By Stephen D. Foster Jr. | 22 December 2014
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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:
Once again, Pat Robertson and those who agree with him need to be reminded about the true history of early America.
As previously mentioned, if the Founding Fathers intended America to be a Christian nation governed by biblical law, one would think they would have repeatedly enshrined such an intention in the Constitution itself. But they didn’t. Instead, religion is mentioned in general and the government is specifically BANNED from establishing a state religion. Therefore, Christianity and biblical law cannot replace the Constitution. Only the Constitution is the law of the land. Any attempt to subvert the Constitution is treason.
In addition, the Founding Fathers left behind their own words as proof that religion and government should be totally separate. Chief among them is James Madison, the Father of the Constitution. He himself specifically stated that separation of church and state is a main principle of the Constitution. You can read his words and the words of multiple founders by clicking here.
If conservatives are still on the fence at this point, it might be worth pointing out that even conservative icon Barry Goldwater opposed biblical law and con artists like Pat Robertson who push for it. To read his views, just click here.
The fact is, the reason we have the Constitution and separation of church and state is because of the bloodshed and strife caused by European nations that were controlled by religion. Biblical law has been tried before in human history. It has only resulted in tyranny, persecution, and death. This is why we have a Constitution that protects the religious freedom of all people and forbids the intermingling of religion and government. That’s why biblical law has NEVER been the law in this country.
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If God <existed and> wanted a theocracy..who could stop him? Men have to do the works of God for the very simple reason that he only exists in their imagination.
Simple and brilliant.
I meant to say that Ken’s reply/comment was simple, obvious & brilliant. Pat Robertson is a knucklehead.
Exactly
Robertson is either a liar or an ignorant fool.
Like so many, he seems incapable of separating and distinguishing between those religious nuts – the Pilgrim Fathers – and those deistic and atheistic rationalists – the Founding Fathers..
Considering his financial holdings, his business activities and his disgusting broadcasts, he would appear to be a knowing liar.
there is no such thing as Separation of Church and State. It's NOT in the Constitution.
Yes , it is. The Establishment clause. "Congress shall pass no laws respecting the establishment of religion , or prevent the free exercise thereof." No separation of church and state?
That means there won't be a state church, like in England. It doesn't say there must be a separation. That phrase never appears in the Constitution. It appears in a letter Jefferson wrote to the Danbury Baptists where uses the phrase "wall of separation", a phrase that defended the Baptists against the state.
Like many of our tenets that are not defined by the Constitution, separation of church and state is an accepted understanding based on multiple SCOTUS rulings. Deal with it.
Actually, by law, the Separation of Church and State is embedded in the Establishment Clause. The Supreme Court has consistently ruled that the principle unquestionably resides there, based on the many writings if the framer’s of the Constitution (which you can clearly read for yourself).
Listen people if we don’t pull together and act on confronting these damn Dominionists we are going to lose our democracy and our Republic will be killed and they are going to rule over us as theocrats!! Once they are in power nothing will stop them from killing off people that they don’t like, their “undesirables.” Why are we not in the streets calling these assholes out?! I keep warning people about these bastards but no one seems to be listening! This danger is staring us right in the face but no one is doing anything about it!! The only way to deal with fascists like these is to get in their face and let them know we are not going to let them have their way. If we have to arm ourselves against them then so be it!! We have to stop them and we better get off our asses and get going on that!!
You, sir, are an extremist. You're calling for weapons against your fellow citizens who have a Constitutionally-protected right to free speech and freedom of religion.
The followers of Jainism take their beliefs to the extreme. They watch the ground and their feet, and they use filters to drink water, among other practices, in order to simply not kill any bugs or other forms of life. In this light, it's easy to see that extremism is not an issue. The underlying beliefs are the problem. Don't forget that slavery and what Hitler did were also protected under the law of the land. People need to be held accountable for their intellectual dishonesty. Otherwise, every psychopath gets a free pass to claim whatever belief they need to justify their immoral behavior.
This guy is truly out of his mind. Seems to me he is a little bit mentally unstable. He should be pulled off TV.