The purpose-driven left

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The purpose-driven left

Ann Coulter

April 7, 2005

It's been a tough year for the secularist crowd. There was Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ," the moral values election, the Christian hostage subduing her kidnapper by reading from "The Purpose-Driven Life," and the Christian effort to save Terri Schiavo. Not only that, but earlier this year Dr. James Dobson insulted the Democrats' mascot, SpongeBob SquarePants, with impunity.

And now, for all the hullabaloo in the media, you'd think the pope had died.

The liberal take on Catholicism is that it's a controversial religion because of its positions on abortion, sodomy and various other crucial planks of the Democratic platform (curiously, positions that are shared by all three of the world's major religions).

In defense of the Catholic Church's most "controversial" position (meaning "contrary to the clearly stated opinion of CNN"), I wanted to return to a story from a few weeks ago that passed from the headlines far too quickly. The "controversial" Catholic position is the ban on girl priests.

I'll leave it to the Catholics to explain the theological details, but we have a beautiful pair of bookmarks to the exact same incident illustrating women's special skills and deficits. The escape and capture of Brian Nichols shows women playing roles they should not (escorting dangerous criminals) and women playing roles they do best (making men better people).

Nichols' murderous rampage began when he took the gun from a 5-foot-tall grandmother who was his sole guard at the Fulton County Courthouse. It ended when an otherwise unremarkable 26-year-old woman appealed to the Christian conscience of this same violent killer holding her hostage.

At 2 a.m. one Saturday night, Ashley Smith went out for cigarettes while unpacking her new apartment, yet another victory for tobacco pleasure. Returning from the store, Smith was grabbed by a man at her front door, who put a gun in her side and told her not to scream. He asked if she knew who he was. When he removed his baseball cap, she saw it was Nichols, the dangerous fugitive all over television who had escaped custody during his rape trial and had killed four people in the previous 48 hours. (Although he also looked a lot like of one the guys on "American Idol.")

In Smith's apartment, Nichols bound Smith's feet and hands and put her in the bathtub. Later, at Smith's request, Nichols allowed her to hop from the bathroom into the bedroom, where she began talking to him.

In short order, Smith was reading aloud to Nichols from the Christian book "The Purpose-Driven Life" – in direct violation of his constitutional right to never hear any reference to God, in public or private, for any purpose, ever, ever, ever! For more on this right, go to the "People for the American Way" website.

After reading the first paragraph of Chapter 33 aloud, about serving God by serving others, Nichols – the man pundits were calling an "animal" – asked her to read it again.

Nichols listened to the passage again and responded by telling Smith he was already dead, saying, "Look at my eyes." But Smith looked and told him God had a purpose for him, perhaps to minister to other lost souls in prison. Smith read to Nichols some more, both from the "Purpose" book and from another popular book that's been dropped from all news accounts of this incident: the New Testament. (In the Hollywood version, Smith will be reading from the Quran.)

Smith knew all about Nichols' violent depredations from television. Yet she saw him not as a monster, but as one of God's creatures. Most Christians – most people – have trouble seeing the humanity of people who take our parking spots. Smith could see God's hand in a multiple murderer holding her hostage. By showing him genuine Christian love, Smith turned Nichols from a beast to a brother in Christ. This phenomenon, utterly unknown to liberals, is what's known as a "miracle." Top that, Paul Krugman!

Nichols told Smith she was "an angel sent from God," calling her "his sister" and himself her "brother in Christ." Nichols said he had come to Smith's home for a reason, in Smith's words, that "he was lost and God led him right to me to tell him that he had hurt a lot of people."

This trampling of our Constitution – I mean this conversation – lasted long into the night. They watched Nichols' shooting people on television. Nichols said he couldn't believe he was that man. In the morning, Smith made Nichols eggs and pancakes for breakfast. Then she walked out of the apartment to pick up her daughter and to call 911. The last thing Nichols said as Smith was leaving was to say hello to her daughter for him. When the police arrived, Nichols surrendered without incident, an utterly transformed human being.

Heaven help the average liberal if this ever happens to him! What would an urban secularist do? Come sit down and let me read to you from Michael Moore's "Stupid White Men." Or maybe he could put a SpongeBob video in the VCR. WE ARE FAM-I-LEEEEE! At least before he killed again, the dangerous fugitive would have warm feelings toward homosexuals.

It's also another example of how our universities are failing students. Today's college coeds would be dead: They know nothing about Jesus Christ and can't cook a good meal.

Smith saved the soul of a man on a killing spree by talking to him about Christianity. But liberals think this won't work with the Muslims? We ought to fly this Ashley Smith to Saudi Arabia. We could just make her a box lunch every day and send her on her way.

Liberals would approve of a nice Christian girl like Smith going to the Middle East only if she went as a Marine or – better! – if she were getting herself run over by a tank while defending a PLO tunnel into the Gaza Strip used by suicide bombers. Sadly for liberals, feminist lunacy doesn't convert and transform, it browbeats and harangues. The only miracle it has ever performed is getting people to listen to Nancy Pelosi.

http://www.townhall.com/columnists/anncoul...c20050407.shtml

[Tiger Al 0]

Ann Coulter is such a pandering hypocrite!

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I love Ann Coulter, if for no other reason than she pisses off left-wingnuts almost daily!!!

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I love Ann Coulter, if for no other reason than she pisses off left-wingnuts almost daily!!!

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Ann Coulter is such a pandering hypocrite! 

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Pandering ? She's a proud conservative who isn't timid in her views. Not sure how that's defined as pandering. Hypocrite ? Care to show us some examples of her hypocrisy ?

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Heaven help the average liberal if this ever happens to him! What would an urban secularist do? Come sit down and let me read to you from Michael Moore's "Stupid White Men." Or maybe he could put a SpongeBob video in the VCR. WE ARE FAM-I-LEEEEE! At least before he killed again, the dangerous fugitive would have warm feelings toward homosexuals.

Imagine if this had happened to Coulter. What would she do? Sit down and read him Treason? Slander? High Crimes and Misdemeanors?

It is hard to imagine him not killing again after meeting such a hate-filled b@tch.

Ashley Smith is obviously a deeply compassionate, caring and faith-centered woman and that came through-- it comes through naturally. As the song goes, "They will know we are Christians by our Love".

Like many "conservatives", Coulter is bile-spouting fount of hatefulness. If you have heard Ashley Smith does she remind you the least little bit of Coulter? Coulter reeks of negativity. Does any fan of hers really see a Christ-like love emanating from her?

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Heaven help the average liberal if this ever happens to him! What would an urban secularist do? Come sit down and let me read to you from Michael Moore's "Stupid White Men." Or maybe he could put a SpongeBob video in the VCR. WE ARE FAM-I-LEEEEE! At least before he killed again, the dangerous fugitive would have warm feelings toward homosexuals.

Imagine if this had happened to Coulter. What would she do? Sit down and read him Treason? Slander? High Crimes and Misdemeanors?

It is hard to imagine him not killing again after meeting such a hate-filled b@tch.

Ashley Smith is obviously a deeply compassionate, caring and faith-centered woman and that came through-- it comes through naturally. As the song goes, "They will know we are Christians by our Love".

Like many "conservatives", Coulter is bile-spouting fount of hatefulness. If you have heard Ashley Smith does she remind you the least little bit of Coulter? Coulter reeks of negativity. Does any fan of hers really see a Christ-like love emanating from her?

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Is your diatribe a good example of "a Christ-like love emanating from" someone?

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Heaven help the average liberal if this ever happens to him! What would an urban secularist do? Come sit down and let me read to you from Michael Moore's "Stupid White Men." Or maybe he could put a SpongeBob video in the VCR. WE ARE FAM-I-LEEEEE! At least before he killed again, the dangerous fugitive would have warm feelings toward homosexuals.

Imagine if this had happened to Coulter. What would she do? Sit down and read him Treason? Slander? High Crimes and Misdemeanors?

It is hard to imagine him not killing again after meeting such a hate-filled b@tch.

Ashley Smith is obviously a deeply compassionate, caring and faith-centered woman and that came through-- it comes through naturally. As the song goes, "They will know we are Christians by our Love".

Like many "conservatives", Coulter is bile-spouting fount of hatefulness. If you have heard Ashley Smith does she remind you the least little bit of Coulter? Coulter reeks of negativity. Does any fan of hers really see a Christ-like love emanating from her?

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Is your diatribe a good example of "a Christ-like love emanating from" someone?

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Diatribe? Anyway, no, I would not characterize my relatively brief response to her writing as an example of the particular aspect of "Christ-like love" to which I was referring, but Christ was also known to frequently call moralists on their hypocrisy. Christ demonstrated the ability to think critically, strongly question hypocrisy and act compassionately and with great love. His personality was multifaceted. For example, he could have strongly, but fairly, rebuked Jerry Falwell one minute and minister to Nichols the next. No matter the venue or setting, I have only seen one side of Coulter and it gives me no evidence of much else.

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Diatribe

di·a·tribe ( P ) Pronunciation Key (d-trb)

n.

A bitter, abusive denunciation.

n : thunderous verbal attack

Your welcome.

[TexasTiger 12,956]

Diatribe

di·a·tribe    ( P )  Pronunciation Key  (d-trb)

n.

A bitter, abusive denunciation.

n : thunderous verbal attack

Your welcome. 

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So are you only responding to my post one word at a time?

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Ann Coulter is such a pandering hypocrite! 

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Pandering ? She's a proud conservative who isn't timid in her views. Not sure how that's defined as pandering. Hypocrite ? Care to show us some examples of her hypocrisy ?

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Well, the entire DIATRIBE pandered to to the republican base: the religious right. You've got the sweeping generalities,"This phenomenon, utterly unknown to liberals, is what's known as a "miracle.","Heaven help the average liberal if this ever happens to him! What would an urban secularist do? Come sit down and let me read to you from Michael Moore's "Stupid White Men."." Liberals don't know anything about religion, or so the stereotype goes, so these comments fit right in. The article is chock-full of warm and fuzzy New Testament ideas: selfless love for others, forgiveness of sins and, you know, the lamb sitting down with the lion kind of stuff. Unfortunately, like TexasTiger pointed out, she is totally NOT like that.

Another part I found particularly interesting, and so must Tigermike, too, since he bothered to highlight it, was this: " It's also another example of how our universities are failing students. Today's college coeds would be dead: They know nothing about Jesus Christ and can't cook a good meal." Assuming what she says about students not knowing Jesus is true, I have to wonder at least a couple of things: First, one of the self-professed hallmarks of the republican party used to be "personal responsibility". People are responsible for the choices they make, not other citizens or government, etc. She's now blaming the universities for not doing something that the individual and his or her family has failed to do for at least 18 years or more! Second, other than attending a religious university like Notre Dame or Bob Jones University, why is it the school's responsibility to "church" its students? Obviously, Ann thinks it is and she even takes it one step further by specifying Christianity as the religion they should be "churched" in.

As for her being a hypocrite, let's see what she writes if this Brian Nichols guy avoids the death penalty and gets a life sentence instead. Right now she calls him "an utterly transformed human being", but I suspect if he avoids the needle she'll be joining all of the other pundits in calling him an "animal."