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Pat Robertson and Bob Beckel criticize SNL for their Tim Tebow skit

Televangelist Pat Robertson has recently criticized Saturday Night Live for their Tim Tebow skit this past weekend.

He referred to it as "anti-Christian bigotry that's just disgusting." He added, "If this had been a Muslim country and they had done that, and had Muhammad doing that stuff, you would have found bombs being thrown off, and bodies on the street. We need more religious faith in our society, we're losing our moral compass in our nation."

USA Today columnist Bob Beckel also got into the act, as he told Fox News the following - "First of all, it's despicable to display Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior, like that on Saturday Night Live and they should be ashamed of themselves. And the fact that this keeps drawing attention to Tebow and Christianity and faith and Jesus and they make it into some sort of commercial operation...there's nothing funny about that."

The full article along with video clips of Robertson's tirade and the actual SNL skit can be read and viewed at the following site - http://www.thepostgame.com/blog/dish/201112/saturday-night-live-under-attack-thanks-tim-tebow-sketch

I'm not a religious person, so these kinds of skits aren't going to bother me nearly as much as those whom are in fact religious. At the same time, it is Saturday Night Live, They're not shy of stirring controversy and making fun of celebrities of all stripes, from the President of the United States to foreign leaders to professional athletes to religious leaders to actors and beyond. I'm not sure there's a person or a topic which is safe from satire on SNL. Get used to it, people. George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, Dick Cheney, Joe Biden, Michael Phelps, God, Jesus, Pat Robertson, Britney Spears, Tom Cruise, need I continue?

I find Robertson's comments to be ridiculous. Surprise, surprise, right? The guy is 81 and has obviously lost it (that may have occurred many, many years ago). I wish he'd retire. In any case, what was he really insinuating with his comments? That he wishes the U.S. was more like Muslim countries in terms of our sensitivity to the prophet worshiped by the majority of people in this country?

"If this had been a Muslim country and they had done that, and had Muhammad doing that stuff, you would have found bombs being thrown off, and bodies on the street. We need more religious faith in our society, we're losing our moral compass in our nation."

I wonder if he really knows what he said there. I'm guessing he doesn't. With regard to his other comment about the skit demonstrating "anti-Christian bigotry," he needs to learn how to take a joke. If the jokes had been at the expense of Barack Obama, Joe Biden, the Democratic Party, Occupy Wall Street, Jews, Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus, etc., I can guarantee Robertson would not make a peep about how "disgusting" the skit was or that it was demonstrating bigotry of some kind. Double-standards aplenty. Gotta love them.

In the meantime, Pat, lighten up...and oh yeah, retire. Thank you.

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