Culture and Media Watch: August 2005 Archives

Despite the assumption of many bloggers, the problem with Pat Robertson is not old age.  I have close relations with well over a hundred Unitarian Universalists who are older than he is, and none of them talk about murder, make wild accusations about imagined foes, or claim to be misunderstood in the face of videotaped evidence.  Pat Robertson has contempt for other human beings, and has no notion that something called reality is judging his words and his deeds.  He has been practicing triumphalism for a long time. 

Good people who age to not become Pat Robertsons.

There has been a lot of talk about how Moslem's must hold their themselves accountable for Islamic extremism, and must condemn the terrorists misuse of Islamic teachings.  How are Christians responding to Pat Robertson's call to assassinate Hugo Chavez, the democratically elected president of Venezuela? Does Robertson speak for Christianity?  Chuck Currie, a United Church of Christ seminarian gives a good summary of the responses and non-responses so far. 

This is a teaching moment, we should not let it slip away.