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Good 'ol Pat Robertson, the village idiot, the new version of the American religious extremist leader. As you can well see, I've never ever cared for Pat Robertson. In my mind, he is the type of human being haunting this precious earth since the beginning of religion, continuously spinning the word of God into his own meaning. Since the first religion started there has always been someone out there who was entirely out there.

Now Pat Robertson has come off back to back idiotic comments, starting with him calling for the assassination of Venezuela's president. Then he recently topped his rant with a statement that God was punishing Sharon for moving settlers out of the Gaza Strip.

I personally wonder if before every show Mr. Pat Robertson secretly throws down a few shots of Mexican Tequila maybe even eating the worm. Tequila can make even a gentle warm hearted person lip off at the mouth saying ridiculously stupid things without hesitation and when they sober up the damage has already been done. The only consolation is the fact they never remember saying those vicious statements so in their mind it never really happened. He definitely looks hopped up on some substance. Didn't Viagra have a recall warning out on something?

Back to these comments, especially the assassination comment. This raises an eyebrow on how scary these religious extremists can be. This is what frustrates me most about some religions. They honestly believe they are the best and everyone else will burn in hell. Pat Robertson is a prime example of why God is being pushed out of everything in our lives. I’m not a church or religious buff; however I see this as another reason why nowadays more and more people are growing tired and fed up with the way religion is practiced. When there is an individual with a religious “talk show” calling for someone to assassinate someone else, that individual isn’t playing with a full deck of cards, easily missing half. I wonder how these poor bastards operate.

When America allows an extremist to continually say these comments for years and years and nothing is done, yet the phrase In God We Trust may be entirely struck down, the Ten Commandments cannot be shown, or the saying of Merry Christmas may be banned and replaced with Happy Holidays because of Christ, there is something seriously wrong with our society. Our leaders focus on being so politically correct, they miss the real problems like Mr. Pat Robertson.

So who is Pat Robertson? He is just a man of flesh and bones, with skeletons hidden in his closest just like everyone else. What makes him better than these extreme religious terrorists or fundamentalists? Nothing. He is just as bad as any of those other groups because he twists the word of God. He brings in "believers" to follow his version of the truth just like these other groups. Since the bible, Koran or other biblical guide books leave room in the texts for assumption, extremists weave the meaning into their own belief. They heavily recruit and brainwash others into the same belief.

Like my cousin says; never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.

Back to my main point, I believe throughout the bible, it talks about knowing God spiritually not as much religiously. When someone forms a religion instead of focusing on God spiritually, they push other people away with their righteousness. In my humble opinion; I believe God and Jesus were against that.

I'm not attempting to be an expert on what God and Jesus were for or against. No matter how righteous some of us believe we are, no person will ever truly know until they make that walk up those stairs. If they knock knock knockin on heavens door and God doesn't answer, well then maybe better luck next time. The bible was written by man, handed down by man. Anything done by man is flawed any way you look at it. This article as a prime example of flawed material, yet somehow it rings truth somewhere. I believe in God, I just don't believe in the way some of these so called messengers of God are practicing his word. In truth, they turn me away from him instead of towards him.

As history shows us, it has always been Aces over Kings

This post was edited by havananights on Jan 08, 2006.