Posted on 11/08/2007 11:50:54 AM PST by bulldozer
I have known, liked and admired Pat Robertson for about 25 years maybe more.
Pat has said and done some dumb things occasionally during that period of time, but, until this week, I would have counted him among the "good guys" a righteous man of principle.
With his endorsement of Rudy Giuliani for president of the United States, he has me doubting him big time.
Keep in mind, this is the presidential primary season. I admit, the choices among the front-runners Giuliani, Fred Thompson, Mike Huckabee, John McCain and Mitt Romney leave a principled constitutionalist with a biblical worldview in doubt. In my opinion, there is no clear choice among them.
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I could be wrong, but I'm of a mind that he has driven more people AWAY from God, than he has brought, or helped. He accomplishes this, by pompously, presumptuously, and repeatedly, telling others what "God thinks" about this or that...when he himself I seriously doubt hears clearly, (if it be the Lord actually speaks to Pat Robertson) at all.
Some use to say,
I say;
The man is as, a living caricature of phony religiosity that many people, rightly or wrongly, abhor.
Preachers generally don't have any business telling people who to vote for, or even who not to vote for, unless they do it exclusively, on their own time, and their own dime.
If he cannot be separated from his own pulpit, then he must separate his own self from spouting political rhetoric.
Mr. Robertson needs to choose...the Gospel, or temporal "politics".
Aah, but we know the answer to that, now, already, and have known it for a long time! That man has made his choice...
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