"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."
On the Monday, August 23, 2005 edition of "The 700 Club," Reverend Pat Robertson, founder of the Christian Coalition who was also a 1988 candidate for the Republican nomination for president, said that Hugo Chavez, the president of Venezuela, would make his nation "a launching pad for communist infiltration and Muslim extremism all over the continent." And then he went on, inciting an international firestorm, with remarks that Venezuelan Vice President Jose Vicente Rangel called "terrorist statements."…
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176 - Doug Hannan
Robertson is a Hero
How so?
177 - Anthony Grande
He is a hero because he called for the assasination of DICTATOR Chavez. You know him he is DICTATOR Castro's buddy.
178 - Steve S
A Christian Reverend calling for the assassination of anybody is no hero.
179 - RogerMDillion
"can you name any violations of tolerance and recognition of personal liberty in Christianity and Judaism."
Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition.
AG, Stick to your calls for redistribution of wealth, comrade!
180 - Doug Hannan
He is a hero because he called for the assasination of DICTATOR Chavez.
How does that make him a hero. Unless by hero you mean "hate-spewing coward".
181 - RogerMDillion
Doug,
Aside from not learning Economics or English, AG's class hasn't learned H words yet, so that might explain his confusion.
182 - Anthony Grande
"Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition."
That was 500 years ago. The Muslims of modern day are committing violations against personal liberties and tolerance.
Christians have evolved into something greater and more superior to Islam in the case of Natural rights.
183 - Eric Berlin
Guess someone's not a Flying Circus fan...
184 - gonzo marx
ummm..Chavez was duly elected..more than once, if memory serves...hardly a dictator
Anthony G. sez...
*can you name any violations of tolerance and recognition of personal liberty in Christianity and Judaism.*
well now...
how about the way SOME "christians" treat the civil rights of gays and lesbians?
or SOME "christians" in the KKK treat(ed) any non-white folks?
more examples if needed, but you get the Idea...
within ANY Ideology you find fringe an dfanatic elements that fuck up everything for others in their particular sub-group
the silliness is treating whole populations with the metaphorical "broad brush" because of the way SOME of their people act
kind of like saying ALL "christians" are bloodthirsty killers simply because ONE insane "minister" calls for an assasination or prays for deaths among supreme court justices...
simple enough?
Excelsior!
185 - RogerMDillion
You didn't set a time limit, but this is in today's news. Is that recent enough for you?
SMYRNA, Tenn. - Members of a church say God is punishing American soldiers for defending a country that harbors gays, and they brought their anti-gay message to the funerals Saturday of two Tennessee soldiers killed in Iraq.
Besides, what would a young communist like yourself know about Christianity?
186 - Margaret Romao Toigo
It's a new week and there will be all sorts of new news like: Fred Phelps strikes again!
Folks, I am done here (with this thread, not Blogcritics, which I really enjoy). I have promised myself that I will update my blog more often -- instead of chattering on other peoples' blogs so much -- and that's what I'm going to do.
In closing, I do hope that we can all learn not to paint others with a broad brush and that we will work toward understanding that every group has its fanatics, weirdos and freaks and that those fringes are not representative of the whole -- even if it is those ratings-friendly elements that get all the press.
Peace be with you all.
187 - Steve S
to add to gonzo's comment of 184:
in this country at least, Christianity is also the primary force behind taking away a woman's right of self-determination in deciding what to do with her pregnancy. Christianity might not require a woman to put a veil on her face, but it clearly wants to maintain control over her vagina.
188 - Silas Kain
Let's not forget that it was just 40 years ago that women were still required to cover their heads when attending a Roman Catholic Mass. That all changed with Vatican II which many neocon Catholics believe was the beginning of the end of Roman Catholicism (we can only dream).