W.W.J.K.: Who Would Jesus Kill? by Ann Coulter

[igloo]

W.W.J.K.: Who Would Jesus Kill?

Ann Coulter (archive)

March 11, 2004 | Print | Send

William Safire, the New York Times' in-house "conservative" – who endorsed Bill Clinton in 1992, like so many conservatives – was sure Mel Gibson's movie "The Passion of the Christ" would incite anti-Semitic violence. Thus far, the pogroms have failed to materialize.

With all the subtlety of a Mack truck, Safire called Gibson's movie a version of "the medieval 'passion play,' preserved in pre-Hitler Germany at Oberammergau, a source of the hatred of all Jews as 'Christ killers.'" (Certainly every Aryan Nation skinhead murderer I've ever met was also a devoted theater buff and "passion play" aficionado.)

The "passion play" has been put on in Germany since at least 1633. I guess 1633 would be "pre-Hitler." In addition, Moses walked the Earth "pre-Hitler." The wheel was invented "pre-Hitler." People ate soup "pre-Hitler." Referring to the passion play as "pre-Hitler" is a slightly fancier version of every adolescent's favorite argument: You're like Hitler!

Despite repeated suggestions from liberals – including the in-house "conservative" and Clinton-supporter at the Times – Hitler is not what happens when you gin up Christians. Like Timothy McVeigh, the Columbine killers and the editorial board of the New York Times, Hitler detested Christians.

Indeed, Hitler denounced Christianity as an "invention of the Jew" and vowed that the "organized lie (of Christianity) must be smashed" so that the state would "remain the absolute master." Interestingly, this was the approach of all the great mass murderers of the last century – all of whom were atheists: Hitler, Stalin, Mao and Pol Pot.

In the United States, more than 30 million babies have been killed by abortion since Roe v. Wade, vs. seven abortion providers killed. Yeah – keep your eye on those Christians!

But according to liberals, it's Christianity that causes murder. (And don't get them started on Zionism.) Like their Muslim friends still harping about the Crusades, liberals won't "move on" from the Spanish Inquisition. In the entire 350 years of the Spanish Inquisition, about 30,000 people were killed. That's an average of less than 100 a year. Stalin knocked off that many kulaks before breakfast.

But Safire argues that viewers of "The Passion" will see the Jewish mob and think: "Who was responsible for this cruel humiliation? What villain deserves to be punished?"

Let's see: It was a Roman who ordered Christ's execution, and Romans who did all the flaying, taunting and crucifying. Perhaps Safire is indulging in his own negative stereotyping about Jews by assuming they simply viewed Romans as "the help."

But again I ask: Does anyone at the Times have the vaguest notion what Christianity is? (Besides people who go around putting up nativity scenes that have to be taken down by court order?) The religion that toppled the Roman Empire – anyone?

Jesus' suffering and death is not a Hatfields-and-McCoys story demanding retaliation. The gist of the religion that transformed the world is: God's only son came to Earth to take the punishment we deserved.

If the Jews had somehow managed to block Jesus' crucifixion and He had died in old age of natural causes, there would be no salvation through Christ and no Christianity. Whatever possible responses there may be to that story, this is not one of them: Damn those Jews for being a part of God's plan to save my eternal soul!

Gibson didn't insert Jews into the story for some Machiavellian, racist reason. Christ was a Jew crucified by Romans at the request of other Jews in Jerusalem. I suppose if Gibson had moved the story to suburban Cleveland and portrayed Republican logging executives crucifying Christ, the left would calm down. But it simply didn't happen that way.

Of course, the original text is no excuse in Hollywood. The villains of Tom Clancy's book "The Sum of All Fears" were recently transformed from Muslim terrorists to neo-Nazis for the movie version. You wouldn't want to upset the little darlings. They might do something rash like slaughter 3,000 innocent American civilians in a single day. The only religion that can be constantly defamed and insulted is the one liberals pretend to be terrified of.

Ann Coulter is host of AnnCoulter.org, a Townhall.com member group.

[normalnoises]

"My feelings as a Christian points me to my Lord and Savior as a fighter. It points me to the man who once in loneliness, surrounded by a few followers, recognized these Jews for what they were and summoned men to fight against them and who, God's truth! was greatest not as a sufferer but as a fighter. In boundless love as a Christian and as a man I read through the passage which tells us how the Lord at last rose in His might and seized the scourge to drive out of the Temple the brood of vipers and adders. How terrific was His fight for the world against the Jewish poison. To-day, after two thousand years, with deepest emotion I recognize more profoundly than ever before the fact that it was for this that He had to shed His blood upon the Cross. As a Christian I have no duty to allow myself to be cheated, but I have the duty to be a fighter for truth and justice... And if there is anything which could demonstrate that we are acting rightly it is the distress that daily grows. For as a Christian I have also a duty to my own people.

-Adolf Hitler, in a speech on 12 April 1922 (Norman H. Baynes, ed. The Speeches of Adolf Hitler, April 1922-August 1939, Vol. 1 of 2, pp. 19-20, Oxford University Press, 1942)

You are as equal a fool as Ann Coulter is a fool, Iglost. I bet she's been tapping into Rush Limbaugh's oxycontin supply, the junkie whore.

[siceone]

Adolf hitler was no christian

[normalnoises]

Weak.

How can you say he's not a christian when he made a quote like that?

"I SAY: MY FEELING AS A CHRISTIAN POINTS ME TO MY LORD AND SAVIOUR AS A FIGHTER. IT POINTS ME TO THE MAN WHO ONCE IN LONELINESS, SURROUNDED ONLY BY A FEW FOLLOWERS, RECOGNIZED THESE JEWS FOR WHAT THEY WERE AND SUMMONED MEN TO THE FIGHT AGAINST THEM AND WHO, GOD'S TRUTH! WAS GREATEST NOT AS SUFFERER BUT AS FIGHTER. In boundless love as a Christian and as a man I read through the passage which tells us how the Lord at last rose in His might and seized the scourge to drive out of the Temple the brood of vipers and of adders. How terrific was His fight for the world against the Jewish poison. Today, after two thousand years, with deepest emotion I recognize more profoundly than ever before - the fact that it was for this that He had to shed His blood upon the Cross. As a Christian I have no duty to allow myself to be cheated, but I have the duty to be a fighter for truth and justice. And as a man I have the duty to see to it that human society does not suffer the same catastrophic collapse as did the civilization of the ancient world some two thousand years ago - a civilization which was driven to its ruin through this same Jewish people."

This is where it came from:

http://www.hitler.org/speeches/04-12-22.html

while you're at it you should read mein kamph.

http://www.hitler.org/writings/Mein_Kampf/

know your history and do some research idiot.

[xpyrate]

I cant say about Hitler but I do know that modern day nazis worship Odin an old germanic god

[normalnoises]

What I can say is my dad is a WW2 veteran and was in the US ARMY 82nd airborne division and has keen knowledge of Hitler and is a history buff.

[danwilson]

Ann tries to be like a shockjock. She says crazy things to get attention. The only reason I responded to this thread. You know whats so funny. This Ann Coulter dated a Muslim. She did an interview with this Guardian paper last year. http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,957670,00.html

The interviewer found out, not only did she date a Muslim, she dated a Hindu. (Dinesh D'Souza)

But the part that I cant believe.

The interviewer found out that she's been engaged to 4 guys in her life and she left them all. The interviewer asks her, are you still in contact with any of the guys you were engaged to? She says not really. Its like going from one boss to another. You forget about the other one.

Now I can see her breaking off one engagement, possibly 2. Maybe they weren't the right guys for her. But to do this to 4 guys. Jesus H Christ. Then she thinks its funny to dump guys before the marriage. Talk about being cold.

[normalnoises]

Well said.

[siceone]

Odin is a norse god

[kramadas]

Originally posted by danwilson

Ann tries to be like a shockjock. She says crazy things to get attention. The only reason I responded to this thread. You know whats so funny. This Ann Coulter dated a Muslim. She did an interview with this Guardian paper last year. http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,957670,00.html

The interviewer found out, not only did she date a Muslim, she dated a Hindu. (Dinesh D'Souza)

But the part that I cant believe.

The interviewer found out that she's been engaged to 4 guys in her life and she left them all. The interviewer asks her, are you still in contact with any of the guys you were engaged to? She says not really. Its like going from one boss to another. You forget about the other one.

Now I can see her breaking off one engagement, possibly 2. Maybe they weren't the right guys for her. But to do this to 4 guys. Jesus H Christ. Then she thinks its funny to dump guys before the marriage. Talk about being cold.

haha - great article Dan.

[normalnoises]

Indeed