The Ten Offenses

Really, it's the Ten Commandments that are the subject of this book. 700 Club host Pat Robertson offers a history of the movement to remove the Decalogue, as well as anything that has to do with God or the Bible, from courthouses, schools, and public life. Robertson focuses in on the recent case of Alabama Supreme Court Judge Roy Moore, who defiantly disobeyed a court order to remove a monument from the Ala. Supreme Court Building, and eventually was removed from the court. Finally, Robertson focuses on each of the Ten Commandments, their meaning and relevance for each of us, and practical ways for each of us to get involved in defending the Ten Commandments and becoming more active in civic responsiblilty. I highly recommend this book.

The book is a good source for a basic History of our Nations true Foundations. This is indeed a needed source of information for all of us today. President James Madison said it best: "We have staked the whole future of America civilization not upon the powers of government, far from it, we have staked the future of all of our political institutions upon the capacity of mankind for self-government; upon the capacity of each and all of us to govern ourselves, according to the ten Commandments of God." Have you ever stopped to consider what would happen in America if we did what the 10 commandments tells us to do. No stealing! No murder No lies! No greed! etc. That would be like The golden Rule in place in America! This is what Pat Robertson is showing us in The Ten Offenses. Our founding Father understood that a America without the Ten Commandments and personal responsibility would result in America without freedom. Please Read this book!

~The Ten Offenses~ by Pat Robertson offers a clarion call for Americans to rediscover the Ten Commandments and a summons for Americans to challenge the militant secularization of America. With the recent removal of the Ten Commandments display, from the State of Alabama, and at the behest of constitutional usurpers within the federal judiciary, the Ten Commandments and the integral Judeo-Christian morality that embodies our law is under attack. We live in a time when many agents of the State whether on judicial bench or teaching in the halls of academia deny moral absolutes. We also live in age of rising crime, immorality and broken families. Yet liberals much prefer to correlate the social pathologies afflicting us today to something trivial like urbanization or the impact of technologies. Robertson poignantly goes through each of the Ten Commandments and points out how we are called to righteousness, and that these legal principles remain the pillars of just law within civil society today. This book is misrepresented by liberals who more often than not have never so read it. The Publisher's Weekly review is very misleading particuarly this statement: "Robertson's solution to such ills lies not in emphasizing America as a nation with an enduring Christian heritage, but in claiming that the Founders desired America to be a Christian state." I digress. Pat Robertson succinctly and accurately explains the establishment clause of the First Amendment commensurate with original intent. This book does emphasize America's enduring Christian heritage. The problem with liberal detractors of Robertson's book is that they perhaps assume that the law has no moral basis while they ignore the underlying Christian foundation within the Anglo-American common law tradition. What Robertson is advocating is not an explicit "Christian state" per say but rather it is a clarion call for the people of the United States to recognize the vitality of the Ten Commandments. "Our Constitution," avowed John Adams, "was made only for a moral and religious people." Robertson sets the record straight over the so called "establishment clause" within the First Amendment, and explains precisely what "no establishment of religion" means. Originally, an established church was an official denomonation, which receives taxpayer financing and may conceivably have authority to restrict practice of non-established sects. Robertson describes the impact of the establishment of the Anglican church in his native Virginia in 1700s. He brilliantly articulates what the establishment clause really means commensurate with original intent by the framers of the First Amendment. He espouses the principles animating Jefferson's Declaration of Religious Liberties. The Baptists like other denominations were persecuted by the Anglicans and forced to fund the established church through taxes. Moreover, they were punished for preaching the Gospel outside of that church and on the streets. Robertson know

The fact there are a lot of people putting up bad reviews about this book should only serve to show how far America has fallen. This country was built for Christians, as Pat Robertson explains here, but since the lie of evolution was brought into schools in the late 60's, our nation has gotten farther and farther from it's roots.If you don't know the history of the roots this country was founded on, then this is a must read, whether you are a Christian or not. If what you read offeneds you, that's because you've rejected God in your life. Most people have but this country want's God as its leader as our money states "in God we trust". So if you don't like that, that's fine, you can find another country to live in but if you're going to stay here, you need to live by the rules of this country instead of trying to change them to fit your own Godless lifestyle.If you're a Christian, then this is valuable information to have these days when the secular liberals try and twist and change the constitution and America's history.

Few people can even name just a couple of the Ten Commandments (can you?), let alone tell you what they really mean. In this easy-to-read and engrossing book, Pat Robertson explains the true meaning behind each of the Commandments in a way that makes it relevant to the 21st century reader. He also documents the pivotal role Christianity played in American history, and how the U.S. has strayed from that path (and paid a heavy price for it). He also gives practical examples of how following the Commandments can lead to blessings for both a nation and your own life, which I'll get to in a moment."The Ten Offenses" starts with numerous examples of the profound role Christianity played in our history, from the earliest settlers up through the Constitutional Convention. Sadly, most people are extremely ignorant of the powerful influence Christianity exerted in early America, including its politics and government. Robertson quotes, for instance, the Charter of Massachusetts Bay, which talks of winning "the natives of the country to the knowledge and obedience of the only true God and Savior of mankind and the Christian faith." And he explains what the words "establishment of religion" in the First Amendment really mean (hint: it's not the so-called "separation of church and state" - words nowhere found in the Constitution). And he provides quotes from all of the 50 state constitutions to show their references to God and religious freedom.Incidentally, there's been criticism from one review in the establishment media that the book is full of historical inaccuracies. But that's clearly not true. For example, one criticism claims that Robertson says John Adams was the architect of the Constitution, when what Robertson actually wrote is that "some consider" Adams the architect. (Adams' writings heavily influenced the Constitutional convention, as David McCullough's Pulitzer-Prize winning biography shows).The only other actual claim of a so-called "error" is that Robertson "suggests" (not "states") that leading Jewish groups were founded after the Holocaust, when they were actually started in 1913 & 1918. But the reviewer's inference is wrong; Robertson begins that section by discussing the anti-Semitism which began in Europe in the 1880s. (The astute reader will note that the 1880s preceded 1913 & 1918). The bottom line is, the book is full of historical quotes, facts and court cases from public sources that anyone can look up if they want to verify them (many of the sources are cited in the book itself).(In the interest of disclosure, as it were, I should note that I was one of the numerous support people who helped assemble this book, so I have a different perspective on it than the average reader. Even while Pat Robertson was writing it, and I was seeing the original manuscript, I concluded it was his probably best book to date. However, I don't personally profit from sales of the book, so I'm not writing this review - which reflects what I really be