Posted on 08/24/2005 1:31:01 PM PDT by areafiftyone
(CNN) -- Conservative religious broadcaster Pat Robertson apologized Wednesday for calling for the assassination of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez during Monday's broadcast of his "700 Club" program.
"Is it right to call for assassination? No, and I apologize for that statement," he said in a written statement.
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ummmmm... It's T BN
I'm not a Robertson fan.... but it always intrigues me when people who seem to know little about christianity begin telling christians how they should or shouldn't behave.
Funny how Robertson's comments are scrutinized and the MSM ignores Cindy Al Sheehans, and Al "white interloper" Sharpton...
Heck, I'd sleep better. And I'm sure a whole lotta people in those countries would, too.
Oh, Robertson! not Roberts....
I don't know, he might be slappin' his knee and laughing his butt off, seeing one of the phonies who ride his coattail get his comeuppance.
No, in this case, it was definitely CBN. At the time, I had been on CBN's 700 Club mailing list for quite a while. When I noticed their endorsement of Benny Hinn in one of their mailings, I promptly requested CBN to remove me from their mailing list and explained why. They did.
That is the point! Freedom of speech is one of our most cherished rights. The attacks that many FReepers engaged in over the last few days against a good conservative like Pat Robertson, were an outrage. Whether he is the head of CBN or not, freedom of speech, is freedom of speech.
CNN covers America's Christian Conservatives like they are aliens from another planet. Their contempt is so obvious. The Castro News Network could not have run to Castro Jr. Chavez's defense soon enough.
Wuss.
I don't blame you. I know TBN is cozy with BH, and that bothers me a lot.
I turned on the TV the other night, and Swaggart will still preaching the gospel like nothing had changed in 20 years--though his hair was a lot grayer!
Pat Robertson's network is CBN. TBN is a different group entirely. Maybe I'm missing your point.
"Did he cry? I always enjoy it when those phony ba$tard$ ry."
Guys like you just simply fulfill Christ's promise that unredeemed people will always hate those who have come to faith in Him.
LOL. Seems that Christians spend a good bit of time telling others how to behave. Do Christians have a monopoly on that behavior?
Besides being disappointed with Roberts, I'm just as disappointed with evangelical talk show host, Hugh Hewitt and other prominent evangelicals who have not, as far as I know, said one word on Roberts' remarks. I think they should have said something. Has anybody heard anybody correcting him?
The Tyrannicide and the Catholic Church.'
There is nothing improper about the commentaries made by the Evangelical preacher, Pat Robertson, referring to the possible tyrannicide of the Venezuelan dictator, Hugo Chavez.
Tyrannicide has been sanctioned as morally compatible with the teachings of the Catholic Church, based on the social doctrine of St. Thomas Aquinas. Chavez has reaffirmed his intentions of establishing in Venezuela a genocidal regime following the Cuban model and the commands of Fidel Castro.
What are we going to wait for?, Allow Chavez to surpass Castro’s dreadful record of 20,000 shot by firing squads, and for more than half million of Venezuelans to suffer political imprisonment as the Cubans have suffered in Castro’s dungeons inside the Island prison of Cuba.
Chavez, like Hitler, was elected democratically only to become a dictator later. Castro kept well hidden his aims of establishing a Stalinist regimen in Cuba until he consolidated this power over the Cuban people. But, as Hitler exposed his diabolic plan in “Mein Kamp”, Chavez has no only openly and publicly bragged about his plans of imposing a communist regimen following the Cuban model, but he has put Venezuela under Castro’s control using his thugs and repressive apparatus to keep subjugated the people of Venezuela.
If Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Castro, Chavez’s life had been terminated, how many lives would have been saved and how much suffering humanity would have been spared.
In fact, tyrannicide is so justified that His Holiness Pius XII gave his approval for the plot by a group from the German’s army intelligence service planning to kill Hitler.
For St. Thomas Aquinas, tyrannicide is to opt for the lesser of two evils. Pacifism is a morally correct personal option, but is an option that is morally unaceptable for the state. A person might choose not to resist an aggression to the extreme of loosing his life, but a government has the duty to defend his people.
A pacifist might loose his life without offering resistance; but he cannot impassible allow in his presence the murder of an innocent person. Those are basic principles of Catholic teachings that are being ignored in the middle of the assault of the totalitarian correct ideological movement where political correct positions prevail even though they might be morally incorrect options.
America cannot defeat ruthless Marxist or extremist Muslim enemies by being insufficiently vigilant and proactive. The Dulles brothers, John Kennedy, William Colby, Henry Kissinger, and Ronald Reagan were realistic. One hopes their 21st Century successors would be as realistic. The bottom line is that Pat Robertson had nothing to apologize for.
I still think Robertson is off his rocker.
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