Pat Robertson: "The Blessing of Heaven is on Bush" (Robertson also warned about Iraq "disaster")

CNN ^ | Oct. 19, 04 | Pat Robertson

[churchillbuff]

NEW YORK (CNN) -- The founder of the U.S. Christian Coalition said Tuesday he told President George W. Bush before the invasion of Iraq that he should prepare Americans for the likelihood of casualties, but the president told him, "We're not going to have any casualties." ..."And I warned him about this war. I had deep misgivings about this war, deep misgivings. And I was trying to say, 'Mr. President, you had better prepare the American people for casualties.' "

[snip] Even as Robertson criticized Bush for downplaying the potential dangers of the Iraq war, he heaped praise on Bush, saying he believes the president will win the election and that "the blessing of heaven is on Bush."

[O.C. - Old Cracker]

You must be referring to one of your Hispanic neighbors. In that case the pronunciation would be something like, "Hay-Zeus".

[Galactic Overlord-In-Chief]

I'd check the Whitehouse phone records to see if this conversation even took place. Pat is either delusional, lying, or both. Remember when he said that if Bush "touched Jerusalem", he would form a third party and take a huge chunk of Bush's supporters with him? I used to think that Pat was just a little silly. Maybe he was at one point. But now he's got some serious issues.

Pat actually said he'd form a third party and split Bush's supporters? Wow.

I suspect this flap over what Bush said is probably Pat misunderstanding what Bush told him. I've seen the 700 Club here and there and I doubt Pat has anything against Bush, but he does tend to have lousy timing in what he says.

[Sofa King]

Pat's third party.

[Dqban22]

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.