Religion

Even for Pat Robertson, this is appalling: “Prominent evangelical leader on Khashoggi crisis: let’s not risk ‘$100 billion worth of arms sales.’”

I mean, there were several other available ways for him to make this argument. They’d all be sleazy and immoral, but not quite this sleazy and immoral. He could have gone with the absurdly false-but-popular dodge — invoked today by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, among others — that the Saudis are an important ally in the fight against terrorism. Or he could have gone all Kissinger-esque “realist” and just conceded that MBS is “a monster, but he’s our monster.”

But no. Instead, Uncle Pat went with a straight-up, unqualified assertion about what America is, what America does, and what America is for: arms sales in the billions.
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But Pat Robertson isn’t talking about this “$100 billion worth of arms sales” as a starkly ugly fact, as a critique of American blood-money and our shared complicity in this evil. He’s celebrating it as a Good Thing. He’s saying it’s what America ought to be doing.

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/2018/10/18/god-and-mammon-this-isnt-a-rule-you-have-to-obey-its-just-how-it-works/