With prophetic timing, Pat Robertson takes a penetrating look at the reality and rhetoric of the coming new world order and the implications for people of faith. This New York Times bestseller gives a compelling assessment of the imminent dangers looming on the world's horizon.
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50 of 71 people found the following review helpful
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Robertson writes about the coming 'antichrist'-figure: he will "recruit tens of thousands of willing servants," appear "not as an evil or sinister force, but as an enticing, loving, and powerful force," he would "pursuade men and women that his motives were just," and attract his followers with the promise that they could share his kingdom" (175).
Isn't this what fundamentalist Christianity is about? Evangelizing the entire world into a theocracy? Or was this book written out of blatent fear and weakness?
My read of this book is that the so-called "social gospel" that evangelized America in the last 100 years or so has finally petered out, forced with the need to *change* to maintain its relevance or die. This book is a good example of a dying cry.
Speaking as a Christian, do any of these "Christians" realize that when they point their finger at other religions for having the 'characteristics' of an antichrist, too often those that know better chuckle, knowing that the fundamentalists are making a parody of themselves?
But then again, I don't have claim to have a connection to 'absolute truth.' Robertson does claim this throughout his 'book'...and too often his version of Christianity harks back to his definitions of "cult."
Read it for a good laugh or to cry about the state that the beautiful tradition and religion we call "Christianity" has degenerated to.
45 of 64 people found the following review helpful
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Even Amazon's review is no more than two sentences long. Talk about damning with faint praise. Here's why I would not recommend this book.
First, it's Robertson's constant repetition of analogies about the use of the words, new world order. (I get it already. Move on!) You get the feeling that he is regarding his readers as simpletons.
Second, he explains things in such nauseating detail, which educated Americans over the age of ten would not need explained. (I get it already. Move on!) You get the feeling that he is regarding his readers as simpletons.
Third, he talks about this mysterious group, the Illuminati. This is a supposedly secret organization that every superstitious Christian knows about, but which no one has found a single, live Illuminum to bring out of the overthrow closet. I get the feeling that I am regarding him as a simpleton.
At the risk of sounding effete or pedantic, this book is suited more toward a fourth or fifth grade reading level. It's repetition, simplemindedness, and whackadoodle philosophy will give you the thousand yard stare.
I sure am sorry I bought this. (I feel like such a simpleton.) The only thing this book might be good for is sleep apnia. Use with a strong toss of rye. Otherwise don't go near this book unless you have a cross and a charm of garlic. (Oh, the irony!)
You'll find more excitement in a bottle of Geritol and a lost episode of The Lawrence Welk Show.
This is the new world bore.
First, it's Robertson's constant repetition of analogies about the use of the words, new world order. (I get it already. Move on!) You get the feeling that he is regarding his readers as simpletons.
Second, he explains things in such nauseating detail, which educated Americans over the age of ten would not need explained. (I get it already. Move on!) You get the feeling that he is regarding his readers as simpletons.
Third, he talks about this mysterious group, the Illuminati. This is a supposedly secret organization that every superstitious Christian knows about, but which no one has found a single, live Illuminum to bring out of the overthrow closet. I get the feeling that I am regarding him as a simpleton.
At the risk of sounding effete or pedantic, this book is suited more toward a fourth or fifth grade reading level. It's repetition, simplemindedness, and whackadoodle philosophy will give you the thousand yard stare.
I sure am sorry I bought this. (I feel like such a simpleton.) The only thing this book might be good for is sleep apnia. Use with a strong toss of rye. Otherwise don't go near this book unless you have a cross and a charm of garlic. (Oh, the irony!)
You'll find more excitement in a bottle of Geritol and a lost episode of The Lawrence Welk Show.
This is the new world bore.
32 of 46 people found the following review helpful
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Pat Robertson's New World Order offers up a peculiar stew of nostalia for the little theocracies of colonial America, conspiracy theory, and out right religious bigotry that should be read by every thinking American. It is important to get inside the worldview of someone as influential as Robertson and understand that behind the avuncular TV persona is something truly dark, brooding and dangerous.
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AGAIN SHOWING CHRISTIAN LOVE...THROUGH HATE,INTOLERENCE LEADING TO...
ANOTHER HYPROCRITICAL NUT. THESE CHRISTIAN FUNDAMENTALISTS LIKE ARE LITERALLY SCREAMING JESUS,WHILE CUTTING YOUR THROATS, NOT UNLIKE THE JIHADI FUNDAMENTALISTS. Read more
Published on January 7, 2006 by VIKAS
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