The Word According To Pat

Finally, I would like to offer a few quotes from public statements made by Pat Robertson, which should give us all cause for serious reflection.

Here is Robertson's view on religious tolerance, delivered on The 700 Club on January 14, 1991:

"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 Anti-Christ! I can love the people who hold false opinions, but I don't have to be nice to them."

Robertson has some strong views about women and their role in the scheme of things.  First, from a fund-raising letter sent out in the summer of 1992:

"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."

And on The 700 Club, January 8, 1982:

"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 head of the household, and the husband's the head of the wife and that's just the way it is.  This is the way the Bible sets it UP."

The Reverend is equally clear-eyed when he talks about the Constitution, as reported in the Washington Post on March 23, 1981:

"The Constitution of the United States is a marvelous document for self-government by Christian people.  But the minute you turn the document into the hands of non-Christian people and atheistic people, they can use it to destroy the very foundation of our society.  And that's what's been happening."

And, just in case anybody hasn't caught his drift yet, here are the words of Pat Robertson himself from 'America At A Crossroads', a video produced in 1990 by the Christian Coalition:

"I believe the Christian Coalition will be the most powerful political force in America by the end of the decade."

As I said at the beginning of this book, the enemy is all around us. Their goal is to take control of our country, to have power over us all, and they will use any means available.  They will do it illegally, covertly, immorally, recklessly, unconstitutionally, and by intimidation and violence.  The leaders of the Christian Coalition and other Religious Right (Compassionate Conservative) organizations believe in oppression and religious terrorism.

In response, I would offer these words, written in 1814 by Francis Scott Key:

Oh, say, can you see, by the dawn's early light,

What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming,

Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight,

O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming?

And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air,

Gave proof through' the night that our flag was still there.

Oh, say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave

O'er the land of the free, and the home of the brave?

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