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Ann Coulter Says Jews Are Actually Christians
Jews worldwide are in for quite a surprise.....
According to Ann Coulter, as outlined in her book "Godless: The Church Of Liberalism", Jews are not actually Jews at all.
Jews are actually Christians ! suggests Coulter, erasing a distinction that led countless Jews and Christians astray for thousands of years.
Hat tip to Mike The Mad Biologist(note: original post seems unavailable due to blog-host change) who unearthed this tasty morsel through a close reading of Coulter's footnotes. Writes Mike :
In Ann Coulter's world -- as described in her new book Godless: The Church of Liberalism (Crown Forum) -- Jews are Christians, but apparently Episcopalians are not.
A footnote on Page 3 of the book reads: "Throughout this book, I often refer to Christians and Christianity because I am a Christian and I have a fairly good idea of what they believe, but the term is intended to include anyone who subscribes to the Bible of the God of Abraham, including Jews and others." [emphasis added]
Yes, you read that correctly. As far as Coulter is concerned, Jews are Christians. Mazel tov!
As for Episcopalians, they might be disheartened to learn that they will not be welcoming their newly Christian Jewish friends into the brotherhood of Christ, because they don't quite measure up as a church. Coulter writes on Page 5, "Howard Dean left the Episcopal Church -- which is barely even a church -- because his church, in Montpelier, Vermont, would not cede land for a bike path." [emphasis added]
So, maybe Episcopalians get to be the new Jews ? |
The Mad Biologist offers up another interesting quote of Coulter's that seems to implicate her own assertion, previously mentioned, that "Jews" don't actually exist because they really are Christians.
Writes Coulter:
....Christian conservatives gloss over the history behind the Holocaust. I rarely claim to speak for others, but I'm going to go out on a limb and do so. In my opinion, many Jews think that 1500 years of religiously based anti-Semitism based in Christian doctrine was a significant factor that led to the Holocaust. This not to say that other factors weren't important: obviously, they were. But the Holocaust was not solely due to generic Acme 'man's inhumanity to man' spontaneously arising in 1933. There was a long history of brutal oppression based on Christian doctrine predating the Holocaust.
This creates a lot of problems for conservative Christians when they speak to Jews: we see their religious fanaticism, and at some basic level, many of us recoil. Not only did most Jewish families in the country lose members in the Holocaust, but their parents, grandparents, and great-grandparents often fled brutal mistreatment (not to mention rape and murder) that was spawned by religious bigotry and fanaticism. There's a reason Jews reacted so vehemently against the movie The Passion of the Christ: many pogroms happened around Easter as 'revenge' for the death of Jesus. There is a basic problem here for Christian conservatives, which is, that in the Jewish mind (and I think any honest history of the Holocaust), Christianity is not 'guilt-free.' To date, American Christian conservatives have not addressed the role Christianity played in creating the necessary preconditions for mass murder (on the other hand, Catholicism has addressed this issue rather well).
In light of that, Coulter seems to be squarely indicting her own writing and also the writings of CUFI founder Texas Megachurch Pastor ( and darling of many US Republican Senators ) John Hagee who claims that the Holocaust and anti-Semitism are actually the fault of "Jews" because thousands of years ago the Israelites are alleged to have committed to horrible sin of idol worship.
See: "Pro Israel" Christian Leader Blames Jews For The Holocaust |
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