Posted on 09/15/2011 5:07:38 AM PDT by Not gonna take it anymore
Religious broadcaster Pat Robertson told his "700 Club" viewers that divorcing a spouse with Alzheimer's is justifiable because the disease is "a kind of death." During the portion of the show where the one-time Republican presidential candidate takes questions from viewers, Robertson was asked what advice a man should give to a friend who began seeing another woman after his wife started suffering from the incurable neurological disorder.
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Watching the 700 Club would be very much like death too
—When broken by the other party, the offendended party is released from it and is free to remarry.—
In our culture, we call that a “divorce” and Jesus uses that word. Are we dealing with a situation where our culture’s meaning of the word is different than the culture of Jesus day. I understand he is speaking to Jews in a pre-Christian world. Maybe I need to research this more.
NEVER trust the Leftist Secular Media.
He's just some old guy on TV who claims to be a Christian.
Are you married?
When Divorce Strikes
http://www.amazon.com/When-Divorce-Strikes-Maurice-Berquist/dp/B000RC0B8W
No. But I’ve already predetermined as to what I’m prepared to put up with, in terms of bad behavior.
I’m fully prepared to stick it out to the end, if my spouse falls ill. It would be easy for me to care for her if she’s terminal in some way.
But it would also be easy for me to walk, if she’s purposely trying to destroy me in some way.
I think “for better or for worse” is part of the pledge. But only those who believe in such things will agree with me.
Someone could get a “paper divorce” to get their spouse medicaid or something while remaining faithful to their wife. I suspect, however, it is more the desire to find a new sex partner.
CBS news website. Read the whole thing. I hope it is not true.
“. . . Robertson was asked what advice a man should give to a friend who began seeing another woman after his wife started suffering from the incurable neurological disorder.
“I know it sounds cruel, but if he’s going to do something, he should divorce her and start all over again, but make sure she has custodial care and somebody looking after her,” Robertson said.
The chairman of the Christian Broadcasting Network, which airs the “700 Club,” said he wouldn’t “put a guilt trip” on anyone who divorces a spouse who suffers from the illness, but added, “Get some ethicist besides me to give you the answer.”
Robertson has always been a two-bit charlatan.
Slippery slope. Is it OK the minute Alzheimer’s is diagnosed, then? Or do you wait until the person is totally ‘gone’ and then abandon him? Perhaps you just say, “I know you will be logged-out soon, so I am leaving now. It’s been great.”
And HE is the one to decide which spiritual laws can be tossed? tsk tsk. And HE is the one who decides that HE is the one who can toss them?
Oh, very very bad.
I agree with you. However, with regard to this issue and considering how long he has been a Christian....he definitely SHOULD know better.
This so-called Christian apparently knows nothing about the Love of God and the role of Christians emulating the character of their Savior, Jesus Christ.
We are called to continually put others before ourself, Jesus never considered himself, he always put his Father’s will first.
While the saying is trite, what comes to mind is “What would Jesus Do”?
Oh, dear.
I guess this is what happens when divorce is looked upon as a solution to a problem, a rationalization to protect our sinful nature.
CS Lewis said this about sin: “...But do remember, the only thing that matters is the extent to which
you separate the man from the Enemy. It does not matter how small the sins are provided that their
cumulative effect is to edge the man away from the Light and out into the Nothing. Murder is no better than
cards if cards can do the trick. Indeed the safest road to Hell is the gradual one—the gentle slope, soft
underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.”
The Screwtape Letters
I see.
True!
Screwing all of us instead of screwing one other person. Eeesh.
Judge Not?
OTOH. . .to me, there is always balance in the Wisdom of the Bible and Jesus' teachings. (There is, and are the 'heroic' which inspire us; which takes love to another level.)
Meantime, believe we are asked not to love others, MORE than ourselves but 'as' (balance); just as we are told, too, that God loves us all, 'equally' (not one, more than another). As too, we stand before the our 'Law' and God's law.
In truth; this moves all the conversation to more complicated nuances; and hence, perhaps; the 'Judge Not' dictum.
Judging,of course; does not preclude - necessarily - having an opinion. And several or more opinions; do not necessarily, make a 'judgment'; much less, a 'final judgment'.
a p.s. of sorts. . .’that said’. . .do ‘think’ this is a terrible example to all who have heretofore been inspired by Robertson; and certainly to his children; though we do not know how they weigh in here. Do not know either; ‘how far’ gone; his wife is; and if this decision prevents him from comitting a ‘higher’ sin of sorts. It does sound, all to pathetic; and now; painfuly degraded. A very sad story; all around.
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