MARK SCHUMANN
Phil Robertson, star of A&E’s realty show “Duck Dynasty,” helped draw a record crowd for the 11th annual Vero Beach Prayer Breakfast March 20. Local press reported Robertson was “well received,” with a crowd of some 2400 giving the television star a standing ovation.
During his 40 minute address, Robertson vividly described an imaginary rape and murder of an atheist family. Robertson’s remarks have been reported by Right Wing Watch and Talking Points Memo, and have been aired on Truenews.
Below is an excerpt of Robertson’s address at the Vero Beach Prayer Breakfast:
“I’ll make a bet with you,” Robertson said. “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. And then they take his two daughters in front of him and rape both of them and then shoot them 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?’”
Robertson kept going: “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 [sic] 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.’”
“If it happened to them,” Robertson continued, “they probably would say, ‘something about this just ain’t right.”
Indian River Guardian 
At a prayer b’fst? You’re kidding, right? If true, the man just demonstrated again what a repugnant buffoon he is. And whoever invited him should have know better. Or perhaps, the invitation indicates that the event hosts share Robertson’s ignorant and hateful sentiments.
Bob Swift
Or perhaps he was making an obviously absurd point to show how equally absurd it is to behave like there is no right or wrong.
Clearly those who live that way will find fault with Phil’s logic.
Any final reckoning will leave so-called “Christians” like Robertson with perhaps the most explaining to do, for they behave in ways that make it all but impossible for others to believe. The modern-day “scandal” of the Gospel isn’t the claim of the resurrection, or the fact that God chose as his messenger, not a high priest from the Temple, but a lowly carpenter from Nazareth. What makes the Christian gospel seem so absurd to many today is the bigotry, self-righteousness and down right mean spiritedness of professing Christians like Robertson. If Robertson reads, he would do well to read “Life Together,” and “The Cost of Discipleship,” by Deitrich Bonhoffer.
Well said Mark. What saddens me is that 2,400 folks in Vero would applaud what is nothing more than a pornographic snuff tale. At a “prayer breakfast” no less.
Vic, your comment makes no sense unless you actually believe that Robertson’s pornographic tale evidenced some “logic.”
Bob Swift
“with a crowd of 2400 giving the television star a standing ovation”, Frieghtning!
This is beyond the realm of decency – never mind any form of Christianity. This man’s presentation was shameful and all those who brought him to Vero Beach and all those who attended should be ashamed!