Posted on 08/22/2005 5:43:04 PM PDT by Rebelbase
hristian Broadcasting Network's The 700 Club host Pat Robertson ... founder of the Christian Coalition of America has called for the assassination of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez Frias.
In a direct transcript of his August 22 The 700 Club broadcast Robertson clearly says:
There was a popular coup that overthrew him [Chavez]. And what did the United States State Department do about it? Virtually nothing. And as a result, within about 48 hours that coup was broken; Chavez was back in power, but we had a chance to move in. He has destroyed the Venezuelan economy, and he's going to make that a launching pad for communist infiltration and Muslim extremism all over the continent.
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 ... and I don't think any oil shipments will stop. But this man is a terrific danger and the United ... this is in our sphere of influence, so we can't let this happen.
We have the Monroe Doctrine, we have other doctrines that we have announced. And without question, this is a dangerous enemy to our south, controlling a huge pool of oil, that could hurt us very badly.
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.
How about this, and I mean it respectfully: as an ambassador for Christ – and one who should be following The Great Commission – Robertson should support the rule of law.
Whether we like it or not, Chavez was – as far as I can tell, more or less – elected legally. Assassinating an elected leader is not the same as assassinating a self-imposed tyrant (although both may be tyrants). Assassination has many negative implications.
If Robertson wants to be a foreign policy advisor that is one thing, and he should act accordingly. If he wants to save souls for Christ that is another thing; and advocating killing a duly elected – although highly objectionably – head of state will, in my opinion, turn off a large number of people.
I realize that true conversion requires the intervention of the Holy Spirit, but there must be desire or intent. If by his statement Robertson is loosing souls to salvation, do you think that is not Christian?
Tuco: When you have to shoot, shoot, don't talk.
Only one a year? Step back, FRiend.
Assignation? You are thinking Swaggart or Baker.
God killed millions in Sodom and Gomorrah and in the flood he probably killed billions of men, women, and children,(and fuzzy little animals for the Peta people here). One of the hardest things for pseudo Christians to fathom is God killed millions and sanctioned the killing of millions by the Jews in the Bible. This has always been us against them and will be till the final battle. One should decide early on if you are an "us" or a "them". Self defense is a God given right just as you wouldn't hesitate to kill an intruder into your home, God doesn't condemn the killing of murderous despots. When Saddam get the hangman's noose, are we supposed to give him mercy because we are Christians? We put him there.
I think the problem here is most people here have been conditioned to have a knee jerk reaction to the name "Pat Robertson". You want him to be a kook, so the venom starts at the sound of his name. I seem to remember awhile back he was quoted as saying "God told him Bush would be re elected". I remember the hoots and hollering then. Well, he was re elected and there was no apology to Pat. I don't care for everything Pat says either, but he is at least as Christian as the pope.
Good post, but I just wish someone in 'the house of religion' didn't say this. It just gives the anti-Christians more ammo.
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Yes.
Nothing new for him – he’s been a bit blood thirsty for a long time.
Btw, would it have been wrong for the Pope to have called for the execution of Adolf Hitler in 1940?
We are going to find out just how dangerous Chavez is. The CIA has been taking out bad guys for a long time, and I do not think that Pat Robertson saying that we should have cut the snake's head off (Saddam) after the first Gulf War or agreeing that we just might need to do something to Chavez is wrong.
What? You never read all that? Well, you just need to go back and read your Bibles, I guess.
Statements made by a man who claims to be a Christian Minister calling for the killing of a specific person just don’t sound very Christian – at the least, they don’t sound very Christ like.
I don't think so. Everyone expects this from him. He always manages to step in it and this is not the first time he's phrased it that way..To the likes of Saddam also. As for hurting the cause of Christ, The Lord Himself will take care of that.
And what would you do? sit down and have tea? Kill him with kindness. This man is a dangerous enemy.
If I were a Christian minister I would not call for some one’s murder. It would be different if I were an Imam. For some strange reason I believe that a Christian should emulate the Christ’s teaching. How foolish of me.
I've never really understood why so many folks wish to make the man appear so much less evil than he really was.
It wasn't like Christians had dealt with the apparent conflict before ~ they had, and there are whole libraries regarding the matter.
So, you are fighting ignorance? Good for you. Lot of ignorance out there.
We have just begun to witness the havoc that Chaves is about to release on our hemisphere.......
Assignation
n 1: a secret rendezvous (especially between lovers) [syn: tryst]
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