Heaven’s Insensitive Ambassador
January 2010: As the horrendous devastation of the Haitian earthquake flashed upon a shocked world, Pat Robertson seized upon the phenomenon of indifferent nature to display the true depth of his Christian compassion for human tragedy. As usual it was all about what his ego chose to twist into what he considered relative. This self-proclaimed ambassador of God thus used his Christian Broadcasting Network to spread the news that the reason for the horrendous suffering of the Haitians was due to the abused slaves having revolted against the French slaveholders there over two centuries ago! Robertson’s claim is that they had “made a pact with the devil” back then to gain their basic human rights! Well, of course he is backed by the fact that the Bible nowhere ever condemned slavery.
We should remember that this is the same self-proclaimed representative of Christ who once claimed that he could stop a hurricane through prayer. He apparently never felt obliged to offer any prayer for New Orléans when Katrina roared out of the southeast—or afterward for that matter. Instead he said nature’s fury was all because the Master of Ceremonies for the Oscar presentation was by a lesbian who happened to have been born there. Sure; it made perfect sense to a mind that would also advocate assassination of Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez.
Like all religious pretenders, Robertson has no hesitation about fracturing the truth to serve his purpose. In his presidential bid in 1988, for example, Robertson’s campaign literature stated that he had been a combat Marine in the Korean War. Genuine Korean War Marine veterans objected to his implied “combat” status, saying that Robertson’s real service record was the responsibility to serve alcoholic beverages to his officers.
There are so many “divine” Robertson quotes to inspire the irrational that it would take too much space for this blog. A half-dozen must suffice. 1) On why Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon suffered a massive stroke on the fourth of January 2006, Robertson said that Sharon was felled because he “…was dividing God’s land.” After all, the (priest-written) Old Testament stated that God had claimed Israel as his own. 2) About equal rights for women, Robertson actually said that the “…feminist agenda is not about equal rights for women. It is about a socialist, anti-family political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians. 3) Robertson’s low regard for women was again revealed in his statement, “…if you get married, you have accepted the headship of a man, your husband. Christ is the head of the household, and the husband is the head of the wife, and that’s the way it is, period.” 4) Robertson advocated nuking the State Department, saying, “Maybe we need a very small nuke thrown off on Foggy Bottom to shake things up.” 5) On America being too liberal and his propaganda that evangelical Christians were being persecuted, he avowed that it was no different from what Nazi Germany had done to the Jews. He elaborated and embellished, of course. “It is the Democratic Congress, the liberal-based media and the homosexuals who want to destroy the Christians. Wholesale abuse and discrimination and the worst bigotry directed toward any group in America today. More terrible than anything suffered by any minority in history.” (Italics added by this author.) 6) Robertson’s dream of a theocracy replacing democracy was revealed in this humble prayer: “Lord, give us righteous judges who will not try to legislate and dominate this society. Take control, Lord! We ask for additional vacancies on the court.” (In other words, Kill ’em off, Lord, so we Christians can dominate society.)
Apparently the Lord heard his prayer, and America was blessed with Bush-Cheney who attained office not by democratic vote, but by the “none-interferring” action of righteous judges.
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