Wacky Pat Robertson, at it again....

[Temporal Renegade]

Sorry if a re-post, but I just saw this literally two minutes ago:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20051110/ts_nm/religion_robertson_dc

[LibraryLady]

That wacky Christian!

[Lisa Simpson]

Robertson needs to embrace His Noodliness, because frankly, Robertson's God is a really pissy guy.


RAmen.

[Temporal Renegade]

Robertson needs to embrace His Noodliness, because frankly, Robertson's God is a really pissy guy.


RAmen.


One day, Pat's gonna be on the receiving end of a Smitening that'll be frightening!

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[joesson]

Here's something I must ask:

If a god gives his underlings free will, where does he get the nerve to smite them after they comply?

I mean what's the point of the final judgement that we hear so much about? Does this god have an itchy finger?

And there is no way you can convince me that those who voted for the removal of the school board aren't christian...I mean, come on, it's Dover, PA.

You know, I don't care how old he is...Pat Robertson needs his ass kicked once in a while.


:beerflag:

[PatKelley]

Robertson admits there might be no God!
"And don't wonder why He hasn't helped you when problems begin, if they begin. I'm not saying they will, but if they do, just remember, you just voted God out of your city. And if that's the case, don't ask for His help because he might not be there..."
Of course! Now he's agnostic...

[c4ts]

And this is why we shouldn't worry about the fundies taking over the world. Becuase they lack a central authority, people like Robertson are going to oppose the causes of similar organizations like this thinly disguised Creationism we call "Intelligent Design." Then again, I could be reading into this too far. Organizations can disagree on a lot of things, central authority or not, and maybe Pat was just too stupid to figure out what was going on. After all, ID is very careful to avoid use of the word "God," and none of its pundits belong to Pat Robertson's church as far as I know.

[Moon-Spinner]

Why is anything this guy says worthy of headlines anyway?

Maybe there’s just not enough comedy in the news.

[TragicMonkey]

Pat's still smarting because his city, usually a gimme for Republicans, went and voted Democrat for governor...and won.

[c4ts]

Robertson admits there might be no God!

Of course! Now he's agnostic...

Taken completely out of context, just like his Bible quotations. Priceless.

[Zep]

God really should take him. Please, God, make it soon!

[a_unique_person]

He can't lose.


"I'd like to say to the good citizens of Dover: if there is a disaster in your area, don't turn to God, you just rejected Him from your city," Robertson said on his daily television show broadcast from Virginia, "The 700 Club."


If there is a disaster, he can claim he said it would, if there isn't, he didn't say there necessarily would be.

[headscratcher4]

SO, if nothing happens, god is eyeing Dover suspiciously, but if a tornado hits a trailer park and kills a couple of people, it is a sign of god's righteous wrath. Head I win, tails you loose.

What if people from Dover prosper and hit the lottery in larger perportion than other small PA towns?

Or they find gold under the school?

Do the storms that occassionaly wash up against Virginia Beach mean that god is trying to get Pat Robertson?

[zakur]

So much for ID proponents claiming it isn't about religion...

[kmortis]

So much for ID proponents claiming it isn't about religion...

But that assumes that they think logically. The evidence doesn't support that claim.

[Brown]

So much for ID proponents claiming it isn't about religion...Exactly right. Robertson's empty religious threat undercuts all of that nonsense about "But intelligent design is SCIENTIFIC!"

Also troubling is the notion of "collective guilt" present in Robertson's empty threat. "Collective guilt" is a notion that fuels religious involvement in politics. Basically, the idea is that the Almighty doesn't judge individuals, but rather He judges groups. If there is a group that displeases Him (whether it be a family, a community, a state or a nation), the Almighty will punish all members of the group, including the innocent.

Tim LaHaye, for example, uses collective guilt as a justification for making religious rules (as promulgated by the Almighty's self-appointed spokesmen) into laws that everybody has to follow, regardless of religious belief. The rationale, of course, is that the Almighty will punish the good people along with the bad, if the rules by which all the people live are distasteful to Him.

Jerry Falwell notably stuck his foot in his mouth by asserting collective guilt after September 11, saying that groups such as pro-choice groups and feminists and People for the American Way were responsible for removing divine protection from terrorists. Robertson initially agreed with Falwell, then retracted his agreement.

But apparently Robertson is still of the opinion that the Almighty applies the "collective guilt" rule. Disaster awaits all in the area, whether they voted for or against or didn't vote at all.

The notion of collective guilt, though supported by some Bible passages, ought to be condemned by religious leaders as an immoral and unconscionable notion, one not worthy of an all wise, all just, and all powerful deity.

[Upchurch]

Good to see you back in action, Brown. :)

[Spidey13]

So much for ID proponents claiming it isn't about religion...

I can just hear the ID people reading this and saying, "Shut up, Pat! Shut up!"

[Dorian Gray]

Pat Robertson is our radical mullah cleric. We are hypocrites if we don't repudiate him publically every chance we get. He's going to cause the loonies to do something asinine.

[Paul C. Anagnostopoulos]

Behe, Dembski, et al: Must not say God ... must not say God ...

Robertson: It's God, for crying out loud, you wimps!

~~ Paul

[TragicMonkey]

Do the storms that occassionaly wash up against Virginia Beach mean that god is trying to get Pat Robertson?

Oddly enough, he didn't say anything about Hurricane Isabel, which did a lot of damage and left portions of Virginia Beach without power for a couple of weeks.

One funny thing about living near Pat Robertson is that every single week the classified job ads include a need for waiters at the fancy restaurant that's part of his corporate fiefdom. He doesn't seem to get that a hatred for gays and a dearth of waiters is causally connected.

[c4ts]

Oddly enough, he didn't say anything about Hurricane Isabel, which did a lot of damage and left portions of Virginia Beach without power for a couple of weeks.

One funny thing about living near Pat Robertson is that every single week the classified job ads include a need for waiters at the fancy restaurant that's part of his corporate fiefdom. He doesn't seem to get that a hatred for gays and a dearth of waiters is causally connected.

I'm surprised they're not lining up to poop in his food, considering the things he's said about homosexuality...

[Mariah]

Robertson said even more after all that stuff quoted in the article. I watched a video of it, and he also told the town of Dover, if they should have a disaster, to call on Charles Darwin for help.

I used to think Robertson was a goofball. Now I think he's an arrogant s.o.b. I could declare war on him.

[Mariah]

Pat Robertson is our radical mullah cleric. We are hypocrites if we don't repudiate him publically every chance we get. He's going to cause the loonies to do something asinine.

You are so right. Suggestions on how to repudiate him publically?

[Ducky]

You are so right. Suggestions on how to repudiate him publically?


I vote to kick him in the nuts.

But it would probably be better if we pointed out health ailments he has and then note he was a faith healer.

Surely he can heal himself?

[Kopji]

OMYGARSH!!! Pat's prayers have already killed one Supreme Court Justice and forced another into retirement. Now he's after a whole town! WHEN WILL THE AGONY END???? Please Pat, withhold your wrath. Pray to God that we might be spared.

What an awesome and powerful god he believes in. Created the world and the universe and yet still has time for petty annoyances like worrying if people believe in him or not.

[Zep]

He needs to be cream-pied publicly. A few times. On his own TV show. Live!

[Temporal Renegade]

I'm not a watcher of his show, so I don't really know the answer to this:
Did this guy ever broadcast a "Group Prayer" or whatever it is Fundies do, *for* the people who have been hit by the last few hurricanes? Or has he just ranted about "See? God HATES 'you people' for not loving Him!!"

[thaiboxerken]

Christians sure are weird.

[c4ts]

You are so right. Suggestions on how to repudiate him publically?

Arrange an interview with Ali G...

[bruto]

"For all this I considered in my heart even to declare all this, that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God: no man knoweth either love or hatred by all that is before them. All things come alike to all: there is one event to the righteous, and to the wicked; to the good and to the clean, and to the unclean; to him that sacrificeth, and to him that sacrificeth not: as is the good, so is the sinner; and he that sweareth, as he that feareth an oath." (Ecclesiastes 9, 1-2)

I figure if Pat R. can cherry-pick the bible, so can I.

[Dicon]

Spank me if I'm wrong, but didn't Robertson state the gOD wanted GW Bush to be president? If so, this implies that gOD can control the outcome of a presidental election.

But apparently, he can't sway a school board election in Dover, PA.

The nice thing is, the more Pat talks, the more it becomes startlingly clear that there was absolutely no intelligence in our design.

[Kopji]

"I resent people who deliberately distort the truth for their own political aims." - Pat Robertson

(on his website home)

[Bob Klase]

"I resent people who deliberately distort the truth for their own political aims." - Pat Robertson

But it's okay to distort the truth for non-political aims? (Such as your own financial gain).

I wish I had time to go dig up some of the distortions Pat told when he was running for president.

[headscratcher4]

Spank me if I'm wrong, but didn't Robertson state the gOD wanted GW Bush to be president?

Spank me if I'm wrong, but couldn't that be interpreted as God doing to the whole nation as what Robertson threatens god will do to Dover?