Posted 8/23/2005 05:27:00 PM by Douglas

Who Would Jesus Assassinate?

Religious broadcaster Pat Robertson suggested on-air that American operatives assassinate Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez to stop his country from becoming "a launching pad for communist infiltration and Muslim extremism."

"We have the ability to take him out, and I think the time has come that we exercise that ability," Robertson said Monday on the Christian Broadcast Network's The 700 Club.

"We don't need another $200 billion war to get rid of one, you know, strong-arm dictator," he continued. "It's a whole lot easier to have some of the covert operatives do the job and then get it over with."

"You know, I don't know about this doctrine of assassination, but if he thinks we're trying to assassinate him, I think that we really ought to go ahead and do it," Robertson said. "It's a whole lot cheaper than starting a war ... and I don't think any oil shipments will stop."

When it comes to religious guys on TV saving souls and asking for money, I've always thought that Pat Robertson was probably about as tame as they come. But it doesn't seem like it now. Publicly advocating the murder and overthrow of a sovereign nation? Maybe his bible reads differently than any that I've seen, but isn't that the work for a vengeful god, and not a televangelist?