Casual Observation

12 Comments

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   beltanevt on October 30, 2009 at 6:15 pm

   I don’t know how your fantasy ends, but if this really were to happen it would end with Robertson condemning Jesus as an evil secular humanist. Dostoevsky wrote about a similar imagined encounter in The Brothers Karamazov.

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     Mum on October 31, 2009 at 11:04 am

     One of the greatest stories ever written.  My guess is that most of the Robertson “Christians” would consider it sacrilegious.

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     DaveW on October 31, 2009 at 1:31 pm

     Nah. Robertson and his peers don’t give a damn about Jesus. He’d just ignore him and lie as usual about what he was “told”. I would involve Jesus commanding the faithful to send more money.

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   bogenrim on October 30, 2009 at 6:36 pm

   I don’t think it was ever really about Christianity, per se, so much as to be used as an instrument of political power for a certain group of people.

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   Second Nature on October 30, 2009 at 7:08 pm

   Christianists can’t motivate their base without convincing them they are being persecuted.  It’s worked for centuries.

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   TarheelDem on October 30, 2009 at 8:26 pm

   Robertson’s Christianity is a cloak for his entrepreneurial operation to skim contributions from religious elderly, especially in the South.  And a flag in which to wrap his now frustrated political ambitions.

   I’ve seen a lot of Southern piety in his schtick but very little theology or Christianity. But getting ahead by naming yourself is preacher is an old entrepreneurial trick in the South.

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     bogenrim on October 30, 2009 at 9:48 pm

     A very eloquent way of saying his shtick is basically a good old fashioned money-making scheme; well said, nonetheless…

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       TarheelDem on October 30, 2009 at 10:11 pm

       Perzactly

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   Dongi 2 on October 31, 2009 at 6:43 am

   Robertson’s wallet may be bulging but his soul is suffering from spiritual anemia.  Come judgement day, I figure he will be standing with the lost.

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     Oscar In Dallas on October 31, 2009 at 8:33 am

     Yep – for what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul…

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       Indianadem on October 31, 2009 at 9:33 am

       Apparently the old snake oil business is still going strong, despite the economic downturn.

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   azureblue on October 31, 2009 at 5:14 pm

   for someone to ask Pat, “Why do ignore the teachings of Jesus? How can you can claim to be a Christian and refuse His words and teachings?”