[quote]storey420 wrote:
You’ve shown me no proof that he was involved in anything “shady.” People use jets for many different reasons. He feeds kids, he helps his buiness, he fly’s VIP’s around the country. So what? And what’s wrong with profits? Because he is a man of God he’s not allowed to make money? Don’t be silly. Christ talked more about money than anything else.
The Operation Blessing thing was shady,[/quote]
Everyone knows about it no charges were preferred and no IRS investigation. So whichever “I hate Robertson” Website you got that from is hurting for information.
At this point there are so many Christian haters I think I’d actually have to see him say it before I believed it. Kind of like the Obama haters…If he said something I want to hear it and see before I believe it. And I’m no fan of Obama, but I do know how the human mind works and when a person does not like someone anything and everything someone says about them, that is bad…must be true. I’ve told many of my rabid Obama hating friends “he just has a different view of America that doesn’t make him good or evil. It just makes his opinion different than ours.”
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Actually what he said was : “You know, I don’t know about this doctrine of assassination, but if he thinks we’re trying to assassinate him, I think that we really ought to go ahead and do it. It’s a whole lot cheaper than starting a war … We have the ability to take him out, and I think the time has come that we exercise that ability. We don’t need another $200 billion war to get rid of one, you know, strong-arm dictator. It’s a whole lot easier to have some of the covert operatives do the job and then get it over with.”
Love thy enemy, right?[/quote]
Read the OT my friend. Robertson is exactly right with his analysis. How many young men and women do we need to see die before we smarten up and take out the dictator first? I admire him for his position, he’s right!
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Pat Robertson one of the most prominent leaders of the pro-life movement in the United States recently condoned Chinas |one-child policy| and said the United States should not try to interfere with Chinas alleged policy of forced abortions.[/quote]
This is one of those things that I’d have to see and hear him say myself. However, with that said, how can we interfere with China’s policy anyway? So it’s sort of pointless. But I doubt he said this.
[quote]In an interview with CNNs Wolf Blitzer, Robertson said,
I dont agree with it [the one-child policy]. But at the same time, theyve got 1.2 billion people, and they dont know what to do. If every family over there was allowed to have three or four children, the population would be completely unsustainable �??�??�??�?�¦ I think that right now theyre doing what they have to do. I dont agree with the forced abortion, but I dont think the United States needs to interfere with what theyre doing internally in this regard.[/quote]
There you have it “I don’t agree with the forced abortion…” I didn’t think that he would. Put this one to bed.
[quote]Yet, he’s brought people to Christ. Built churches all over the globe, fed the hungry and built homes for the poor. AND…he’s never held elected office. Has he made a lot of money -YES, but no where in the Christian Bible does it say making money is evil.
Nowhere but the dealings and way he goes about making money is what I’m talking about not just the simple act of making money. "The network’s Family Channel, which promoted family-friendly entertainment, was spun off in 1990 to International Family Entertainment Inc., led by Pat Robertson and his son Tim. In 1997, that company was sold for $1.9 billion to Fox Kids Worldwide Inc., which later sold it to the Disney Co.
“He built this company by getting donations and then took this network and sold it for well over $1 billion,” said David John Marley, who teaches history at Vanguard University of Southern California. “That’s money that he and his sons got to keep.”[/quote]
And what’s wrong with that? The people who donated the money were doing so toward a good cause, “family entertainment.” I’m not understanding the problem that you have with that. If I begin a not for profit business and raise funds through donations it is still MY business. The people who donate are doing so because we are like minded. And they feel that they have a stake in causing the organization to grow. Once again he did nothing illegal or immoral.
[quote]maybe you should have you could have helped far, far more people. And since he has broken no law and in any sort of trouble I think you are making far more of this than you should. But you don’t like him so I guess you are entitled—right?
I think he has broken laws to be honest. I think he has intermingled tax free funds into for profit ventures. I hope history shows this to be true in plain sight.[/quote]
In 8 years of Bill Clinton’s administration and so far over 3 years of Obama and the Justice Department did not even blink in the direction of Pat Robertson. Nor has the IRS given him a second look. NOTHING. Now do you remember the Rev. Jim Baker’s enterprise? They brought him down without any hesitation. If the feds can make a name for themselves taking out a public figure they do it and they do it quickley. They are as much out for glory as they are for anything else regardless of who occupy’s the White House.
You’re going to have to step back and look at this again my friend. You can say that YOU personally don’t like Robertson, but to allege that the man has actually broken laws isn’t fair to him. He’s a public figure and guys like us can take cheap shots at public figures all day but in the end I think we can do better. You don’t like the way he runs his business empire based on some hate sites that you visited. You don’t like Christianity. You don’t like the way his forheard is running away with his face… I get it. But in all of your posts I’ve not seen anything that convinces me that he’s bad guy. Is he the perfect Christian? No, because perfect Christian’s do not exist. Stop looking for him or any religious leader to be perfect. They are all human and they will occasionally say nutty stuff, or do something that doesn’t square with what YOU think is Christian behavior.
(shrugs)
I still like the guy and realize how much good that he has done. Hundreds of millions of dollars in aid to the poor over the past 25 years. If he’s made some money trough his business dealings, good for him, so what? Larry Flynt the slime ball who runs Hustler has made millions and who has he helped? My point in bringing him up is that there are a whole lot of detestable people out there who are in it just for the buck and do nothing for anyone else. And what they peddle is bad for you too. You can pick on the cigarette companies for starters. Or, you can even pick on Coke and Pepsi…sugar water causes people to become obese. Ah…but they’ve done nothing illegal, or even immoral you say. I agree, and neither has Robertson and in fact on the road to making his millions he’s helped many a starving child.
