Right-Wing Exposed

“What would Jesus do”, WWJD, has been a popular slogan among Evangelicals over the past several years.  It has also been a profitable slogan, as many types of merchandise stamped with this logo are sold at high retail prices by and to Evangelicals.  Was it just another money-making scheme in the Church?

I do not believe that Evangelicals in America reflect what Jesus did when He walked this planet nearly 2000 years ago, or what He would do if He was here today.  What would Jesus “really” do if He came to His American Evangelical Church today?

I believe He would begin His ministry the same way He did as recorded in the New Testament.  He would cleanse His “church temple” of all the greedy, corrupt, profiteering business practices.  He would likewise cast out the sellers from His Church; the bookstores, restaurants, arcade rooms, music stores, coffee shops etc, again saying that His House is to be a house of prayer, not a “house of merchandise”.

He would empty out the massive checking and savings accounts of America’s mega churches and sell their stocks and bonds, and would help the poor and feed the five million children who will die from starvation this year while Evangelical mega churches bask in their wealth; reminding them as He did in the New Testament that He was hungry, in the person of these starving children, but they did not feed Him.  He would also sell their elaborate and luxurious mega church buildings, and would build homeless shelters for the 800,000 Americans who sleep in alleys and under bridges,  reminding Evangelicals that He was a stranger, in the person of America’s homeless, but they did not give Him shelter.

He would denounce the hypocrisy and greed of television evangelists who devour the possessions of widows and the elderly, as the religious hypocrites did in Jesus’ day, so that they can pay themselves six and seven figure salaries and fly around in personal jets.  He would shun these charlatans and would associate with the poor and outcasts of society as recorded in the New Testament.

He would visit AIDS wards and children’s cancer wards healing everyone.  And, He would do it humbly as He had done before; not like Benny Hinn renting large auditoriums where he can take up huge offerings and advertise his name in lights to exalt himself.  Moreover, He would tell Evangelicals to get out of politics and get back to ministry.  He would advise them to focus on changing people’s hearts, instead of changing federal judges and congressional legislation.

This is the kind of Jesus we read about in the Bible, and He is being misrepresented by America’s Evangelicals.  This is truly what Jesus would really do.

It is common knowledge that the right-wing movement represents Israel’s major support base in America.  Whatever issue, turmoil or conflict is brewing between Israel and the Palestinians, right-wingers are sure to be “pro-Israel”.  Of course, much of the right-wing is comprised of Evangelicals.  And, Evangelicals’ support of Israel is more than political; it is also religious or spiritual.  Evangelicals choose to believe that the physical nation of Israel is still God’s chosen nation today, and that God favors Jews above all other people.  With that kind of bias it’s obvious why they are always pro-Israel regardless of who is right or wrong.

Evangelicals also claim that Israel worships the same God that Christians worship, whereas they say that Islam worships a different God.  However, the Islamic religion actually holds Jesus Christ, who is the Lord and Savior of Christians, in much higher esteem than does Judaism.  Islam regards Jesus as being one of the greatest prophets of God, but Judaism, at best, only regards Him as being a good man and a teacher.  There is an obvious unjust double standard being employed here by Evangelicals.  How can Judaism, the religion that esteems Jesus the least, be worshipping the same God as Christians, while Islam which esteems Jesus much more highly, is worshipping a different God than Christians?

It is interesting that Evangelicals intentionally contradict the specific teachings of their own New Testament, as they conspire to deceive Americans by stating that Israel also worships the God of Christianity.  Evangelicals are fully aware that their prospective new converts to Christianity are taught that, in order to be accepted by the Father God of Christianity, they must place their faith in Jesus and profess Him as being the divine Son of God, Savior, Lord and as having risen from the dead after His crucifixion.  The New Testament clearly states that all who do not profess this kind of faith in Jesus have denied, and do not have, a relationship with Christianity’s Father God.  The nation of Israel and Judaism do not profess Jesus to be Savior, Lord and the Son of God, and therefore do not worship the God of Christianity.  Evangelical leaders know this!  So, why have they conspired to tell this lie to the American public?  Obviously, it must be the result of their own bias and their political desires concerning Israel.

Evangelical leaders also know that Jesus said that God had rejected the nation of Israel as being a favored nation because of their rejection of Him.  And, they know that the New Testament states in many places that Jew and Gentile are “one and the same” to God now, and that no one is favored above another.  If you are interested in hearing the biblical evidence that proves these things, I encourage you to listen to my podcast titled, “The Bible Truth About Israel”.

I call upon Evangelical leaders to stop this deception and prejudice, and to put an end to this Israel conspiracy.  Only then can they ever hope to have a balanced perspective of the issues between Israel and the Palestinian people. 

Today’s blog covers the same subject as yesterday’s podcast because I believe it is a very important topic, and many visitors to websites do not listen to audio.  Therefore, I’m repeating it in written form.  There will, however, also be a new podcast posted later this evening, and you will want to hear it.  But, now for the blog:

One of the most effective and longest lasting lies in the history of mankind is housed within the doctrines of the Christian Church.  This lie has been cherished and supported by the vast majority of Christian leaders for centuries.  The most famous and respected Christian preachers and teachers in today’s contemporary Church also embrace and espouse this great lie.  And, great efforts have been made in recent church history to maintain the cover-up of this cherished lie.  The Christian Church in America has even united with secular state, county and city governments throughout America’s history to legally enforce this lie.

What is this great lie and cover-up?  It is the Christian Church’s revered tradition of Sunday observance and worship.  This tradition goes back at least 1700 years.  It is, therefore, a nearly 2000-year-old lie and cover-up.

Why is it a lie?  What is the cover-up?  And, how has the Church combined with secular government to legally enforce it?  We’ll answer the last question first.

Throughout much of the history of America the Christian Church has united with secular government to enact and enforce “Sunday laws”, also sometimes referred to as blue laws.  Even to this day there are counties and cities across America that still have these Sunday laws in effect requiring certain businesses to remain closed on the first day of the week, Sunday.  Why Sunday?  Because Sunday has been the Christian Church’s day of worship.  And, the Church united with the state to legally recognize and enforce their “special day”.

I will write more about this in a moment, and the great significance and threat it poses for our nation in the midst of our current cultural battle in America between the religious right wing and our secular society.  But, first we need to answer the other two questions.  Why is Sunday observance and worship a lie?  And, what is the cover-up?

Most non-Christian Americans probably assume that Sunday-keeping has its origin in the Bible via some specific commandments from God.  That would be a reasonable and logical assumption to make based on the Church’s exaltation of the first day of the week, Sunday.  Also, they probably have heard Christian preachers refer to Sunday as the Sabbath because this is commonly done.  Moreover, Sunday observance is presented as being a biblical obligation by many preachers.

So, what’s the lie?  The Bible does not either command or encourage Sunday observance or worship.  There is not one single passage in the entire Bible that commands people to honor or worship on Sunday.  In fact, there is not a single passage where God ever blesses the first day of the week, Sunday, period.  Moreover, the Bible clearly states that God’s Sabbath is on the seventh day of the week, Saturday, and that He did bless and sanctify the seventh day, but not Sunday.  So, all of these statements by Christian preachers are absolute, unarguable lies!

What is the cover-up?  Christian preachers have gone farther into dishonesty in order to cover-up their great lie that Sunday is the Sabbath, by deceptively saying that Sunday is the “Lord’s Day”, and that it needs to be kept to honor Jesus’ resurrection.  What’s the deception here?  Once again, there’s not one single passage in the entire Bible that says Christians are to observe the first day of the week, Sunday, in order to honor Jesus’ resurrection.  And, Jesus Himself stated that the “Lord’s Day” is the seventh day, Saturday, not Sunday.

We obviously have a real dishonesty problem with most Christian leaders, which should serve as a warning to all Americans.  I conclusively prove their dishonesty beyond the shadow of a doubt in my podcast titled, “The Bible Truth About Sunday”, which will be posted in a couple of days.

I ask you to consider the Church’s usage of government Sunday laws to force compliance with their religious dogma in the past.  If they’ve united with the state before in order to enforce compliance with religious beliefs, it is likely that they will do so again if given the opportunity.  Remember, they succeeded in enforcing a religious dogma that is not even supported in the Bible.

Now think about it.  If they’ve messed with the Bible, which they claim to love and revere, will they not also mess with our Constitution if given the chance?  America beware!  The Christian Church, primarily the right wing Evangelical movement, is once again expanding into politics with intentions to take over our government and to control its policies.

Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN) is the largest religious broadcasting network in the world.  They have over 10,000 stations that literally span the globe.  Its founders, Paul and Jan Crouch, may have come from humble beginnings, but their lifestyle is anything but humble today.  And, TBN’s airwaves are filled with the voices of many of the money-loving preachers I’ve been exposing on my “Evangelical Monday” blogs; the likes of Benny Hinn, Joyce Meyer, Creflo Dollar, Kenneth Copeland etc.  The old saying, “birds of a feather flock together”, often holds true.

Paul and Jan Crouch have “tightened their belts” and managed to get by with a combined annual income of $800,000.  They have humbled themselves to live in a $5 million oceanfront home in California that has an elevator, billiard room, climate controlled wine room, as well as nine bathrooms.  Let’s see, that would be four and a half bathrooms apiece.  That almost seems like more than necessary for two people,  but maybe they have diarrhea a lot.  Oh, I forgot to mention that they also have a $10 million, 80 acre ranch in Texas that has another eight houses.  Hmm, that would be another four houses each.  I guess they just need some private space to be alone at times.  And, who are we to judge?  We’ve all played the game of musical chairs.  Perhaps Paul and Jan play a variation of the game, “musical houses”.  Like Benny Hinn, Joyce Meyer, Creflo Dollar and most other tv preachers, Paul has a $13 million private jet furnished to him by TBN.  I imagine that was donation money well-spent because Paul has to keep up with the other tv hucksters.  Can you imagine how embarrassing it would be for Paul to have to fly “first class” on a regular airline, while “Brother Benny”, Joyce and Creflo fly in their own private jets?  The man has a reputation to protect; in fact, quite a reputation, as you will see. 

Maybe I’m being too hard on Paul and Jan.  After all, Paul did limit the size of his executive office in the TBN building to just 8000 square feet.  And, he was very discreet about its construction.  He only allowed a special crew of 25 carpenters to work on it, while it was off-limits to everyone else.  Now that I think about it, his executive office is still off-limits to everyone but Paul and Jan themselves, and special guests who they personally invite to visit with them in Paul’s modest “work area”.  What kind of conditions does Paul have to endure as he slaves away?  Just an office that’s four times larger than the average American house, and that contains a sauna, gym, bar, ornate velvet furniture and the most expensive custom, walnut woodworking available in the world.  You know, the kind of stuff that I’m sure you’d find in your local insurance or real estate agent’s office.  Did I mention that the 25 member carpentry crew worked full-time for six months on Paul’s office, which would have been a labor cost of about $780,000.  Once again, you can see that Paul and Jan made sure to “cut corners” to save their donors unnecessary expenses.

Also, don’t pay any attention to those stories that became public a few years ago regarding Paul’s alleged homosexual affair with his former limo driver.  What’s the chances of that being true?  Just because the story has been corroborated by a former employee of Crouch’s good friend Benny Hinn, and by an attorney who worked at the law firm that TBN and Crouch used for handling their legal matters.  And, just because Paul paid his alleged “gay partner” $425,000 in hush money, does not mean that Paul is guilty, right?

In view of the kind of characters being covered each week in my “Evangelical Monday” blogs, I’m beginning to wonder if I shouldn’t change the name of my Monday segments to something more appropriate; maybe a soap opera kind of name like, “As The Stomach Turns”. 

Spring is the season for baseball, picnics, flower gardens and weddings.  So, it seems appropriate for this week’s Evangelical Monday segment to feature a “Christian” wedding. 

The self-proclaimed prophetess, Juanita Bynum, had a typical, ordinary wedding not too long ago.  You know, the common, everyday wedding scenario with nearly 1000 guests, a 12-piece orchestra and 80 people in the wedding party.  And, Juanita wore the humble wedding attire of a preacher; a satin gown covered with Swarovski crystals and the standard 50 foot train.  Juanita and her groom, Bishop Thomas Weeks the third, did not want to be ostentatious, so they downsized her wedding ring to a meager 7.76 carat diamond; moreover, to be frugal, they limited the total cost of the wedding to about one million dollars.

Who officiated this modest event?  John Hagee was one of the pastors.  I guess that he was probably a good choice, since a million-dollar wedding certainly calls for a million-dollar preacher.  Of course, every wedding needs a photographer, but when you have an 80-person wedding party you need more than one photographer.  And, who could be better to provide this service for such an event than an 8-member camera crew from TBN, Trinity Broadcasting Network.  So, don’t go rushing to judgment about the cost of this event because, as you can see, this ceremony was all about the gospel; a preacher-bride, a preacher-groom, a preachers’ camera crew, and a pro-Israel, anti-Catholic, millionaire preacher officiating the service.  What a holy event, right?

Unfortunately, not long after the wedding, the “Christian couple” parted ways.  And, not long after the separation, the  “Bishop” Weeks was arrested for assaulting the “prophetess”, allegedly having kicked, hit and choked her.  I’m sure it was just a little Christian disagreement conducted with love and respect.  Once again, don’t jump to hasty and unfair conclusions about these two dedicated servants of God, because there is a perfectly good explanation why this lovers’ spat occurred.  Bishop Weeks told authorities that “the devil made him do it”.  Now that you know the reason, I’ll bet you’re probably feeling a bit ashamed for having judged them, aren’t you?

Now that the Bishop has been expelled from Juanita’s nearly $5 million estate, the prophetess has more time to concentrate on how to better spread the gospel.  Therefore, she is creating a new makeup and bath products line, as well as planning to add a health spa for women onto her tiny 24-acre homestead.  How does that spread the gospel?  Well, how better to show people God’s love than by providing them quality lipstick, lotions and shampoo at slightly out-of-line prices?  And, you must also remember that this woman claims to be a prophetess, so God must have told her to spread the age-old truth that cleanliness is next to godliness.

It’s really too bad that Juanita Bynum and Thomas Weeks split up, because they made a good couple who deserved each other.  That’s “Evangelical Monday” for this week.

I hope you read my piece last week titled, “Lifestyles Of The Rich And Religious”.  That one should have startled you, but we have plenty more startling revelations to come.  Today I want to share some things with you about Joyce Meyer Ministries.  Joyce Meyer is probably the most famous woman preacher/teacher in America, if not the entire world.

The St. Louis Post Dispatch revealed some interesting data some time ago about Joyce Meyer and her ministry.  The figures released were from the years 2002 and 2003.  It was reported that the annual income of her ministry was about 90 million dollars.  It also revealed that Joyce’s annual salary was $900,000, and her husband Dave’s was $450,000.  That’s nearly a million and a half annually between the two of them.  Not bad for a “gospel preacher”.  But, that’s only half of the story.

Joyce’s ministry also bought her and Dave a two million dollar home with all bills paid by the ministry.  I guess we can understand that, right?  I mean how can she and her husband possibly pay for their own home with the mere million and a half salary they receive?  Oh, by the way, they also received an additional $50,000 annually for a housing allowance.  Well, I guess everyone needs a petty cash account for those odds and ends that you can’t afford.  And, the ministry board authorized the Meyers to control another $790,000 fund to be used at their discretion for bonuses to “executive management”.  I wonder who that could be, let’s see, Joyce is the President of the board and her husband Dave is the vice-president.  Well, just because they’re the two highest executive management officers does not necessarily mean that any of that extra $790,000 went to them, right?  And, even if it did, these people have bills to pay and hungry mouths to feed too.  Oh, that’s right, their bills are paid by the ministry. 

Then, there’s the Meyers’ three children.  Joyce saw to it that she wasn’t going to be a selfish parent and leave them out, so she had her ministry buy each of them a home.  However, you have to give Joyce credit.  She did not want to spoil her children by giving each of them million dollar homes, so she only let her ministry pay $1,475,000 total for the three homes.  She made her children live humbly in half-million dollar houses.  Good for you Joyce.

There are reportedly between 8 and 11 members on her ministry board.  Of course, Joyce, Dave and two or three of their children are included among those members.  I suppose they want to have enough family members on the board to make sure that the board doesn’t get carried away and give them more than what’s necessary to enable them to live humble lives as followers of Jesus.

I should mention that the board also authorized the Meyers to have free use of a corporate jet.  A few years ago when Joyce was in Minneapolis she shared why she needs to fly to her meetings in a private jet.  She explained that waiting in airports and all of the accompanying hassles involved with airline terminals would be so tiring.  Whereas now, when flying in her private jet, she can arrive at her meetings feeling fresh and be better prepared to be used by God.  I guess that makes sense.  How stupid of me not to think of that.  I should have known that Joyce would have a good and valid reason.  People need to travel in luxury in order to be powerfully used by God as Joyce is at her meetings.  That must be why the Apostle Paul either walked or rode an animal as he traveled across the Middle East, Europe and Asia preaching the gospel, so that he could be fresh for his meetings as well.  Paul knew Joyce’s secret.  Just ride a mule hundreds of miles and then you’ll be ready to be used powerfully by God.  After all, a mule and a private jet could be considered to be comparable methods of transportation when it comes to comfortable travel in preparation for preaching appointments.  Likewise, the Apostle Paul, who literally wrote half of the New Testament and evangelized two continents walking and riding an animal, was probably not used anymore powerfully by God than Joyce Meyer.  And, I’m sure that he probably used similar tactics as Joyce as well, right?

Joyce Meyer and the rest of these personal-jet-flying, million-dollar-salary-taking, mansion-living, diamond-wearing, luxury-car-driving, self-pampering, prosperity-preaching, gospel-abusing television evangelists are not worthy to carry the shoes of the Apostle Paul or any of the early disciples of Jesus Christ.  Paul said that he preached the gospel “free of charge” so that he would not “abuse his authority” in the gospel.  Does that sound like Joyce Meyer or her cohorts? 

It’s time to expose these Evangelical frauds, and that is what you will find me doing every Monday.  The Bible says that church leaders who sin publicly should be exposed and rebuked publicly.  So, I encourage you to share these posts far and wide.  These are the same people who are also very vocal and active in the right-wing political arena.  When people see their greed and corruption it should help to shrink their support base.

It’s “Evangelical Monday”, which means that it’s time for another episode of “preachers for hire”.  This week’s millionaire, I mean minister, is Creflo Dollar.  That’s right, that’s his real last name, “Dollar”.  And, it’s fitting, because if anyone knows how to make a pile of dollars off of the gospel, it’s Creflo Dollar.

“Brother Creflo” is the pastor of the World Changers Church International in Atlanta, Georgia.  They have a frugal ministry that managed to scrape up a mere $18 million cash to pay for their humble church abode with plush carpeting and luxury seating.  Now that I think about it, a pastor named “dollar” with a church named “changers”, is an appropriate combination of names.  Brother Creflo takes people’s dollars and changes them into personal assets for himself.

Pastor Dollar, of course, has to try to keep up with “Brother Benny”, Hinn that is, which requires him to have the same kinds of gospel essentials.  You know, the basics, like a $5 million private jet and a Rolls Royce.  And, every respectable preacher needs at least two homes.  So, Creflo purchased himself a couple of million-dollar homes. 

Pastor Dollar is one of those preachers who justifies his lavish lifestyle by claiming that Jesus was also wealthy.  Yes, as you can see, Creflo doesn’t let biblical facts get in the way of his teaching.  There is something else interesting and unique about him.  Creflo doesn’t let people touch him once his church services have started.  Why?  He says it’s because he doesn’t want anyone stopping the “anointing” that is flowing from him so abundantly.  There’s certainly “something” abundantly flowing from him alright, but I’m pretty sure it’s not an anointing.  What’s flowing from Creflo Dollar stinks of greed, selfishness and financial abuse.  And, unfortunately, there are plenty more of “his kind” to talk about in future episodes of Evangelical Monday.  

There are approximately 1400 mega churches in America ranging in size from 1500 to 45,000 members.  And, these super churches cost from $10 million to $100 million each.  This week we’ll take a look at the biggest one; the one that has 45,000 members; the one that cost about $100 million.

Joel Osteen is probably the most famous minister in America, if not the entire world.  He has written a couple of best-selling books which sold millions of copies each, and he pastors the largest church in the nation, Lakewood Church in Houston, Texas.  Lakewood Church is not your ordinary hometown church, even by mega-church standards.

Lakewood Church conducts its services in a remodeled NBA arena.  Lakewood leased the former Compaq Center, which previously housed the NBA’s Houston Rockets, from the city of Houston for about $12 million for a 30-year lease.  That figure, however, was only “chump change”.  Upon leasing the arena, Lakewood then engaged in a $95 million renovation project which included a theatre style 16,000 seat sanctuary, while maintaining the NBA gymnasium and a skating rink.  They also have a “food court”, book and music stores etc.  You know, the necessities to equip a church to serve the Lord.

Lakewood resembles an entertainment complex more than a church.  Their music presentations have all of the Hollywood special effects, flashing lights, smoke etc.  They have hired an Elvis impersonator to entertain their members on several occasions.  And, their 85,000 square foot children’s ministry center was designed by former Disney artists.  Obviously Lakewood is striving to follow the WWJD model.

In 2006 Lakewood reported total revenues of about $88 million, while their expenses equaled $71 million.  Of course, Lakewood has its priorities straight.  They made sure to spend slightly more than one percent of their meager income on national and foreign missions.  Somehow they managed to set aside 1 of those 88 million to help people.  Good for them.  They want to make sure not to be selfish with the Lord’s money.  Some of their other expenses included $19 million for television airtime, over $3 million for their worship tour events, $1 and one-half million for children’s program costs, and more than $1 million for music expenses.  Helping people almost got as much money as their fancy, bright lights, smoke-generating music productions.  It’s certainly reassuring to know that they have their priorities in order.  And, they only spent nineteen times as much money to stay on television, so they can collect more money, as they did helping people.  I’m sure that Jesus must be real proud of their stewardship.

I hope by now you know that I have a tendency toward sarcasm.  Lakewood is about as far away from what Jesus would have done with that money as the east is from the west.  If Lakewood would have built a simpler, but still very nice, steel construction building, they could have saved enough money to save the lives of one million starving children.  So, Lakewood and Mr. Joel Osteen, what would Jesus have done?  Apparently Lakewood decided that they needed a more luxurious and entertaining church more that those one million children needed to live.

The state of things in America’s Evangelical, mega-church land sickens me.  And, I will continue to bring these abuses to light each week on “Evangelical Monday” in hopes of embarrassing Evangelicals into making the necessary reforms. 

I guess I should have known that he was due for some more bad advice or absurd statements.  Pat Robertson just can’t refrain from making outlandish remarks or contradicting the Bible, notwithstanding that he presents himself as being a knowledgeable Bible teacher.

While visiting Robertson’s CBN website today I noticed that Pat had a question and answer page.  I thought it would be interesting to see what kind of sage advice Pat was sharing.  A young man had asked, “when is it right to go to war?”  Robertson then proceeded to impart some of his frequently dispensed wise misinformation.  He confidently stated that there are just wars.  And, he added that America’s current ”calculated response” following the 9-11 attack against our nation, is an example of a “just war” that fulfills the necessary biblical grounds.  Pat then referred to a Bible passage, Romans 13:1-4, as supposed biblical proof.

Either Mr. Robertson, the famous Bible teacher, is ignorant concerning the Scriptures or he’s being intentionally dishonest.  The passage he quoted has nothing to do with war.  It deals with individual citizens’ obligation to obey the laws of their government, or to expect punishment from the rulers of that government, which in the case of Rome could include beheading with the sword for certain crimes committed by Roman citizens.  Because he didn’t have a legitimate scripture to answer the question of this sincere young man, he simply gave him one that was taken totally out of context in order to justify his own unbiblical stance regarding the Iraq war.

Jesus, of course, told us to love our enemies and do good to them, not attack and bomb them.  The Apostle Paul said that we are not to repay evil for evil or try to avenge ourselves, but to leave vengeance to God.  When Peter tried to use his sword against Jesus’ enemies, Jesus told him to put it away and said that all who use the sword will perish with the sword.  And, when Jesus stood before Pilate He said that if His Kingdom was of this world His servants would fight, but Jesus added that His Kingdom is not of this world, so His servants do not fight.

Robertson and other Evangelical leaders try to turn Jesus into a war monger with their just war lie.  Moreover, they deceitfully manipulate scriptures to bolster their false teaching.  Another way they do this is by reminding us that God ordained wars in the Old Testament era for Israel, which was His Old Testament Church so to speak.  Once again they practice deception.  While it is true that God did ordain wars in the Old Testament for Israel, they were only fought to acquire, defend or regain a specific piece of land that God had supernaturally promised to Abraham.  Israel’s wars were not fought to police the world.  America is not fighting in Iraq to defend land that God had supernaturally promised to the Bush Administration.  America is attempting to police the world.  This is neither biblical or just.

I guess I should not have been surprised to find new misguided rhetoric on Pat’s website.  This is the same guy that advocated assassinating the Venezuelan President, Hugo Chavez.  Remember, Robertson is a gospel minister.  He is supposed to be involved saving lives, not snuffing out life.  However, this type of statement was not a first for this “hit-man preacher”.  In the August 18, 1986 edition of the New York Magazine, Pat Robertson stated that almost all great builders of our nation have been Christians.  He added that “termites” (non-Christians) have now taken over the institutions that Christians built.  He then declared that the time has arrived for a godly fumigation.  Fumigation is done to kill termites.  If the non-Christians are the termites, what was Robertson suggesting?

Maybe sometime soon I’ll check out Pat’s website again to catch another wacky episode of the “Pat Robertson Show”.

Although the vast majority of scientists throughout the world are in agreement concerning the validity of global warming and the serious threat it poses for the future of our planet, most Evangelicals and right-wingers in general still suggest that it’s all a hoax.  They say it’s nothing more than a scare tactic from the political left to secure support for their supposed radical, environmental agenda.

I will be writing on a fairly regular basis regarding the indisputable, scientific facts of global warming.  And, I want everyone to know that the God of Christianity and Jesus do care about this subject and its negative impact upon our planet.  This is another one of those areas where right-wing Evangelicals’ politics trumps their commitment to the Bible.

Evangelicals oppose the theory of evolution because they claim to believe that the universe was created by their God.  In fact, the New Testament states that Jesus Christ was the actual Creator.  Then, why don’t most Evangelicals, who profess to honor and love Jesus, care about the destruction of His creation that is occurring due to global warming?

God certainly loved and cared about all of His creation according to the book of Genesis.  The Bible records that God pronounced each specific part of His creation to be good as He created it.  So, why don’t Christian conservatives care as these good things that God created are being destroyed through mankind’s selfish and careless attitudes and actions?

The Bible states that all of the cattle and all of the animals in the forests belong to God.  Why is it not an important biblical issue to Evangelicals as these animals, which belong to their God, are being endangered through global warming?  Jesus also said that God cares for all of the birds, and that He notices when even one of them falls from the sky.  God obviously cares, so why don’t right-wing Christians?  And, certainly God cares about the many millions of people whose lives are at risk if we continue to ignore the reality of global warming.

It is also interesting and relevant that Evangelicals are waiting for the soon return of Jesus, being confident that they will not be left behind for destruction with the rest of the wicked.  However, they need to read Revelation 11:18, which says that among those who are destroyed by Jesus when He returns, are those who are destroying the earth.  Once again, the Bible is clear that God loves and values all of His creation, and that He does not take it lightly when people carelessly and selfishly destroy it, such as is happening via global warming.  Right-wingers beware!  Some of those wicked might include you.