Question for Pat Robertson
It's all over the news, so I don't need to rant at length about how entirely UN-Christian it is for Pat Robertson to call for the assassination of someone, nor how woefully uninformed he is to talk about Communism in a country with democratic elections.
But I heard a comment that made me laugh, so I thought I'd put it here:
Mr. Robertson, when did "What Would Jesus Do?" become "Who Would Jesus Kill?"
(If anyone doesn't know what I'm talking about here, please let me know, I'll fill you in.)
Liam.
posted by Liam at 8/24/2005 10:01:00 AM
1 Comments:
I want to interject here about something that bugs me. When a person identifies with a group and then then someone in their group screws up 'bigtime' thier reactions can be varied... they could ignore the screwup (like most Dems did when Clinton got caught up in a sex scandal, like most Neo-Conservatives did when Bush changed his position on Rove and the CIA outing, like most PETA people do when they discovered that PETA is one of the largest animal killers ever {after rescuing many animals from abuse, they have no other venue for these feral animals but putitng them to sleep, but that goes against all their oft-quoted morals}), they could agree with the wrongdoer (all too often that happens, even if it is agreement by aiding in coverup, like Catholic Church higherups did when clergy got caught with their pants down), or they could (from the start) join the fingerpointers and hopefully extend the credibility of the orginization rather than damage it. None of these options are easy, but I challenge all the conservatives to openly say that Pat Robertson may have done some great and Christian acts in his career as a minister, but that advocating the assination of anyone (particularly because the alternatives are a bit pricy) is against all things Christian.
This would be a relatively dicey situation. Finger pointing amonst peers usually is. These are the guys that know all your secrets, but Newt Gingrich set a great example... if you are caught being an ass, admit it and step down. I would hope that my peers would do that, and that I would do that.
One more point (I know, I'm always wordy)... Ultimately you will have to distance yourself from evildoings, even if you don't consider the person evil. I've always identified with the Right to Life movement, but will openly condem anyone who advocate violence to stop individual women in the midst of crisis, or against those who work in the industry. They may hold the same goal as I do, but we aren't the same, we aren't a co-hort, and the statement that 'if we share an enemy, we can operate as friends' is a blatent lie.
Friday, August 26, 2005 8:23:00 AM
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