Thanks, Pat.

Gee, thanks man.

Federal judges are a more serious threat to America than Al Qaeda and the Sept. 11 terrorists, the Rev. Pat Robertson claimed yesterday.
“Over 100 years, I think the gradual erosion of the consensus that’s held our country together is probably more serious than a few bearded terrorists who fly into buildings,” Robertson said on ABC’s “This Week with George Stephanopoulos.”

“I think we have controlled Al Qaeda,” the 700 Club host said, but warned of “erosion at home” and said judges were creating a “tyranny of oligarchy.”

Can someone, preferably someone with access to lightning bolts and a thunderous voice from above, let Pat Robertson know that he’s not helping Christians?

Look, activist judges are a problem and I believe that the worst activist decision in the past thirty years, Roe v. Wade has led to the deaths of millions of human beings. On the other hand, all I have is belief. I don’t have proof, so I don’t come out and say that such a thing has happened. I also understand there’s the chance that I’m wrong. I don’t grant it a very large chance, but it still resides in the grey area of “stuff I believe but could never prove so I understand that others might not believe the way I do and have to make allowances for it”.

Pat Robertson apparently doesn’t have that zone and it leads him to make statements like this.

Yes, I believe activist judges are eroding our democracy and that they’ve caused far more problems than they’ve solved (if, in fact, they’ve solved any). To place them above terrorist on the “things that threaten us” list, though, is way, way out of bounds.

Pat Robertson needs to retract this statement today. It’s wrong and it’s foolish. More importantly, it does a great dishonor to the God to which he professes love and belief. He ought to remember that one of the fundamental jobs of a Christian is to honor God in his words and deeds. What he said yesterday does neither.

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