The Evil Commandments of Pat Robertson
by Gary Morton

January.6.2006 

    In a society where Christians don’t attend local churches often, many would be surprised if they did. Instead of crass evangelists screaming about money and healing, they’d find sober Canadian ministers preaching quiet sermons from the Bible.

    The new negative Christianity comes mostly from large churches and TV ministries. Sometimes the Pope comes into play to bring up ideas a century old, and some people are hypnotized by it, but the majority of people are simply turned off and tuned in to humanism and alternative religions.

    Christian Broadcaster Pat Robertson leads the pack of negative fire breathers, and by pack I mean the large right wing North American group of divine politicians. This time his message is that Israeli leader Arial Sharon has been delivered a stroke by God as punishment for dividing the holy lands. Robertson expresses little sympathy for anyone who attempts to make even the weakest peace with the Palestinians.

    He quotes the Old Testament Prophet Joel, and also says that the 1995 assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was divine punishment. Robertson still hasn’t come up with any Scripture that backs his call for the assassination of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, though he is now citing his right to quote the Bible in his current smear of Sharon.

    Whether good or evil it is ridiculous to bring up divine punishment in regards to Sharon. Unless you want to believe that an angel touched him and caused him to overeat and lead a stressful life until he got himself primed for a stroke.

    The Old Testament has mostly passed in Christian theology, but that matters little to Robertson as he has commandments of his own … being part of a bizarre group that want to use Israel as part of their own divine plan for bringing about Armageddon and the Rapture.

    In actual reality the focus in Christianity is in spreading the gospel and living by it. Israel would be in God’s disfavour for lack of belief in Jesus, but that doesn’t imply any sudden punishment of Sharon. Holy lands arguments are superseded by the Kingdom in Christianity.

    The end result is that Pat Robertson and friends are trying to play glorious God while being obedient to an ugly form of politics. He is the one facing the arrival of divine punishment. Let’s all hope that an angel doesn’t touch him and turn him into a worm-eaten corpse, as happened to Herod at his last and glorious public address

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