I stumbled upon this FAQ on the 700 Club website entitled "Bring It On." Here, Pat Robertson, much like the Ayatollah Sayyid Ali Husayni Sistani of Iraq, answers various questions ranging from the deeply theological to the everyday mundane. In a section entitled "The Occult and False Religions," Mr. Robertson ruminates about such kooky topics like tarot cards, vampires, psychics, and Islam.
Specifically, Mr. Robertson, when asked whether Allah is the same as the Christian god, states:
"Under no circumstances is Jehovah, the God of the Bible, and Allah, of the Koran, the same. Allah was the moon god from Mecca. That is why Islam has the crescent moon. The flag of Turkey has a crescent moon with a star on it. Well, the crescent moon is because Allah was a moon god, and that is the deal. But we don't serve a moon god. We serve the God of creation, the creator of Everything."
For the rest of Pat Robertson's illuminating thoughts, click here.
I am very glad Mr. Robertson clarified we don't worship a moon god, and clarified Islam for the billion and so adherents of that religion (including Ayatollah Sistani) who had mistakenly believed that they did indeed worship the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
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from Robertson's War on Terror FAQ: When you look through history, whether it’s the Assyrians or the Babylonians or the Egyptians, the Germans, the Russians, the Muslims just seem to be the latest that want to literally wipe out the Jewish people. And that’s because they’re part of God’s time clock. And when you see Israel start to come into being, then the enemy knows that the time is short. And Revelations talks about him being thrown down to earth and being very angry, because he knows his time is short. So if he can wipe out Israel, he can stop God’s time clock. So that’s part of it and I think the most significant part.
This is something that I find frustrating about widespread religious belief and the mixture of religion and politics. From this point of view, people disagree not because they have different perspectives, values, and positions, but because "we" follow God and "they" follow the Devil. It's so easy to say that those who disagree with you do so because they work with Enemy. There's no reasoning or informed conscience, just bias reinforced by convenient fiction.
Not to mention, the insinuation is that the Muslims want to kill the Jews because they want to stop the "time clock" and its countdown to the end times. O Brother.
The evangelical preoccupation with Israel is terrifying. It suggests that a not-insubstantial portion of the electorate may be voting for Bush's foreign policy, not because they think it is an effective way to fight terrorism, but because they hope it will lead to the end of the world. Literally, the end of the world.
I think that's a lot worse than the "moral values" voting that is usually associated with that community. It's one thing to unnecessarily interfere with people's personal lives. It's a whole different ballgame to advocate foreign policy designed to bring about the end of the world.
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