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August 23, 2005
Pat Robertson Calls for Death
This AP story was forwarded by Jeff, who observed the "religious leader becomes the perfection of modernity [through his] amazing language."
It seems that, only weeks after praying to God to use his hand to create more vacancies on the U.S. Supreme Court, Pat Robertson has now called upon the hand of U.S. covert ops to assasinate Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.
"I think that we really ought to go ahead and do it," Robertson said. "It's a whole lot cheaper than starting a war ... and I don't think any oil shipments will stop."
So let me get this straight. We have yet another right-to-lifer -- and a very high profile one -- calling for death. Back in 1986, when Pope John Paul II said America had a "culture of death," he was referring to the country's Pro-Choice majority. But the label clearly befits our culture in so many more ways, and Pro-Life Pat Robertson proves the point. The Pope himself appeared to broaden the scope of his coined phrase in his Christmas message of 2000.
The story point out that, in the past, "Robertson has...suggested that the State Department be blown up with a nuclear device [and]... that feminism encourages women to "kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians."
I am left to wonder: could Pat Robertson's increasingly wacky talk become a thorn in the side of the Christian Right, or does the CR just encourage lunatic-fringe-speak these days? I feel like that could go either way and that all the devices of the mind I would normally employ to predict such a thing have been nullified. It's hard to keep one's eye on reality when reality becomes exponentially more surreal each day.
Posted by MJuhre at August 23, 2005 11:17 AM