It's been a long time. Sorry folks. I promise I will reward you with a redesign before long.

The latest national gaffe is the handiwork of a fun fellow by the name of Pat Robertson. You may know him as a prominent religious discussion figure on "The 700 Club." He seemed to have a little issue with Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez. He didn't think Chavez was a friendly guy; he considered him a threat to the US. So he proposed an effective solution: Robertson thinks someone should assassinate Chavez.

Yeah, that sounds like the Christian way to me.

"Thou shalt not... um... [mumble something unintelligible]. Now off the jerk!"

Give me a break. There is no way, no how, you can justify this. Christian doctrine teaches that it is not humanity's place to judge who is worthy to live, but rather that is God's domain. And Mr. Robertson is trying to tout killing as a Christian action. There's no freaking way! I don't care what Chavez is guilty or capable of, it's simply not the Christian thing to do. You can say that killing someone is justified to save other lives or whatever and that may be true in a secular moral sense, but it's simply not true in a Judeo-Christian moral sense (or, imagine, nearly any religious moral sense). As a Christian, I'm usually not too persnickety about sticking absolutely to the Bible and all the doctrine, but I just simply do not think you can purport killing as a Christian action. It scares me that someone can justify such an atrocity, justifiable or not, as an act of faith. I just can't fathom the dark places to which such thinking could lead.