"Glenn (Christian Mystic)" <christianmystic@ev1.net> wrote in message
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Terrorifying, even though my faith is Christian,
any
ANY theocratic form of government is bad news, for everyone, no one fully
agrees with another on matters of faith, the FORCED form of faith that
will
result will only throw us into the DARK AGES once more
Same here. I've been a born-again Christian more years than I haven't been
at this point of my life. I believe capitalism run amuck, without enough
checks and balances to protect the poor from abuse and neglect, does more
damage to Americans than the fact that there are athiests living next door
who don't want to HAVE to pray in school or put up with us when we do. I
believe there should be a separation of church and state in that sense. If
a person wants to say a prayer in school they can say it to themselves at
the beginning of each day or they can band up with other believers to pray
as a group before school. In the sense that every person lives their faith
and their believes there can never be a seperation of church and state. A
"Christian Government" is a contradiction in terms to me. We're supposed to
be SELF-GOVERNED by Christ NOT try to make a false christian nation so we
don't have to live next to people we don't like.
"Jude" <Jude@aol.com> wrote in message
news:OXJwb.7769$I7.3295@bignews6.bellsouth.net...
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"God spoke through a word of prophecy in May 1968, and said, 'I have
chosen
you to usher in the coming of My Son.'" Robertson said. He also
announced
then that the Christian Broadcasting Network will provide worldwide
coverage
of the 2nd Coming of Jesus Christ from the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem.
(from a sermon on Satellite Network Seminar, Word of Faith Outreach
Center,
Dallas, TX, Dec. 9-12, 1984, and as cited in "The Freedom Writer," 1986)
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"The mission of the Christian Coalition is simple," says Pat Robertson.
It
is "to mobilize Christians -- one precinct at a time, one community at a
time -- until once again we are the head and not the tail, and at the
top
rather than the bottom of our political system." Robertson predicts that
"the Christian Coalition will be the most powerful political force in
America by the end of this decade." And, "We have enough votes to run
this
country...and when the people say, 'We've had enough,' we're going to
take
over.
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"I have known few homosexuals who did not practice their tendencies.
Such
people are sinning against God and will lead to the ultimate destruction
of
the family and our nation. I am unalterably opposed to such things, and
will
do everything I can to restrict the freedom of these people to spread
their
contagious infection to the youth of this nation." --Pat Robertson
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"How can there be peace when drunkards, drug dealers, communists,
atheists,
New Age worshipers of Satan, secular humanists, oppressive dictators,
greedy
money changers, revolutionary assassins, adulterers, and homosexuals are
on
top?"--Pat Robertson
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"The Constitution of the United States, for instance, is a marvelous
document for self-government by Christian people. But the minute you
turn
the document into the hands of non-Christian and atheistic people they
can
use it to destroy the very foundation of our society." --Pat Robertson,
The
700 Club, December 30, 1981
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"Individual Christians are the only ones really---and Jewish people,
those
who trust God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob--are the only ones that are
qualified to have the reign, because hopefully, they will be governed by
God
and submit to Him." --Pat Robertson, The 700 Club, January 11, 1985
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"Why are so many marriages falling apart? Why is the divorce rate so
high?
...Why is there such a tragedy in marriage?...Now the basic answer to
the
basic problem of marriages today is a question of leadership. The wife
actually makes the husband the head of the household and she looks to
him
and she says 'now you pray, and I'm going to pray for you that the Lord
will
speak to you." --Pat Robertson, The 700 Club, May 22, 1986
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"A Supreme Court ruling is not law." ..." A Supreme Court ruling is not
the
Law of the United States. The law of the United Sates is the
Constitution,
treaties made in accordance with the Constitution, and laws duly enacted
by
the Congress and signed by the president. And any of those things I
would
uphold totally with all of my strength, whether I agreed with them or
not."
.... "I am bound by the laws of the United States and all 50 states....
[but] I am not bound by any case or any court to which I myself am not a
party....I don't think the Congress of the United States is subservient
to
the courts....They can ignore a Supreme Court ruling if they so
choose." --Pat Robertson, when speaking before a group of writers from
the
Washington Post, June 27, 1986
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"It is interesting, that termites don't build things, and the great
builders
of our nation almost to a man have been Christians, because Christians
have
the desire to build something. He is motivated by love of man and God,
so
he
builds. The people who have come into (our) institutions (today) are
primarily termites. They are into destroying institutions that have been
built by Christians, whether it is universities, governments, our own
traditions, that we have.... The termites are in charge now, and that is
not
the way it ought to be, and the time has arrived for a godly
fumigation." --Pat Robertson, New York Magazine, August 18, 1986
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"...What kind of craziness is it in our society which will put a cloak
of
secrecy around a group of people whose lifestyle is at best abominable.
Homosexuality is an abomination. The practices of those people is
appalling.
It is a pathology. It is a sickness, and instead of thinking of giving
these
people a preferred status and privacy, we should treat AIDS exactly the
same
way as any other communicable disease..." --Pat Robertson, The 700 Club,
June 6, 1988
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"The courts are merely a ruse, if you will, for humanist, atheistic
educators to beat up on Christians." --Pat Robertson, The 700 Club,
October
2, 1990
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"They (advocates of church-state separation) scream, 'First Amendment.'
Of
course, the First Amendment, as you and I both know, is a restriction on
Congress....So it really doesn't have anything to do with what you say
or
what I say, one way or the other." --Pat Robertson, The 700 Club,
December
10, 1990
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"You say you're supposed to be nice to the Episcopalians and the
Presbyterians and the Methodists and this, that, and the other thing.
Nonsense, I don't have to be nice to the spirit of the Antichrist. I can
love the people who hold false opinions but I don't have to be nice to
them." --Pat Robertson, The 700 Club, January 14, 1991
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"It (Planned Parenthood) is teaching kids to fornicate, teaching people
to
have adultery, every kind of bestiality, homosexuality,
lesbianism -everything that the Bible condemns." --Pat Robertson, The
700
Club, April 9, 1991
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We at the Christian Coalition are raising an army who cares. We are
training
people to be effective -- to be elected to school boards, to city
councils,
to state legislatures, and to key positions in political parties.... By
the
end of this decade, if we work and give and organize and train, THE
CHRISTIAN COALITION WILL BE THE MOST POWERFUL POLITICAL ORGANIZATION IN
AMERICA. --Pat Robertson (in a fundraising letter), July 4, 1991
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"If anybody understood what Hindus really believe, there would be no
doubt
that they have no business administering government policies in a
country
that favors freedom and equality. ... Can you imagine having the
Ayatollah
Ruhollah Khomeini as defense minister, or Mahatma Gandhi as minister of
health, education, and welfare? The Hindu and Buddhist idea of karma and
the
Muslim idea of kismet, or fate condemn the poor and the disabled to
their
suffering. ... It's the will of Allah. These beliefs are nothing but
abject
fatalism, and they would devastate the social gains this nation has made
if
they were ever put into practice." --Pat Robertson "The New World
Order,"
page 219, 1991
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"The potential savings in the national budgets from the elimination of
police, criminal courts, standing armies, pollution control agencies,
drug
enforcement, and many poverty programs is almost beyond
alculation." --Pat
Robertson, The New World Order, p. 231, 1991
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"How can there be peace when drunkards, drug dealers, communists,
atheists,
New Age, worshipers of Satan, secular humanists, oppressive dictators,
greedy moneychangers, revolutionary assassins, adulterers, and
homosexuals
are on top?" --Pat Robertson, The New World Order, p. 227, 1991
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"The feminist agenda is not about equal rights for women. It is about a
socialist, anti-family political movement that encourages women to leave
their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy
capitalism, and become lesbians." --Pat Robertson (in a fundraising
letter), 1992
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"When lawlessness is abroad in the land, the same thing
will happen here that happened in Nazi Germany. Many of those people
involved in Adolf Hitler were Satanists, many of them were
homosexuals --
the two things seem to go together." --Pat Robertson, The 700 Club, 1992
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"The strategy against the American radical left should be the same as
General Douglas MacArthur employed against the Japanese in the Pacific .
..
.
bypass their strongholds, then surround them, isolate them bombard them,
then blast the individuals out of their power bunkers with hand-to-hand
combat. The battle for Iwo Jima was not pleasant, but our troops won it.
The
battle to regain the soul of America won't be pleasant either, but we
will
win it." "Pat Robertson's Perspective," April - May 1992
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"I think 'one man, one vote,' just unrestricted democracy, would not be
wise. There needs to be some kind of protection for the minority which
the
white people represent now, a minority, and they need and have a right
to
demand a protection of their rights."--Pat Robertson, The 700 Club
(talking
about apartheid South Africa), March, 18, 1992
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"(Robertson) chastised women legislators who support no-fault divorce
laws
that he says encourage men to split. 'Any woman who votes for no-fault
divorce is like a turkey voting for Thanksgiving,' Robertson said,
paraphrasing a conservative commentator." The State-Record, Columbia,
SC,
June 28, 1992
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"I know this is painful for the ladies to hear, but if you get married,
you
have accepted the headship of a man, your husband. Christ is the head of
the
household and the husband is the head of the wife, and that's the way it
is,
period." --Pat Robertson, Federal News Service (Robertson newsletter),
September 1
, 1992
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"It's one thing to say, `We have rights to jobs...we have rights to be
left
alone in our little corner of the world to do our thing.' It's an
entirely
different thing to say, well, `We're not only going to go into the
schools
and we're going to take your children and your grandchildren and turn
them
into homosexuals.' Now that's wrong." --Pat Robertson, The 700 Club,
September 17, 1992
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"We want...as soon as possible to see a majority of the Republican Party
in
the hands of pro-family Christians by 1996." --Pat Robertson, Denver
Post,
October 26, 1992
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If Christian people work together, they can succeed during this decade
in
winning back control of the institutions that have been taken from them
over
the past 70 years. Expect confrontations that will be not only
unpleasant
but at times physically bloody.... This decade will not be for the faint
of
heart, but the resolute. Institutions will be plunged into wrenching
change.
We will be living through one of the most tumultuous periods of human
history. When it is over, I am convinced God's people will emerge
victorious." -- Pat Robertson, Pat Robertson's Perspective Oct-Nov 1992
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"Many of those people involved with Adolph Hitler were Satanists, many
of
them were homosexuals--the two things seem to go together."--Pat
Robertson,
The 700 Club, January 21, 1993
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"When you see the rise of blatant open homosexuality and lesbianism,
what
you also know is God has given a society up...and we're at the mercy of
the
elements, the mercy of war, the mercy of economic disaster." --Pat
Robertson, The 700 Club, April 26, 1993
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"The radical left is doing everything they can to destroy the moral
fiber
of
America. They want to do away with the family. I am absolutely persuaded
one
of the reasons so many lesbians are at the forefront of the pro-choice
movement is because being a mother is the unique characteristic of
womanhood, and these lesbians will never be mothers naturally, so they
don't
want anybody else to have that privilege either." --Pat Robertson, The
700
Club, May 18, 1993
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"The feminist agenda is not about equal rights for women. It is about a
socialist, anti-family political movement that encourages women to leave
their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy
capitalism
and become lesbians." --Pat Robertson, The Washington Post, August 23,
1993
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"Just like what Nazi Germany did to the Jews, so liberal America is now
doing to the evangelical Christians. It's no different. It is the same
thing. It is happening all over again. It is the Democratic Congress,
the
liberal-based media and the homosexuals who want to destroy the
Christians.
Wholesale abuse and discrimination and the worst bigotry directed toward
any
group in America today. More terrible than anything suffered by any
minority
in history." Pat Robertson, (interview with Molly Ivins Fort Worth
Star-Telegram), September 14, 1993
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"The public education movement has also been an anti-Christian
movement...We
can change education in America if you put Christian principles in and
Christian pedagogy in. In three years, you would totally revolutionize
education in America." --Pat Robertson, The 700 Club, September 27,
1993.
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"They have kept us in submission because they have talked about
separation
of church and state. There is no such thing as separation of church and
state in the Constitution. It is a lie of the Left and we are not going
to
take it anymore." --Pat Robertson (address to the American Center for
Law
and Justice), November 14, 1993
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"Since our nation was founded, we have discriminated against certain
things.
We discriminate against kidnappers. We discriminate against murderers.
We
discriminate against thieves...There are laws that prohibit that kind of
conduct. And there have been laws since the founding of our country
against
what are considered unnatural sex acts, sex between members of the same
sex." --Pat Robertson, The 700 Club, December 24, 1993
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"The concept, the word for homosexual behavior is sodomy. That is what
is
used in the official documents. It is sodomy. It is repugnant. It has
been
prohibited and proscribed by sane society throughout countless
millennia,
centuries. People have understood that it is wrong. Now in America, not
only
is it happening, it is getting civil rights protection in the law, and
these
people are invading churches." --Pat Robertson, The 700 Club, January
18,
1994
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"You see what happened in 1962. They took prayer out of the schools. The
next year the Supreme Court ordered Bible reading taken from the
schools.
And then progressing, liberals, most of them atheistic educators, have
pushed to remove all religion from the lives of children...The people
who
wrote the "Humanist Manifesto" and their pupils and their disciples are
in
charge of education in America today." --Pat Robertson, The 700 Club,
January 13, 1995
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"[Homosexuals] want to come into churches and disrupt church services
and
throw blood all around and try to give people AIDS and spit in the face
of
ministers." --Pat Robertson, The 700 Club, January 18, 1995
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"That [separation of church and state] was never in the Constitution,
however much the liberals laugh at me for saying it, they know good and
well
it was never in the Constitution! Such language only appeared in the
constitution of the communist Soviet Union."
--Pat Robertson, The 700 Club, January 22, 1995
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"NOW is saying that in order to be a woman, you've got to be a
lesbian." --Pat Robertson, The 700 Club, December 3, 1997
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"I would warn Orlando that you're right in the way of some serious
hurricanes and I don't think I'd be waving those flags in God's face if
I
were you, This is not a message of hate; this is a message of
redemption.
But a condition like this will bring about the destruction of your
nation.
It'll bring about terrorist bombs; it'll bring earthquakes, tornadoes
and
possibly a meteor."--Pat Robertson, The 700 Club (on Gay Day at Disney
World), June 6, 1998
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"The key in terms of mental ability is chess. There's never been a woman
Grand Master chess player. Once you get one, then I'll buy some of the
feminism..." --Pat Robertson (According to the Chess Federation of the
U.S.
there were already two women Grand Masters at that time, both from
Georgia.
Since Robertson's gaffe, three more women became Grand Masters)
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"I never said that in my life...I never said only Christians and Jews.
I
never said that." --Pat Robertson, Time magazine (when confronted
regarding
his statement on The 700 Club on 01/11/85)
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Pat Robertson is an extremely wealthy man with a net worth over 140
million.
He lives on the top of a Virginia mountain, in a huge mansion with a
private
airstrip. He owns the Ice Capades, a small hotel, diamond mines, and in
the
past owned International Family Entertainment, parent company of the
Family
Channel. How does a televangelist, who is supposedly involved in
non-profit
work, manage to create such a fortune for himself?
The Pat Robertson success story starts with the Family Channel. He
started
it in 1977, using money donated to his Christian Broadcasting Network,
in
order to increase viewership potential of the 700 Club, and filled the
rest
of the time with old TV shows. The popularity of the channel soon grew,
and
it began to turn large profits by 1989, meaning that it could no longer
legally be a part of the non-profit CBN. So, Robertson partners up
with
TCI, and arranges for CBN to sell the Family Channel to himself and his
son
(Tim Robertson) for an extremely low price. He then took the company
public
in 1992, with the stock sales making him a wealthy man to the tune of 90
million dollars. In other words, he took money that people had donated
to
CBN for the purpose of spreading Christianity and used it to build
himself
a
media empire. Recently, Pat sold off the Family Channel to Mr.
Anti-Family-Values himself, Rupert Murdoch, the man behind "Melrose
Place"
and "Married...With Children." Of course, this sale increased his
fortune
even more. Did Robertson returned the profits to CBN or at least the
primary investment? No.
Pat experimented with a number of new businesses, the most interesting
among
them being American Benefits Plus/Kalo Vita. This was a multi-level
marketing scheme along the lines of Amway and Avon. Here, Robertson
recruited people across the country (starting in '91-'92), as many as
20,000
people (many of them retirees) to sell coupon books. He told them in
training seminars that his program was backed by the Bible, and that
they
could earn $15,000-$20,000 a month. Things didn't go that well with the
coupon books, though, and Pat suddenly decide to change the company into
Kalo Vita, and sell vitamins. Problem was, this left people with coupon
books unsold, and when they tried to send the books back to AFB/Kalo
Vita,
they found out that they would not be refunded their money. One 76
year-old
woman in in Indianapolis was stuck with $7,000 worth of unsold coupon
books,
and had to refinance her home. During the subsequent investigation, it
was
found that CBN had "loaned" money to AFB during its founding, almost 3
million dollars.
Another one of Robertson's more notorious business deals is the diamond
mine
case. In this ingenious venture, Robertson saw an opportunity in the
country
formerly named Zaire (now the Congo) for diamond mines. The former
Zaire
is
a country rich in natural resources, including diamonds, but these
resources
were thus far being plundered by its dictator, the brutal Mobuto Sese
Seko.
Mobuto was one of the world's richest men, while his people lived in
grinding poverty. It was often noted that he could have cured all of his
country's ills by writing a personal check. Mobuto had been trying to
come
to the US to try to improve relations, but the State Department refused
to
grant him a visa, due to his lengthy human rights violations. During
this
time, Pat Robertson saw an opportunity, and the two became close
associates.
Mobuto allowed Pat to open diamond mines in Zaire, under the name of the
African Development Company, while Pat tried to persuade the State
Department to allow Mobuto entry into the US. Ultimately, it was found
out
that Pat had been using CBN money and equipment to aid his diamond
mining
operation in Zaire. A good deal for Pat, seeing as he employed people
in
Zaire for ridiculously low wages and managed to use CBN's infrastructure
to
cut costs even more.
In March of 1999, the Bank of Scotland announced a massive joint
business
venture with Pat Robertson. Under the deal, a new direct banking
subsidiary
of the Bank of Scotland will be set up in the United States, 65% owned
by
the Bank of Scotland, and 25% owned by Robertson.
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