You may love Ann Coulter or you may hate Ann Coulter. I'm not concerned about that right now. You must read her editorial in Human Events in regards to FOX News' Brit Hume's comments that Tiger Woods should consider turning to Christ. As my mom said in the email in which sent me an email with the link, "I can't believe these words came out of Ann Coulter's mind. I am shocked. Britt Hume--yes; Ann Coulter??" I'm quoting the entire editorial here because she so hit the nail on the head.
Again, it really doesn't matter what you think of Ann Coulter. This isn't about politics. Sure, she picks on "liberals" throughout the article, but that's Ann Coulter. Get over it. Just read the editorial below and ask yourself if you are using your public platform, whatever it may be, to communicate the truth as clearly as to you to those you influence?
Someone mentioned Christianity on television recently and liberals
reacted with their usual howls of rage and blinking incomprehension.
On a Fox News panel discussing Tiger Woods, Brit Hume said, perfectly accurately:
"The
extent to which he can recover, it seems to me, depends on his faith.
He is said to be a Buddhist. I don't think that faith offers the kind
of forgiveness and redemption that is offered by the Christian faith.
So, my message to Tiger would be, 'Tiger, turn to the Christian faith
and you can make a total recovery and be a great example to the world."
Hume's
words, being 100 percent factually correct, sent liberals into a tizzy
of sputtering rage, once again illustrating liberals' copious ignorance
of Christianity. (Also illustrating the words of the Bible: "How is it
you do not understand me when I speak? It is because you cannot bear to
listen to my words." John 8:43.)
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. (I know it seems strange that a self-described atheist and
"radical sex advice columnist f*****" like Savage would miss the
central point of Christianity, but there it is.)
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."
The Gospel makes this point approximately 1,000 times. Here are a few examples at random:
"For
God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever
believes in him should not perish but have eternal life." John 3:16.
"For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God." Ephesians 2:8.
"For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord." Romans 6:23.
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.
