Lucky God Left out Lying

The Rev. Pat Robertson went back on television Wednesday to try to dig himself out of the pit he put himself in earlier this week when he declared that the US ought to assassinate Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. Speaking once again on his Christian Network, Robertson said he never called for Chavez’ assassination, just his kidnapping.

The Reverend declared:

I said our special forces could take him out. Take him out could be a number of things including kidnapping. There are a number of ways of taking out a dictator from power besides killing him. I was misinterpreted.

Of course if you look at the actual text of his comments on Monday you find this:

If he thinks we're trying to assassinate him, I think that we really ought to go ahead and do it.

Well, I suppose it is a good thing that God left out lying when he sent the Ten Commandments down to Moses. You wouldn’t want to have a major US Christian leader breaking two of them in one week.