I’m saying that’s what a Christian is.
Mr. Deutsch: But that’s what you said — don’t you see how hateful, how anti-Semitic –
Ms. Coulter: No!
Ms. Coulter is missing something here. If she thinks Christians are perfected Jews, then she thinks that Christians are better than Jews, by definition. What isn’t anti-semeitc about that? Also, I have one final point for Ms. Coulter to consider - Muslims believe (as far as I know, please correct me if I am incorrect) that the Old and New Testaments are…you can say, “accurate” holy books (though some Muslims belive that they have been altered by men), but the Koran is the most accurate, the most, you could say, “updated” version. If Ms. Coulter was a Muslim, would she consider herself a perfected Christian? And why doesn’t she consider Muslims “perfected Christians?”
On to the second article, also found in the New York times here.
Here’s a short excerpt -
OSLO, Oct. 12 — Former Vice President Al Gore, who emerged from the 2000 presidential election debacle to devote himself to his passion as an environmental crusader, was awarded the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, along with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a United Nations network of scientists.
The Norwegian Nobel Committee praised both “for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change.”
I’ve already talked about global warming (or lack thereof) in a different post, so I won’t get all science-y here. I’m just going to say that I think it’s horrendous that we’re giving a Nobel Peace Prize to somebody who has openly lied to the public and produced no formal apoplogy (that I know of). Apart from that, what is one of his solutions? Carbon offsets! Allow me to explain briefly - you can make as many environmentally harmful decisions as you want, as long as you spend a certain amount of money on environmentally free programs. So rich people (…Gore?) can continue to do whatever they’re doing, while the middle / lower class are the ones struck. Not only that, but according to an article publiced at WorldNetDaily, found here, the company that gets the money from Gore’s “carbon offests” is…no, let me show you a quote -
Al Gore defends his extraordinary personal energy usage by telling critics he maintains a “carbon neutral” lifestyle by buying “carbon offsets,” but the company that receives his payments turns out to be partly owned and chaired by the former vice president himself.
Something about this dooesn’t sound right. Gee, I can’t figure out what it is!
For those of you who have commented before, yes, that is sarcasm.
