Thorny Christianity

My thoughts, sometimes conventional sometimes not, on topics of interest to my fellow Christians.

Wednesday, August 24, 2005

Pat Robertson Needs To Update His Website

Still not convinced that politics has corrupted the faith of the evangelical Christian church in the US? Pat Robertson now advocates the assassination of a democratically elected president of a foreign land. As Think Progress points out, this political view contradicts his Christian views about life, particularly God's dislike of murder. God had this crazy view that whoever murders someone ought to be put to death. So when his Robertson's political views come into conflict with the Bible, which does he choose? Why, his political views of course.

Robertson writes,
God says thou shalt not murder. Jesus Christ expanded that a little bit to have said, 'Anybody that says to your brother, "You fool" is in danger of hell fire.' So, go further and you begin to get angry with someone without cause. You begin to curse other people. That is a curse sending somebody to hell. That's the equivalent of murder. So what comes out of our mouth is so often a breaking of the Ten Commandments, because God Almighty wants to protect life and have everyone walk the streets without fear of being murdered.
Apparently Robertson believes that God didn't consider the political ramifications of His commandment. Thankfully we have Pat to fill in what God missed, to set God right in his naive ideas. What would God do without Robertson to set him straight?

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