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Summary: The Ten Offenses
Review: Pat Robertson offers a clarion call for Americans to rediscover the Ten Commandments and a summons for Americans to challenge the militant secularization of America. With the recent removal of the Ten Commandments display, from the State of Alabama, and at the behest of constitutional usurpers within the federal judiciary, the Ten Commandments and the integral Judeo-Christian morality that embodies our law is under attack. We live in a time when many agents of the State whether on judicial bench or teaching in the halls of academia deny moral absolutes. We also live in age of rising crime, immorality and broken families. Yet liberals much prefer to correlate the social pathologies afflicting us today to something trivial like urbanization or the impact of technologies. Robertson poignantly goes through each of the Ten Commandments and points out how we are called to righteousness, and that these legal principles remain the pillars law within civil society.
This book is misrepresented by liberals who more often than not have never so read it. The Publisher's Weekly review is very misleading particuarly this statement: "Robertson's solution to such ills lies not in emphasizing America as a nation with an enduring Christian heritage, but in claiming that the Founders desired America to be a Christian state." I digress. Pat Robertson succinctly and accurately explains the establishment clause of the First Amendment commensurate with original intent. This book does emphasize America's enduring Christian heritage.
The problem with liberal detractors of Robertson's book is that they perhaps assume that the law has no moral basis while they ignore the underlying Christian foundation within the Anglo-American common law tradition. What Robertson is advocating is not a "Christian state" per say but rather it is a clarion call for the people of the United States to recognize the vitality of the Ten Commandments. "Our Constitution," avowed John Adams, "was made only for a moral and religious people."
Robertson sets the record straight over the so called "establishment clause" within the First Amendment, and explains precisely what "no establishment of religion" means. Originally, an established church was an official denomonation, which receives taxpayer financing and may conceivably have authority to restrict practice of non-established sects. Robertson describes the impact of the establishment of the Anglican church in his native Virginia in 1700s. He brilliantly articulates what the establishment clause really means commensurate with original intent by the framers of the First Amendment. He espouses the principles animating Jefferson's Declaration of Religious Liberties. The Baptists like other denominations were persecuted by the Anglicans and forced to fund the established church through taxes. Moreover, they were punished for preaching the Gospel outside of that church and on the streets.
Robertson knows just as well as I do that regeneration, that is to say the regenerating work of the Holy Spirit that leads people to faith in Christ Jesus is what is most vitally requisite for restoring our nation's morals. He is not advocating some "religious-right" revolution to establish a Christian state that fearful secularist alarmists lament about so much. Rediscovering the Ten Commandments as a nation can only be made effectual by a mass revival of Gospel preaching. He is not advocating a "Christian state" while ignoring our "enduring Christian heritage." As they taught us at Regent, sphere sovereignty articulated by Abraham Kuyper enshrined in the American legal tradition necessitates that the ecclesiastical authorities and the civil magistrates are sovereign in their own respective sphere. For this reason, the state cannot trump the mission of the church nor dissolute the free practice of the Christian faith. Nor can the state ignore the vital Biblical principles that animate our Anglo-American legal traditions without laying waste to the rule of law in the progress. "The secular application of the Ten Commandments," notes Chief Justice Rehnquist, "is clearly seen in its adoption as the fundamental legal code of Western Civilization and the Common Law of the United States."
This book is a clarion call not so much for state action, but rather individual action on the part of believers.
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Summary: The Battle, Christians, is for your Soul
Review: Pat Robertson writes a book and gives it a title that infers it is almost as important as the 10 commandments. Certainly He understood and is saying he speaks for God? But does this book give an accurate description of what God desires?
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We live in a new age of the return of the Pharisee.
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In Jesus time this sect were the moralists of the age, they were the supermen of prayer; they were the formost obeyers of the Law; The keeper of the Temples; the Flame that tried to Keep the empire clean; They tore their robes and cried out in Public; They declared their's the most upright path and love for God; They formed a pact with the Leaders of the time in the hopes of making a Rightous Nation.AND JESUS SAID THEY DID NOT KNOW THE FATHER! That was in the Roman Empire and it is remarkable how similar things were then to our times now. It is a tragedy that is repeated over and over again and the world are the losers. Jesus spoke of the different way. He rejected the Moralists and told them that their Faith arose from their own Pride. Jesus introduced the Truth of the Law of God; The Law of Love; An Ethic much deeper and profound.
Our new Evangelical "Religion" has lost it's first Love, and now has become a noisy Gong... And Multi-millionaire Pastors of this "New Breed" writes books such as this one by Pat Robertson that are designed to take you away from the simple truth of the Gospels. This book claims to be about Christian Principles.. But if it were it would instead discuss the real problems facing our country and the world... The loss of love for each other; The idolitry of the Market (The way we have accepted Darwinian concepts in economics and social ideas even within the Church); Loss of concern for the Poor; The complete loss of the idea of humility;
We are the Rich Jesus warned about. Now *that* is something I would like to see Pat Robertson discuss in his next book. But I really doubt that will be written, nor certainly would it be a best seller.
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Summary: read it if you want to be insulted
Review: Pat Robinson sounds like a cult leader with his "our one true God", not only is he a hypocrite and an absolute bigot, he thinks liberals are all baby-killing, teen emancipating, thief consenting and emybro disecting freaks! Does he expect all 'pure' christians to sit church and read the bible all their damn life? This is the 21st century, none of these holier than thou concepts of living is feasible in this day and age is he kidding? are we all just an great dissapointment to God because we arnt like the rightous Pat Robinson? he is an agitator and too blind with his own hypocricy to even discern what is of God and what isnt.
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Summary: Separation of church and state.
Review: Simply because the country was founded by persons of a certain faith and that faith is a strong one today in America, does not mean that the country should be governed according to religious beliefs. We live in more enlightened times when we know (or should know) that whatever religion you are, or if you're non-religious, you've got the same entitlement to freedom, justice, etc. etc. here. The 10 Commandments case was not decided in error. And even though our money says "In God we trust," that doesn't mean that everyone here believes the same thing. It is stupid to argue that anyone who disagrees with that 'can go find another country to live in.' This isn't a poorly written, awful book, nor do people like me intend to insult or disrespect anyone. It just seems to us that books like this are from those who feel everyone in a country should be the same and hold the same beliefs. Strengthening moral values through religion is an excellent idea; but telling people who don't share your views that they're wrong and should go somewhere else just because your beliefs happen to be a majority isn't right. Not morally.
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Summary: Read the 30 January review
Review: The 30 January review is a great insight into how modern day Christians have strayed.
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Summary: Separation of church and state.
Review: The fact there are a lot of people putting up bad reviews about this book should only serve to show how far America has fallen. This country was built for Christians, as Pat Robertson explains here, but since the lie of evolution was brought into schools in the late 60's, our nation has gotten farther and farther from it's roots. If you don't know the history of the roots this country was founded on, then this is a must read, whether you are a Christian or not. If what you read offeneds you, that's because you've rejected God in your life. Most people have but this country want's God as its leader as our money states "in God we trust". So if you don't like that, that's fine, you can find another country to live in but if you're going to stay here, you need to live by the rules of this country instead of trying to change them to fit your own Godless lifestyle. If you're a Christian, then this is valuable information to have these days when the secular liberals try and twist and change the constitution and America's history.
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Summary: The truth of what America was designed to be
Review: The fact there are a lot of people putting up bad reviews about this book should only serve to show how far America has fallen. This country was built for Christians, as Pat Robertson explains here, but since the lie of evolution was brought into schools in the late 60's, our nation has gotten farther and farther from it's roots. If you don't know the history of the roots this country was founded on, then this is a must read, whether you are a Christian or not. If what you read offeneds you, that's because you've rejected God in your life. Most people have but this country want's God as its leader as our money states "in God we trust". So if you don't like that, that's fine, you can find another country to live in but if you're going to stay here, you need to live by the rules of this country instead of trying to change them to fit your own Godless lifestyle. If you're a Christian, then this is valuable information to have these days when the secular liberals try and twist and change the constitution and America's history.
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Summary: Pat Robertson and his Pat answers
Review: This book is for those people who need to feel righteous instead of feeling humble and getting to work on their own families. Jesus challenged people to re-conceive all the "Thou Shalt Not" thinking with a more positive kind "Do unto others as you would have others do unto you." That requires complicated thinking Robertson's writing doesn't reflect he has. Maybe Pat Robertson wasn't paying attention to that part of the Bible, too busy building a media empire that rivals any ancient king's. He likes the parts of the Bible where rigid laws get laid down, where you can blame someone else--another tribe? The Tribe of Feminists, The Tribe of Liberals, etc. --for your troubles, instead of paying attention to the log in your own eye: ignorance. Maybe we should go back to stoning adulteresses, avoiding shellfish, and shunning menstruating women simply because it's in the Bible as a law of the desert fathers. I do believe in Christ and in His message; Robertson once again makes Christians look foolish and whiny in this book. Give the money you'd spend on this book to your local charity or church instead. Shovel your next door neighbor's sidewalk when it snows. Use your God-given ability to think and act in positive directions.
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