Faith: October 2007 Archives

Townhall.com: Burt Prelutsky: Ann Coulter's Big No-No

"Many people, knowing that I'm Jewish, have asked me if I was deeply offended by Ann Coulter's observation that Jews are unperfected Christians. I could tell that I disappointed them when I said that I wasn't even slightly upset.

"For one thing, I am not religious. What people do or don't believe, theologically speaking, is none of my business, except in the case of Islamics who want the rest of us dead or at least kneeling to Mecca....

"Unlike most of the non-religious people I know, I am not opposed to religion. In fact, I tend to prefer believers to agnostics and atheists. They don't seem to be nearly as self-righteous and self-important. Perhaps it's unavoidable that if a man doesn't believe in a superior power, it tends to make him view himself as the center of the universe."

Dallas Observer Blog: How Jesus Found Dawn Eden Goldstein

"I realized that the first kind of rebellion, Chesterton was saying [in The Man Who Was Thursday], was the false rebellion, and the second kind was the true rebellion. And Chesterton thought the true rebellion was Christian. Reading that and realizing that I myself had gone through life identifying with the anarchists, the false rebels, I felt like a poseur. At the same time, I couldn't quite reconcile it -- I could see that Chesterton was an exciting writer, and I really wanted to side with him, but I couldn't imagine Christians being as exciting as he made them out to be ... I just thought Christians were this faceless, white-bread Moral Majority mass who ruled the world. And I thought that the only way I could be an individual and a rebel was to rebel against them."