By Stephen D. Foster Jr.
Pat Robertson is openly calling for replacing the Constitution with the Bible as the law of the land.
In the Constitution, you will not find any reference to the Bible whatsoever. No mention of Jesus, God, the disciples, prophets, Satan, angels, demons, Christianity, or even of the book itself. The only mention of religion in the document states that we the people have the freedom to practice whatever religion we choose and prohibits the government from establishing a state sponsored religion.
For over 220 years, the Constitution had been the foundation of our government and legal system. But ever since the Constitution became the law of the land, religious fundamentalists have tried time and time again to shred it in favor of biblical law. In the last 70 years alone, conservative “Christians” have made every effort to turn America from a religiously neutral nation of laws into a theocracy.
They have never been closer to achieving their dangerous and destructive goal than they are at this moment. And now Pat Robertson is openly calling for replacing the Constitution with the Bible.
During his 700 Club program on Monday, Robertson claimed that freedom will be lost if Americans don’t accept biblical law right now. He also claimed that biblical law has always been the foundation of the United States.
“This country was raised as honoring the Bible, how far have we come now where we have allowed a few atheists to destroy the very foundations of our culture and we’re in danger of losing all of our freedom because our freedom rests, ladies and gentlemen, rests on the word of God,” Robertson said.
Robertson said God is why we have rights and why we have justice and that now accepting the Bible as the law would amount to giving up our freedom and guaranteeing injustice. He then claimed America would transform into a brutal dictatorship unless we trash the Constitution and surrender to biblical law.
“You take away the Bible and you have the Nazis and you have the Communists and you have the dictators and you have evil rampant. America is still a Christian country but is far, far, far away from where it used to be,” Robertson concluded.
Here’s the video via Right Wing Watch:
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Get a life old man! Such a “holy” preacher can be taken so easily by the enemy. Time to retire. Amen🙏
Nowhere in the New Testament is there anything that resembles what Robertson is saying. In fact, Paul, and Jesus specifically told Christians to obey our leaders and pay our taxes. Robertson knows the Old Testament has laws that do not apply to us that even he would not want those laws installed.
Robertson says we are now a country that “is far, far, far away from where it used to be.” That is partially true, Pat, and one of the changes is that slavery is no longer legal.
Yeah. The people who come closest to living “Biblical Law” in the modern era are Orthodox Jews. I have a friend who used to be one (and who still tries to do things right when it comes to celebrating holidays). From her stories, living that way is exceptionally difficult. It takes a great commitment. It’s not “just giving up bacon cheeseburgers” or “pretending you’re not gay if you are.” There are a lot of rules. It seems almost like living as Amish.
Pat is a wealthy man. Never knew hardship the way most Americans have. He wakes up every morning to say silly things like that to keep money flowing in from his largely illiterate followers. I think Pat, Franklin lot should face legal/financial consequences of misleading the public and for being deceptive workers.
The problem is: Whose interpretation of the Bible? I imagine that ol’ Patty probably would shy away from, say, instating Biblical Law as per what a majority of Jewish people might enact because he’d considered it “too interpretable” and “too liberal” – You know, smacking too much of way the late Justice Ginsberg and Bernie Sanders think. (And having a friend who was formerly Orthodox…um… I doubt Pat would like to live the Frum-life the way she describes it).
Not to mention some of the more interesting Old Testament laws and guidelines. I mean, he’d have to give up being strictly anti-abortion in light of that one passage in Numbers (if I am remembering correctly) that’s all about a lie-detection / possible miscarriage-inducing ritual a man could put his wife through if he suspected her of cheating on him when he was on a trip. Oh, and forget that “marriage is between one man and one woman” thing when, if a man was rich enough, he could take multiple wives. Even that New Testament thing where “A man should only have one wife” that I remember – I remember it as more of a *suggestion* for church-leaders rather than a hard and fast rule for everyone? Also, you know, it’d be okay for people to be sold into indentured servitude again and to sell their un-feedable kids into slavery and slavery could be made legal again…
And are Pat and co. really prepared to stone people to death or hang them for practicing other religions or having doubts? (Okay, don’t answer that, they are), but I think far fewer of his throng really know or are prepared to do this to actual loved ones. If deportation is the alternative to “drive out the heathens,” um, where to?
Also, try to go full Biblical and our system of late-stage Capitalism that he personally benefits so much from is dead – too much basis on the sin of Greed, you see. You have to leave the edges of your fields un-gleaned so the poor people can eat. (I had to remind a former friend about this). Oh, noes, that’s “socialism!”
Oh, and Pat? Didn’t you predict the Second Coming a few times already? And some other things that didn’t come to pass? You *do* know what was to happen to false prophets in the Bible, don’t you?
The man does not know what he’s getting into if he gets his way!