Texas Baptists condemn Robertson's remarks

[Zuni]

Pat Robertson's suggestion that the United States assassinate Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez left some Texas Christian leaders speechless Tuesday.

"I was kind of shocked, like a lot of people were shocked," said the Rev. Sonny Foraker, senior pastor of First Baptist Church of Pearland.

"I don't know why he said it," he added. "I wouldn't have said it, and I don't support it."

Robertson, who resigned his ordination as a Southern Baptist minister in 1986 before his presidential bid, made the comments Monday on his television show, The 700 Club , on the Christian Broadcast Network.

Leaders of the Baptist General Convention of Texas issued statements calling Robertson's comments inappropriate and detrimental to the church's message

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/nation/3322671

[davidinalameda]

1. he said it because he's a loon

a dangerous loon but still a loon

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

6. Take that back!

You're giving Loons a bad name!

[davidinalameda]

11. okay

he's crazy as a bedbug

or is that giving bedbugs a bad name as well

[mirandaod]

16. How 'bout

crazy as a shithouse rat? Seems appropriate to me.

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

18. As a proud member of the Shithouse Rat-American community...

How about he's crazy like a Goddamned Republican.

Accurate, and anybody who's offended by it will likely be tombstoned.

[movonne]

2. This sounds like this new Christian message too me...all I hear is

hate...If they really meant it they would have called for him to step down from his ministry...

[Megahurtz]

3. I bet that there will be a lot of Christians that

will condemn his remarks.

[xxqqqzme]

4. not taking that bet

cuz whorporate media will let it go.

[Megahurtz]

5. The Fundamentalists will probably bow and

worship Robertson and everything he says, but there may be a few quiet Christians that disagree.

You're probably right though, with a little time it will all blow over and be forgotten by these people.
Sick!:puke:

[MrBenchley]

7. Robertson's "sin" was saying out loud

that oil was more important than a dusty old book like the Bible.

Pious Republicans aren't supposed to say such things...just to hold them silently as sacred precepts in their hearts.

[readmylips]

8. Religion equals money....lots of billions...

All a person needs to have to become an Evangelical leader and become an instant billionaire, is a mouth piece. Memorize those few hell and fire bible lines and you're an instant success.

A man my family used to know had lost his job. He began to attend a pentecostal church and in no time, he figured out just how easy it was for him to open a church and become a preacher and make lots of money. No schooling, no certification, just his word that God had called him to preach. He could really convince strangers of his harsh life style and walking in sin and his new born connection to God's wallet. Many years after, God asked him to divorce his wife and marry a woman 25 years younger. Last we heard of him, he was rich, quit preaching and opened up a bar some where in a Caribbean island.

[ret5hd]

9. texsas baptist leaders must be a buncha loser wimps...

you got a man that's on your side re: homophobia, womens rights, colonialism, racism, state sanctioned murder, corporatism, pay-for-pray(ers), unintelligent design, etc etc etc...

and you're gonna let a little issue like (the public exposure of your support for) political assasination come between you. for shame. _for shame_.

[gratuitous]

10. Wow, how far out were Robertson's remarks?

Even some Southern Baptists are expressing public discomfort with Robertson's sentiments. I don't know if anything will come of it, but we should make sure that Robertson's comments are brought up over and over again, along with his other equally bad statements regarding women, gays, and just about anyone who isn't a wealthy white man.

[TankLV]

14. Yeah - "discomfort" is pretty bad - like when I have the "discomfort"

of the runs and my asshole hurts from shitting water all day.

Yeah - "discomfort" is the proper term!

[gratuitous]

15. Considering what Southern Baptists have been comfortable with

This is, after all, a group that didn't really see what the big fuss about slavery was. They still wield enough influence in some areas of the country that some Senators couldn't bring themselves to apologize on behalf of their own body for failing to speak out against lynching for more than a century.

[sattahipdeep]

12. Did the Pope say anything

A day late and a dollar short :puke:

[TankLV]

13. "inappropriate and detrimental to the church" - sure doesn't sound like

anywhere near "condemnation" to me - not to mention ALL of their "concern" is for their goddamn CHURCH - not the vileness of the creature who said it!

You daughter stays out past her curfew and that statement - along with all the other weasely statements by repukes caught with their pants around their ankles - might be "appropriate".

But I fail to see any HINT of "condemnation"!

But I'm glad the whore media will spin it for us that way, that way the disgusting vermin - the REPUKES all - can be relieved of the unseamly act of actually condemning THEIR reprehensible and inexcusable behavior!

[mitchum]

17. Well, maybe they should hold him under for a very long time