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Which explains why American Christians go on "mission trips" to disease-ridden cesspools. They're tired of fighting the culture war in the U.S., tired of being called homophobes, racists, sexists and bigots. So they slink off to Third World countries, away from American culture to do good works, forgetting that the first rule of life on a riverbank is that any good that one attempts downstream is quickly overtaken by what happens upstream.
But serving the needy in some deadbeat town in Texas wouldn't have been "heroic." We wouldn't hear all the superlatives about Dr. Brantly's "unusual drive to help the less fortunate" or his membership in the "Gold Humanism Honor Society." Leaving his family behind in Texas to help the poor 6,000 miles away -- that's the ticket.
There may be no reason for panic about the Ebola doctor, but there is reason for annoyance at Christian narcissism.
Sorry, Ann, but this is absolute horsecrap.
I don’t know if Coulter was simply trying to make a point by overshooting the mark, or if she really believes, as a Christian, that Dr. Brantly’s efforts in Liberia were wasted. It doesn’t matter though. What Coulter wrote is irrelevant.
UPDATE: Gang, I thought I was clear in the first posting: I think Coulter is almost entirely wrong. I say “almost” not because I believe that Dr. Brantly shouldn’t have gone overseas as a medical missionary, or because I believe that American Christians should not go overseas — I don’t believe either of those things, and I have written here before that Dr. Brantly is, in my view, a hero. And so are all those men and women like him.
originally posted by: stirling
She makes a valid point...Charity Begins At HOME....
Not to cast personal aspersions on the good Doctor....but shes got a point about our own homeless and poor.....
Where are all these Christian heroes in places like Detroit say....or the downtown east side..................
originally posted by: stirling
She makes a valid point...Charity Begins At HOME....
Not to cast personal aspersions on the good Doctor....but shes got a point about our own homeless and poor.....
Where are all these Christian heroes in places like Detroit say....or the downtown east side..................
originally posted by: skunkape23
That Coulter guy is either a master troll, or an evil, insane tranny.
He would have to drop his drawers and let me have a look before I am buying that is a female.
He could be a radical leftist playing a very sophisticated prank to put some stink on the right-wingers.
That would be pure genius.
originally posted by: Char-Lee
The US has free clinics for the poor nearly everywhere, there are medical vouchers and aid cannot be refused almost everywhere...
On the other hand some of the places these Drs go have zero medical Doctors and absolutely no alternatives.
Preventing disease outbreak in THOSE places can save thousands of lives. There is Zero comparison!
originally posted by: AnteBellum
a reply to: stirling
I think I'm the only one that agrees with you on this here.
I too find it disgusting when christian missionaries go to Africa to give starving children food, only after they enrol and attend in bible school/study. Who would of ever thought the church could be so hypocritical as that! (sarcasm)