This is the Pat's best book. A must read for people stuck in the "matrix" of this world, who want a glimps into the reality of the Spiritual world.

I only can hope that this book sheds light on to the athiest world that we live in. If things don't start changing around here a little bit I am gonna have to convert over to Islam or something. I need some God in my life, you know, salvation and all that jazz. Pat R. brings it on like donkey kong. He knows how to throw out some zingers and boy is he smart. One time he said he couldn't understand how evolution takes place and so he prayed to the lord and the lord said 6,000 years is all it takes my son. I mean wow who would of thought that to the answer to all are problems could be solved by a little discussion with Christ. Also, Pat is a healer - I once witnessed him telling the world that he saw a women with no brain in his vision and he said lord give her a brain and then Pat R. said she has a brain. I wish the world knew the Pat R that I know. Read this book and you too can heal - ...

A must read for anyone serious about having an impact on their generation and their world. I am currently reading this title for the third time, taking notes as I go! Truly eye-opening material and if acted on, life-changing!

This resource provides an overview of many conditions found in pediatric treatment. The reviews of developmental progressions of all ADLs, pre-writing, fine motor, gross motor, cognitive, and other skills are presented both in concise, outline form and in paragraph form for more details. All chapters are well-organized, and focused on OT practice, while the section by Exner on the Development of Hand Skills is exceptional. This is a MUST HAVE resource for OT working in pediatrics.

As a Paediatric Occupational Therapist I find this book a valuable resource in my department.

The entropic crusade presented here is to provide the shock of life and the fear of death and to present as artistic experience the obsession with the morbid in a simply prurient but scientific way. The gut vomited gutteral trolling echo of the sin-lovers only reinforces the sagging antiprogress of the the government, and the droning of the dialogue shifts the book toward hopelessness at every juncture.

Master aestheticist Robertson entrances with nihilistic pummeling words drawn together in an expertly-constructed synthesis of several styles, ranging from the primary construction of Shakespeare with an attention to the rhythmic shifts and cadences of Wordsworth, insightful lines linking the author to ancients such as Sophocles and Jesus Himself. So well fitting into known styles is this work that sometimes it suffers for familiarity and knowledge of derivation, but independently executed this is a well-written, studious representation of these genres with reasonable advancements in thought.

The metaphor, the topic eclipses karmic interaction for broader statements of being. As an epic, emptiness engulfs humanity the ideals and raw will to commit such unbalanced and direct material to digits as expressed sensations. Pat exhibits the heroic ideals of prevalence of ideal against obstacles including the tedium of scientific knowledge and refinement, forming something as vital as the ignorance of evolution once was through generation of logic in the unthinkable and vitally alienated religion that this is.

While some chapters wander into Wagnerian juxtaposition collage of emotional symbols, the strength of this book is in the heartpump of throbbing dissonance in framework boundaries within sentence structure through tone-centric progression establishment via relevance in rhythm, a knighthood of subconscious descent beneath the conscious and its discursive storm of dead static chaos flooding us with guilt, doubt, self-reflective ego paranoia and other traits of the Judeo-Christian thought empire.

All in all, a great book that i thought was good.

Pat Robertson's book, The New World Order, clarifies what has confounded too many people in America today. It details the influence of the Bildeberger Group, the Trilateral Commission, and the Council on Foreign Relations. It also tells about the private corporation that we call the Federal Reserve System.

Basically, Pat tells how the world is progressing toward the One World government that is foretold in the Book of Revelations. In order for the world to come together into one government, we cannot have a constitutional republic in America guaranteeing our freedoms and combine that with the communism, fascism and socialism prevalent in the rest of the world. If the One World government is to operate, we would have to give up our freedoms. And we have, if you haven't noticed.

Boston's expose of Pat Robertson, his billion-dollar, multi-media empire and international business interests stands alone as an indictment of Robertson as an evangelist. That Robertson is actually a politician in clerical guise makes him all the more nefarious. Make no mistake: the Christian Coalition is waging a grass-roots war against common American citizens, charging that any who do not believe as they do (e.g., Fundamentalist Christian conservatives), are essentially enemies of the state. As we approach the Presidential elections this year, it becomes more evident the stranglehold this faction has on American politics. This book is a must-read for anyone who thinks they "know" what the Religious Right is after: it's a huge wake-up call. Robertson must be shown to the American public as the danger to freedom he truly is.

Having spent most of my life in Virginia Beach, and having seen Pat Robertson himself dining at the most expensive restaurants in town on several occasions, I am fully aware of his hypocritical tactics at gaining political control of our nation. For the reviewer who commented about Pat's miraculous ability in "turning" the hurricane from Virginia Beach, I would also like to add Pat's comment regarding the gay-pride flags at Disney's Gay Days: "I wouldn't be waving those flags in God's face if I were you." Pat's claims are outrageous, his statements ridiculous, and his general outlook anti-humanity. This book is an absolute must-read for anyone wanting to know the truth about this greedy, self-serving "man of God".

If you are an average American this book will open your eyes to the extremes of the Right-wing in this country. This book is undoubtably one of the most important books ever written about the far-Right in American life today. The author takes a hard, uncompromising book at Pat Robertson, leader of the Christian Coalition. It clearly outlines the group's theocratic agenda and exposes some of the darker sides of Pat Robertson and his followers. This book is meant to be a warning to Americans. There is a determined group of people out there who are dedicated to destroying the separation of church and state, curtailing individual freedoms, and imposing theocratic rule on American life. Please get informed about this issue. The future of America depends on people willing to take a stand for the true American way

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His latest tome, however, is rather uninteresting. It's filled with the same type of generic, pre-written Q and As that the erstwhile televangelist fields from gushing audience members on his show, (...) 700 Club! If you're looking for predictable answers to life's probing questions from a multi-millionaire preacher who claims that God speaks directly through him, then this is the book for you.

This book highlights the virtues and flaws of Pat Robertson. When it comes to sound Biblical advice on family, financial and social issues no one beats him--But when he starts talking about bones and severed limbs regrowing instantaneously beneath his hands and other showy miracles he's personally been involved in and the talented folks who speak in tongues regularly and prophecy among us on a daily basis he's...well--all but the most extreme of Christian supernaturalists would probably find him slightly wacky. He also fancies himself a health expert and includes a recipe for "Pat's Age-Defying Shake" in the appendix. Talk about a jack of all trades! I like Pat and watch the 700 Club on a fairly regular basis, and I knew what I was getting when I bought the book--lots to like and lots to shake my head at in wonder and disbelief.

If you are a Christian, this is a good book to read, plain and simple. Most of the negative reviews are from non-Christians who, because they lack the faith, don't like the book. Mr Robertson speaks the COLD HARD TRUTH, and because of it, a lot of people don't like him. I enjoyed the book, although I am a Catholic.

I read Salvation for Sale while trying to understand why in the world a missionary with whom I was working had such a low opinion of Pat Robertson. Her husband had been murdered in the Children's Home her husband founded and she alleged three of Pat Robertson's Middle Television employees were responsible for instigating her husband's murder. I thought pain was clouding her perception of Pat Robertson, of whom she was highly critical but I had never researched his work, ministry etc. until compelled to do so. That led me to write Call to Courage! a book about my own conclusions. My perceptions are different than Gerald Straub's as mine are Biblical evaluations but they are no less critical. I sympatized with Gerald Straub's struggles to make sense out of his experience. Few things in life are more unsettling than a major spiritual upheavel.

I can add very little to the long review below, and the shorter all-caps review had a good point in that the more moderate and decent religions don't seem to attract many converts.

The main part of the book is the author's attempt to come to grips with his own experience and conversions. However, the paperback edition was released with an update in which the author refuses to mince words about Pat Robertson. The author discovered a recording of Pat Robertson declaiming with relish over the holocaust to come in 1982. The author was outraged not only at Robertson for the speech, but also at himself for having listened to the speech years earlier without noticing anything wrong.

Now, it would be wonderful if more people who listen to talk about apocolypse and mass slaughter with joyous rapture and thrills would suddenly wake up and wonder with horror what they were thinking. Also, note that Robertson is a False Prophet.

I couldn't help but to be moved when I read this book. I was once a conservative Christian, and I cringe when I remember how I once defended people like Robertson. Fortunately, this period of my life was confined to my early teens, and by nineteen I had abandoned my belief in Christianity. I suppose that I now have a "won't get fooled again" attitude towards religion in general and Christianity in particular.

But, as this book shows, it can happen to anyone. The author was once caught in the fundamentalist quagmire. His formerly agnostic wife is apparently still a Robertson employee. Even Bob Dylan became a pulpit-basher for a while. It can truly happen to anyone.

Salvation For Sale allows us to see the inside of Robertson's fundamentalist multimedia empire. As would be expected, Robertson rules his fiefdom with an iron hand and twitching paranoia. Any setback is attributed to the Devil and his satanic henchmen (i.e. liberals). The Bible is the literal word of God and must be obeyed to the letter; unless, of course, you're speaking of those parts about turning the other cheek. Like nearly all of his tele-evangalist contemporaries, Robertson is a militant who sees Satanic conspiracy in everything. And, unlike his religion's namesake, Robertson seems to feel no moral conflict as the financial elite (to which he belongs) hoard the wealth and the poor scrape by. After all, social programs create a dependent society and are the work of the Devil.

Salvation For Sale doesn't dwell entirely on Robertson, however. A good part of the book deals with Straub's own questions and conflicting emotions with his faith and beliefs. He no longer adheres to literal interpretations of the Bible, and he apparently no longer believes in Hell or divine retribution. Like most of us, he accepts that life doesn't consist of black-and-white certainty. It's incredibly confusing and more rewarding if you accept it as such.

Pat Robertson begins his inspiring review of many of the unusual and providential interventions in the critical path our nation has followed to greatness by rendering the story of Enrico College, the founding of the first educational institution in the New World. Each subsequent chapter relates one timely occurence after another as Mr. Robertson builds his case for the assertion that God has had His hand on us from the beginning.

In Part One, "Beginning Our Journey," Robertson selects eleven different events that chronicle the first two hundred and eighty years of America's history. Beginning with the Jamestown Landing in 1607, he proceeds to include such commonly memorable events as Jonathan Edwards' July 8, 1741 sermon "Sinners In The Hands Of An Angry God", the July 4, 1776 signing of the Declaration of Independence, the May 14, 1804 embarkation of Lewis and Clark's expedition, and the October 28, 1886 dedication of the Statue of Liberty. Weaving together reknowned and obscure events, the author presents a very convincing argument for a divine hand that has been guiding the footsteps of our nation throughout its early history.

In Part Two, "Losing Our Way," Mr. Robertson relates the series of losses our nation has suffered through numerous events of costly compromise. Detailing the circumstances that led to two world wars, the Great Depression, and America's defeat in Vietnam, Pat Robertson convincingly demonstrates the consequences of getting off the trail that previous generations had blazed through prayer and sacrifice. Erosions of freedom through the January 20, 1920 founding of the American Civil Liberties Union and the January 22, 1973 Supreme Court decision in Roe vs. Wade are listed as further indications of great moral decline. In this section, the author renders a roster of uninterrupted losses that left our country dazed and bewildered at a crossroads.

In the final section, Part Three, "Finding Our Way Again," Mr. Robertson leaves the reader with hope. The April 29, 1980 "Washington For Jesus" march marked the beginning of a new awakening of the spiritual heart of the nation and delivered, Mr. Robertson believes, "A Mandate to Return to Our Judeo-Christian Roots."

Pat Robertson finishes his book by calling his readers to continue on election day , 1988, what was begun on January 20, 1981, at the inauguration of President Ronald Reagan. He concludes with an impassioned appeal to pro-activism and the rejection of the notion that separation of Church and State means the exclusion of God from government.

More of an inspirational and engaging reviewing of the significant historical events that have shaped this nation than the dry and boring history texts that have haunted many students, Pat Robertson's "America's Dates With Destiny" will capture the reader from the onset and refuse to let him go until the credits roll.

Anyone who wants to understand what drives Pat Robertson (and by extension, the Christian right)definitely needs to read this book.

Probably assuming that only his sheep will read this book, Robertson freely exposes his feelings on homosexuals, Muslims, and foreigners. He expresses what can only be called paranoia of Freemasons, Illuminati, and world bankers. There is no reserve of disdain for the 96% of people who don't happen to live in the US.

Conspiracy theorists will love this book, as will snickering skeptics. I gave it only 4 stars, because the style is somewhat rambling, and the logic is difficult to follow.

THE NEW WORLD ORDER explains the forces that are behind the erosion of traditional Christian society and beliefs the around the world over the past 250 years. The Freemasons, Adam Weishaupt, the Communist movements, the Council on Foriegn Relations, the United Nations and the Trilateral Commission are explained and their role are documented. Pat points out the living truth that there were two sytems of belief that are mentiond in the Bible. One was Abraham, who was called and given the covenant with God that through his seed, CHRIST, the world would be blessed. The opponent to this was the King of Babylon, Nimrod, who built the tower of Babel that tried to reach heaven and become omnipotent. Abraham represents God's preordained purpose for man, while Babylon represents man's conscious human will trying to place itself up as God. Robertson makes many statements that question George Bush's actions in the Persian Gulf. All the world's nations were united against Saddam Hussein, dictator of Iraq, and Iraq is where the ancient city of Babylon is located. This is also where Bush used the phrase "New World Order." It comes as no consequence that George W. Bush plans to attack Iraq as we speak. The occult forces that are plotting to take over the world and wipe out Christianity would appear to want as their capital city Babylon, the city that has oppressed God's people, as it was in the days of old.

Robertson makes some errors in this book that don't actually play out. He says that the United Nations will lead an attack on Israel. This is ABSOLOUTELY NOT TRUE. The United States uses its power to dictate to the UN, and the UN Security Council provides a rubber stamp on US and Israeli international aims. Robertson fails miserably in recognizing who the internationist conspirators are. They come from all nations, races and religions, but are being controlled by elements in the organized Jewish community (the Pharisees that Jesus condamned as "hypocrites"), and are following the plan as outlined in the PROTOCOLS OF THE LEARNED ELDERS OF ZION. Robertson hopes to inspire fear in his readers by saying the UN occupations forces from third world countries would invade America, loot us and destroy our infrastructure and society. It is the banking interests, high finance and mulit-national corperations who are looting us, and there is no need for the UN to invade America from the third world because the US government which is in the palm of corperate interests, allows for mass immigration (legal AND illegal) into the US. This works against the interest of the American working class and traditional culture without ANY armed coercion.

I read this book from the perspective of a liberal Protestant minister, and I am appalled at what is here. Pat Robertson's need to satan-ize every person and group that doesn't toe his party line is frightening. The reason it's frightening is that this man heads a large, well-financed and well-organized political group (the Christian Coalition), which tries to directly influence politicians to embrace their hardcore reactionary Protestant born-again agenda. Unfortunately, the sick attitudes expressed in The New World Order are being adopted by many in the current Republican Party, which is exactly what Robertson had in mind when he wrote The New World Order. His idea of the perfect New World Order is to have his brand of Christians in charge of the world, with him installed as King.

Err I meant all the WRONG things! Wow, Mr. Patty Robertson said that a big bad astriod will hit the earth on 2000 AD and boom goes the earth and everybody EXCEPT for him, which will go directly to heaven because "I like to preach hate and stuff, and I think drinking and cussing and doing inmoral things are O-K as long as I "find" God in the last second!" Uh, well this is 2003 actually, I don't remember a big bad astriod hitting the earth. OH!! That's why this book is selling so badly? You know, I think Pat Robertson even denied that he wrote this book now his perdictions are wrong. Oh what will be next?

Anyway, if you like to hate people of other belief/religion/race/color and etc and believes that 9-11 is caused by people of different belief/religion/race/color then here is your book!

But if you were a bit more saner then stay away from this book, you are only giving Pat Robertson more money for his manison!

I did not even finish this book, got to about 2/3 of it and just breezed through the ending. Only read it because my bestfriend recommended it. Badly written, dry and slow, in no way can Pat's style compare to my favorite Christian fiction writer, Frank Peretti (although the Oath was a bit disappointing).

Should be required reading for everyone who believes we've evolved from the apes. Clearly, we haven't -- even a chimp would find this book ridiculous. The sad thing is that there are people out there who think this is some sort of docudrama of the world to come, that it's a fictionalized account of what's just around the corner. Badly written, bigoted, anti-scientific, anti-intellectual ... this is what 12th-century illiterates would write about if they could write and if they were less progressive-minded than most of the other barbarians living in the mud huts around them. I'm sure this is what passes for literature in parts of the Deep South, but even Baptists must find this farfetched. If Robertson weren't so dangerous, he'd be laughable ... well, perhaps he's both.