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2006-03-16 Home Front: Culture Wars

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Posted by Fred 2006-03-16 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11131 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 MY GOD, What if he is Right?

Posted by newc">newc 2006-03-16 00:11|| 2006-03-16 00:11|| Front Page Top

#2 even a broke clock...

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2006-03-16 00:31|| 2006-03-16 00:31|| Front Page Top

#3 A blind squirrel...

Posted by Pappy 2006-03-16 00:35|| 2006-03-16 00:35|| Front Page Top

#4 LOL. Dead right. Love the smear attempt, lol. Too funny... and discombobulating. I need to lie down.

Posted by Glert Thetch2165 2006-03-16 01:33|| 2006-03-16 01:33|| Front Page Top

#5 Say what you will of Pat Robertson, but he hasn't put out a $1m bounty on anyone for desecrating Christian symbols. And his 9/11 remarks were straight out of the Bible.

Just as the remarks of a number of mullahs are straight out of the Koran. The problem isn't that they're quoting their respective holy texts - it's that Moose Limb clerics are urging their followers to go forth and tear the infidel limb from limb.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2006-03-16 07:00|| http://timurileng.blogspot.com]">[http://timurileng.blogspot.com] 2006-03-16 07:00|| Front Page Top

#6 ZF

you said, "Just as the remarks of a number of mullahs are straight out of the Koran... clerics are urging their followers to go forth and tear the infidel limb from limb."

No clerics have called for dismemberment for the cartoonists. In Islam apostasy=blasphemy and the punishment is death. Various schools of Islamic law prescribe stoning or throat slicing or other ways of carrying out the death penalty but no schools prescribe dismemberment (although dismemberment could arguably be a tactic in jihad if it causes fear in the kafr)

Posted by mhw 2006-03-16 08:33|| 2006-03-16 08:33|| Front Page Top

#7 I don't, mmw, but beheading sounds pretty much like dismemberment to me.

Posted by Deacon Blues">Deacon Blues 2006-03-16 10:53|| 2006-03-16 10:53|| Front Page Top

#8 Then words did rise and honest doubt
And four grave ministers sat about
Whether the blow that left him dead
Cut off his body, or his head.

Posted by Phil 2006-03-16 10:57|| 2006-03-16 10:57|| Front Page Top

#9 I'm a Christian evangelical, albeit not one of the establishment, and I've long wished Pat would become a Trappist. He's got a bit of a handle on the facts this time, and I hear that behind the scenes he's done some quiet good work, but when he opens his mouth I cringe.

Posted by James">James 2006-03-16 10:58|| http://idontknowbut.blogspot.com]">[http://idontknowbut.blogspot.com] 2006-03-16 10:58|| Front Page Top

#10

I dunno, I think he's on the Kos' payroll.

Posted by macofromoc 2006-03-16 11:23|| 2006-03-16 11:23|| Front Page Top

#11 Novus Ordo Mundi

Posted by Bystander 2006-03-16 11:24|| 2006-03-16 11:24|| Front Page Top

#12 We need Pat at this time. No politician is going to make such statements, no matter how true. And, we need the public to become aware of the religion of blood. Welcome Pat and anyone else who stands before a microphone and slams Islam for it's continued lunacy. Wake up America. Wake up Europe. If we wait for them to come after us, they will and they will overwehelm us. We must act now. We must take the offensive. We must put a stop to Islam, NOW.

Posted by wxjames 2006-03-16 11:40|| 2006-03-16 11:40|| Front Page Top

#13 Pat isnt very good with his words these days... but I fail to remember the last time that Jewish or Catholic hijackers flew planes in U.S. buildings in the last 10 years...

Posted by bgrebel 2006-03-16 12:25|| 2006-03-16 12:25|| Front Page Top

#14 I've always thought ol' Pat a dingbat. But... now I'm beginning to wonder. When surfing channels I used to wind up on the 700 clubs world news and it often had the best news reporting I have ever seen. Great heartwarming stories about Christian works and other good works being done world wide re: orphanages, medial help being provided and Christian persecution. Had one of the best documentaries I've ever seen about Jewish doctors helping Palestinian children for free. It covered the dilemma of the mommies allowing Jewish doctors to help their children and the goodwill created between the two.

Darn, maybe I've misjudged him.

Posted by 2b 2006-03-16 13:17|| 2006-03-16 13:17|| Front Page Top

#15 Makes me darned uncomfortable to be agreeing with him, it does ...

I second the emotion. Too many of his messages have been ~~totally screwloose~~ well off the beaten track. How sad that he is one of the few ~~wingnuts~~ individuals with sufficient intestinal fortitude to call a spade a spade. I guess he sees his meal-ticket being threatened. No tele-evangelism buckaroos once mullahs are running the tent.

Posted by Zenster 2006-03-16 13:28|| 2006-03-16 13:28|| Front Page Top

#16 "I guess he sees his meal-ticket being threatened."

Or he's smarter, more honest, and free to tell the truth - and happens to reach tens of millions of people when he speaks - than you give him credit for. I think you're jealous, lol.

Cut him, and the others who come from different points of view but have the threat correctly nailed, the slack that honesty deserves. Diatribes, whether his or yours, sound eerily alike to the neutral observer. Don't turn off the audience you (obviously) seek by doing precisely what you ridicule him for.

Posted by Glert Thetch2165 2006-03-16 13:37|| 2006-03-16 13:37|| Front Page Top

#17 Or he's smarter, more honest, and free to tell the truth - and happens to reach tens of millions of people when he speaks - than you give him credit for. I think you're jealous, lol.

Ummm ... no. I just see his spewing (retracted or not) about how 9-11 (or the shuttle catastrophe) was America's just punishment for our straying from the path as abetting the enemy's morale. Yes, he's on the right track now (ergo, the strikethroughs in my previous comments), but who knows what or where this loose cannon will blunder into next?

Posted by Zenster 2006-03-16 14:18|| 2006-03-16 14:18|| Front Page Top

#18 You've got a spew problem too - such as your endlessly repetitive:

Collect the GPS coordinates of every imam and mosque issuing these death fatwas and the instant a single one of the cartoonists (including their loved ones) are harmed or killed, bomb every single stinking one of the cesspits back to the stone age.

We get it. Always did. We're on the same side, sort of. When someone joins us and spreads the message to millions, be happy. Be gracious. Be generous. It doesn't cost you anything. As I said at O'dark-thirty this AM in #4, yeah - finding yourself in agreement with PR is "discombobulating". And I left it at that because it serves no useful purpose to dilute the message. That's free advice, lol. Don't want it or whatever? Fine. You come across obsessed. Sad, that.

Posted by Glert Thetch2165 2006-03-16 15:03|| 2006-03-16 15:03|| Front Page Top

#19 Tell it like it is Pat! 700 club news and docs are getting better and their work is amazing.

Posted by Johnnie Bartlett 2006-03-16 15:34|| 2006-03-16 15:34|| Front Page Top

#20 We get it. Always did. We're on the same side, sort of.

Thank you, GT. Message confirmed, I'll tone that one down. I have no intent of spamming this board with any sort of message, no matter how meaningful.

Posted by Zenster 2006-03-16 16:25|| 2006-03-16 16:25|| Front Page Top

#21 Oooh, triple win. Out in the open for discussion in the west, fatwa on Pat and riots of offended muslims across islamania. Three birds - one stone!

Posted by Thinemp Whimble2412 2006-03-16 20:03|| 2006-03-16 20:03|| Front Page Top

#22 I'm with most of you all too here. Being one of those hated, dispised groupies of the "religious right" (I always note the MSM doesn't paint a group as the secular left, do they?), I even cringe now when Pat gets the mic. However, we must praise him when he gets it right. I truly believe he sees Islam for what it truly is, and will "speak truth" to that fact. After his last snafu, though, it hurt (about Sharon getting just desserts for trying to give away God's land). While many Christians may even think that way, we'd never say it...Pat does, lol!

Posted by BA 2006-03-16 23:05|| 2006-03-16 23:05|| Front Page Top

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