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Volume 2 Number 20 October 24, 2007

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that issue based on a worldview perspective. Political correctness is an expression of Postmodernism and it is absolutely
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Worldview and Witness in Our Politically Correct World


Ann Coulter is a conservative American political columnist revealing. I will not put the entire article here, but will put in
and author. She makes her living doing speeches and writ- the first part of a Fox News report on the exchange.
ing books presenting her conservative political philosophy –
and she is very successful at it. Overall, I, personally agree Slash-and-burn columnist Ann Coulter shocked a cable TV
with a lot of what she says. However, she is one of those talk-show audience Monday when she declared that Jews
people who expresses her opinion in very controversial need to be "perfected" by becoming Christians, and that
ways in order to get a lot of attention. She is also very good America would be better off if everyone were Christian.
at that. And while I do agree with a lot of her opinions, I am
not particularly fond of her style. Coulter made the remarkable statements during an often
heated appearance to promote her new book on advertising
Ann has a new book which was just released and, as with guru Donny Deutsch's CNBC show "The Big Idea."
many authors, wants to get as much publicity as possible.
Since she is already well known, she is able to get inter- In response to a question from Deutsch asking Coulter if "it
views on many of the national news and political TV and would be better if we were all Christian," the controversial
radio shows. Recently, she was on the CNBC show, The columnist responded: "Yes."
Big Idea, hosted by Donny Deutsch. On this show an ex-
change took place between Ann and Donny which was very "We should all be Christian?" Deutsch repeated.
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"Yes," Coulter responded, asking Deutsch, who is Jewish, if he would like to "come to church with me."
Deutsch, pressing Coulter further, asked, "We should just throw Judaism away and we should all be Christians?" She
responded: "Yeah."

Coulter deflected Deutsch's assertion that her comments were anti-Semitic, matter-of-factly telling the show's obviously
upset host, "That is what Christians consider themselves: perfected Jews."

I’m not sure Ann expressed her theology the best it could have been done, but I do deeply appreciate the fact that she is
a Christian and that she is unapologetic about that. She actually put forth a pretty decent witness for the faith. What is
incredible to me, though, is the response of the show host. And this response gives us a tremendous glimpse into the
mindset of the politically correct point of view of modern American society.

The point in the article that really jumps out at me is Donny Deutsch’s incredulous response that Ann Coulter would dare
believe that all people should become Christians. Since Deutsch has no thought of trying to persuade Ann to become a
Jew, we can deduce that encouraging people to convert from one belief to another is not an important matter for him.
This would be a classic postmodern response because of the belief that there is no such thing as a belief system which
is objectively true. Postmodernism asserts that any belief is okay if it suits the individual. It is possible for one thing to be
true for one person and something else entirely different to be true for another. So, when Coulter maintains that all peo-
ple should turn to Jesus Christ, it is a huge shock to Deutsch.

Think about it. What does this say to Christians who believe that Jesus Christ is the only way to God? What does this
say about the Biblical teaching that God is an actual person who set up a particular way for mankind to receive salva-
tion? What does this say about what is necessary for us, as Christians, who have been commissioned by God to share a
witness, if we wish to share our faith with people who have this postmodernist mindset?

We live in a world where political correctness is not only annoying, it is in violent opposition to our Christian faith and wit-
ness. And there is another dirty little secret that is often overlooked. There are many Christians who have bought into this
way of thinking. Yes, there are many people who claim to be Christians who believe that it is alright for other people to
hold other beliefs as long as they are sincere.

From a worldview perspective, we know this is wrong. Even more than that, it is impossible. It is impossible for two con-
tradictory beliefs to be right at the same time. They can both be wrong, but they can’t both be right. In this case, it is
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impossible for Jesus to be the only way to God and for every sincerely held belief to be valid, both at the same time. At
least one of them is wrong.

We will not be able to do an in depth analysis in this article related to postmodern beliefs. But can make a couple of sum-
mary statements. Objective evidence for the truth of the postmodern point of view is non-existent. Postmodernism rests
entirely on the opinion of the individuals who hold it. It is basically the belief that, “It is true because I believe it is true.”
There is no other authority that can be put forward to support it.

On the other hand, the evidence for the truth of the Christian faith is profound. Without going into great detail, there is evi-
dence such as: our life experience matches up with the teachings of the faith, the human person matches up with what is
asserted in the Bible, the evidence for the accuracy of the Bible is strong, there is strong evidence that Christ was who he
said he was, there is strong evidence of the truth of the Biblical text in extra-Biblical writings, there is strong archeological
evidence for the accuracy of the Bible, there is strong evidence that Jesus was actually resurrected from the dead, and
the list goes on.

If we are interested in being faithful to the commission our Lord gave us to spread the gospel to every person, we are go-
ing to have to be willing to stand up to the politically correct assaults on our faith. But we can’t do it by simply asserting
that our position is right with nothing to back it up, as the postmodernists do. We have to go one step further by learning
to give a reason for the hope that is within us. We have to be able to express why we are right and they are wrong. This is
the genius of understanding worldview.

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