{"id":8250,"date":"2006-01-08T20:13:16","date_gmt":"2006-01-09T03:13:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2006\/01\/08\/not-for-the-first-time-in-recent-months.html"},"modified":"2006-01-08T20:13:16","modified_gmt":"2006-01-09T03:13:16","slug":"not_for_the_fir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/01\/08\/not_for_the_fir.html","title":{"rendered":"“Not for the first time in recent months”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Quoth the BBC<\/a> …<\/p>\n

Not for the first time in recent months, elements on the Republican Party’s religious wing are causing it embarrassment.<\/p>\n

In this case, it’s (once again) Pat Robertson, who, while noting that Ariel Sharon is quite a nice fellow, blamed his recent cerebral hemorrhage on his plans to split the Holy Land by pulling Israel back from Gaza and West Bank.<\/p>\n

“You read the Bible: This is my land, and for any prime minister of Israel who decides he’s going to carve it up and give it away, God says no, this is mine.”<\/p>\n

Yikes. Y’know, if God were really going to take that big an interest over who was doing stuff with the Holy Land, I’d expect to see a wave of cerebral hemorrhages sweep across the freakin’ area (and points in all directions, as far as that goes). To single out Sharon seems more than a bit arbitrary. (For that matter, it seems a bit late, since the Gaza withdrawal was a few months ago, or early, since the West Bank barrier is incomplete.)<\/p>\n

I don’t know why I spend so much time kvetching about Pat Robertson, except to paraphrase the Beeb and say, “Not for the first time in recent months, elements of American Christianity’s political wing are causing it embarrassment” …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Quoth the BBC … Not for the first time in recent months, elements on the Republican Party’s religious wing are causing it embarrassment. 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