Most pundits have already weighed in on both sides about Ann Coulter’s remark on the Donny Deutsch show on CNBC. The replay of the clip over and over on morning shows and the like for days afterward certainly reached 1000-fold more viewers than Deutsch’s mind-numbingly boring show usually gets. I’ve seen it on the major news sites as a blurb, linking to one left-leaning site or another masking as a news site. “Ann Coulter says…”

It sort of reminds you of those old E.F. Hutton commercials. “Well, my broker is E.F. Hutton. And E.F. Hutton says…” whereupon every background extra in the commercial would stop what they were doing and listen intently to the conversation. If Ann Coulter says something of interest, and she often does, it draws the attention of most media pundits and pajama-wearing bloggers in this country and others. I’ve heard the range of them from her being anti-Semitic, hate-mongering, evil, blah blah blah, to “she’s pushing a book, of course she said something like that” to she was trying to properly explain Christianity, just badly.

Ann is an incredible legal columnist. She has a very intuitive mind and can analyze history and political situations like few I’ve seen. She apparently isn’t that good, especially on the fly, at explaining her religion, although she is known to be a person of deep Christian faith. Worse yet, Donny Deutsch is a secular hack who used the fact that he was Jewish only to feign offense. I would imagine it’s been some time since he’s been in the Synagogue and I’d almost guarantee he’s never seriously taken a moment of his time to learn anything about Christians beyond what he sees in the movies.

Especially given the fact that Ann seemed genuinely concerned that she had offended Donny that she came back from a commercial break to try and explain herself, I think we can rule out that she did it to sell books. Because Ann has proven time and again to be a defender of Israel in particular and Jews in general, I think we can rule out the anti-Semitism as well.

We can’t rule out that Christianity follows a basic tenet and this one is found in the Gospel of John in 14:6 where Jesus states “I am the way, the truth, and the light: no man cometh unto the Father, but through me.” This statement alone clearly articulates Christians’ belief that unless you follow Christ you cannot truly reach God. The rituals and prayers of Judaism are important, but they were the old compact, the Old Testament. God felt his followers were ready for the next step and a more direct connection to Him and sent his only Son as promised in Isaiah. The difference between Christians and Jews fundamentally is that the Jews are still waiting for the Messiah and Christians are fairly well certain that Jesus was it. He was a Jew and his original followers were Jews and Christians honor that. That Gentiles were also converted to Christianity, though, showed that Jesus’ message was not just for God’s Chosen People, but for all mankind.

It’s not offensive to believe that. It’s what it is to be a Christian to believe that. Unfortunately, our nation has taken such a major leap down the road of secularism that even many who profess to be “Christians” have probably never even thought of that or read that Gospel verse. Well there it is folks. Perhaps it’s time to reexamine our faith and why we believe. Do we believe because Christianity’s just some lip-service peripheral thing we do or is it because we feel it in our hearts and in our souls? Maybe we should be asking that if Ann’s comments elicit this kind of response from “Christians”. And maybe those Jews who were offended should consider, didn’t we know that’s what Christians (basically an offshoot sect of Judaism) believe and don’t we have real enemies who actually want to either forcibly convert or kill us like radical Islam? Maybe you guys and gals should focus back on them instead of Ann.

And maybe the secularists who have feigned such serious offense at her remarks in this regard need to stop and first consider the hypocrisy of their statements. If you want to cast aside the Faith in order to worship the State or Evolution or Gaea or whatever toy “religion” you’ve concocted to replace the actual religions you hold in such deep disdain, you’re going to need a sturdier bully pulpit. As is, a condemnation on something like this from something like secularists rings as hollow as Mammoth Cave .

I consider this “kerfluffle” as I’ve seen it called to be a good way to reflect on our faith and what we believe. If you feel such offense from a statement such as hers, perhaps it’s time to look into your own soul and see where it may be left wanting.