In an ominous development Wednesday night, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued its highest level alert for a response to the Ebola crisis in West Africa, even as reports came in indicating that the crisis may now not be limited to West Africa. Centers for Disease Control Chief Tom Frieden posted on Twitter: “Ops Center moved to Level 1 response given the extension to Nigeria & the potential to affect many lives.”
According to Doug Stanglin of USA Today, Level I means that increased staff and resources will be devoted to the outbreak. He also said it is the first time the agency has invoked its highest level alert since 2009, then over a deadly influenza outbreak. Meanwhile, reports come in indicating that a Nigerian nurse, who had treated the country’s first fatality from Ebola two weeks ago, has herself now died from the virus that has claimed 932 lives as of last night in the latest outbreak.
To put this into perspective, Ebola has been recognized as a disease only since the first outbreak was identified 40 years ago. One third of the total fatalities caused by Ebola have occurred in the most recent outbreak—and the toll is rising. Health authorities in Nigeria have said that five other Nigerian health workers, who also had treated AIDS patients, have been diagnosed with the disease. One American, Patrick Sawyer, a financial expert of Liberian descent, died on July 25 arriving in Lagos on a flight from Liberia. Meanwhile, according to USA Today, a Saudi man being tested for the disease has died in Jeddah. If indeed it turns out that he died of the disease, it will be the first fatality outside West Africa during the latest outbreak. Every medical authority on the planet is on the alert.
And yet from a Christian concern we cannot leave the issue of the Ebola outbreak without turning to another kind of atrocity. In this case the atrocity was an opinion piece published just yesterday (Aug. 6) by conservative commentator Ann Coulter. Her article caught immediate attention with its title: “Ebola Doc’s Condition Downgraded to ‘Idiotic.”
Read more at http://www.albertmohler.com/2014/08/07/are-christian-missionaries-narcissistic-idiots-a-response-to-ann-coulter/
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Coulter, just like Palin et al throw bombs to get noticed and increase their payday. Why people actually give these jokers the time of day, who knows.
@James H
Sort of like some of the commentators on the Layman Online.
i was thinking the same thing James and Bemused, actually typed the comment, erased it a few times, because i figured:
(a) it’s a waste of time, those souls who need to hear it probably won’t get the message anyway
(b) someone on the PCUSA extended payroll would respond with the usual financially defensive rancor
(c) management would delete it first chance they get
public commentators are largely a perverse form of entertainment for monetary gain and/or a grotesque public display of false teachings. quite sad to see how much worldly values have dragged down so many souls. and for what, houses, cars, bank accounts? it’s all very sad to watch. at some point the only answer is to turn off the screen and walk away from it all, much like i did with my television set a long time ago.
Ditto, point taken.
I can’t believe it. For once I agree with Al Mohler (nearly) 100%. BTW, Ann Coulter is a member of Redeemer Presbyterian Church (PCA) in NYC.
wiki says her residence is Palm Beach for legal purposes, voting and so forth, she also owns a condo in NYC and another residence in California. it also says her father was Catholic, and she declares herself a nondenominational Christian, without any church affiliation, which tells me she does whatever she wants, says whatever she wants, and gets paid a whole lot of money conning people into believing she is an expert; on what that might be i don’t know, but obviously she is an expert at making enough money to maintain three homes in the three most expensive places to live in this country. and oh by the way, it says she has never been married and has no kids, so why does a single Christian person need three homes?? it would be interesting to know when exactly she joined a church, and what your source of this information is.
call it whatever you want, but since her father was Catholic and had an obligation to raise his children Catholic i am personally offended that we are even talking about this woman. shame on layman for bringing attention to this moral pornography.
If Coulter really belongs to Redeemer church, it’s obvious Tim Keller’s messages have not penetrated her thick skull at all.
I am really furious at her comments as our church just heard a wonderful message from a missionary family that has sacrificed much to serve in Uganda. While there they suffered a tragedy and returned for a time to the US. Would she dare tell them they brought any difficulties on themselves?????????
On wiki 5-6 years ago it said she attended Redeemer PC. It’s possible even the PCA was “too liberal” for her. Everything, after all, is relative.
Keller rocks, coulter well…………….