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What, from your perspective then, was wrong with it? When you get into black-and-white theology, you have to be able to explain things in a very simple way. We taught the Bible as a self-help manual. Sex, more than everything else, scares people who want their children to be safe and to live in a sanctified world. And guiding them becomes an easy task — what we gave them was Republican Party politics. We had an explanation for all their fears — the lack of personal responsibility, big government, people trying to take from you what really belongs to you, self-responsibility, self-responsibility, self-responsibility.
All those things worked very well with the type of Christianity we were preaching. Did you, personally, not feel that sexual morality was the be-all and end-all of Christian morality? I was a TV guy!
We all had a mission — to restore the USA to a godly nation. The fact that all that revolves around sex — it was convenient. Pat is a politician who happens to be a minister. He grew up as a Southern aristocrat in Virginia.
His father was a US senator. It was the day it happened. But he called me and prayed with me. People are living, breathing, and practicing lies. What do you make of that? As smart as Pat Robertson is, and as good as he is at marketing, he is also highly susceptible to his own hype. In that way, Trump plays him like a piano. If you watch his most recent interview, some of the things that Trump says to Pat are really way out there in terms of manipulating Pat.
He builds him up like a salesman would, and Pat is susceptible to that, I think. There is such fear on the right about the Supreme Court. I remember one show that we were taping in which Pat prayed that God would kill the Supreme Court justices.
Because in terms of media development, the church — the message of evangelicalism — has always been at the forefront [of technology]. Robertson attracted a large audience and went on to have several U. Robertson was the son of a U. He ran for president in and also founded the Christian Coalition, galvanizing American evangelicals into a conservative political force. But in politics, I think what he did was help cement the alliance between conservative Christians and the Republican Party.
But Robertson also called for ending mandatory prison sentences for marijuana possession convictions.
Gordon Robertson, 63, is a Yale-educated former real estate lawyer who is less known than his father, if at all controversial.
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