Letters to the Editor
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Criticizing the president is treason, eh...
I hope he'll remember that if Hillary wins next year! Robertson has been falling off the christian map for 15 years now, I don't know that his endorsement means all that much these days. Dobson holds more sway and I still don't believe that christian voters will just go along with what their leaders say when it comes to who to vote for. Sure hating gays and sticking your nose into other people's bedrooms is fun but this is an election, they have to be realistic here.
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Where's Tom "the Nazis had it right" Ridge when you need him?
How sad, sad, sad the Republican party has become. Values voters indeed. What's next? Bernie Kerik finds God through Pat Robertson Ministries?
Criminals all -- some indicted, some not. But all will face the Big Guy someday. Now might be a good time to figure out if you're on the right side of that thing (meaning you: Rudy, Pat, Bernie).
In the meantime we have to live with the stench that is America 2.007.
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The Press? As If.
When Joe Conason writes "The easiest way to begin is for the press to examine a few of Robertson's more incendiary remarks..." he seems to slip into an alternate universe inhabited by an actual functioning press. But in this world we inhabit, that the quiescent, supine press of ours would actually pose such simple, obvious, mildly challenging questions — well, in our dreams.
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in your bones you know it
It's wired into human nature to expect that malfeasance will be punished by some some divine wind. Karma is a more sophisticated refinement of essentially the idea that there are effects to one's actions good/bad that cannot be escaped.
We believe these things because we can't really help it, but surely in our bones we know that the MSM will not taunt Guiliani about the latest and most disturbing company he keeps. He's shaping up nicely for the GOP as their most credible leader and Hillary beater. The MSM isn't remotely interested in the job of 'monitoring the centers of power' so sit back watch with predictability as your deeply crooked media sinks to a new low by being diverted from doing its proper job by its corporate masters.
The other thing we know in our bones is that whilst we yearn deeply for a candidate who will say "I'm different, I will fix this broken system" who then goes on to succeed, the system [consisting of its entrenched and powerful interests] is designed to survive the candidate and not the other way round -- but we never learn do we ;-)
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When Pat Robertson has to reach out
To a twice divorced lapsed Catholic who some of his closest friends are openly gay you know your movement has imploded. And for what it's worth this means that the GOP realizes that Fred the Jowl's efforts are pointless.
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grin and hug for the camera boys!
Didn't know Pat read Ann Coulter. Didn't know these men with all the answers were so fake and vainglorious( borrowed that word from a recent column here and it fits perfectly!) They are just embarrassing to this country. I'd love to see them say this same crap in Europe. I know, all over the world political figures are not known for sincerity, but these guys take it to a new level of cheese.
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Robertson is un-American -- and his views are bad for his own religion
When he was running for president himself 20 years ago, Robertson clearly stated that he would bar the appointment to any government position of any citizen who was not either a Christian (and that doesn't include Methodists, Episcopalians or many other denominations he considers to be "anti-Christ")
Christian Europe was for centuries a bloody, war-torn place because Christians were unable to accept any diversity in religious belief or practice.
And one reason why they couldn't manage to live together is because religion powered the government.
If your country was Protestant and you were a Catholic, your life was in danger.
That's the history that made our "founding fathers" decide to create a country that separated government from religion.
And this is why Americans are so much more religious than most Europeans. Because it was actually GOOD for religion to get out of the business of running the state.
Christianity thrived in America precisely because it was detached from government power. The separation of church and state allowed for a diversity of Christian beliefs.
Greater variety in Christianity = more people willing to go to church, because they're more likely to find a church that suits them.
Robertson is so blinded by his own narrow beliefs, he can't see that the separation of church and state is the best thing that ever happened to Christianity since Jesus.
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Two birds of one feather
Rudy is a sick man himself. He is completely over the top, consumed by his own ambition and his nagging doubts about himself, bathed in flopsweat until he reeks of it. Robertosn is an over-the-hill spent force showing dementia. Givent he number of corrupt dicators he has embraced, why should Rudy be different? He is as corrupt in his own way as was Mobutu, as fake in his spirituality as Charles Taylor and as potentially lethal to minorities as Efrain Rios-Montt, all of whom Pat embraced for money and favors. Two whores sticking together? Who woulda thought it?
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Does Pat Robertson really believe in protecting religious minorities?
A few years ago, on one of his broadcasts, TV preacher Pat Robertson was quoted as saying, "We want a secular constitution, we want to make sure religious minorities are protected..." But he wasn't talking about the United States--he was talking about Afghanistan...where Christians are a minority!
Similarly, in the October 2006 issue of Church & State, the periodical put out by Americans United for Separation of Church and State, Gary B. Christenot, an evangelical Christian writes about his experience on the Hawaiian island of Wahiawa, where Christians are a minority "in this little village that was populated predominantly by people of Japanese and Chinese ancestry. Rather than a church on every corner, as is common in the continental 48 states, Wahiawa had a Shinto or Buddhist shrine on every corner."
Christenot notes that prayers before a high school football game were led "not by a Protestant minister or a Catholic priest, but a Buddhist priest who proceeded to offer up prayers and intonations to god-head figures that our tradition held to be pagan."
He concludes: "I would say in love to my Christian brothers and sisters: Before you yearn for the imposition of prayer and similar rituals in your public schools, you might consider attending a football game at Wahiawa High School. Because unless you're ready to endure the unwilling exposure of yourself and your children to those beliefs and practices that your own faith forswears, you have no right to insist that others sit in silence and complicity while you do the same to them. I, for one, sleep better at night knowing that because Judeo-Christian prayers are not being offered at my children's schools, I don't have to worry about them being confronted with Buddhist, Shinto, Wiccan, Satanic or any other prayer ritual I might find offensive."