Everything In its Place

I don't know why this is making the rounds again, but this quote showed itself recently. It's from some time ago but in case there are any Christians who think Ann Coulter should inform their political thinking, maybe they should reconsider.
COULTER: God says, "Earth is yours. Take it. Rape it. It's yours."
FENN: Terrific. We're Americans, so we should consume as much of the earth's resources...
COULTER: Yes! Yes.
FENN: ... as fast as we possibly can.
COULTER: As opposed to living like the Indians.

from the Fox show Hannity & Colmes

If that seems out of context, she says the same thing in one of her columns.

I am not saying there's no place for debate. But that's not what this is- is it? This is theater. What she says is about as meaningful as this:

"When Randy Orton came to the ring to open Friday Night SmackDown, he thought he was on top of the world. However, he quickly found out that a trip to the south was in his future."

What?

Saying stuff like this, I expect her to come walking into an arena, managed by Vince McMahon, through fog and a lazer show to The Beautiful People.

What she says should not be confused for the thoughtful conservatism that exists, nor should her statements ever be seen as anything resembling facts or truth. She's distracting theater. That's her job. She's a caricature.

I know people take her seriously though. Not everyone who buys an Ann Coulter book does so ironically. I guess her disciples would be the backyard wrestlers of political discourse. That's too bad but not as troubling as the caricatures of Christian culture that people take seriously. I go to a school where, for one reason or another, students often have horrible misconceptions about what Christianity is. Sometimes their ideas are representative of some types of Christianity, other times they're just unfair narrow misrepresentations constructed as a foil to rationalize whatever belief their trying to cling to. And that's in the School of Religion. In other departments there is often an incredible bias against religion in general. That's one drawback. Another is, even if someone has an unrealistic, unfair picture of what it is to be a Christian, someone somewhere very probably holds that view. The "God Hates Fags" guy is real (maybe?), Paul Crouch is real. For some people that is as good as it gets. Hating fags is someone's truth. TBN is someone's truth. That's rough.

But then again. I am someone's cartoon. I am the "That's all there is?" other for someone else. I am someone else's clumsy groping at truth- then again, often I am my own clumsy groping.

No resolution here. Oh well.


Red Rain- The White Stripes
Happiness Is a Warm Gun- The Beatles
I Like Food- The Descendants
Mike Mills- Air
Psycho Killer- Talking Heads
Vertigo- U2
Piper- Phish
Adagio for Strings- Barber
Stepping Into Tomorrow- Madlib