Ten Offenses [Paperback]

Pat Robertson (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 1, 2005

The Ten Commandments are a gift from God, intended to protect and bless His people. Yet there is so much confusion and misunderstanding regarding these ten timeless truths. How could something so good be so offensive? In this book, Pat Robertson takes a fresh, penetrating look at the benefits of honoring the Ten Commandments--both personally and as a nation.

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Incendiary and one-sided, this jeremiad by Robertson, founder of Regent University and The Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN), will further polarize the national debate on moral issues. Robertson claims that our society is rapidly deteriorating because of "the antireligious vendetta that the forces of militant secularism have urged for decades upon the Supreme Court," and he prescribes a national embrace of the Bible's 10 commandments as a cure. Students of history will find the book rife with errors. John Adams-who was in London when the Constitution was drafted and first read its provisions weeks after the framers had completed their task-is credited as that document's "chief architect." And in a section on the "Jewish backlash" to anti-Semitism, Robertson suggests that both the Anti-Defamation League and the American Jewish Congress were created after the Holocaust, their founders having decided that "the future safety of American Jews would exist only if secularism replaced Christianity in the public arena." (The organizations date to 1913 and 1918, respectively.) The book's last chapters, which dissect each of the commandments individually, are stronger and more focused than the opening overview chapters. Robertson argues effectively that our nation's violations of the eighth commandment (stealing) should include Napster downloads, loan defaults, grade inflation at elite universities, journalistic chicanery and identity theft. But 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. Thomas Jefferson would surely roll in his grave.
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The Ten Commandments were given to protect and bless. From 1607, they were regarded as the foundational pillars of the civic and religious life of our nationa. Since 1947, an out-of-control judiciary has decreed an ongoing vendetta against our religious heritage. In 1980, the Supreme Court forbade public schools to expose school children to commandments that we Americans knew were vital to their education--"You shall not murder"; "You shall not steal"; "You shall not give false testimony"; "Honor your father and your mother."

Thinking people are outraged. How have commandments that we regarded as blessings suddenly become unlawful--in fact, Ten Offenses? The facts set forth in this groundbreaking book will shock and amaze you. Pat Robertson will lay out for you step by step the insidious movements which brought about the loss of our religious heritage. You will learn of landmark court cases and the havoc judicial decisions have brought upon our nation.

The Ten Offenses calls on all the people of America to look at the evidence--the hijacking of our democracy by activist judges, the rampant violence, the multiple addictions, the moral decadence of the media, the stealing and lying that have been revealed in corporate America. Then Robertson takes a fresh, penetrating look at each of the Ten Commandments so that we might rediscover the inestimable value of these timeless laws. What are the benefits of honoring God's laws, both personally and as a nation? What are the dangers if we break them?

Here is an action plan to reclaim the blessings of God's eternal truths while there is still time. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Product Details

• Paperback
• Publisher: Integrity Publishers (June 1, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1591451817
• ISBN-13: 978-1591451815
• Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 5.1 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 2.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,248,129 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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21 of 37 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars This country is not a theocracy!, April 3, 2005

A Kid's Review

This review is from: The Ten Offenses (Hardcover)

And it was never meant to be. I'm sick of corporate fatcat traveling show preachers like Pat Robertson and Jerry Farright complain about this supposed "militant secularization of America". Gimme a friggin' break. Conservative christians have DOMINATED this country's political power for the greater half of the past 200 years in this country. It was only recently that people realized that not everyone in America was a caucasian christian with a fair amount of money that things started to change to accomodate everyone, and so the far right fundamentalists cried out in rage that their long reign was being disputed. Today, they act as if America has branded christianity public enemy one. Patty boy has even gone as so far to compare today's conservative christians with Jews in Europe as far as oppression goes! Yes, the Ten Commmandments have been removed....but so what? Do you see government troops raiding your house everytime you have a christian Youth Fellowship meeting? Are you threatened with execution on treasonous charges in America if a government official finds a Bible in your possesion? NO! But this is what real people in much less priviledged countries have to go through, and Robertson and his like should be ashamed to compare themselves to people who really suffer for what they believe. The America of old JAILED a man for simply teaching a science theory to a high school class. The America of today rightfully jails psychos who think that unborn fetus life is worth more than the lives of the doctors who are simply helping women from being butchered by a backalley thug with a coathanger.

America is not, was not and will never be a theocracy. A theocratic government is primitive, pious and dangerous. One need only look at Iran for such an example. Let's leave theocracies in the dark age where they belong and leave power-hungry false prophets like Pat in the trash.

54 of 93 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars The Battle, Christians, is for your Soul, January 29, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: The Ten Offenses (Hardcover)

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.

10 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Practice what you preach, August 26, 2005

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This review is from: The Ten Offenses (Hardcover)

It's pretty rich for Pat to write a book about the ten commandments when he doesn't even follow them himself. Last time I checked, "Thou shall not murder" was one of the big ten.