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Excerpted by Nicholas Stix
Ebola Doc’s Condition Downgraded to “Idiotic”–Can’t Anyone Serve Christ in America Anymore?
By Ann Coulter
August 6, 2014
VDARE
I wonder how the Ebola doctor feels now that his humanitarian trip has cost a Christian charity much more than any services he rendered.
What was the point?
Whatever good Dr. Kent Brantly did in Liberia has now been overwhelmed by the more than $2 million already paid by the Christian charities Samaritan’s Purse and SIM USA just to fly him and his nurse home in separate Gulfstream jets, specially equipped with medical tents, and to care for them at one of America’s premier hospitals. (This trip may be the first real-world demonstration of the economics of Obamacare.)….
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Coulter made some salient points about the culture wars and declining moral and spiritual values, but her theology is way off the mark. See essay: “Ann Coulter’s Xenophobic Anti-Gospel of Hate” at http://t.co/aQGhLuWwtD.
Coulter condemns Christians for practicing their faith just as she has condemned conservatives for being principled. In her Ebola diatribe, Christian missionaries are hypocrites seeking to be seen as heroic but are really cowards for not staying in America to fight the culture wars.
Ann Coulter's words reminded me a past experience.
Quite a few years ago, I was a member of a local Presbyterian Church. It organized yearly mission trips to border areas of Mexico. The trips' missions were to help really poor people (many of whom weren't Mexican but were from other Central American nations) build rudimentary homes in the colonias in which they lived. I went on one such trip. The work was tough (I didn't know much about construction and the weather was miserably hot), but there were some happy moments too.
Back in Austin, Texas, I was talking with some drinking buddies about the trip our church had made. One guy said, "The folks up in Jarrell, Texas just got hit by a tornado. What did your church do to help them?" I can't remember my response, but I recall being at a loss for words, because we had done nothing. My friend had made a good point: there's plenty of need right here in Texas. So why did we feel the need to travel to Mexico to help the border people when our own neighbors needed help just as much? I hate to say this, but some pride and self-righteousness might have been involved. There also might have some real caring and selflessness too, along with some naivete. For myself, it was a mix of things. I wasn't the world's most mature Christian at the time.
In defense of my old church, it did have other mission programs which helped local people in Austin. But the Mexico mission trips did seem to get the most publicity.
Since that time, and in spite of what I've just written, I believe I can respect someone who has a strong calling to help others who live outside their own area, especially if that calling concerns spreading the gospel. It just isn't something I've personally experienced that strongly.
Back to the topic at hand, I have no idea if Ann Coulter really knows anything about the true motives of the American doctors and others who have contracted Ebola in Liberia and elsewhere. I'm reluctant to agree with her in declaring vanity and glory-seeking to be their main motives for going to Africa in the first place. But considering what human nature is like, Ms. Coulter might have a point.
Concerning the Ebola victims who been brought back to America, time will tell if bringing them back was a wise move. Considering how many diseased illegal aliens are forcing their way into our country, I think it's likely that we're going to have to deal with Ebola and other diseases whether we want to or not.
I also pray that our government isn't too insane or wicked to bring the world's Ebola victims here, but it just might be. Letting them in is the same thing as bringing them in.
Some final thoughts: the Mexican mission trip opened my eyes a little. Why are all these people massed along our southern border, just south of the river? How long will they be content to live in colonias, having traveled to America's doorstep? I knew why, but tried to tell myself that it wasn't that a big a deal. How wrong I was.
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