It’s a horrible thing to realise you agree with Coulter on anything, and worse when it means you agree with O’Reilly as well. Last week Coulter claimed that “Jews need perfecting”. That phrase in itself I can’t say I agree with, but to claim it was an anti-semitic comment was, frankly, ridiculous. Coulter is (apparently) Christian, and what is Christianity but the belief that Jesus improved on the Jewish religion? Christians are by definition perfected Jews. This is particularly true from the point of view of the born-again Christian who claims, with no sense of modesty, that she has been “saved” by the very nature of her “personal relationship with Jesus” (the meaning of which still escapes me). By the same token, Christians and Jews both need perfecting, from the point of view of a Muslim (although for reasons of politeness they would tend to not make this explicit) given that the Koran was sent down to correct the drift of humanity.
So, unfortunately, I have to agree with her, for a change her statements weren’t hateful, merely descriptive of her beliefs. If one is going to say that Christians are hateful for this belief, then that has to be applied to other religions as well, Judaism included.
Man shot by dog
Tuesday, October 30th, 2007The news story of the day. I shouldn’t let myself be amused, really. But if you will leave your gun on the floor pointing in your direction…
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