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Robertson Apologizes
CNN ^ | 8/24/05

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...


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KEYWORDS: apology; hugochavez; patrobertson; venezuela
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To: teenyelliott
but whether or not the head of the CBN should be saying it.

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.

41 posted on 08/24/2005 1:45:21 PM PDT by kjam22
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To: Skooz

Funny how Robertson's comments are scrutinized and the MSM ignores Cindy Al Sheehans, and Al "white interloper" Sharpton...


42 posted on 08/24/2005 1:45:44 PM PDT by Rosemont
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To: Rosemont
I wouldn't lose one night's sleep if something happened to the Communist Castro or Castro Jr. Chavez!

Heck, I'd sleep better. And I'm sure a whole lotta people in those countries would, too.

43 posted on 08/24/2005 1:47:39 PM PDT by teenyelliott (Soylent green should be made outta liberals...)
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To: areafiftyone
Well I for one, do not want to see him on the Supreme Court then!

Oh, Robertson! not Roberts....

44 posted on 08/24/2005 1:47:55 PM PDT by RushCrush (The mediocre always throw stones at the brilliant.)
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To: evets
Jesus wept.

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.

45 posted on 08/24/2005 1:48:14 PM PDT by 68 grunt (3/1 India, 3rd, 68-69, 0311)
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To: Rider on the Rain
> when his CBN endorsed Benny Hinn.

I think that was TBN.

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.

46 posted on 08/24/2005 1:48:57 PM PDT by newgeezer (Just my opinion, of course. Your mileage may vary.)
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To: teenyelliott
>>>>Of course he has the right to say it ... But that is not the point.

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.

47 posted on 08/24/2005 1:50:24 PM PDT by Reagan Man (Secure the borders;punish employers who hire illegals;halt all welfare handouts to illegals.)
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To: teenyelliott

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.


48 posted on 08/24/2005 1:50:52 PM PDT by Rosemont
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To: areafiftyone

Wuss.


49 posted on 08/24/2005 1:51:11 PM PDT by Thrusher (Remember the Mog.)
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To: kjam22
ummmmm... It's T BN

ummmmmmm...teenyelliott has it right. Robertson is the head of the CBN.
50 posted on 08/24/2005 1:51:13 PM PDT by drjimmy
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To: newgeezer

I don't blame you. I know TBN is cozy with BH, and that bothers me a lot.


51 posted on 08/24/2005 1:52:04 PM PDT by Rider on the Rain
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To: billorites

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!


52 posted on 08/24/2005 1:52:19 PM PDT by gopwinsin04
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To: kjam22; teenyelliott
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.

Pat Robertson's network is CBN. TBN is a different group entirely. Maybe I'm missing your point.

53 posted on 08/24/2005 1:53:27 PM PDT by newgeezer (Just my opinion, of course. Your mileage may vary.)
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To: 68 grunt

"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.


54 posted on 08/24/2005 1:53:40 PM PDT by righttackle44 (The most dangerous weapon in the world is a Marine with his rifle and the American people behind him)
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To: kjam22

LOL. Seems that Christians spend a good bit of time telling others how to behave. Do Christians have a monopoly on that behavior?


55 posted on 08/24/2005 1:53:40 PM PDT by dmz
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To: areafiftyone

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?


56 posted on 08/24/2005 1:53:57 PM PDT by Lady In Blue (Pope Benedict XVI: THE CAFETERIA IS NOW CLOSED)
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To: MaineVoter2002
This country hasn't been the same since Sinatra passed on - taking a little liberty here but there are some good tag lines out today!
57 posted on 08/24/2005 1:55:13 PM PDT by SF Republican
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To: Reagan Man

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.





58 posted on 08/24/2005 1:56:35 PM PDT by Dqban22
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To: areafiftyone
Pat Robertson was right on this one. Whatever means is necessary to take out an enemy of the United States should be exercised. The Kennedys were justified in authorizing the attempts on Castro's life. It is a shame that John Kennedy backed off from supporting the Bay of Pigs invasion, stranding the anti-Castro forces without air cover after it had been promised to them. Rest assured that neither Marxists nor radical Muslims have any qualms about taking out their opponents. Consider the fate of the Romanoffs of Russia, Jan Masaryk of Czechoslovakia, or Hendrik Verwoed of South Africa at the hands of assassins who had the full backing of the Soviet and/or KGB/NKVD hierarchy. Even in our own country, we must remember that the assassin of William McKinley (Leon Czolgosz) was a leftist anarchist, as was Giuseppe Zangara, who attempted to assassinate Franklin Roosevelt. Lee Harvey Oswald, the alleged assassin of John Kennedy, was a Marxist who had defected to the USSR. Sirhan Sirhan, the convicted killer of Robert Kennedy, was a Muslim extremist.

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.

59 posted on 08/24/2005 1:56:52 PM PDT by Wallace T.
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To: areafiftyone

I still think Robertson is off his rocker.


60 posted on 08/24/2005 1:58:13 PM PDT by mhking (The world needs a wake up call gentlemen...we're gonna phone it in.)
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