Christian Right says ugly wives are ruining marriages and driving husbands to drink (vs, document)
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Pat Robertson has said many heinous things over the years. Yet, he's still on tv & people still listen to him. He's like the Palin's, Bachman's, Coulter's, Limbaugh's & Beck's of the world.
He is not. I know people who are on the extreme Christian right who think Pat Robertson is a nutcase and gives Christians a bad name. I haven't met anybody who actually puts stock in what that man says, and I grew up Southern Baptist.
They would be right because liberals like yourself can take everything he says and stereotype all Christians with it, just like you do with the Westboro Baptist Church.
Robertson and et. al. ............
Pat Robertson
Westboro Baptist church
Ted Haggard
Jim Jones
Jimmy Swaggart
Jim Bakker
Jack Schaap
Children molesting preists
Evangelicals are hardly a perfect lot, a fact which we are often reminded of and have internalized well. And our cultural indignation is only sometimes righteous. But the evangelical reaction against Robertson’s errant and unfortunate remarks is a hopeful sign not just for evangelicals, but for those who are concerned about the public viability of the institution of marriage. If we can bracket, if only for one moment, the thorny question of who should get married, we might be able to see here the seeds of consensus about the sort of thing marriage should be.
The backlash against Robertson’s remarks by evangelicals and those who also recognized their corrosive effects may not be marriage’s finest moment. But it may provide hope that the civic and religious virtues needed to make the institution of marriage strong are not yet as far gone as cultural critics are sometimes tempted to think.
Sounds like something a Muslim leader would say.
You know, the type who writes fatwas on how marital rape doesn't exist, how women have to cover up or else they invite Muslim men to rape them (that one's actually true; case in point: Europe).
You realize Europe is more than one country.
And christians, a catholic priest, stated that women are responsible for marital abuse.
Christians on this board say that women who wear "provocative" clothing are responsible if they get raped.
I don't see much difference between christians and muslims.
Not much at all.
Sounds like a joke taken out of context to me. I'm not religious nor do I care about Pat Robertson but, this is an attempt to make something out of nothing.
It's not a joke out of context.
He says this garbage regularly.
One is bound to make preposterous statements when trying to justify the teachings of a 2000 year old middle-eastern man. Give Robertson a break - he's said far more heinous things about homosexuals.
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