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Thursday, January 07, 2010
As I mentioned in my last post, reporter and commentator Brit Hume (pictured above) got into a little trouble with the liberal intelligentsia because he suggested that Tiger Woods turn away from Buddhism and turn to Christianity. Ann Coulter, in one of her best columns, wondered this week what the fuss is all about.
Someone mentioned Christianity on television recently and liberals reacted with their usual howls of rage and blinking incomprehension.
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In The Washington Post, Tom Shales demanded that Hume apologize, saying he had "dissed about half a billion Buddhists on the planet."

Is Buddhism about forgiveness? Because, if so, Buddhists had better start demanding corrections from every book, magazine article and blog posting ever written on the subject, which claims Buddhists don't believe in God, but try to become their own gods.

I can't imagine that anyone thinks Tiger's problem was that he didn't sufficiently think of himself as a god, especially after that final putt in the Arnold Palmer Invitational last year.

In light of Shales' warning Hume about "what people are saying" about him, I hope Hume's a Christian, but that's not apparent from his inarguable description of Christianity. Of course, given the reaction to his remarks, apparently one has to be a regular New Testament scholar to have so much as a passing familiarity with the basic concept of Christianity.

On MSNBC, David Shuster invoked the "separation of church and television" (a phrase that also doesn't appear in the Constitution), bitterly complaining that Hume had brought up Christianity "out-of-the-blue" on "a political talk show."

Why on earth would Hume mention religion while discussing a public figure who had fallen from grace and was in need of redemption and forgiveness? Boy, talk about coming out of left field!

What religion -- what topic -- induces this sort of babbling idiocy? (If liberals really want to keep people from hearing about God, they should give Him his own show on MSNBC.)

Most perplexing was columnist Dan Savage's indignant accusation that Hume was claiming that Christianity "offers the best deal -- it gives you the get-out-of-adultery-free card that other religions just can't."

In fact, that's exactly what Christianity does. It's the best deal in the universe.
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God sent his only son to get the crap beaten out of him, die for our sins and rise from the dead. If you believe that, you're in. Your sins are washed away from you -- sins even worse than adultery! -- because of the cross.

"He canceled the record of the charges against us and took it away by nailing it to the cross." Colossians 2:14.

Surely you remember the cross, liberals -- the symbol banned by ACLU lawsuits from public property throughout the land?

Christianity is simultaneously the easiest religion in the world and the hardest religion in the world.

In the no-frills, economy-class version, you don't need a church, a teacher, candles, incense, special food or clothing; you don't need to pass a test or prove yourself in any way. All you'll need is a Bible (in order to grasp the amazing deal you're getting) and probably a water baptism, though even that's disputed.

You can be washing the dishes or walking your dog or just sitting there minding your business hating Susan Sarandon and accept that God sent his only son to die for your sins and rise from the dead ... and you're in!

"Because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved." Romans 10:9.

If you do that, every rotten, sinful thing you've ever done is gone from you. You're every bit as much a Christian as the pope or Billy Graham.

No fine print, no "your mileage may vary," no blackout dates. God ought to do a TV spot: "I'm God Almighty, and if you can find a better deal than the one I'm offering, take it."
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In a boiling rage, liberals constantly accuse Christians of being "judgmental." No, we're relieved.

Christianity is also the hardest religion in the world because, if you believe Christ died for your sins and rose from the dead, you have no choice but to give your life entirely over to Him. No more sexual promiscuity, no lying, no cheating, no stealing, no killing inconvenient old people or unborn babies -- no doing what all the other kids do.

And no more caring what the world thinks of you -- because, as Jesus warned in a prophecy constantly fulfilled by liberals: The world will hate you.

With Christianity, your sins are forgiven, the slate is wiped clean and your eternal life is guaranteed through nothing you did yourself, even though you don't deserve it. It's the best deal in the universe.

5 comments:

Steve Martin said...

God bless Ann Coulter, Britt Hume, and anyone else that is willing to speak the gospel of Jesus Christ to a world full of people who need Him, but who hate Him.

Thanks, Darius!

D.J. Williams said...

Now Ann just needs to realize that "acting like an arrogant jerk" is also on the list of "no's" for those who have trusted in Christ.

Darius said...

Yeah, DJ, I hear ya. I don't know quite what to do with Ann... on the one hand, she is an "arrogant jerk" (at least, she comes off like that)... but on the other hand, Jesus came off as an "arrogant jerk" in His day. Like Him, she excoriates the self-righteously pompous. He didn't pull any punches and neither does she. At the same time, He also condescended to those who were just lost and misled... I'm not sure if she does that well. She takes on the "religious" rulers of today like few have the courage to do, but I'm not sure that she's good at bringing in the lost to the Truth. Only God knows her motives and heart...

D.J. Williams said...

I think the big difference is that she tends to come off as pretty self-righteous most of the time. Take, for instance, her list of sins that she says you have to let go of - all are decidely other people's sins, not stuff that actually applies to us good conservatives. She's always right, and she's very smug about it. Like you said, we don't know her heart, but she just comes off as plain ugly most of the time, and Jesus and the Pharisees isn't exactly the mental picture that usually springs to mind for me when I see her on TV.

Darius said...

I've always found this interview of Coulter pretty good: http://www.beliefnet.com/News/Politics/2006/08/Church-Militant-Ann-Coulter-On-God-Faith-And-Liberals.aspx

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