Ms. Coulter's charms have done it again. On some CNN show with a guy named Donny Deutsch, she made a couple of remarks that set the planet's axis off balance, namely, that Jews should convert to Christianity.
This is news? Ever read the New Testament, written, by the way, by Jews?
A friend of mine who is an adult convert from Catholicism to Buddhism...always something to be suspicious of here in California where Buddhism is ultra-chic...recently rolled his eyes in disbelief when he heard that Pope Benedict had asserted that the Roman Church was (gasp) the true religion.
Well, where do I begin?
The narcissism of the Boomers still astounds me. Just because this little hangnail sized portion of the human race has decided that religion should be transcended by spirituality --whatever the hell that is-- it is now almost literally un-thinkable to have a particular religion assert a. that it is true and b. that everyone should get on board (Islam, of course, is given a complete pass on this). This attitude is New Age secularist pablum.
If my Buddhist friend knew anything about Buddhism, he would know that it regards itself as the only ultimate solution to the human predicament. How is that different from saying that Catholicism is the true religion?
And even though Jews have made a lot of mileage out of the Holocaust and gotten Rome to softpedal its missionary attitude toward them in its wake, that is only tactical. Jesus did not tell the apostles (Jews themselves, like Him) to bring the Gospel to everyone except Hebrews. On the contrary.
BoomerPeople now act as if this is some scandalous outbreak of incredible bad taste. (Unless you're the President of Iran and then you get invited to Columbia for "dialogue".) Stupid. And rather than taking on the issue in argument, they, like Deutsch --funny name for a Jew-- do the "I'm Offended" dance, which is supposed to stop all the traffic. So, be offended. Who cares? I get offended all the time and no one alters the course of the universe over it. If you have an ego, personal or group, you're gonna get offended. Go have a drink, bitch about it and then go offend someone YOU don't like. We'll all be fine, I assure you. Babies.
And these same people will pronounce about much slipperier matters of politics with all the dogmatic and pontificating preachiness (sic) they appear to be horrified with in others. These folks have their own absolute beliefs, too. Just cross 'em and you'll find out.
So, ask an honest Jew, if worshipping a human being as part of the Godhead is not idolatry. Ask an honest Muslim if Islam is not the best, final and perfect religion that everyone should belong to. What's the point of having a religion if you don't really believe in it?
Why are we so unable to live with religious....diversity?
PS While I'm at it, some literary type in NY recently wrote about the Psalms and casually mentioned the "Christian appropriation" of the Old Testament.
Appropriation my ass.
When the Gentiles were invited to become believers in Christ, it was by Jews, who imposed their scriptures on them (and until the Council of Jerusalem in 50-60 AD, their whole religious practice of circumcision, kosher, etc) . No choice. Bishop Marcion, a century later, tried to unload the Hebrew Bible as "un-Christian", but the force of tradition was by then too strong. So please, spare me this "appropriation" shit.
And if Marcion had won the battle, NY literati --most of whom loathe State of Israel, by the way-- would be tossing off comments about the "anti-Semitic rejection of the Hebrew Bible" by early Christians. You know they would.
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