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Fifth Column
Pat Robertson's lost it...
2001-09-14
  • The Rev. Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson said the United States was vulnerable to this week's terrorist attacks because the nation has insulted God and lost divine protection. "God Almighty is lifting his protection from us,'' Robertson said in a four-page statement issued Thursday by his Christian Broadcasting Network. "We have imagined ourselves invulnerable and have been consumed by the pursuit of ... health, wealth, material pleasures and sexuality.''

    Falwell said Thursday on Robertson's religious TV program "The 700 Club'' that he blames the attacks on pagans, abortionists, feminists, homosexuals, the American Civil Liberties Union and the People for the American Way. "All of them who have tried to secularize America. I point the finger in their face and say, 'You helped this happen,''' Falwell said.

    He added later, "God continues to lift the curtain and allow the enemies of America to give us probably what we deserve.''

    "Jerry, that's my feeling,'' Robertson responded. ``I think we've just seen the antechamber to terror. We haven't even begun to see what they can do to the major population.'' (By CHRIS KAHN, Associated Press Writer)
    • Posted by:Fred Pruitt

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