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The Jews Need Perfecting, Apparently

I hear banjoes.
I’m sure everyone knows big crazy man-lady Ann Coulter. And if you don’t here’s a summary: attention whoring anorexic blonde closet lesbian spouts batshit crazy opinions and yet people see fit to put her on TV and never challenge her clearly insane and contradictory views. Yeah I know I said I was going to do politics and not religion next, but this is partly about politics. Also my political post was boring and I’m still working on it and Ann Coulter’s latest comment is far, far funnier.
Anyway, according to Cuntler-er Coutler, Christians only want to convert Jews because they want them to be "perfected".
Yup. That’s right. Christianity is perfected Judaism and if those damn Jews would just convert already they could be perfect too! Despite my having said she’s never challenged, she was challenged in this instance, with hilarious results (click the link above for the rest):
DEUTSCH: That isn’t what I said, but you said I should not — we should just throw Judaism away and we should all be Christians, then, or —
COULTER: Yeah.
DEUTSCH: Really?
COULTER: Well, it’s a lot easier. It’s kind of a fast track.
DEUTSCH: Really?
COULTER: Yeah. You have to obey.
DEUTSCH: You can’t possibly believe that.
COULTER: Yes.
DEUTSCH: You can’t possibly — you’re too educated, you can’t — you’re like my friend in –
COULTER: Do you know what Christianity is? We believe your religion, but you have to obey.
DEUTSCH: No, no, no, but I mean –
COULTER: We have the fast-track program.
She later went on to say "I don’t think you should take it that way, but that is what Christians consider themselves: perfected Jews. We believe the Old Testament. As you know from the Old Testament, God was constantly getting fed up with humans for not being able to, you know, live up to all the laws. What Christians believe — this is just a statement of what the New Testament is — is that that’s why Christ came and died for our sins. Christians believe the Old Testament. You don’t believe our testament."
Yeah, that’s right Ann, though I can think of a few problems with your argument. One being that Jesus isn’t the Jewish messiah. Sure he said he was, like a bunch of other guys running around in his day, but he didn’t A.) build the third temple in Jerusalem B.) bring every single Jew in the world back to Israel C.) rule with all nations under Israel in a time of world peace. No one ever said the messiah was gonna have magic powers, be a demi-god or die for anybody’s anything. In fact he was supposed to live and be a ruler on Earth. That and even things quoted in the New Testament as messianic prophecy are wrong. The "suffering servant" in the old Testament is Israel and anyone who would actually read Isaiah in it’s entirety would realize this. The whole riding into Jerusalem on a donkey and a colt thing was supposedly a reference to a messianic prophecy in Zechariah, but if one actually reads the whole thing it’s about a military king, not the messiah. It’s kind of like reading the Lucifer passage in Isaiah far enough and realizing it’s not about a fallen angel at all, these problems seem to happen frequently.
What may have been purposeful mistranslation also comes into play. For example, in Isaiah 7:14 the word "almah" is translated as "virgin" in the KJV rather than the proper word "young woman" (the word for "virgin" is "bethulah".) Of course that’s moot because Jesus’ name wasn’t Emmanuel anyway, it was Yashua.
Now that I’ve come out of Professor Sai mode, time for the off-color joke: its kind of funny, in light of all that, that Coulter would turn around and demand the Jews convert to a religion that ripped them off and pretty much usurped everything they stood for. Way to go, Tranny McGee, you realize these are God’s chosen people you’re fucking with, right?











I want to make her sit in my Bible class for one friggin lecture and then beat her with my copy of the Tanakh. Or let my Bible professor (who is insanely awesome) do it.
My brain just FARTED from the amount of stupid. Also, the suffering servant poems in Isaiah are directed at anyone who leads Israel at the time of the Persian rule, as the messianiac idea began to shift and the belief was that God could act through any ruler, not JUST one of Davidic descent.
Thankyou for that, Meg, that’s actually a cooler explanation than mine.
Don’t mention it, it’s what I learned in class. Sharing the knowledge is my goal in life. I post my notes online too if you ever want to poke through them. (http://community.livejournal.com/religion_101/ Notes are locked though so I can keep track of who’s reading them. Don’t want my professors to get angry at me for some reason, although I know my Bible professor posts his powerpoints online. Then again, Professor Watts also has a blog which freaks the hell out of me.)