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Pat Robertson, Wolf in Sheep's
Clothing Exposed
Anthony Wade
Op
Ed News
Thursday November 8, 2007
As a progressive Christian it is often difficult to watch those
who take the bully pulpit in the name of Christ but apparently
forgot to bring Jesus along for their ride. Just recently I was
lamenting why we couldn’t have one Christian leader at least
appear sane, or at the very least not appear to be a blatant hypocrite.
The stunning events of today should give all Christians a reason
to pause and remember that we need to be ever so vigilant in who
it is that we choose to follow.
Granted Pat Robertson has not exactly been too lucid lately with
his claims that God told him that 2006 would be a disastrous hurricane
season for the east coast only to see not one storm reach shore.
Then this year he claimed God told him there would be a disastrous
terrorist attack in late 2007. Mix in his ridiculous statements
of God’s judgment through natural disasters and advocating
the assassination of Hugo Chavez and hopefully most Christians
would have long since realized that Pat was serving himself more
than God. That aside, no one can discount the clout Robertson
has in Christian circles.
For years we have had to listen to Robertson and his ilk berate
Christians to only vote for two issues; anti-gay marriage and
anti-abortion. That was it as far as people like Robertson were
concerned. Budget woes impoverishing generations of people? Nope,
doesn’t matter. Endless wars killing hundreds of thousands
of God’s creations? Nope, doesn’t matter. Raping of
the environment, pillaging our educational system, kids without
healthcare, genocide in the Sudan? Nope, doesn’t matter.
Christians were led to believe that the only issues that would
matter to Jesus Himself, would be gay marriage and abortion. Never
mind that the number one cause for Christ when He walked the earth
was taking care of the neediest in society. Christians were admonished
that they would in fact not even be good Christians if they did
not vote for the candidates that represented these two values.
Luckily for Pat and his cohorts in every election the candidate
that represented these values was the republican. That all changed
today.
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Enter Rudy Giuliani. Rudy is the pseudo-Christian political
operative’s worst nightmare. He is the republican candidate
but he is the antithesis of everything they have preached for
years. Rudy is twice divorced. Not only that, but while he was
condemning Bill Clinton, Rudy was sleeping with his mistress,
while still married to his second wife, with his kids sleeping
down the hall. It gets worse for the Robertson’s of the
world though. Rudy is pro-gay marriage and pro-choice. Mix in
his ties to Bernard Kerik and the mob and you have a recipe for
disaster. There is no way that Pat Robertson could cast his lot
with Rudy…
Oops, he just did. Today, Pat Robertson endorsed Rudy Giuliani
for president. After years of vociferously advocating that Christians
only vote for the two Rovian wedge issues, Robertson shows us
what he really has been all along, a liar.
He comes off as worse than a liar though because he did not
have to make this choice. He could have waited and seen if it
would have been Rudy against Hillary and played the “lesser
of two evils card” but he didn’t. He chose Rudy in
the primary over Dr. Ron Paul, John McCain, and Mike Huckaby.
At least Paul, McCain and Huckaby are all pro-life and anti-gay
marriage. Huckaby is actually a pastor! In choosing Rudy over
these three men who embodied what he has preached for years, Robertson
reveals himself for what he truly has been all along. Not only
a liar, Pat Robertson has been nothing more than a political puppet
and republican shill hiding behind Jesus Christ for far too long
now. He is now exposed fully as an operative of the Republican
Party, fooling Christians all the while.
Now I am sure this comes as little surprise to many outside
of Christian circles. It certainly was no surprise to me. It is
however an opportunity for Christians to reassess what their vote
is supposed to mean. It can be so much more than the cynical two
issue mandate which is designed to distract us from the other
important issues of our times. Poverty should matter to Christians.
Healthcare should matter to Christians. War and death should matter
to Christians.
There is so much at stake in 2008. It deserves better than hypocritical
men claiming the mantle of Christ but speaking out of both sides
of their mouths. Pat Robertson is just a microcosm of what is
wrong with the majority of the would-be Christian leaders today.
They have embraced a political agenda over the agenda of Jesus
Christ. That would be bad enough but they take it a step further
to merge the two and claim that their political agenda is the
agenda of Christ. Then they tell you as Christians that if you
do not embrace it as well, then you are somehow not being a good
Christian. We have been sold a bill of goods that we should have
inspected closer. The Bible tells us we are to discern. It says
that if the blind leads the blind they will both fall into a pit
and into a pit we have fallen. With Pat Robertson shaking Rudy
Giuliani’s hand and laughing all the way down. Jesus Christ
deserves better than the hypocrisy of man.
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