Pat Robertson: Assassination Advocate

Dear Pat,

Remember what you learned in Sunday School about the 5th Commandment? I believe it's time for a review. While you're at it, looking over the other nine might help you as well.

God

Okay, so that's how I imagine a conversation going between God and CBN's Pat Robertson going right now. Anyway, here's Pat's assassination advocacy...

Robertson, founder of the Christian Coalition of America and a former presidential candidate, said Monday on the Christian Broadcast Network’s “The 700 Club” that it was the United States’ duty to stop Chavez from making Venezuela a “launching pad for communist infiltration and Muslim extremism.”

Chavez has emerged as one of the most outspoken critics of President Bush, accusing the United States of conspiring to topple his government and possibly backing plots to assassinate him. U.S. officials have called the accusations ridiculous.

“You know, I don’t know about this doctrine of assassination, but if he thinks we’re trying to assassinate him, I think that we really ought to go ahead and do it,” Robertson said. “It’s a whole lot cheaper than starting a war ... and I don’t think any oil shipments will stop.” ...

Robertson, 75, accused the United States of failing to act when Chavez was briefly overthrown in 2002. “We have the ability to take him out, and I think the time has come that we exercise that ability,” Robertson said.

“We don’t need another $200 billion war to get rid of one, you know, strong-arm dictator,” he continued. “It’s a whole lot easier to have some of the covert operatives do the job and then get it over with.”

Actually, I wonder if it's time to stop calling Pat Robertson a Christian--as in, Christian broadcaster (blah blah). Seems more like he's broadcasting under the pretense of being a Christian. I hope the God I believe in doesn't think the way he does, but the amazing thing about God is that he offers forgiveness freely, to me, and to all of us.

Comments

[Jimmy]

Agreed. ... A bit ironic that, when I was a kid, I used to live a few minutes away from CBN HQ in Va. Beach.

[Leah]

Jimmy, I think it is one of the blessed miracles of life that believing in God does not mean you believe in the same God as everyone else does. If I had to believe in the same God as, well, many ppl I know . . . I would just as soon not believe. Thank everything for free will and the ability to be intelligent.