WASHINGTON, Nov. 11, 2007
God Only Knows
Schieffer: Why Is Pat Robertson Is Supporting Rudy Giuliani?
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Play CBS Video Video God And The Election Pat Robertson claimed that God gave him inside information on the 2004 presidential election. Now, Robertson is endorsing Rudy Giuliani for president and Bob Schieffer wonders why.
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Back in 2004, when Pat Robertson said that God had told him George Bush was going to win the election in a blow-out, I decided to check it out.
Now, I've never claimed that I have inside information on God's thinking, but I did reach a source who considers himself very close to the Lord. He agreed to talk on the condition of anonymity, since he is not authorized to speak for God.
Well, the way he told it, Robertson must have had a bad connection or just didn't hear it right. Of course, God knows how these things are going to come out, my source said. He knows everything. But he never tells how elections or football games are going to come out. If he did, he'd be inundated with people trying to find out the winning lottery numbers and things like that. It's just more trouble than it's worth.
So when Robertson announced he was supporting Rudy Giuliani, who is for so many of the things that Robertson has spent his life railing against - gay rights and abortion rights to name just two - I decided to go back to my high-level source with the obvious question: Why?
There was a long pause. Finally, my source said "God only knows."
By Bob Schieffer
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Posted by Quatrops at 07:38 AM : Nov 14, 2007-------------------
No kidding.
The inerrancy advocates must really have a fun time with those passages.
It is called the DEATH penalty. The opposite of "death" is "life". To suggest there is an antonymic relationship between "death" and "justice" is just another word game, an obfuscatory attempt to bolster a weak argument.
Additionally, the historical evidence of the occasional execution of the "wrong person" is well documented. Were YOUR loved one the victim of such a miscarriage, I doubt you would term it "justice".
There is a legitimate apologia for executing a person convicted of a capital crime which is diminished by your word game with "life".
"Pro-life" should also include being against the death penalty,-------------That''s called "PRO-JUSTICE".
"Pro-life" should also include being against the death penalty, and against this absurd war. I suspect many of you do not include those in your definition of "pro-life"
To suggest or imply there is no biological difference between "pre-born" and "post-born" is absurd. One can make perfectly logical and moral argument against destruction of a fetus without suggesting it is no different than infanticide. Playing word games doesn''t change that.
One could imagine he is somewhat lacking in the courage of his convictions. Or does he just like to see his name in print?
Actually they were called prophets"
Actually, Vatican II allowed us mere mortals to talk to God directly especially when confessing our sins. And even before the Catholics ''allowed'' us to speak to god other religions encouraged it through prayer and reflection. We are all prophets.
I believe the main message that Jesus was preaching was to be wary of organized religion as was he. After all it was a religious organization, not the Romans, that wanted him dead.
With re: to mental hospitals. Robertson cloaks his hatred of humanity through his religion. He does not belong in a mental hospital. He belongs in hell.
I am sure there will be more religious right leaders who will court the Republican party in the future but for now they were hosed by Bush and his neocon cabal and very disappointed in the Bush agenda.
Aren''t we all.
O.K., I''m back.
God told me that Robertson and Giulani are both whackos and to vote for a Democrat.
Thanks God, but I was going to anyway.
So long Rudy......
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