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Yakk...you've done a great job of explaining the point that the difference between the "mullahs" of the Muslim faith and the Christian "mullahs" here in the U.S., is that the ones here have the actual influence, power, and wealth to actually trun their hatred and ignorance into real attacks that result in death and injury to real people and further erode (if that is even possible to do to the current administration...) the reputation of our country in the eyes of our former allies.
Those who dismiss Robertson as irrelevant should reconsider........
We've discussed the federal republican politicians' relatiobship with the religious right, before.....here:
<a href="http://www.tfproject.org/tfp/showthread.php?t=83400">Do Religious Right's Beliefs Pose Threat to U.S.?</a>
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...070101831.html
Supreme Court Justice O'Connor Resigns
By Peter Baker
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, July 2, 2005; Page A01
......."This is the most important resignation and nomination . . . in our lifetime and probably more than that," said Jay Sekulow, chief counsel to the American Center for Law and Justice, an advocacy group founded by evangelist Pat Robertson. "It's very, very significant. Justice O'Connor is the pivotal vote on so many key cases. This has got gargantuan" implications, Sekulow said.........
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If you think that 700 Club/CBN, are Robertson's only outlet for broadcasting misinformation and propaganda, think again;
the guy has the tentacles of an octopus, as far as the influence that he is capable of projecting. Robertson's puppet at ACLJ, Jay Sekulow, has his own daily call in, syndicated radio talk show.....
http://www.aclj.org/OnTheRadio/Archive.aspx
Jay Sekulow's "resume" from the ACLJ website
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http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php...aw_and_Justice
According to the website of the American Center for Law and Justice "in 1990, Dr. M.G. Pat Robertson, a Yale law school graduate, religious leader, entrepreneur, and concerned citizen, decided to act to undo the damage done by almost a century of liberal thinking and activism. He founded the American Center for Law and Justice".
In its profile, the Center states:
The ACLJ, in just a few years, has become this nation's pre-eminent public interest law firm and educational organization dedicated to defending and advancing religious liberty, the sanctity of human life, and the two-parent, marriage-bound family.....
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http://www.liberty.edu/academics/
The Liberty Difference
Liberty's professors integrate a Christian worldview into every subject area. This biblical foundation is the cornerstore upon which we build academic excellence.
Our faculty hold degrees from more than 400 colleges and universities. They join Liberty only after completing a rigorous interview process that confirms a born-again relationship with Christ, a clear understanding of the Purpose and Aims of Liberty, and a commitment to teaching excellence.
http://www.liberty.edu/index.cfm?PID=6909
Ten Liberty University Distinctives No Other University Can Claim
by Jerry Falwell, Founder/Chancellor
Liberty University surely is not the only Christian school in America. But I sincerely believe Liberty is the finest for training champions for Christ. Here is why:
4. An uncompromising doctrinal statement, based upon an inerrant Bible, a Christian worldview beginning with belief in biblical Creationism, an eschatological belief in the pre-millennial, pre-tribulational coming of Christ for all of His Church, dedication to world evangelization, an absolute repudiation of “political correctness,” a strong commitment to political conservatism, total rejection of socialism, and firm support for America’s economic system of free enterprise.
7. A highly-qualified, non-tenured teaching faculty. More than 68% have terminal degrees. Unlike many major universities, graduate assistants do not stand-in for faculty. The faculty does the teaching.
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http://www.startribune.com/dynamic/s...&story=5575519
Last update: August 24, 2005 at 7:14 AM
Michael A. Babcock: Americans should accept and defend our imperialism
Michael A. Babcock
Published August 24, 2005
President Bush's basic vocabulary -- good and evil, war and victory -- always has made his liberal critics uncomfortable. But two weeks ago Bush seemed to be speaking to members of his own administration when he made it crystal clear to the world that we're fighting a "war" against terrorism.
It's not, as Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld recently has been nuancing it, a "global struggle against violent extremism." It's a war -- plain and simple.
Of course, wars are neither plain nor simple. They're messy and unpredictable affairs. But to his credit, the president seems to recognize -- in his gut -- that a shift in vocabulary will change nothing. A policy is either right or wrong.
So what are we to make of Rumsfeld's relabeling project -- and the president's very public rejection of a new vocabulary? It has settled one thing for sure: Bush has a firmer handle than even Rumsfeld does on how empires think and act.
And I don't mean that as a criticism. It's time for us to accept and defend our imperialism.
Imperialism has received bad press for most of the last hundred years. We think of pith helmets when we hear the word, and tiger hunts, and pathetic little bands in remote Indian provinces playing "God Save the King." We think of a stiff upper lip that looks, over time, more like foolish bravado than noble resolve. We think of colonial hubris and the blind assertion of cultural superiority.
But ancient Rome -- always the brand name in empires -- is the better model. Rome demonstrated that empires can be about much more than blood sports, tiger hunts, rapacious oil companies and military adventures in far-off places. Empires can also stand for things that make the world a better place. Political stability, the rule of law, the virtues of political enfranchisement, the preservation of learning and the arts, and respect for other cultures and religions: These are some of the better legacies left to us by the Romans. They pulled this off -- with all their faults -- because they believed in that quaint concept we call destiny.
Americans, too, always have believed in a higher purpose. Almost 400 years ago, John Winthrop envisioned America as a shining "city upon a hill." Ronald Reagan echoed that language in speeches that resonated deeply with the American people. The liberal elites in Europe and America never understood the mythic power of Reagan's rhetoric -- just as they don't understand Bush's simple vocabulary today. That disconnect is easy to explain. If you believe that history is the product only of material forces -- and is never nudged onward by some transcendent will -- then all this talk about destiny will strike you as, well, a bit spooky.
Bush has embraced the transcendent view -- and the clear-cut vocabulary of war that goes with it. That certainty may creep out a lot of people, but that doesn't keep the president from declaring -- repeatedly and rightly -- that we represent a force for good in the world. What we're fighting for cannot be reduced to "one set of interests" struggling against "another set of interests" in a world of diminishing natural resources. We are fighting a war over things that matter -- not the right to wear pith helmets, hunt tigers or drill oil wells in distant lands. We are fighting for ideals that transcend race, culture and religion -- ideals of freedom and human dignity.
And that's the kind of "imperialism" we should be willing to defend.
Michael A. Babcock, an associate professor of humanities at Liberty University in Lynchburg, Va., is the author of "The Night Attila Died: Solving the Murder of Attila the Hun." He wrote this article for Newsday
http://www.theunionleader.com/articl...?article=58280
Columns - July 27, 2005
Michael A. Babcock:
Al-Qaida has learned from the terror master: Attila the Hun
By MICHAEL A. BABCOCK
Guest Commentary
............Attila understood that the empire, like Europe today, had lost its will to survive. A handful of Romans, too few to change the tide of history, recognized the danger too late. They conspired to kill the Hun on his home turf, in his own bed, which is the best place, after all, to kill a terrorist who’s hell-bent on destroying you. We need this kind of resolve today, and we’ll need it for a very long time.
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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0149408/quotes
Memorable Quotes from
"The 700 Club"
Jerry Falwell: And, I know that I'll hear from them for this. But, throwing God out successfully with the help of the federal court system, throwing God out of the public square, out of the schools. The abortionists have got to bear some burden for this because God will not be mocked. And when we destroy 40 million little innocent babies, we make God mad. I really believe that the pagans, and the abortionists, and the feminists, and the gays and the lesbians who are actively trying to make that an alternative lifestyle, the ACLU, People For the American Way - all of them who have tried to secularize America - I point the finger in their face and say, "You helped this happen."
Pat Robertson: Well, I totally concur, and the problem is we have adopted that agenda at the highest levels of our government. And so we're responsible as a free society for what the top people do. And, the top people, of course, is the court system.
Pat Robertson: You say you're supposed to be nice to the Episcopalians and the Presbyterians and the Methodists and this, that, and the other thing. Nonsense. I don't have to be nice to the spirit of the Antichrist. I can love the people who hold false opinions but I don't have to be nice to them............
.......Pat Robertson: The courts are merely a ruse, if you will, for humanist, atheistic educators to beat up on Christians.
Pat Robertson: [during an interview] I read your book. When you get through, you say, "If I could just get a nuclear device inside Foggy Bottom, I think that's the answer." I mean, you get through this, and you say, "We've got to blow that thing up." I mean, is it as bad as you say?
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http://archives.cnn.com/2001/US/09/14/Falwell.apology/
Falwell apologizes to gays, feminists, lesbians
September 14, 2001 Posted: 2:55 AM EDT (0655 GMT)
LYNCHBURG, Virginia (CNN) -- The Rev. Jerry Falwell said late Thursday he did not mean to blame feminists, gays or lesbians for bringing on the terrorist attacks in New York and Washington this week, in remarks on a television program earlier in the day.
On the broadcast of the Christian television program "The 700 Club," Falwell made the following statement:
"I really believe that the pagans, and the abortionists, and the feminists, and the gays and the lesbians who are actively trying to make that an alternative lifestyle, the ACLU, People For the American Way, all of them who have tried to secularize America. I point the finger in their face and say 'you helped this happen.'"
Falwell, pastor of the 22,000-member Thomas Road Baptist Church, viewed the attacks as God's judgment on America for "throwing God out of the public square, out of the schools. The abortionists have got to bear some burden for this because God will not be mocked."
But in a phone call to CNN, Falwell said that only the hijackers and terrorists were responsible for the deadly attacks.
"I do believe, as a theologian, based upon many Scriptures and particularly Proverbs 14:23, which says 'living by God's principles promotes a nation to greatness, violating those principles brings a nation to shame,'" he said.
Falwell said he believes the ACLU and other organizations "which have attempted to secularize America, have removed our nation from its relationship with Christ on which it was founded."
"I therefore believe that that created an environment which possibly has caused God to lift the veil of protection which has allowed no one to attack America on our soil since 1812," he said.
Pat Robertson, host of the 700 Club program, seemed to agree with Falwell's earlier statements in a prayer during the program.
"We have sinned against Almighty God, at the highest level of our government, we've stuck our finger in your eye," said Robertson. "The Supreme Court has insulted you over and over again, Lord. They've taken your Bible away from the schools. They've forbidden little children to pray. They've taken the knowledge of God as best they can, and organizations have come into court to take the knowledge of God out of the public square of America."
National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Executive Director Lorri L. Jean bristled at the idea that gays and lesbians had anything to do with the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon that may have left thousands dead, and demanded an apology from Falwell.
"The terrible tragedy that has befallen our nation, and indeed the entire global community, is the sad byproduct of fanaticism. It has its roots in the same fanaticism that enables people like Jerry Falwell to preach hate against those who do not think, live, or love in the exact same way he does," she said.
"The tragedies that have occurred this week did not occur because someone made God mad, as Mr. Falwell asserts. They occurred because of hate, pure and simple. It is time to move beyond a place of hate and to a place of healing. We hope that Mr. Falwell will apologize to the U.S. and world communities."
Falwell told CNN: "I would never blame any human being except the terrorists, and if I left that impression with gays or lesbians or anyone else, I apologize."
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http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.p...&articleId=845
CBC News Rebroadcasts Pat Robertson's Call to Murder President Hugo Chavez
Text of Open Letter to the Complaint Department of CBC Radio News
by Charles Boylan
August 24, 2005
GlobalResearch.ca
Dear Sir/Madam:
I strongly object to CBC Radio News broadcasting at 6 a.m. and 7 a.m. August 23, 2005 the call of U.S. politician, Pat Robertson, for the government of the United States to carry out yet one more terrorist act, namely the assassination of the President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez Frias.
The CBC broadcast simply stated that this non-elected politician has given this call, and then proceeded to hand over the microphone to this criminal element to argue for this terrorist act of murder. There was no effort by the CBC to counter his outrageous statements with any response from the Venezuelan government, nor from the Canadian government nor anyone else in fact.
Some questions come to my mind. Is it the CBC's policy to provide free national radio time to any politician who calls for the assassination of a head of state? For example, would the CBC give such prominence as was given to Robertson this morning, to a criminal political element in Iraq or Palestine calling for the assassination of George Bush or Ariel Sharon?..........
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