01-30-2007, 09:32 PM
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What was even more regrettable was Robertson's assertion of some connection between idol worship and the poverty in India. Robertson does not deny his son's claim that "Wherever you find this type of idolatry, you'll find a grinding poverty. The land has been cursed."<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
It's a pity that Pat Robertson never studied European history, or the history of his own ancestors who all came running to the New World ( America, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, S. Africa, etc) from the christianized Old World (Europe), to escape the gruelling poverty of the Old World. Anyone who has read European history, or studied historical demography of Europe, or even the classic literature from 18th-19th century Europe, will understand the extent to which European society was plagued by extreme rampant poverty, terrible living conditions, and social divisions, which prompted the migration of millions of Europeans to the New Worlds in serch of better life. Yet, Europe was very much christian when poverty of an excruciating nature prevailed in Europe.
Even today in the US, parts of the country that are most christian are also the most poorest (e.g., Mississippi, Tennesse, Georgia, Louisiana, etc.). Not to mention the poverty in completely christianized Latin America. Or in the catholic Eastern Europe. Or the christianized Phillipines? The list of Christian poor countries is endless. It was the disassociation of church from state and the adoption of socialistic governments in many European countries that finally enabled these societies to escape from the vicious cycle of poverty. So, Pat Roberston can stop bullshitting, or at least stop thinking and hoping that people are going to buy this kind of bullshit from him.
This might be the strategy that foreign christian evangelists use in India and other countries to lure poor, vulnerable, and uneducated people to christianity, by giving them the false impression that Americans are wealthy <i>because</i> of christianity. This bubble of this myth needs to be burst.
What was even more regrettable was Robertson's assertion of some connection between idol worship and the poverty in India. Robertson does not deny his son's claim that "Wherever you find this type of idolatry, you'll find a grinding poverty. The land has been cursed."<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
It's a pity that Pat Robertson never studied European history, or the history of his own ancestors who all came running to the New World ( America, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, S. Africa, etc) from the christianized Old World (Europe), to escape the gruelling poverty of the Old World. Anyone who has read European history, or studied historical demography of Europe, or even the classic literature from 18th-19th century Europe, will understand the extent to which European society was plagued by extreme rampant poverty, terrible living conditions, and social divisions, which prompted the migration of millions of Europeans to the New Worlds in serch of better life. Yet, Europe was very much christian when poverty of an excruciating nature prevailed in Europe.
Even today in the US, parts of the country that are most christian are also the most poorest (e.g., Mississippi, Tennesse, Georgia, Louisiana, etc.). Not to mention the poverty in completely christianized Latin America. Or in the catholic Eastern Europe. Or the christianized Phillipines? The list of Christian poor countries is endless. It was the disassociation of church from state and the adoption of socialistic governments in many European countries that finally enabled these societies to escape from the vicious cycle of poverty. So, Pat Roberston can stop bullshitting, or at least stop thinking and hoping that people are going to buy this kind of bullshit from him.
This might be the strategy that foreign christian evangelists use in India and other countries to lure poor, vulnerable, and uneducated people to christianity, by giving them the false impression that Americans are wealthy <i>because</i> of christianity. This bubble of this myth needs to be burst.