Pat Robertson=Evil +++
This may turn into a series of posts, highlighting the intolerance of the Christian Coalition and the Radical Right. (the Axis of EVIL perhaps?)
I've selected a few of 700 Club's Pat Robertson quotes for your blood-boiling pleasure. He may not be QUITE as hateful as Ann Coulter (or at least he doesn't APPEAR to be...he tends to be more appologetic when it comes to the intolerance of the Christian Coalition), he scares the hell out of me.
His vision for America, and indeed the world is frightening. All I can say is thank God he failed in his presidential aspirations.
"You say you're supposed to be nice to the Episcopalians and the Presbyterians and the Methodists and this, that, and the other thing. Nonsense. I don't have to be nice to the spirit of the anti-Christ." --The 700 Club, January 14, 1991
He claims to support Bush for re-election, but isn't Bush a Methodist? Bush is the anti-Christ? Hmmm....well, maybe on this ONE point he's right...?
"When I said during my presidential bid that I would only bring Christians and Jews into the government, I hit a firestorm. `What do you mean?' the media challenged me. `You're not going to bring atheists into the government? How dare you maintain that those who believe in the Judeo Christian values are better qualified to govern America than Hindus and Muslims?' My simple answer is, `Yes, they are.'" --from Pat Robertson's "The New World Order," page 218.
Well, at least he uses "simple answers" instead of beating around the bush about the issue.
It makes it so much easier for the rational individual to peg him for what he really is, a WASP supremist.
(talking about apartheid South Africa) "I think 'one man, one vote,' just unrestricted democracy, would not be wise. There needs to be some kind of protection for the minority which the white people represent now, a minority, and they need and have a right to demand a protection of their rights."--Pat Robertson, "The 700 Club," 3/18/92
Let me get this straight....he thinks that the white people are the minority in America? He's saying that white people (and I am assuming he means WASPS, not any of us heathen white muslims) should get counted..say twice...over everyone else. I am suddenly getting scary images of Pat in a white hood and robe.
"If anybody understood what Hindus really believe, there would be no doubt that they have no business administering government policies in a country that favors freedom and equality. ... Can you imagine having the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini as defense minister, or Mahatma Gandhi as minister of health, education, and welfare? The Hindu and Buddhist idea of karma and the Muslim idea of kismet, or fate condemn the poor and the disabled to their suffering. ... It's the will of Allah. These beliefs are nothing but abject fatalism, and they would devastate the social gains this nation has made if they were ever put into practice." --Pat Robertson's "The New World Order," page 219.
The above statement seems to be bred from complete ignorance of the eastern religions. Or at least a selective understanding.
"With all due respect to those dear people, my friend, God Almighty does not hear the prayer of a Jew." --Petersburg Times, June 26, 1994
Wow, apparently even Jews aren't in Pat's little club either.
"In the 1990s and beyond, the battle is not going to be fought much longer between Christianity and atheistic humanism, but between Christianity and satanic-inspired Eastern religions." --Pat Robertson, The Secret Kingdom, 1992
Pat Robertson would be the first person to denounce Islamic jihad, but from the above quote one might imagine that he supports a Christian crusade or Jihad against what he calls "satanic-inspired Eastern religions".
"The courts are merely a ruse, if you will, for humanist, atheistic educators to beat up on Christians." --The 700 Club, Oct. 2, 1990
I wonder what kind of system he favors instead of a court system? One man, judge...jury...executioner? This does not sound like a man who favors democracy and freedom, but a totalitarian regime without any checks and balances.
"Feminism encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians."--Pat Robertson
I think this one speaks for itself.
"We at the Christian Coalition are raising an army who cares. We are training people to be effective -- to be elected to school boards, to city councils, to state legislatures, and to key positions in political parties.... By the end of this decade, if we work and give and organize and train, THE CHRISTIAN COALITION WILL BE THE MOST POWERFUL POLITICAL ORGANIZATION IN AMERICA.-- Pat Robertson, in a fundraising letter, July 4, 1991
This is the really scary stuff. He talks of raising ARMIES. He speaks of getting the "key" people in certain political positions.....
"The Koran teaches that the end of the world will not come until every Jew is killed by Muslims. Now that is what it says in the Koran, written by Muhammad"
This is either a blatant lie, or he has not really read the Qur'an. He demonstrates his complete lack of understanding about Islam.
(About Islam) "is not a peaceful religion that wants to coexist. They want to coexist until they can control, dominate and then, if need be, destroy."
Yet another example
"The Lord has just blessed him," Robertson said of Bush. "I mean, he could make terrible mistakes and comes out of it. It doesn't make any difference what he does, good or bad, God picks him up because he's a man of prayer and God's blessing him." -700 Club
Pat Robertson speaks of building armies and putting the right people in key political positions. His vision for the future is a complete, Christian Coalition take-over of the Republican party (assuming this hasn't already occurred).
His vision is one where there is no fair trial in a court of law....where there is no religious freedom....where the white man is counted double (or maybe more) over the rest of the American population....
I cannot help but tremble at this man's endorsement for Bush.
Next week on Axis of EVIL: Jerry Falwell
(It's like shooting fish in a barrel...and the fish are already dead)
I've selected a few of 700 Club's Pat Robertson quotes for your blood-boiling pleasure. He may not be QUITE as hateful as Ann Coulter (or at least he doesn't APPEAR to be...he tends to be more appologetic when it comes to the intolerance of the Christian Coalition), he scares the hell out of me.
His vision for America, and indeed the world is frightening. All I can say is thank God he failed in his presidential aspirations.
"You say you're supposed to be nice to the Episcopalians and the Presbyterians and the Methodists and this, that, and the other thing. Nonsense. I don't have to be nice to the spirit of the anti-Christ." --The 700 Club, January 14, 1991
He claims to support Bush for re-election, but isn't Bush a Methodist? Bush is the anti-Christ? Hmmm....well, maybe on this ONE point he's right...?
"When I said during my presidential bid that I would only bring Christians and Jews into the government, I hit a firestorm. `What do you mean?' the media challenged me. `You're not going to bring atheists into the government? How dare you maintain that those who believe in the Judeo Christian values are better qualified to govern America than Hindus and Muslims?' My simple answer is, `Yes, they are.'" --from Pat Robertson's "The New World Order," page 218.
Well, at least he uses "simple answers" instead of beating around the bush about the issue.
It makes it so much easier for the rational individual to peg him for what he really is, a WASP supremist.
(talking about apartheid South Africa) "I think 'one man, one vote,' just unrestricted democracy, would not be wise. There needs to be some kind of protection for the minority which the white people represent now, a minority, and they need and have a right to demand a protection of their rights."--Pat Robertson, "The 700 Club," 3/18/92
Let me get this straight....he thinks that the white people are the minority in America? He's saying that white people (and I am assuming he means WASPS, not any of us heathen white muslims) should get counted..say twice...over everyone else. I am suddenly getting scary images of Pat in a white hood and robe.
"If anybody understood what Hindus really believe, there would be no doubt that they have no business administering government policies in a country that favors freedom and equality. ... Can you imagine having the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini as defense minister, or Mahatma Gandhi as minister of health, education, and welfare? The Hindu and Buddhist idea of karma and the Muslim idea of kismet, or fate condemn the poor and the disabled to their suffering. ... It's the will of Allah. These beliefs are nothing but abject fatalism, and they would devastate the social gains this nation has made if they were ever put into practice." --Pat Robertson's "The New World Order," page 219.
The above statement seems to be bred from complete ignorance of the eastern religions. Or at least a selective understanding.
"With all due respect to those dear people, my friend, God Almighty does not hear the prayer of a Jew." --Petersburg Times, June 26, 1994
Wow, apparently even Jews aren't in Pat's little club either.
"In the 1990s and beyond, the battle is not going to be fought much longer between Christianity and atheistic humanism, but between Christianity and satanic-inspired Eastern religions." --Pat Robertson, The Secret Kingdom, 1992
Pat Robertson would be the first person to denounce Islamic jihad, but from the above quote one might imagine that he supports a Christian crusade or Jihad against what he calls "satanic-inspired Eastern religions".
"The courts are merely a ruse, if you will, for humanist, atheistic educators to beat up on Christians." --The 700 Club, Oct. 2, 1990
I wonder what kind of system he favors instead of a court system? One man, judge...jury...executioner? This does not sound like a man who favors democracy and freedom, but a totalitarian regime without any checks and balances.
"Feminism encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians."--Pat Robertson
I think this one speaks for itself.
"We at the Christian Coalition are raising an army who cares. We are training people to be effective -- to be elected to school boards, to city councils, to state legislatures, and to key positions in political parties.... By the end of this decade, if we work and give and organize and train, THE CHRISTIAN COALITION WILL BE THE MOST POWERFUL POLITICAL ORGANIZATION IN AMERICA.-- Pat Robertson, in a fundraising letter, July 4, 1991
This is the really scary stuff. He talks of raising ARMIES. He speaks of getting the "key" people in certain political positions.....
"The Koran teaches that the end of the world will not come until every Jew is killed by Muslims. Now that is what it says in the Koran, written by Muhammad"
This is either a blatant lie, or he has not really read the Qur'an. He demonstrates his complete lack of understanding about Islam.
(About Islam) "is not a peaceful religion that wants to coexist. They want to coexist until they can control, dominate and then, if need be, destroy."
Yet another example
"The Lord has just blessed him," Robertson said of Bush. "I mean, he could make terrible mistakes and comes out of it. It doesn't make any difference what he does, good or bad, God picks him up because he's a man of prayer and God's blessing him." -700 Club
Pat Robertson speaks of building armies and putting the right people in key political positions. His vision for the future is a complete, Christian Coalition take-over of the Republican party (assuming this hasn't already occurred).
His vision is one where there is no fair trial in a court of law....where there is no religious freedom....where the white man is counted double (or maybe more) over the rest of the American population....
I cannot help but tremble at this man's endorsement for Bush.
Next week on Axis of EVIL: Jerry Falwell
(It's like shooting fish in a barrel...and the fish are already dead)
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