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Christians Rebuke Pat Robertson For Advocating Divorce From A Spouse With Alzheimer’s | Right-wing television evangelist Pat Robertson is under fire after he told his “700 Club” viewers that divorcing a spouse with Alzheimer’s is perfectly fine because the disease is “a kind of death.” “I know it sounds cruel,” he said, “but if he’s going to do something, he should divorce her and start all over again.” Now, many in the Christian community are joining the Alzheimer’s Foundation of America in rebuke of his remarks. Comments on Christianity Today’s news blog were “nearly universal in their criticism,” blasting the comments as “irresponsible, callous,” “Un-Christlike; unbiblical; [and] dead wrong!” One of Kentucky’s Southern Baptist Theological Seminary deans Russell D. Moore wrote in the Baptist Press News, “This is more than an embarrassment. This is more than cruelty. This is a repudiation of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.” Robertson has yet to respond.