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Pat Robertson. President of the 700 Club. Well-known Christian televangelist. Probably a Christian. Maybe not. The "maybe not" comes after I read this headline:
Pat Robertson Tells Wife Of Cheating Husband To Be Grateful For Marriage, Make Home Enticing
Forget it. I wasn't going to post the whole article, but now I am.
Pat Robertson has many opinions on subjects including homosexuality, politics and the coming of the Mark of the Beast, but it was the famous televangelist's opinion on marriage that took center stage during Wednesday's episode of his daily television program, "The 700 Club."
Responding to a question from a viewer, Robertson said that married men "have a tendency to wander" and it is the spurned wife's job to focus on the positive and make sure the home is so enticing, he doesn't want to stray.
"I've been trying to forgive my husband for cheating on me," the viewer writes. "We have gone to counseling, but I just can't seem to forgive, nor can I trust. How do you let go of the anger? How do you trust again?"
While Robertson's co-host hedged on the question, calling forgiveness "difficult" and spousal infidelity "one of the ultimate betrayals," Robertson got right to the point.
"Here's the secret," the famous evangelical said. "Stop talking the cheating. He cheated on you, well, he's a man."
The wife needs to focus on the reasons she married her spouse, he continued.
"Does he provide a home for you to live in," Robertson said. 'Does he provide food for you to eat? Does he provide clothes for you to wear? Is he nice to the children... Is he handsome?"
Robertson also offered a little advice on the "tendency of man."
"Recognize also, like it or not, males have a tendency to wander a little bit," Robertson said. "What you want to do is make a home so wonderful that he doesn't want to wander" or give in to the "salacious" magazine pictures and Internet filled with porn.
This is certainly not Robertson's first foray into anecdotal marital counseling, however.
In January, Robertson told viewers that "awful-looking" women can cause marriages to lose their spark.
"It just isn't something to just lie there, 'Well, I'm married to him so he's got to take me slatternly looking,'" he said. "You've got to fix yourself up, look pretty."
Similarly, in 2010 the host advised a woman complaining about her husband's flirtatious ways not to "hassle him about it" and just make herself as attractive as possible.
He also once told a husband upset that his wife didn't respect him that he could always just "become a Muslim and you could beat her."
There are so many things WRONG with this article and with Robertson's view of marriage I can't stand it!!!
So maybe you're a Christian. Maybe you're not. Maybe you have a clean, tidy, quiet house waiting for your husband (or wife) when he comes home. Maybe you don't.
If you're a Christian, please don't think it's solely your fault if there is infidelity of any kind in your relationship with your spouse. Granted...there is SOME truth to having a clean, tidy, quiet home for your family. There is SOME truth about "men being men." We all play a part in our marriage relationship. We are all sinners.
If you're not a Christian, please don't think all Christians are like Robertson. I recognize there is a lot of fault in the Church as a whole and outside of Jesus, we are all condemned to Hell. I'm sorry for the misconceptions brought to the table by this man and others like him. I pray your heart is open to seeking who Jesus REALLY is for you and for the world.
The point isn't, "Keep a clean house and your spouse won't have an affair." The point is, "We all need a Savior, every day, including Pat Robertson."
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