The Christian Wrong

Yesterday I was reading the news online, and I saw an article about the gratingly outspoken televangelist and past presidential hopeful Pat Robertson. What a cock.

This past Monday, on his crap-ass talk show "The 700 Club," he suggested that the US should assasinate Hugo Chavez, the president of Venezuela. This is what he actually said: "If he thinks we're trying to assassinate him, I think that we really ought to go ahead and do it." He was referring to a recent statement where Chavez mentioned that he thinks the US wants to assasinate him. Robertson went further saying that taking him out would be cheaper than a war.

You know why there's any talk of war with Venezuela, period? Oil. Most of the oil that is refined into gasoline for you to pump into your cars at the rate of as much as $2.60 a gallon comes from Venezuela. Yeah, you read that right, most of our oil DOES NOT COME FROM IRAQ. Yet, we now know that the real reasons behind the current quagmire there has something to do with oil. Doesn't make any sense, does it?

Anyway, back to Robertson. The man's a pastor, an f'ing Christian zealot in the flesh. Why is it that the most popular Christian zealots are also the ones who bend the laws of the bible to their needs?

Today he came out and publicly apologized on his website about the statement. The only reason he's apologizing is because it went beyond his normal one million-strong viewership. He became a fool on an international level for that one.

Also, interestingly, it's the Venezuelan government that is pointing out the obvious here. They believe that Robertson should be prosecuted under the Patriot Act as a threat to Homeland Security. Their damned right he should.