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Blaming victims for natural disasters, the poor for poverty, the sick for their ailments is a disgusting habit, especially when delivered via a medium that draws the stupid and vulnerable like flies to chicken spit. Robertson knows his audience, and unfortunately it grows in a country increasingly divided into the rich and the unfortunate.
Quakes bring out the quacks.
Pat Robertson won't be swooped up by a tornado, or even warmed by a convenient house fire, because that's not the way it works. Seldom do the deserving really get what they deserve.
Preacher Pat has made his own pact with a Satan called Greed, and the earthly rewards aren't about anything as worthwhile as playing the blues guitar.
Now, preachers have been blaming "sinners" for sickness and such since lepers were shunned. This is nothing new. Wouldn't be worth noting, except now religion and politics are so intertwined in this country, today you have to look for party platforms in hymn books.
Ever since Ronald Reagan - by his own admission not a churchgoer - used the Religious Right to win an election, the Ship of State has listed to Looney Tunes. Talk about your pacts with the devil.
Before 1980, you didn't have environmental ennui because those in charge thought the End of Time was coming soon, and cleaning up our nest wasn't worth the effort. You didn't have a generation of children being home-schooled in the pseudo-science of a 6,000-year-old Earth. You didn't have prayer meetings in the U.S. Attorney General's office or doctors being shot to death with the tacit approval of "Christians."
We are edging ever closer to a fanatical fringe theocracy, and the television preachers and gutless politicians are leading the charge.
When this country lost lives to terrorists fueled by religious intolerance and hate, what happened? Pat Robertson blamed it on sin, and politicians quickly pitted their own prayers against those nuts from another faith.
How blind do you have to be not to see that there is sanity in separating highly personal matters of faith from government, warmongering, education and even football games?
I am, of course, falling right into the trap set by the intentionally controversial Preacher Pat, improving his ratings by mentioning his smarmy business plan. I suspect he's less than spontaneous when he spews his venomous and idiotic pronouncements.
The problem is not Pat, of course, but all those voters out there nodding their empty heads in total agreement. Ignorance is the devilish curse.
Rheta Grimsley Johnson is a syndicated columnist. She lives in the Iuka vicinity. Contact her at Iuka, MS 38852.
The propaganda campaign to make people believe that Saddam Hussein was behind the September 11th attacks was so successful that in mid-2003 the believers had grown to 70%. But in September 2003 George W. Bush admitted that there was no evidence linking Saddam to 9/11 (BBC: Bush rejects Saddam 9/11 link).
They used 9/11 to wage war on Iraq to get their hands on the oil reserves pure and simple. If you think they were suddenly outraged about how he treated his people, you'd be wrong, because he treated them pretty much the same since they put him in office, and it never bothered them then.
What Bush and Cheney wanted, was to get the man the CIA helped put in power in the first place (Saddam Hussein)gone so they could get Halliburton some fat contracts and make some bucks, pure and simple. Anyone remember when Saddam Hussein got the key to Detroit, Michigan? Apparently he was our buddy at some point in time. Makes you think.
http://www.timeenoughforlove.org/saved/SaddamReceivedKeyToCityOfDetroit1980.htm
That link will take you to a local detroit newspaper's story about Saddam getting the key to the city in 1980,complete with picture.Saddam might have been a monster, but he was OUR monster, as well as having nothing to do with 9/11.
But you are right about looking down on liberal's. I have read a book about one. He was so liberal that he actually told people to love their enemies. He actually had the gall to tell people to feed the hungry and give clothes that needed them. He was hated by the uptight conservatives of his time too. As a matter of fact, you could say that they hated him to death.
You're not going to believe this, but in his book he believes that it is actually easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to go to heaven. Now how liberal can you get? That one really flies in the face of our traditional republican values!!
The Vietnamese dead were the result of the Communist Atheist attempt to enslave the South Vietnamese. The 500,000 dead Iraqis is a phony number made up by terrorist supporters.
Our current "Dear Leader" supports the mass murder of innocent babies. Is that your idea of moral?
The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they are ignorant, they just know so much that ain't true.
And who determines morality ? Ronald Reagan (slide shows), the Republican Party, or the Evangelical movement ?
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"Squared", you know how Rheta feels ? So you are a Liberal. "I know how you feel (thats what liberals do FEEL not think"
How can you possible know what or how another person feels ? To beleive you can is a mark of insanity.
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Vet, if we subtract 1,000,000 million rotting Vietmanese corps and 500,000 Iraqi corpse caused by the Christian Soldiers of the United States the number is only 850 million. that makes the none athiest christian soldiers of the United States responsible for only 15 percent of the rotting corpses of the last 100 years. Thats not counting the half a million German Christian and Jewish soldiers we killed in WWI. We have a lot of catching up to do.
We have a moral government for the first time since President George W. Bush. The problem is that most of you hollow headed idiots don't remember what a moral government means. You have lost your moral compasses.
AMEN - AMEN