Er.
How do you talk to people like this?
Anne Coulter: Jews Need ‘Perfecting’
COULTER: No, we think — we just want Jews to be perfected, as they say.
DEUTSCH: Wow, you didn’t really say that, did you?
COULTER: Yes. That is what Christianity is. We believe the Old Testament, but ours is more like Federal Express. You have to obey laws. We know we’re all sinners –
DEUTSCH: In my old days, I would have argued — when you say something absurd like that, there’s no –
COULTER: What’s absurd?
DEUTSCH: Jews are going to be perfected. I’m going to go off and try to perfect myself –
COULTER: Well, that’s what the New Testament says.
This is what scares me about neo-conservatives.
And, naturally, religious people. I’m sure Anne Coulter didn’t consider that statement at all inflammatory – after all, it’s well known that Christianity is Judaism + Jesus with a few modifications. Of course, if you look at it that way, then I supposes you could equally speciously argue that all Christians need to be ‘perfected’ into Muslims – after all, Islam is Christianity + Mohammed, with a few modifications.
