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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAnn Coulter: Christians Should ‘Serve Their Own Country,’ Not Go Overseas to Help Ebola Patients
While Dr. Kent Brantly is treated in Atlanta for the Ebola he contracted while trying to treat the disease in Libera, conservative author Ann Coulter has a question: Why did Dr. Brantly have to go to Africa? In her latest syndicated column, Coulter argues that Brantly and other Christian missionaries should stop trying to solve problems overseas and instead focus on the U.S.
From Coulters column
Cant anyone serve Jesus Christ in America anymore?
No because were doing just fine. America, the most powerful, influential nation on Earth, is merely in a pitched battle for its eternal soul.
About 15,000 people are murdered in the U.S. every year. More than 38,000 die of drug overdoses, half of them from prescription drugs. More than 40 percent of babies are born out of wedlock. Despite the runaway success of midnight basketball, a healthy chunk of those children go on to murder other children, rape grandmothers, bury little girls alive and then eat a sandwich. A power-mad president has thrown approximately 10 percent of all Americans off their health insurance the rest of you to come! All of our elite cultural institutions laugh at virginity and celebrate promiscuity.
So no, theres nothing for Christians to do here.
Coulter theorizes many do-gooders choose to help out overseas because theyre tired of being called homophobes, racists, sexists and bigots when they work inside the United States.
They need to buck up [and] serve their own country, she writes. http://www.mediaite.com/online/coulter-christians-should-serve-their-own-country-not-go-overseas-to-help-ebola-patients/
randys1
(16,286 posts)but why does Bill Maher still consider her a friend
makes it hard for me to watch his HBO show and I love the show
PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)randys1
(16,286 posts)i have to live with myself so i cant do that
Igel
(35,337 posts)I've run into DUers whose entire attitude is, "Worry about people here first."
Usually they have in mind money or stuff, but it's the same principle. "Don't help others in extreme distress when you have people right here at home suffering." On occasion you get the decided impression that the people "right here at home suffering" included the person complaining. At other times you don't.
I figure people can go help others wherever they choose. I knew one young woman who wanted to help disabled young orphans in Ukraine in the '90s, when they had a bumper crop. Another student volunteered at a disadvantaged school in a disadvantaged part of Los Angeles.
Turbineguy
(37,361 posts)if the tax rates are lower.
Ruby the Liberal
(26,219 posts)Your Christians are so unlike your Christ. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Arkansas Granny
(31,523 posts)should or shouldn't do.
Rex
(65,616 posts)Funny how Coulter separates herself out from do-gooders. Is she without a handler now? What military branch did she serve in again? What charity does she represent here in America again, I forget?
Aerows
(39,961 posts)if she had gay children. And was blasé about it.
Rex
(65,616 posts)She would harm the country, even her own family. Her level of self loathing must be epic.
3catwoman3
(24,026 posts)...Ms Coulter has NO children of any orientation. She would be a terrible mother. She has no warmth in her soul. Oh wait - she acts as if she has no soul at all, warm, cold, or otherwise.
Ecumenist
(6,086 posts)it's kind of what Christians are supposed to be and do...
muriel_volestrangler
(101,347 posts)I know she just says anything to rile up her RW followers, but if she's going to bring up the Christianity of the aid workers, you'd think she wouldn't try to deny the basic Christian story that provided the name for their charity - Samaritan's Purse. For once, I think that, however RW her readers are, in this situation they're going to remember one of the best-known Bible stories and recognise she's talking shit.
tabasco
(22,974 posts)That Coulter sure knows her bible.
Johonny
(20,872 posts)was I supposed to giggle at the midnight basketball line or was the sandwich the punchline? I don't speak stupid paranoia so I just don't know what she is saying. Perhaps she needs to run a translated column for those of us not in tune to the banter of the batshit insane paranoid.
longship
(40,416 posts)Of course, everybody knows that the Babel fish is the ultimate argument against God's existence. He vanishes in a puff of logic. I certainly wish Ann Coulter would.
Dirty Socialist
(3,252 posts)Her head can spin completely around!