'700 Club' 1eader calls for assassination of Venezuela's president

POSTED: Tuesday, August 23, 2005 1:14:11 PM

UPDATED: Tuesday, August 23, 2005 1:42:38 PM

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Some critics say Pat Robertson might want to review the commandment, "Thou Shalt Not Kill."

 

The general secretary of the National Council of Churches says he's shocked by the televangelist's call on "The 700 Club" yesterday for the assassination of Venezuela's president.

 

 

The Reverend Bob Edgar says Robertson needs to "read his scripture and learn it." Edgar adds that "it defies logic that a clergyman could so casually dismiss thousands of years of Judeo-Christian law" against killing.

 

 

Yesterday on the Christian Broadcast Network, Robertson said the U.S. is able to "take out" Chavez and "the time has come that we exercise that ability." He also said Chavez threatens the U.S. with communism and Muslim extremism.

 

 

A lawmaker in Venezuela says Robertson "cannot be a true Christian." He calls Robertson "a fascist."

 

 

What an idiot. He got surved.

Being a televangelist AUTOMATICALLY eliminates the possibility that your a true Christian, but wow what the heck was Robertson thinking when he said that?? Even if you really think that, you don't actually say it.

I couldn't believe that he said it either. Good thing he's not a politician...

What if a televangelist called for the assassination of Osama Bin Laden or Ayman Al-Zawahiri?

What if a televangelist called for the assassination of Osama Bin Laden or Ayman Al-Zawahiri?

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They aren't leaders of a foreign country, so it wouldn't be the same.

 

However, because this man is a big-time supporter of the Republican party, and ran for office in 1988 as a Republican, it makes it different from just some guy on the street saying this.

Considering he started the christian coalition, a rock of the republican party this is not a simple case of a whacky televangelist.

 

His political influence is what has amplified this.

What's really sad is that thousands/millions of people follow this guy around like he's god.

 

Pray for us all.

What's really sad is that thousands/millions of people follow this guy around like he's god.

 

Pray for us all.

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I still love him calling for the death of a supreme court justice. What a douche.

He's like your crazy senile grandpa. I love watching that show when I'm bored, the man is so insane.

 

I love when he does faith healing.

 

"Their's a man, I can feel it with testicular cancer in northern kentucky. Through the power of jesus you are no healed, the devil is no longer a part of you... PRAISE JESUS"

Arnie[/b]. I love watching that show when I'm bored, the man is so insane.

 

I love when he does faith healing.

 

"Their's a man, I can feel it with testicular cancer in northern kentucky. Through the power of jesus you are no healed, the devil is no longer a part of you... PRAISE JESUS"

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There we go, fixed. :mischief

What's really sad is that thousands/millions of people follow this guy around like he's god.

 

Pray for us all.

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it's more than sad, it's scary.

What if a televangelist called for the assassination of Osama Bin Laden or Ayman Al-Zawahiri?

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You sound like you're trying to defend this, in a sort of backhanded sorta way. Are you?

What if a televangelist called for the assassination of Osama Bin Laden or Ayman Al-Zawahiri?

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You sound like you're trying to defend this, in a sort of backhanded sorta way. Are you?

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Imply what you want or answer the question.

I don't answer questions that were posed in answer to another question. You answer the question relevant in the thread then I'll answer yours, which I thought was ably answered by FGM in any case.

Of course I dont approve of anyone calling for the killing of someone.

 

My point is had this been a Bin-Laden or Al-Zawahiri he mentioned, no one would care...so I think some people are a little hypocrtical.

 

Kim Jong-il is a world leader, what if he had said him...what would be the reaction?

Of course I dont approve of anyone calling for the killing of someone.

 

My point is had this been a Bin-Laden or Al-Zawahiri he mentioned, no one would care...so I think some people are a little hypocrtical.

 

Kim Jong-il is a world leader, what id he had said him...what would be the reaction?

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Fair enough. I think religious leaders of ostensibly peaceful faiths have no place in advocacy of assassination business. Especially world leaders. It's insane. I wasn't aware that Chavez or Kim-Jong masterminded a plot that killed 3000 human beings and reduced 2 enormous buildings to rubble.

Pat Robertson is just the republican version of Al Sharpton.

Of course I dont approve of anyone calling for the killing of someone.

 

My point is had this been a Bin-Laden or Al-Zawahiri he mentioned, no one would care...so I think some people are a little hypocrtical.

 

Kim Jong-il is a world leader, what id he had said him...what would be the reaction?

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Fair enough. I think religious leaders of ostensibly peaceful faiths have no place in advocacy of assassination business. Especially world leaders. It's insane. I wasn't aware that Chavez or Kim-Jong masterminded a plot that killed 3000 human beings and reduced 2 enormous buildings to rubble.

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ZWNED

 

I concur with the above statement. If you buy into the whole Christ thing, then you have to forgive.

For a guy who calls himself a "Man of God", Robertson does some sinful things, particularly on his show.

 

-Hoped that the State Department would be destroyed by a nuclear weapon

-Said that "activist courts" were responsible for 9/11

-Said that feminism encourages women "to kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.?

-Prayed that one of the Supreme Court justices would either die or resign

-and now, publicly calls for the assassination of Hugo Chavez.

 

Sorry, but I've never met a Christian who is this completely insane.

Pat Robertson is just the republican version of Al Sharpton.

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Except Al doesn't go around parading for the deaths of United States officials and world leaders. :thumbup

Insanity is something that happens to a lot of people, so I understand Robertson's past comments. What I don't understand is why they put him on TV.....

The only problem with his comments is that he's supposed to be a Christian leader and that's why they sound controversial, other than that, I wholeheartedly agree with him.