Religious politics makes even stranger bedfellows than the ordinary kind.
Praising the Almighty for striking down Israel's Ariel Sharon (or anyone else) expresses a particularly odious fanaticism. American evangelist Pat Robertson and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad both deserve condemnation for the warped sense of religion and the indecency each showed in attributing political motives to his own vengeful version of God.
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Important differences separate the two men. For one thing, Robertson eventually apologized after a barrage of criticism. And Robertson is primarily a danger to himself, a clownish performer who has stayed on stage far too long and is self-destructing. More power to him in that endeavor, and may Robertson also help discredit the Israeli extremists who have b
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