Robertson used odd details and graphic fantasy about an atheist's daughters being raped to illustrate whether or not those who don't believe in God can know right from wrong.
- Mar 26, 2015
AceShowbiz - At the Vero Beach Prayer Breakfast in Florida on Friday, March 20, Phil Robertson, the patriarch of A&E's "Duck Dynasty" family, used a very graphic and sadistic parable about murder, slaughter, castration and child rape to explain the inherent problems with non-believers. The 68-year-old used the hypothetical scenario to illustrate whether or not those who don't believe in God can know right from wrong.
He began the speech by criticizing health care, and then moved on to his fantasy. "Two guys break into an atheist's home. He has a little atheist wife and two little atheist daughters. Two guys break into his home and tie him up in a chair and gag him," Robertson started his brutal story at the Florida prayer meeting.
Later, he continued detailing his brutal scenario, "And then they take his two daughters in front of him and rape both of them and then shoot 'em and they take his wife and then decapitate her head off in front of him. And then they can look at him and say, 'Isn't it great that I don't have to worry about being judged? Isn't it great that there's nothing wrong with this? There's no right or wrong, now is it dude?' "
He went on telling the audience his morality tale by giving clear detail about a castration, "Then you take a sharp knife and take his manhood and hold it in front of him and say, 'Wouldn't it be something if this was something wrong with this? But you're the one who says there is no God, there's no right, there's no wrong, so we're just having fun. We're sick in the head, have a nice day.' " Then as the closing statement, Robertson said, "If it happened to them, they probably would say, 'Something about this just ain't right.' "
In response to the speech, the Friendly Atheist blog said that Robertson probably didn't have any idea about atheist and therefore was unqualified to make his damning assessment. "I don't know a single atheist or agnostic who thinks that terrorizing, raping, torturing, mutilating, and killing people is remotely OK, and I frankly think that Robertson doesn't either," wrote the blog.
His controversial speech at Florida prayer meeting is not the first time Robertson shocked people with inflammatory remarks. After a GQ interview in 2013, he was suspended from "Duck Dynasty" for anti-gay comments by comparing homosexuality to bestiality and calling AIDS a punishment for immorality. Then, in a Fox News interview in 2014 he also said "ISIS" terrorists should be converted to Jesus or killed, and more recently, he blamed "beatniks" and "hippies" for sexually transmitted diseases.
