I agree. His insane ramblings may seem humorous. But this guy is deadly dangerous.
Consider if we had a young Osama Bin Laden living in this country preaching to millions of Muslims about the same things he was preaching before 9/11.
He had not yet directly planned or caused any acts of terrorism, but was fanning the flames of fundamentalism much the way Robertson is now.
How harmless and kooky would he seem to everyone here?
I do see a difference between Osama and Robertson. But it is a matter of power.
Osama WANTS power. He doesn't have it, so he creates violence to fill that void as a way of spreading his word and influence.
Robertson has PLENTY of it. He has had private meetings with several Presidents, has multimillion dollar deals with foreign heads of state, started enough organizations that have net assets of well over 100 million dollars and is part of a culture that is the undisputed cultural ruler of the world.
Robertson doesn't need to create violence. He is much closer to his version of victory than Osama.
Switch their positions Osama is a highly influential cleric in a theocratic national government of the United States of Arabia. He can support his nations war to oust the dictator of the Nation of Texas (what some of the more liberal Arabians are calling an oil war
), but Osama doesn't have to actually lead any terrorists himself.
Cleric Robertson and Falwell, on the other hand, lead a small band of fundamentalist christians in the hills of Colombia. The culture of the US of Arabian permeates the world, Arabs control Israel, and have bases in many North American nation states.
One day, 12 Christians from Topeka fly planes into Mecca and Medina. Later the 700 Club takes responsibility.
I can DEFINETLEY see these men switching positions like this in a different world. One where Robertson doesn't have such access, prestige, freedom to push his poison.
This guy has MILLIONS of followers and financial backers. He started or helped start American Center for Law and Justice, Christian Broadcasting Network, the Christian Coalition, the Flying Hospital, International Family Entertainment, Operation Blessing International Relief and Development Corporation, and Regent University, and The 700 Club. The 700 club, by the way is shown twice a day on Disney owned ABC Family. The channel is contractually required to.
This 'christian' invested millions in a Liberian gold mine, and did his damn-ness to help the brutal dictator of that country from an ouster.
He's called for the wholesale assassination of the State Department
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"Maybe we need a very small nuke thrown off on Foggy Bottom to shake things up" –Pat Robertson
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Hugo Chavez
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"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. It's a whole lot cheaper than starting a war ... We have the ability to take him out, and I think the time has come that we exercise that ability. We don't need another $200 billion war to get rid of one, you know, strong-arm dictator. It's a whole lot easier to have some of the covert operatives do the job and then get it over with." –Pat Robertson
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, Strongly 'prayed' that something would happen to each SC Justice that was on the more leftward side, Revels in Sharon's ailment.
Anyone who follows him is either deluded or insane. But it only takes one sick individual that takes his prayers, wishes, ideas to heart, to cause a disaster. He is feeding some dangerous flames.
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"Just like what Nazi Germany did to the Jews, so liberal America is now doing to the evangelical Christians. It's no different. It is the same thing. It is happening all over again. It is the Democratic Congress, the liberal-based media and the homosexuals who want to destroy the Christians. Wholesale abuse and discrimination and the worst bigotry directed toward any group in America today. More terrible than anything suffered by any minority in history." –Pat Robertson
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The trail of tears, slavery in america, the Holocaust, say Hi Pat!
This isn't the comedy goldmine of 'Pastor Gas'. This fucker is just evil.