So, our beloved “Reverend” Robertson does it again.
You know the liberals, the so called socialists, the progressives, they’ve moved away from God and when you move away from God then you say, ‘were humanists.’ Then as a result of humanity and rejecting God, you have the orgy of the French Revolution, you have the guillotine cutting off the heads of thousands of people, you have the same thing going on now in Europe, you had it under the Nazis. Why can’t we come back to the fact that God loves people?
LOL. Who knew “humanity” would result in orgies? And incidentally, I wish the good reverend were a bit more specific about what is going on in Europe now that also went on under the Nazis.
While no one would ever doubt Robertson’s historic literacy (LOL again!), he might care to know that the Reign of Terror was not caused exactly by rejecting God. The architect of the mass murders of 1793 to 1794 was a man named Maximilien Robespierre, who, as it happens, was appalled at atheism, just like Pat Robertson:
Advocated by extreme radicals like Jacques Hébert and Antoine-François Momoro, the Cult of Reason distilled a mixture of largely atheistic views into a anthropocentric philosophy. No gods at all were worshiped in the Cult – the guiding principle was devotion to the abstract conception of Reason.
This rejection of all divinity appalled the rectitudinous Robespierre. Its offense was compounded by the “scandalous scenes” and “wild masquerades” attributed to its practice. In late 1793, Robespierre delivered a fiery denunciation of the Cult and its proponents and proceeded to give his own vision of proper Revolutionary religion. Devised almost entirely by Robespierre, Le culte de l’Être suprême was formally announced before the French National Convention on 7 May 1794.
Robespierre used the religious issue to publicly denounce the motives of many radicals not in his camp, and it led, directly or indirectly, to the executions of Revolutionary de-Christianisers like Hébert, Momoro, and Anacharsis Cloots. The establishment of the Cult of the Supreme Being represented the beginning of the reversal of the wholesale de-Christianisation process that had been looked upon previously with official favor.
Wow. A guy setting up a state religion to put an end to de-Christianization? Beginning to sound like Robertson himself!
Which reminds me of Bill Maher’s priceless tribute to Jerry Falwell.
http://youtu.be/w2QbGHBRVQ8
To answer Maher’s question: While, as always, God is unavailable for questions, I suspect he kept Robertson alive for the benefit of atheists.
