Phil Robertson: 10 lies the devil is using to 'destroy' America
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“Duck Dynasty” star Phil Robertson has come out with a new book that aims to “blow the lid off the lies that are destroying” America.
The conservative Christian reality TV star spoke with The Christian Post to talk about the book and how coming to Christ at age 28 helped him leave his sinful life in the past.
The 72-year-old patriarch of A&E's hit reality series and the co-owner of the Duck Commander Company released his new title The Theft of America’s Soul on Tuesday.
The book purports to expose what he says are 10 essential deceptions and schemes being used by the devil to “steal, kill and destroy America’s soul.” The new book also shares what Robertson calls 10 counter-truths to those lies.
In the interview, Robertson explained that he was inspired to write the book after witnessing how prevalent issues of drug addiction and sexually transmitted diseases are in today’s American society.
Robertson said he fears that United States — as it backs away from its founding on “Judeo-Christian principles”— will one day dissolve because God could leave the country to wallow in its own wickedness.
“I hope America won’t be like the Roman Empire,” Robertson said as he proceeded to quote Romans 1:28: “Since they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, God gave them over to a depraved mind to do what ought not to be done.”
Robertson said the idea of the book is simple: to get people to embrace living a godly life and to get them to love God and love their neighbor.
“You go out and get a job and you work and you feed your family. You are the father and you have a mother and you raise your children and you teach them, correct them and rebuke and them and train them,” said Robertson after noting how millions of Americans are suffering from some type of drug addiction that has left them hopeless.
“We have lost that in America across the board and we are looking at the results of it. I am just trying to remind people that if we keep this up, this whole things is going to fall down upon us.”
The 10 “lies” being used to “destroy” America that Robertson highlighted in the book are:
-God is dead
-There is no devil
-The truth is relative
-God did not create life
-Sex is for self-gratification
-Virtue is outdated
-Laws can be ignored or changed if they are inconvenient
-Unity is not possible
-Church participation and day-to-day life should be kept separate
-Christians should shut their traps
When asked about the lie of sex being for self-gratification, Robertson noted that the Centers for Disease Control has reported that there are as many as 110 million sexually transmitted infections in the United States.
As STD rates continue to rise to record levels, Robertson believes that this is because too many people are not following God’s design for their lives.
“I am just trying to gear people toward the safe way of one-man-one-woman [marriage]. We are not going to sleep around and we are going to keep our sex between each other and no one will ever catch a sexually transmitted disease from that formation,” Robertson contended. “Why is it that sexually transmitted diseases follow immoral conduct? Well, the writer of Romans, the Apostle Paul, said that it's God’s wrath. He is saying to you, ‘Don't do that.’”
Robertson was also critical of the many Christians who feel like their faith can be lived out just by going to church on Sundays.
Robertson, who has baptized hundreds of people in a river near his Louisiana home, asserts that Christians are not to keep their mouths shut in the public square but rather are supposed to live out their faith in a 24/7 fashion.
“They misunderstand Christianity. The American model is build a [church] building and everybody goes up there at least one time a week,” he said.
However, Romans 12 says something different.
“If you think about it, the biblical outline of worship is ‘in view of God’s mercy, offer your body as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God, which is your spiritual act of worship,” Robertson paraphrased.
“Biblically, [faith is more than just] going to church one day a week and calling it a wrap and worship is over. There is 168 hours a week. So if you went to church for a couple hours [on Sunday], there is another 166 hours of what are you doing? It has to be a 24/7-type thing.”
Robertson admits, however, that he was not always a professing Christian and didn’t always follow God’s design for his life. In fact, he said, there was a time he could barely tell Jesus apart from a “billy goat.”
“I used to get drunk, get high, get laid,” Robertson admitted. “I was immoral.”
Robertson said he began “investigating” God at the age of 28 in the mid-1970s.
“When I read about him, I said, ‘Goodness, there is a way out of here alive,’” Robertson recalled. “I repented and since that time, as amazing as it sounds, now here I am as a multimillionaire if that means anything. How in the world did you go from a nobody and do what you do now? I put my faith in God and I did not waver and I left my life of sin and good things came out. It was either luck or what God said all along.”
Robertson said he was driven to look for a deeper purpose in life because, at the time, he felt as if he was as “dog chasing his tail.”
“So I repented and got on my knees before God for the first time. I am 72, so I have been at this for about 44 years now,” he said. “The more I have studied about God and the more I read my Bible, I realized that this is true and really happening. There is a way out of here alive.”
Robertson’s book has drawn some criticism. Publisher’s Weekly criticized Robertson for what was deemed “excessive use of religious rhetoric.” In its review, the outlet argued that the book suffered from a “lack of nuance [that] will turn off many readers.”
At the time Robertson responded in a statement saying the review was what he “hoped for.”
“Our struggle is not against flesh and blood. It is the one in them, the evil one were the friction comes,” Robertson told CP when asked about the review. “The Bible says repeatedly, ‘everyone who lives a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted.’ So Jesus said to jump for joy and be happy when people hate you, when they exclude you or insult you or reject your name as evil because of Him. We can take a little flak from time to time. We just smile and we love them and we go on.”
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It's not? Guess I have been doing it wrong. How does one make it not satisfying....
Even if one is having sex just for children, would even that be self gratification? Seems like it to me.
I wonder if he will feel the same way when he is t in the back of an ambulance or in the ER? Maybe they should take people like this to church for prayers when they have a massive heart attack instead of to the hospital.
How does he know that he has immortality?
He's just another whackadoodle without sin....
Like he didn't have sex before marriage
So why is he ranting about others when he did the same thing? Does he not understand the concept of hypocrisy?
Not all of us have the same beliefs that he does.
What are my beliefs, if you claim to know?
I was raised Catholic but I never believed because it doesn't hold up to critical scrutiny. God/Jesus is a myth, just like Thor, Isis, Apollo, Zeus, Jupiter, and Tammuz, among many others. Why don't you believe in any of them?
Atheism is not a religion. It's the lack of religion. I am a Humanist.
What are you referring to? Genetics that help a life form to survive and thrive are the result of millions of years of evolution. Religion and/or god has nothing to do with it.
The big bang wasn't magical or spontaneous.
I don't worship anything. That is what is the difference is that you think that I am like you and that I worship just as you do, but you could not be more wrong. There is no great universal force, except the laws of physics.
Did you open the Humanist link that I provided and read it before you replied?
You cited the wrong source because I am not a religious Humanist. Secular Humanism is not the same as religious Humanism.
Actually it is since part of his story is that he went drinking and fornicating while he was MARRIED.
Atheism is not a religion, as that is an oxymoron and atheists do not worship anything and are unconvinced of the existence of deities. To imply otherwise is just willful ignorance.
I liked Duck Dynasty, it was a funny show
It was in the beginning and I enjoyed it too for awhile. Then their shenanigans got repetitive and I moved on, but it was good for a season or two.
Eventually, it was so obvious that it was scripted. And then Phil got holier-than-thou, and it just wasn't funny anymore.
As I've heard said "The only definite thing about reality shows is they are not real"
Isn't he the beardified goomer that ranted at everyone while waving around a Bible in his hand?
Is someone actually supposed to consider taking advice from him?
This article constitutes proselytizing.
That doesn't count. He is allowed to talk about why he feels what he feels. He's not allowed to try and sell his faith.
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Lol yeah this book ranks up there with the latest Kardashian offering on my "to buy" list.
10 lies bigoted religious conservatives are using to destroy America:
Even though in their holy book it suggests "first breath".
And even though it implies that the 30-50% of fertilized eggs that are "naturally miscarried" (or Divinely aborted if you believe in God) would equate to billions of tiny lost souls being stored somewhere by a supposedly loving God. And it's their reason for being so vehemently against abortion even when the vast majority occur very early in the pregnancy, 92% at or before 12 weeks.
I'm locking this seed because Redding CA had a freak 10-13 inch snow storm which totally shut down the city; tens of thousands without power, etc
and XX can neither moderate or defend his seeds