skippy the bush kangaroo: jew hear what she said?

Thursday, October 11, 2007

jew hear what she said?

yes, annthrax said jews need to be perfected. all of blogtopia and yes, we coined that phrase, is in an uproar, but lean left points out the coulter is only saying what most evangelicals have been saying for years:

in fact, in this case coulter’s just stating a position that is perfectly mainstream on the religious right. seeing jesus as the jewish messiah, evangelical christians often claim that christianity is the follow-on to judaism that jews have in fact been waiting for for over 6,000 years, and the jews just don’t realize it. (this is the rationale behind both “jews for jesus” - jewish converts to christianity, one of whose ad slogans is “be more jewish - believe in jesus”, and the “messianic jew” movement, made up of right-wing christians who expropriate jewish dress and symbolism, including the use of torah scrolls and other sacred objects, for use in christian rituals.) jews who realize the truth about jesus as the messiah will become “perfected” by becoming christians. during the apocalypse of the armageddon of the final days of the last judgment™, those jews who haven’t “perfected” themselves will, depending on which evangelical peyote-trip you’re on, either be killed violently and condemned to eternal torment, or just converted to christianity against their will.

this is all standard stuff - and, as has been widely remarked, the source of evangelical support for israel, which they defend partly because they believe god commands it, but also because doing so, in their minds, fulfills some sort of prophecy that will hasten the apocalypse and the final destruction of judaism and all other non-christian religions. again, this is standard among “millenialist” (apocalyptic) evangelicals, who - contrary to popular belief - are only a minority of christians, but a large one.

critics also seemed to believe that coulter’s claim about “perfected jews” was some sort of implication that real jews were imperfect. it is, of course, but it’s not a claim she invented. “perfected judaism” is a term of art among evangelicals; coulter was saying nothing new in using it.

the bottom line is that coulter’s condescending and offensive remarks about judaism - which she blandly states are “not offensive”, as if the fact that she is comfortable with her own anti-semitism means it’s ok - are in this case not a product of her own diseased and vicious mind, but are merely ordinary mainstream right-wing christian theology. the real story is not that ann coulter is nasty and crazy - that’s old news. the story is that the religion practiced by george w. bush and his entire right-wing “base” is just as nasty and crazy as ann coulter - which in turn is the reason the right wing is not trying to distance itself from coulter this time. they can’t. they are her.

thx to the moderate voice, here's the video of annthrax insulting the chosen people, so you can judge for yourself:

Labels: bigotry, coulter, religion

posted by skippy at 11:03 PM |

4 Comments:

Further proof that these people are useless leeches. Tear 'em off, skippy, and let 'em starve. We don't need them.

commented by

Jim Yeager, 12:44 AM PDT

Y'ought hear what we evangelicals call Catholics, is all I'm sayin'...

commented by

Carl, 11:50 AM PDT

Then again, is what Coulter said any more obnoxious than calling yourself the "chosen people"?

commented by

Left I on the News, 1:45 PM PDT

Speaking as a chosen person, I knew immediately what Coulter was referring to when she said it and I couldn't care less. Religion's a pointless bore anyway, and if Coulter wants to spout some religious tomfoolery for her and others' amusement, that's fine with me. Why is anyone paying attention to her anyway?

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DBK, 1:46 PM PDT

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