Certainly there are things that Pat Robertson says that all Christians agree with...correct? How am I to know when he speaks a truth for all and when he speaks a truth for his particular subset? Perhaps in the examples we have been discussing it could be argued that the differences are obvious. But again, how do we know where to draw the line between understanding when he speaks a “truth” for all Christians and when he speaks on some other level?
I'm astonished that you know so few Christians; or, perhaps, you live in a part of the world with a concentration of the worst sort of them.
From the Christians I know well, I don't have to ask what they think of Pat Robertson and never have. I just know that they will disagree with him on almost
everything. The only areas of agreement would be just enough to make them all Christians.
I have noted a number of times here that I also know I (an atheist) have much more in common in almost any philosophical area with my Christian friends than they do with some of the "Christians" that drop in here or with Pat Robertson.
I'm inclined to think, for example, that Jar and I have more in common then he does with any number of the "Pat R." type of Christians. The statement that a group of Christians will all (or even most) be more similar to each other than to an atheist is a suspect claim in my opinion and experience.
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