I apologize to keep on the Pat Robertson thing, but I hadn’t read that he quoted Dietrich Bonhoeffer until now. I’m outraged. Really, I’m so pissed off that he likened his comments to Bonhoeffer’s that I can’t even put it into words. This is what he quoted from Bonhoeffer:
If I see a madman driving a car into a group of innocent bystanders, then I can’t, as a Christian, simply wait for the catastrophe and then comfort the wounded and bury the dead. I must try to wrestle the steering wheel out of the hands of the driver.
I think there may just be a wee bit of a difference between Venezuela’s political leader and Adolf Hitler.
Read the rest of the article here.
Every leader with power has to wrestle with the Leviathan and Mammon which linger around them. I wonder how many pastors around water coolers have said these very same kind of things to each other.
I was in Atlanta Georgia during 9-11. Later that day, a mad as a hornet pastor said to me, “God bless America and we had better bomb the hell out of somebody.”
The temptation of manifest destiny is manifold supremacy.
I’m Canadian, so I’ll just stick to shovelling my snow.
kbartha
August 26th, 2005
I’m no Pat Robertson fan, or that kind of Christianity fan for that matter, but I wonder – so, if the leader is reaaaally bad enough, we are then allowed to call for and plot their assassination?
+ Alan
August 26th, 2005