Well, as much as I was stunned by Pat Robertson's assassination comments (nah, not really!), I have since heard them explained. Now I'm just confused.
I somehow had this mistaken idea that if you are a Christian, you're a Christian twenty-four/seven. It's like pregnancy. Either you are or you ain't. But apparently that's not the case. And so, let's not get all upset when a "Christian" leader calls for the murder of somebody. See, I heard it explained on CNN yesterday.
Rev. Ted Haggard, President of the National Association of Evangelicals said that when Robertson advocated the assassination of Hugo Chávez, President of Venezuela, he wasn't "speaking for evangelicalism, he's not speaking for Christians, he's just saying it from a political point of view and a social point of view..."
Okay, I see. Christianity isn't a cloak you wear all the time. It's something you can step from beneath when you want someone taken out.
This isn't just an amusing sidenote by some crackpot. It's coming from the pulpit of one of the administration's staunchest supporters. Read carefully Robertson's vision for America from his take on the Constituion of the United States.
U.S. Constitution: For Christians Only
The Constitution of the United States, for instance, is a marvelous document for self-government by the 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.
It's more serious than you imagine. It's later than you think.
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