Pat Robertson: Assassinate *Good Times* C'Mon!

I'll admit that I wish something else would have spurred me into blogging. I really do. I'm not entirely sure why this did it for me, but sometimes something just so mind-numbingly strange just spurs you to do something you didn't think you would ever do.

I noticed when I logged onto CNN.com today and noticed that, well here's what the headline for the article read...
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Robertson: U.S. should assassinate Venezuela's Chavez
State Department says comment 'inappropriate'


Tuesday, August 23, 2005; Posted: 3:20 p.m. EDT (19:20 GMT)


Robertson, shown here in a file photo, said Venezuela's Chavez "is a dangerous enemy."
(CNN) -- Christian broadcaster Pat Robertson has called for the United States to assassinate Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, calling him "a terrific danger" bent on exporting Communism and Islamic extremism across the Americas.

Here is a link to the article in it's entirety.

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I have personally disliked Pat Robertson for a long time now. He shares a new type of arrogance and dislike for anyone who does not share a xeroxed copy of his beliefs that I find disconcerting to see among many of today's tele-evangelists. He also seems to operate under some new variant of Bizarro-logic that allows him to... well, let me try this another way. Do you remember the concept of double-think from George Orwell's 1984? He seems to be kind of like that... except for no, or at least very little, logic seems to be involved. He decides he does or does not like something, slaps a "Christian values" label on it and calls it a day.

Before this goes any further and I get people screaming at me, I am in no way, shape, or form, anti-Christian. I am a Christian myself. I just have a severe dislike for hypocrites and bigots who blindly embrace any rhetoric or belief / belief structure without doing any research themselves.

What Christian value is it that gets a man to stand in front of the world on television and directly call for the United States to assassinate another world leader? Seriously. Unlike others, I will go ahead and say I don't know much about Hugo Chavez and what he has done to his country, but there have to be other legitimate avenues to persue first before assassinating someone. Of course, that might be the last shred of my altruistic optimism rearing its ugly head again.

Apparently I am not the only one who shares theses sentiments. Along with the seemingly endless fountain of information in the mainstream and non-mainstream media sources, a Venezualan lawmaker has voiced similar opinions about Mr. Robertson, also posted on CNN.com.

Here is a link to that article in its entirety .

More on this later. Class time approaches ever so closer now...