It’d be easy to mock him if he was a looney that nobody cared about (* a la* Fred Phelps), but the fact that he has considerable influence with a good portion of the populace and the current political leadership should make everyone go :eek:, if ya ask me.
And in a related vein, I recommend reading “Soldiers of Christ II” for more :eek:-level religious fundamentalist scariness. (Yes, I’m pimping my own site there 
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Let me glom on to your rant:
Proof that God doesn’t exist: Pat Robertson keeps spouting evil on national t.v. like Linda Blair projectile-vomiting buckets of green puke and he has yet to be vaporized by a divine thunderbolt. You’d think even a deist God would somehow have worked it into the natural law that anyone like Pat would self-immolate before it ever got this far.
For two years this vicious little leprechaun has been praying for Supreme Court Justices to drop dead. Or - excuse me - he’s been praying for God to miraculously “change the Court” (can’t forget the thin veil). I’m only surprised that in this case he didn’t invoke the will of the almighty in calling for Chavez’s death. An oversight I can’t explain, except that perhaps his malformed and stunted conscience still whimpers in there somewhere.
Well, I doubt it too, but then I can’t think of a single reason why they should. Robertson is not Bush, nor is he part of the State Department, nor in fact is he an elected official at all. If Bush is going to be called upon to apologise for television personalities, then he can start with Tom Green.
Be fair, now. Give the whole thing in context. That particular passage in the middle of Jesus’ instructions to his disciples when He sends them out on their own. He’s telling them to expect opposition. Pulling quotes out of context is one of Robertson’s tricks.
CJ
And Mr. Robertson’s words are an excellent example of rampant capitalism and christian extremism.
Oh, no. That’s Canada’s fault.
I heard that part on the radio this morning. My head hurt from the cognitive dissidence.
You know how, whenever anyone on the left says anything that’s mildly over the line, everyone on the right starts hollering for all Democrats to disassociate themselves from that person, to demonstrate that they’re not condoning whatever that person’s excesses may have been?
I’ll be over here, waiting for those same guardians of public virtue to make the same calls for conservatives to disassociate themselves from Pat Robertson.
Yeh, riiiiiight. :rolleyes:
My other thought about this is, we’ve got a great bumper sticker opportunity:
Who Would Jesus Assassinate?
I read this article in this morning’s Trib and was absolutely dumbfounded. I mean, people like Robertson and Falwell are supposed to at least give lip service to Christian values, right? But openly advocating the assassination of a foreign leader (democratically elected, mind you) exposes Robertson for the utter charlatan that he is. Surely some of his true believers have to be as offended by this statement as I am. Or am I being naive?
I heard that they’re gay as well.
Nuke them from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure.
I think Jesus would use ultra intelligent super enhanced trained military attack dogs like Sergeant Chip to rip their throats out.
“I am black as night. I am silent as air.”
And we’re not apologizing until the U.S. starts obeying NAFTA
But Robertson? He’s been descending towards a Phelp-like level for a long time…
Yeah that blew my mind.
Wow, RT. You’re as much of an asshole as Pat Robertson is.
Does that count?
Two great baits that bait great together!
Fucking brilliant!
[sub]Excuse me, you’ve gotten some of your communism in my muslim extremism[/sub]
How much cooler would it had been had he called down an Army of Angels to rescue him from the cross and lay waste to the area.
Y’all seem to forget that this is the pus bucket that prayed to God to divert a hurricane to wipe out a bunch of gay supporters.
The dude’s brain and heart jumped ship a long time ago.
A few years back I was watching his show (to scoff, mind you), and he was reading letters from fans. One young man wanted to know if it was OK to study martial arts. Pus Bucket’s response was (paraphrased), “You’re right, young man, martial arts have their roots in Buddhism, which is Satanism. By studying them, you are inviting Satan into your heart. If you really want to learn these things, learn them from a good Christian, like Chuck Norris.”
Well, maybe the version he wanted to put up had an asterix.
Exodus 20:13 Thou Shalt Not Kill*
*except when another country has a resource we really want and/or has political tendencies we dislike.
You do realize that the recent dispute over softwood and the US refusal to comply with NAFTA rulings is not in the news here, at all?
Robertson is an idiot, but none of you need me to tell you that. However, while calling for Chavezs’ murder is beyond the realm, I do think that Chavez is more than just a “paranoid crackpot” as fushj00mang called him. He is, but I think that his continued provocation of Columbia by supporting FARK is going to lead to something very bad.