NoNukes writes:
There must be dozens of ways to demonstrate his idiocy without being the least bit controversial.
kofh2u writes:
example...?
Robertson was right about 911.
That is not the example I would have picked. But I do have to thank you for pointing out my error. When I claimed that there must be dozens of ways to demonstrate Pat's idiocy without raising a controversy, I was wrong. There are far fewer. Perhaps there are none. My error was underestimating the ability of human beings to believe the ridiculous and to generate a faux controversy. Thanks for providing your own personal example. I was moved enough to cheer your message.
My point was that given the audience here, Faith could have made a better choice of example. But now I'm not so sure. I would have used the following as an example of Pat's lunacy
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Just like what Nazi Germany did to the Jews, so liberal America is now doing to the evangelical Christians. It's no different. It is the same thing. It is happening all over again. It is the Democratic Congress, the liberal-based media and the homosexuals who want to destroy the Christians. Wholesale abuse and discrimination and the worst bigotry directed toward any group in America today. More terrible than anything suffered by any minority in history.
Really? More terrible than the Inquisition, the Holocaust, and slavery? More terrible than anything the early Christians faced?
I might have mentioned his support of war criminal Charles Taylor.
Or Pat's ridiculous remarks about Haiti and Napolean which are not even close to being historically correct.
But some people do believe that crazy crap.
In any event, your point is well taken. Because there are people stupid enough to believe anything, everything is controversial.
Edited by NoNukes, : No reason given.
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