Pat Robertson strikes again

[ximinez]

Why does this guy still get press?

http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/01/05/robertson.sharon/index.html

Robertson suggests God smote Sharon

(CNN) -- Television evangelist Pat Robertson suggested Thursday that Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's stroke was divine retribution for the Israeli withdrawal from Gaza, which Robertson opposed.

Notable quote: According to The Associated Press, Robertson spokeswoman Angell Watts said of people who criticized the comments: "What they're basically saying is, 'How dare Pat Robertson quote the Bible?'"

My immediate response: "The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose." -- William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice

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[fizzgig-bites.livejournal.com]

I love shit like this. The Cultural Anthropologist of Religions lap this stuff up or at least this one does.

Robertson still gets press because he is the extreme right. This country is increasingly further and further to the right and people like him have more weight than we want to admit. With extremest like him, compromise is forced further right than originally and hence why we are progressing further to the right. Don't worry about it, I'm raising the next generation that will rebel much like the sixties kids did. I do feel we are in another 1950s where everything is prescribed roles and structure. The Iraq war, WMDs, Islam reformation, and lack of patriotism is the same as the Red Scare.