It's possible the article is meant as political humor, Hanania is a comedian, but the Arab News ran it as an editorial, you'll note his "bio" doesn't mention his employment as a comic, so it's fair to assume the Saudis take the column seriously.
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Very true. Fortunately, they are content to wait for their God to do it on Judgment Day so I don't have to worry about one of them trying to kill me today in a Christian jihad. Therein lies a distinct difference between Islam and fundamentalist Christians. As long is it does me no harm, I don't care if one worships Elmer Fudd.
A Christian, Hanania can be reached at www.hanania.com.
A joke with its own punchline.
"Hanania is a comedian"
Well, now it almost makes sense, but the article isn't funny. Just stupid, alot of outrageous extrapolation without facts to back it up (i.e. fundamentalist Christians would suicide bomb if they were in the Palestinians position). Not even worth a second read.
The suicide bomber is a bold answer to today's feable will that states nothing is worth dying for.
True, no empty liberal society - as unfortunately exists today - is worth your life. There are other things worth our lives that are not dreamed of, not allowed to be recognized while subject to the forces of PC, multiculturalism, etc, under penalty of social branding if you even discuss such ideas.
"Extremist" am I, for saying these things....
"Christian fundamentalism is built on a latent hatred of Jews. But they are not beyond exploiting Biblical prophecy to drive their own money machines, disguised as Christian ministries."
What bull sh-t!
The american jewish community(at least the non-orthodox) should be as good to Israel as the Fundamentalists.
If there were more fundamentalists in the 30's and 40's would Roosevelts response to the holocaust have been any different?
possibly.
"Christian fundamentalism is built on a latent hatred of Jews. But they are not beyond exploiting Biblical prophecy to drive their own money machines, disguised as Christian ministries."
Yea, every day I read stories of the suicide bombers, fresh from training at a Christian University, blowing themselves up along with dozens of Jews.
What a whack job.
Pat Robertson doesn't speak for all Christians. But, true Christians believe in preserving Israel at all costs. Which means that they are jew lovers.
Sharon is a progressive/liberal appeaser and accordingly his concessions fit with the current secularist mindset.
To compare Robertson to the nuke-hungry Iranian leadership is like comparing Shirley Temple to Genghis Khan.
Deafening is the silence from the American left vis a vis Mahmoud, but not vis a vis Pat!
**Ray Hanania is an award winning Palestinian American**
Bless his heart, he won an award!
I certainly disagree with Pat Robertson on his statement. He has the right to make it, of course, but, as we'll be seeing, his statement will be taken up by the mutual enemies of the USA and Israel and used against both.
It is a shame that Rev. Robertson cannot keep his trap closed, at least part of the time. He has done this sort of thing before. At least twice, President Bush has felt it necessary to rebuke him and make it clear that Robertson's attitudes are not those of the USA.
Let Pat preach the gospel, and leave international politics alone. He'd be better off.
I see. So being critical of a Jewish politician for not doing a good job of looking out for Jewish interests is now "anti-Semitism". Wonderful
"Robertson is a Christian zealot. His equivalent of suicide bombing is his “suicide bombast.” I am certain that if Christian fundamentalists in America were to ever find themselves in the same situation as the Palestinians, for example, they would defend suicide bombing as a “justified” form of combat. "
This character might fit the profile of a comic to some, but there is absolutely nothing funny about this statement. This statement is just pure lunacy and while I hardly am a follower of Robertson nothing he has ever said or could ever say could entice me to consider 'homicide' bombings as acceptable warfare.
The author has no idea what they are talking about. Complete ignorance if not blatant defamation.
Who is this idiot? Total moron.........wrong on soooooooooooo many levels.
Hello...McFly,...(knock,knock,knock) ... our Lord and Savior Christ Jesus, who is alive and well today is Himself Jewish.
>>Moderate Christians believe that all people who believe in the One God, be they Christian, Muslims or Jews, will go to Heaven<<
"Moderate Christians" would be wrong.
Christ is ths only way to the Father.
That being said, Robertson is an a$$ for making such comments, and IMO does not speak for the rest of us "fundies".
Back to the original article, the author makes quite a few statements which are consistent with freemasonry perspectives, but not Scripturally consistent.
WRT Pat Robertson, I may not disagree with his point of view, but the implied statements attributed to him are also mistaken.
He raises a decent point that anybody splitting the promised land is walking on a path against the will of God. Divine discipline might include a sin unto death, i.e. God has a plan for each of us and if we continue to rebel in our personal volition and refuse to abide by His plan for us, it is possible for us to corner ourselves into a position where we are no longer good for anything in His plan for us and all of mankind on earth, and He might remove us from this first life.
Conversely, in identifying today's events with Prophecy, the country called "Israel" by the UN, in many ways, is not the Israel of Prophecy. Accordingly, becoming preoccupied with blessing those of the present country 'Israel' and Israel of Prophecy is arguably a mistaken notion.
Secondly, even if the identity of Israel in Prophecy is granted as the present day country, identifying the cause of a person's declining health as being a divine punishment, insufficiently recognizes this age of grace. The suffering being endured, if endured while one perseveres in faith through Christ, may simply be a testing and a natural part of the Christian experience advancing in spiritual maturity.
In both notes, though, it appears Robertson didn't overstep any judgmental lines, but rather concluded that any person dividing Israel is interfering with God's edicts. Such a discernment is more theologic, than hateful. On the contrary, if spoken from a position of fellowship with God, the statement reflects a point of view that directs attention to God, not of any other party.
More directly, the association of Robertson's perspective as being anti-Jewish/Semitic/religion fails to understand the thinking or mind of Christ, but instead reflects the perspective of a person absorbed in a cosmic system of wrong-thinking absorbed in soulish perspective.
FYI - ping! Just when you think it can't get any more bizarre, it does1