Alex Moon

I was watching tv a couple of weeks ago, and came across the 700 club doing their news analysis segment. Morbid curiousity getting the better of me, I watched it. They were talking about some Christian university which had just lost accredation or somesuch because they taught creationism in science courses. Now, what shocked me was that Pat Robertson's response was almost favorable to the government. He said that basically, they were being too literal with Genesis, and that getting their accredation taken away over a single issue was foolish for the school. Now, exactly how Fundimentalist do you have to be for *Pat Robertson* to be saying cut it out...

::shakes head in amazement::

ybnormal

In order to keep from being shocked, maybe one must first make the realization that none of these folks are righteous, no matter how often they claim to be... they are all animals/humans first, then they are xians... thus, being survivalists, they will most always do and say what most benefits themselves... and why should they not, since it is more than obvious that they are wholly convinced that they are wholly right.

Pat did the exact same thing when he said something to the effect that, abortion was OK, and was required by China, in order to control its massively growing population... one would think he would make a good Secretary of State... most everyone understood that he was being forced to protect himself, protect his Chinese business interests and of course, protect the future desire that his message would reach a quarter of the earth's people. Such self-protection was far more critical than his standing up for his well-publicized, yet only 'perceived', core values.

Same thinking here I think, in that a proper translation of his words and reasoning would probably hear him saying, in essence, "the school should have compromised its core values, in order to see the larger gain, that of being 'perceived' as a mainstream, conventional and accredited university."

In other words, the man obviously can't stand up for these core values, because they clearly are not his core values. So what are his core values? Survival. And clearly not, being righteous.

On another note, I don't think I understand your fundy comment in the last line.