4.07.2005 |  Rush Limbaugh on Christiane Amanpour's comment that the Catholic Church needs to become "relevant"

posted by Jon
16:05 | SAY SOMETHING |



I've been trying to say this all day. I'm not Catholic but I know what they believe, and I know what governs them, and it's their interpretation of the Bible and Jesus Christ as our Lord and savior and that's it and His Word is it and there's no changing His Word! It would be no different than if instead of the pope dying if Jesus Christ came back down here and Christiane Amanpour said, "Do you plan on changing what you believed in order to become relevant in the modern world?" (Amanpour impression:) "The American people say that what you stand for, Mr. Jesus Christ, is way behind the times." It's silly. It's absolutely silly. But I guarantee you, that's what would happen. You know what would be a great novel? I don't know that anybody's done this. I'm not qualified. I'm not learned enough nor educated enough to do it, and I don't know that I have the stick-to-itiveness to apply myself to it, but I can give you a great, great novel idea. Now, I mentioned this to somebody the other day and they said, "Oh, the guy that wrote Jonathan Livingston Seagull tried it in the book that followed," and I said, "Well, since I haven't heard about it, it must not be very good." So let me mention the idea. Try this concept. The actual Jesus Christ arrives on earth, identifies himself, explains why he's here. The novel is: How would this be received? How long would it take before this guy is himself stoned to death? How long would it take before the media started doing hit pieces on this guy? How long? What would the reaction be? What would he do to prove it?

In this day and age, can you imagine, Jesus Christ actually reappearing, not the Second Coming, just reappear. Well, make it the Second Coming, whatever. Can you imagine the reaction around the world? Forget around the world, just stick with America. Can you imagine all of the different people that would be demanding all kinds of proof that wouldn't believe anything? As I say, it would be brilliant concept, if somebody qualified and learned enough to do this. It would be fascinating, because you know as well as I do that the number of people who would be scared out of their wits and would be doubting this and would be doing anything they could to disapprove it would gear up like they've never geared up before. I've often wondered what the reaction would be. Now, I'm taking this in a strict sense. I understand that many of you think, "Hey, if that happened, there wouldn't be any doubt." I'm telling you, there would be. I don't care what happened, there would be people that would start trying to disprove it. You just know, and it's those people and their reactions, their attempts to refute it all, deny it all, are what fascinate me or what would fascinate me in a novel.