Coulter's anti-Semitic comment too dangerous to ignore

LA Times ^ | Oct 13 2007 | Tim Rutten

[freedomdefender]

Perhaps the best response came from the Anti-Defamation League, which called Coulter's comments "outrageous, offensive and a throwback to the centuries-old teaching of contempt for Jews and Judaism. The notion that Jews are religiously inferior or imperfect because they do not accept Christian beliefs was the basis for 2,000 years of church-based anti-Semitism. While she is entitled to her beliefs, using mainstream media to espouse the idea that Judaism needs to be replaced with Christianity and that each individual Jew is somehow deficient and needs to be "perfected" is rank Christian supersessionism and has been rejected by the Catholic Church and the vast majority of mainstream Christian denominations. Clearly, Ann Coulter needs a wake-up call about the power of words to injure others and fuel hatred. She needs an education, too, about the roots of anti-Semitism."

That she does. As the league points out, "supersessionism," the theological notion that Christianity "completes" or "perfects" Judaism is, along with the deicide libel, anti-Semitism's major theological underpinning. Indeed, in Central and Western Europe between the world wars, there was a substantial body of purportedly "respectable" intellectual opinion that held "supersessionism" made possible a "reasonable" theological anti-Semitism that was entirely licit, as opposed to the Nazis' and fascists' illicit, "racially based" anti-Semitism. It is fair to say that the rails leading to Auschwitz were greased by precisely the opinion Coulter expressed on American television this week.

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

Silly me. I still come here to read and discuss conservative politics.

In the 1960's National Review ran a number of articles on the theme of what ideologies were part of the conservative movement and what were not. In those days NR was pretty much the whole conservative movement. Among those who were kicked out were the objectivists and the Birchers. One article discussed the rightist atheist Max Eastman. The conclusion was that atheists could be part of the movement, but anti-religious individuals like Eastman could be allies but not be considered part of the conservative movement. This attitude still dominates conservative thinking.

If you are uninterested, just skip these kinds of threads, if a Christopher Hitchens type on religion, you will never be part of conservatism.

[GiovannaNicoletta]

Exactly.

The Anti-Defamation League condemns Ann Coulter, a person who is a commentator and an author, and who is in no position to make or vote into law any kind of policy, who has not run for or been voted into any kind of elected office in the federal government; an individual whose remarks, cutting though they may be, will have absolutely no effect whatsoever on the lives and fortunes of the members of the Anti-Defamation League or anyone else, yet will break their legs to get to the voting booth at every single election to vote for democrats, the very people who would personally fire every single Hamas missile into Israel if they could.

They don't even try to hide their ignorant hypocrisy anymore. They couldn't even if they did try.

[atomic conspiracy]

You are more right than you may realize.
I am a Jew, an American Jew, a fighting Jew; quite a bit different, in other words, from the lynch mob baying at Coulter’s spiked heels.

The liberal left assaults Coulter and traditional Christianity but supports the Jew-hating, genocidal Palestinian terror gangs, seeks victory for the Jew-hating, genocidal Iraqi insurgents, protects and nurtures Jew-hating, genocidal professors in our universities, and works slavishly to affiliate itself with the champion genocidal Jew-haters, the now thoroughly dhimmified European elite.

In fact, this campaign is an opportunistic skirmish in a campaign whose real objective is to justify the suppression of Christianity as “hate speech.”
A temporary bonus for leftists is to obscure their own slavish support for Jew-hating Islamic fascists.

Incidentally, this craven Rutten capo has made an enemy for life by invoking the Holocaust in an intemperate and wildly slanderous attack on Coulter and on Christian doctrine. He blames the innocent so he can excuse the guilty. If I ever meet him in person, I will spit in his face.

Do I need to convert to be perfected? A question for another time.
Do I know who will stand with me against the forces of evil when the time comes, as it surely will?

I do, and they do as well.

[highlander_UW]

I’m just curious here, but posit for a moment that it’s true that the only way to Heaven is through Jesus...by becoming a Christian. Now if this is true, then isn’t the only caring, rational desire for a Christian for everyone to become Christians? One can’t compel anyone to become a Christian, but wouldn’t it be evil, if one knows the path to salvation, to withhold that information? And yet that appears to be exactly what the world wants Christians to become...evil. Sorry, not interested in selling out. Jesus is the Way, the Truth and the Life, and no one comes to the Father except by Him.

[Caipirabob]

This isn't a matter of discourse between the left and everyone who believes in freedom. It's an all out verbal slugfest waiting to blossom into militant action. They aren't interested in facts, just discrediting anyone who doesn't agree with them and march in idealogical lockstep.

I'd simply point out that an anti-semite doesn't date Jewish men as Ann is allegedly doing at present. That could get uncomfortable at dinner. What's worst is the fascist assault by the left of any non-leftist that occurring these days.

I'll fight the real fascists, thank you.

[atomic conspiracy]

Ok, fellow Jews. who do you want at your back when the dhimmi-fascists come knocking at your door? Anne Coulter and a posse of gun-wielding Freepers, or Abe Foxman, Tim Rutten, and a crowd of hand-wringing libs?

[athelass]

Some limits should never be crossed. Coulter crossed it! Having her on our side is sometimes embarassing. Hope she is going to calm down, and at least apology.

The only thing embarrassing about Ann is that the rest of us aren’t as bold about our faith as she is. We sit like lumps and let her take all the heat, like those people in that Catholic mass last week who sat quietly and let those activist gays come into their church and make a mockery of their faith and their priest. Now that was a limit that shouldn’t have been crossed. Here’s another: the LA Times blaming Christianity for the Holocaust.

”It is fair to say that the rails leading to Auschwitz were greased by precisely the opinion Coulter expressed on American television this week.”

How about this one:

CNN Newsroom read this email on air: “And Chuck wrote this to us, ‘After all these years of sex and money scandals, to say nothing of the born again idiot in the White House, one might reasonably expect that by now the Christians would have lost some of their smug superiority over the rest of us. Dear Jesus, save us from your followers.’”

There's some "hate speech" for ya. Frankly, I think I have a right to feel smugly superior to this guy, the people at CNN who decided to read this on air, Tim Rutten, and Donny Deutch. Not because I'm a Christian, but because I'm smarter than they are.

[BnBlFlag]

What a crock! Ann’s remarks were not anti anything! She just paraphrased the Great Commision.
Go look at the New Testament. It’s in there. See Matthew 28: 16-20.

[OldArmy52]

Diversity is not to be encouraged?

Jesus had a lot of harsh words for the Jewish religious establishment too.

[Live free or die]

"We Will Tolerate Your Christianity, But Only So Long As You Keep It To Yourself"
:LA Times

[Live free or die]

Are you deranged? My sarcasm detector is usually pretty sensitive but I get the inescapable impression that you actually mean that.

[Atlantic Bridge]

Of course nazis were Christian:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Christians

A few of the fiercest nazis were members of the protestant (Lutheran) DC. They even tried to prove that Jesus was an “Aryan”.

Regards from Germany!

A.B.

[Mila]

““the rails to Auschwitz were greased” sounds good but it makes no sense. If rails were greased, a locomotive would have no traction.”

FWIW, I’ve always heard the expression “greasing the rails” used in reference to speeding something up.

[Mila]

“Except for the fact that the Nazis weren’t Christian.”

I think that most were raised as Christians and, even after Hitler, many adhered at least to the trappings if not the spirit of that upbringing. In other words, if you would have asked them if they were Christians, they would have answered in the affirmative.

I found this page which rather illustrates what I mean. I get the feeling, perhaps incorrectly, that the person who put this site together was somewhat anti-Catholic/Christian. It’s interesting though.

http://www.nobeliefs.com/nazis.htm

[april15Bendovr]

Why wasn't Nancy Pelosi's Syria trip too dangerous to ignore for Jews in the entertainment industry?

http://www.nysun.com/article/58009

The New York Sun

Syria Threatens Israel on Golan Heights

GOLAN HEIGHTS — If Israel doesn't vacate the strategic Golan Heights before September, Syrian guerillas will immediately launch "resistance operations" against the Golan's Jewish communities, a top official from Syrian President Bashar Assad's Baath party told the New York Sun in an interview.

The Baath official, who spoke on condition his name be withheld, said Damascus is preparing for Israeli retaliation following Syrian guerilla attacks and for a larger war with the Jewish state in August or September. He said that in the opening salvo of any conflict, Syria has the capability to fire "hundreds" of missiles at Tel Aviv.

[dforest]

Oh, for pity’s sake. Enough is enough.

[jbp1]

Coulter said something? About Jews? Oh....wow.

Ah, whatever...

Hey did you hear about .......

[Brilliant]

The LAT has no credibility on anything. If anything, their comments constitute an endorsement of Coulter.

[MNJohnnie]

Factually inaccurate and rabidly hysteric column with not the slightest hint of a shred of a possibility of a iota of intellectual merit.

I guess the 1st Amendment is only suppose to apply to Congressional Democrats, Junk Media columnists and other assorted Leftist bigots these days.

The Commentary of a private citizen is NO where near as dangerous or as damaging as the treasonous, completely fraudulent, rhetoric that flows from Congressional Democrats EVERY day. When these Leftist political bigots in the Junk Media spent 1/1000th as much time and energy getting indignant at Leftist politicians for their completely unjustifiable demagoguery, then we will consider taking them seriously.

[MNJohnnie]

She's entitled to her own opinions, but not her own facts

Actually you are not entitled to your own facts either. Modern Research has shown a large number of FDR's "New Dealers" were actually Communist sympathizers and/or Communist agents of influence. That includes Henry Wallace one time FDR's Vice President. The truth lies somewhere between McCarthy's paranoid witch hunt and your blanket whitewash. We just don't know yet.