Yahoo! News: Israel Suspends Contact With Pat Robertson
JERUSALEM - Israel has suspended contact with evangelist Pat Robertson for suggesting Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's stroke was divine punishment for withdrawing from the Gaza Strip.
The decision, announced Wednesday by Israeli officials, does not affect other Christian groups that also consider it their spiritual duty to support Israel as fulfillment of biblical prophecy.
Israeli leaders see the Christian allies as tireless lobbyists in Washington and elsewhere. The evangelicals also funnel millions of dollars each year to Jewish settlers in the West Bank and — before last year's pullout — the Gaza Strip.
(Okay, I'm not going to stop doing links cold turkey. I'm just going to try to cut down a little, and comment more.)
2 comments:
I remember reading somewhere that president Chavez from venezuela kicked out some evangelical groups from his country a few months back. I wonder did it belong to Pat and if did it, it would serve him right for acting "holier than thou" and being in reality so far from holy to begin with himself.
Yes, the evangelical group was called New Tribes. I actually mentioned it a while back
here and here
But I don't know if Pat Robertson is actually involved with them. Given the whole assassination issue, I would be surprised if they were let into the country in the first place.
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