Thursday, October 11, 2007

Perfecting Jews   [John Podhoretz]

There's a lot of buzz about how Ann Coulter said on TV that Christians want Jews to be "perfected," presumably through conversion. Speaking for all Jews, I would be delighted to be perfected, and I'm intrigued by the suggestion that it might be possible. Of course, it all depends on what your definition of being perfected might be. If I could be assured that conversion to Christianity would instantly cause me to lose 80 lbs., give me infinite patience when my daughters wake me up at 5 in the morning, allow me to read 100 pages an hour with total recall, feel complete indifference when some @$%&^ cuts me off in traffic, grow my hair back on the top of my head and make it disappear from my ears, and keep me from checking my Amazon ranking when I have a book out, I would seriously consider it. Also, if a real African potentate's widow actually did want to deposit tens of millions of dollars in my bank account and give me a parking fee of 6 percent for my trouble, you know what, that would be good too.

10/11 01:23 PMShare