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What's wrong with Pat Robertson?
Religion mixed up with politics = Not a good thing
This is political smack
Bill Maher is a poser trying to pass himself off as a "genius"...
okay
Sounds like this guy,
Robertson knows how to get free press...
Sounds like this guy,
But he has a cabinet, joint-chiefs of staff, etc... (oh and unreliable CIA, FBI and NSA organizations working to give him 'intelligence'.....)
I'm just suggesting you divert and redistribute your hatred to the rest of the snake instead of only the "head"... or pseudo-head in this case....
Meanwhile back to Robertson.
I don't lump him in with Howard Dean or even Michael Moore.
He is more in the same league as Lyndon LaRouche except he gets press and has a TV show where people (saps) send him money.
White House Denounces Robertson's Remarks on Sharon
Television Evangelist Said Prime Minister's Illness Was Deserved
By Daniela Deane
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, January 6, 2006; 2:54 PM
The White House today criticized television evangelist Pat Robertson's remarks that Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's severe illness was deserved, calling the comments "wholly inappropriate and offensive."
White House press spokesman Trent Duffy made the comment to reporters traveling on Air Force One with President Bush this morning. He added that Robertson's comments "don't have a place in this or any other debate."
Duffy also told reporters the president is praying for Sharon's full recovery.
The Israeli prime minister, 77, is in a medically induced coma in a Jerusalem hospital after suffering a massive stroke Wednesday. He is in critical condition.
Speaking on his Christian Broadcasting Network's "700 Club," Robertson said yesterday that God was punishing Sharon for dividing the land of Israel.
"Sharon was personally a very likable person, and I am sad to see him in this condition, but I think we need to look at the Bible and the Book of Joel. The prophet Joel makes it very clear that God has enmity against those who 'divide my land,' " Robertson said.
Sharon was "dividing God's land, and I would say: Woe unto any prime minister of Israel who takes a similar course to appease the E.U. [European Union], the United Nations or the United States of America," the 75-year-old Baptist minister said.
Robertson, who ran for president in 1988, has a history of controversial statements. In August, he called for the assassination of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, then denied the remark, and a day later, apologized for it.
Staff writer Alan Cooperman contributed to this report.
© 2006 The Washington Post Company
"religion" in USA is nothing but $$$ and show business.
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Biblical tourism
Plans for Holy Land theme park on Galilee shore where Jesus fed the 5,000
· Evangelical groups and Israel on brink of deal
· Some Israelis fear motives of US Christian right
Conal Urquhart in Tel Aviv
Wednesday January 4, 2006
The Guardian
The Israeli government is planning to give up a large slice of land to American Christian evangelicals to build a biblical theme park by the Sea of Galilee where Jesus is said to have walked on water and fed 5,000 with five loaves and two fish.
A consortium of Christian groups, led by the television evangelist Pat Robertson, is in negotiation with the Israeli ministry of tourism and a deal is expected in the coming months. The project is expected to bring up to 1 million extra tourists a year but an undeclared benefit will be the cementing of a political alliance between the Israeli rightwing and the American Christian right.
However, the alliance has not been welcomed by all Israelis, including some who fear the ultimate aim of the evangelicals is the conversion of the Jews to Christianity rather than support for Israel.
( after PR's mean, spiteful comments on Sharon, the Israelis have even more reason to doubt PR Trojan horse of "Christian" showbusiness )
Jonathan Pulik, a spokesman for the Israeli ministry of tourism, said the Christian market was very important for Israel's tourism industry. "We would like to give them more of a reason to come here. We would be willing to lease the land to them free of charge and they would finance the construction."
The site of the centre, covering nearly 50 hectares (125 acres) and provisionally called the Galilee World Heritage Park, would be north-east of the Mount of the Bea udes where Jesus delivered the Sermon on the Mount, and Capernaum which was described as the town of Jesus in the Bible. It would feature a garden and nature park, an auditorium, a Holy Land exhibition, outdoor amphitheatres, information centre and a media studio.
The ministry of tourism estimates the total cost would be $48m (£28m). Mr Pulik also pointed out that the project would bring large numbers of jobs to the area. Mr Robertson said in a statement that he was "fully cooperating" with the project but no deal had been formalised. He said he was thrilled that "there will be a place in the Galilee where evangelical Christians from all over the world can come to celebrate the actual place where Jesus Christ lived and taught".
The Sea of Galilee is more reminiscent of the Scottish Highlands than the Middle East, particularly in winter and spring when the hills are green. The existing Christian sites are picturesque and understated oases of calm and there is even a Church of Scotland hotel and church in Tiberias, the main town in the area.
A major part of the shore of the Sea of Galilee was Syrian until it was conquered by Israel in 1967. Syria and Israel are still officially in a state of war and Syria insists the return of the Golan Heights and the Galilee shore is a prerequisite for peace.
Uri Dagul, the project coordinator, said the land issues would be concluded within a few weeks and then the final details would be agreed between the Israeli government and the Christian communities which are primarily American evangelical churches.
The American Christian right, best known for television evangelism and its stars such as Mr Robertson and Jerry Falwell, has been among the strongest supporters of Israel in the US.
The primary reason is that according to the Old Testament, Israel was given to the Jews by God. Fundamentalist Christians believe that in order for Jesus to return, two preconditions are Jewish control of the land of Israel and the conversion of the Jews to Christianity.
Yossi Sarid, a former government minister and member of the Knesset, said he was wary of the friendship of the American Christian right and projects such as the Galilee centre. He said: "I am not enthusiastic about this cooperation because I have no desire to be cannon fodder for the evangelists.
"As a Jew, they believe I have to vanish before Jesus can make his second appearance. As I have no plans to convert, as an Israeli and a Jew, I find this a provocation. There is something sinister about their embrace."
Avraham Hirschson, the Israeli tourism minister, said: "I'm not a theologian, I'm the minister of tourism, and I'm not interested in the politics of our tourists as long as they come here. They come here as tourists, and they're friends of Israel."
I don't get it, they deserted Gods' land like twice..........
Robertson{heart}Ahmadinejad
Saturday, January 7, 2006; A16
CHRISTIAN television evangelist Pat Robertson and the president of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, have a well-established affinity for the outrageous. This time their mutual embrace of indecency places them in a category all to themselves. As Ariel Sharon lies hospitalized and critically incapacitated by a massive stroke, Mr. Robertson, one of America's best-known religious extremists, and his Iranian counterpart -- no slouch when it comes to religious demagoguery -- suggested that Israel's prime minister had it coming. Speaking on his TV show, "The 700 Club," on the Christian Broadcasting Network, Mr. Robertson said the Bible "makes it very clear that God has enmity against those who 'divide my land.' " Mr. Sharon, Mr. Robertson asserted, "was dividing God's land, and I would say woe unto any prime minister of Israel who takes a similar course." As Mr. Robertson was offering up his thoughts about a man fighting for his life, Iran's president was expressing unrestrained hope that Mr. Sharon would simply die.
Pat Robertson and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad are probably beyond the point where they can be reached by embarrassment or shame. But they are not beyond the kind of strong condemnation that they have richly earned. We need not recite the records of contemptible remarks made by both men in the past. There is little reason to believe that either will cease his disgraceful behavior. Mr. Ahmadinejad, the president of a country with a lamentable human rights record and a nuclear program, is dangerous, where Mr. Robertson is only pathetic. But they share a self-righteousness that blinds them to the distance that they have placed between themselves and the majority of people who find their remarks repulsive. It's sufficient to know, we suppose, that at a time when messages of hope are flowing from around the world to the bedside of Ariel Sharon, Pat Robertson and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad still have each other.
© 2006 The Washington Post Company
Last edited by boutons_; 01-07-2006 at 07:58 AM.
And somehow church based charitable contributions still supply the needs of more than 70% of America's homeless, are one of the first to arrive in disaster areas for relief aid, help out the needs of orphans and widows, etc...
There are black sheep everywhere. "Don't judge the many by the sins of the few."
Take off your selective glasses.
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You want to tell the Rev. Jackson that?
"religion" in USA is nothing but $$$ and show business.
Yup, that's all it is.
What's it like being such an angry, miserable little pissant?
...who needs to STFU.
he is begining to sound like harry belafonte!!!
Please note I had "religion" in quotes, which means not true religion, but the very American "religion" which is pure money-grubbing, I-make-you-feel-good-so-you-pay-me, hustling, scamming, move-the-merchandise show-business.
I being an amillenialist have never fallen with Robertson's dispensational theology, his views on Israel are very disturbing. Israel has no divine right to the land of Israel since they rejected the messiah according to biblical theology.
Nevertheless, Robertson seems to be much of a canker sore to the christian right. The media will go at full lengths to sell the public that his diatribe is more dangerous than the ones you'd hear in acedamia from the likes of Ward Churchill, who said of the 911 victims of being "little eichmans".
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