Thou Shall Not Kill
Maybe it will be the real Christians who eventually kick the present govt. to the south out, as their religion has been hijacked and they are viewed as the terrorists themselves in some parts of the world. To wit: popular televangelist Pat Robertson says about Chavez of Venezuala, who is attempting to give back to the common person some of the oil riches from their country, “a dangerous enemy to our south, controlling a huge pool of oil, that could hurt us badly, (I read that as economically),….We have the ability to take him out, and I think the time has come that we exercise that ability…….We don’t need another $200 billion war to get rid of one strong-arm dictator. It’s a whole lot easier to have some of the covert operatives do the job and then get it over with.”
I always thought the the ideas of Thou Shall Not Steal and Thou Shall Not Kill were fairly solid principles of most religions, but apparently not of the so called Christian Coalition of America where killing so you can get someone else’s oil is perfectly acceptable. All about money and power to them, Robertson was the same one who said one of the problems with feminism is that it destroys capitalism.
In defense of Pat Robertson is the fact that he isn’t saying anything about US policy that isn’t true. The US has a long history of “taking out” those that are in the way of their corporate profits and as the linked article suggests, he’s simply a smoke screen and the truth is probably worse than we could ever imagine.