Let me just say this bluntly. This is not just a statement we ought to disagree with. This is of the devil.
via Moore to the Point – Pat Robertson vs. the Spirit of Adoption.
You need to read the entire post, of course, but Moore is correct – and a conservative Christian leading the charge against idiotic and hurtful statements is something to cherish.
Joel L. Watts holds a Masters of Arts from United Theological Seminary with a focus in literary and rhetorical criticism of the New Testament. His interests include exploring the role of mimesis in human civilization, specifically in the study of religion and media, as well as science fiction and the way in which it has allowed mythology to be explored in light of scientific discoveries of the past century. He is the author of Mimetic Criticism of the Gospel of Mark: Introduction and Commentary (Wipf and Stock, 2013) and a co-editor and contributor to From Fear to Faith: Stories of Hitting Spiritual Walls (Energion, 2013).
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Oh, yeah! That’s what I wish I’d said. Great point.
He has sunken to new depths. I don’t believe he was always this crazy. I used to watch the Club in the 80′s, and he never said crazy stuff like he has the past couple of years. When I read about his comment about divorce and Alzheimer’s I said to myself “Self, people are going to take what he said as gospel and run with it”. I kid you not, back in November, a good friend who was still clergy at the time, counseled a man in his congregation who used Pat Robertson’s argument to divorce his wife of 20 years. He said she was getting “crazier”, so he wanted his blessing to divorce her. He never got it.