Pat Robertson Again! Gosh You Can't Make This Stuff Up!

Unfortunately, it seems that many US christians respect him.

dlowan wrote:

Intrepid, you are seeing everything as an attack.


This wasn't.

My point was that nuts like Robertson BELIEVE they know what god wants, and, in my experience, such damaged and primitive egos see in their god the worrying workings of their own minds.


Oddly enough, it wasn't an attack on all christians.


Would you agree that this accurately delineates Robertson's personality?

dlowan,
I did not see this as an attack on Christians. I saw it as a negative comment on God. I do agree with you about Robertson. I have forced myself to look at some of his television broadcasts so that I could form my own opinion. He may call himself a man of God, but I think he is a man of his own dilusions and tries to fit God into his own feeble thoughts.

As long as it is not viewed that all Christians follow in this manner.

littlek wrote:

Unfortunately, it seems that many US christians respect him.

Pity. I don't know if folks from Canada follow this guy or not. We only seem to hear about him in the news.

Hey ... it could still happen. And won't you feel silly if it does.

Kansas is having a rough time, isn't it?

First the BTK killer, now Intelligent Design in the schools. Just keeps getting worse and worse for the heartland.

No. I believed KW was making a stupid point saying Kansas is having a rough time, then tying BTK with the School Board issue. It was particularly inane considering the only recent BTK happenings was his arrest, plea, and sentencing.

.....tying BTK with the School Board....

"Active in the press"?


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On March 19, 2004, over 30 years after the first murder, the Wichita Eagle received a strange letter. Postmarked March 17, 2004, the letter with a return address of Bill Thomas Killman (i.e. BTK), contained startling evidence. Inside the envelope was a copy of Vicki Wegerle's driver's license and three photograph copies of her body.

"Founded in 1960, CBN was the first Christian television network established in the United States. Today CBN is one of the world's largest television ministries and produces programming seen in 180 nations and heard in 71 languages including Russian, Arabic, Spanish, French and Chinese. CBN's flagship program, The 700 Club, which Mr. Robertson hosts, is one of the longest running religious television shows and reaches an average of one million American viewers daily....

"Robertson is past president of the prestigious Council on National Policy. In 1982 he served on President Ronald Reagan's Task Force on Victims of Crime. He is currently a member of the Board of the Virginia Economic Development Partnership, and previously served on the Governor's Council of Economic Advisors in the State of Virginia."

In 1988 Pat Robertson ran for President in the Republican Primaries and beat sitting Vice President George Bush Sr. in the Iowa Republican caucuses. [3] (http://www.theocracywatch.org/taking_over.htm)
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Intrepid wrote:

littlek wrote:

Unfortunately, it seems that many US christians respect him.

Pity. I don't know if folks from Canada follow this guy or not. We only seem to hear about him in the news.

Any figures on how many followers this person has, Little k?

The 700 Club has been operating under the radar of traditional journalistic scrutiny for over two decades. Anchored by Pat Robertson, he initially created it as a vehicle to promote his personal political ambitions. After his failed presidential bid in 1988, Robertson founded the Christian Coalition and embarked on an ambitious plan to influence the mainstream political agenda from the inside out.

He used The 700 Club as the marketing and political advocacy tool of this plan. The broadcast's focus is instructing viewers on how they could best lobby elected officials to enact the Christian right's agenda.

Goal number one was to take over Congress, and Robertson can honestly take credit for the Republican revolution of 1994. Of the 52 freshman Republican congressman, who ended four decades of Democratic rule that year, 44 owed their election to the Christian coalition which endorsed them on The 700 Club.

Goal number two was the presidency. George Bush made it to the White House and is there today, because of the lockstep support of The 700 Club's faithful, who make up the bedrock of the "values voter".

Goal number three is yet to be achieved: taking over the legislature.

Up to now arcane Senate rules have impeded the appointment of jurists friendly to the Robertson agenda. So Robertson is using his television pulpit to change them.

He claims his "700 Club" broadcast reaches an average of 1 million American viewers daily. He also is the founder and former president of the Christian Coalition, which has anywhere from 400,000 to 2 million members in 30 state chapters, depending on who's counting. In addition, he created the Christian Broadcasting Network, the American Center for Law and Justice and Regent University, which awards graduate and law degrees. Robertson's organizations are capable of raising millions of dollars every year.