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That's his job. That's what he does.
Robertson tells Dover, PA citizens, after the election: “Don’t turn to God if you need help”
LinkOn today’s 700 Club, Rev. Pat Robertson took the opportunity to strongly rebuke voters in Dover, PA who removed from office school board members who supported teaching faith-based “intelligent design” and instead elected Democrats who opposed bringing up the possibility of a Creator in the school system’s science curriculum.
Rev. Robertson warned the people of Dover that God might forsake the town because of the vote.
“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. 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.”
So, Robertson is God's v-bookie now? Why is this insane man still on TV influencing millions of shepple?
That's his job. That's what he does.
Funny, but some advocate voting for those who are perceived to be offering policies to stick it to those with faith. Both sides kind of cancel each other out.
Wait...is he Christian?
I always thought his God was all forgiving? The whole "take a million steps away, God will be there when you take one step back"
*shrug*
Humans...silly creatures really.
Pat Robertson knows what he is talking about. He is a man of God. Who are we to doubt him?
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Last edited by Mr. Peabody; 08-23-2011 at 06:53 PM.
You would have thought he would have learned his lesson about speaking out.
Does he have a direct line to God? He sure knows how the Big Guy thinks.
Pat pretty much has an open forum on the 700 club. I like to think of him as the Gtownspur of christian broadcasting.
^^You must have an obssesion over me, get over it. I don't care what you think of me, and i don't give a rat's ass if you put me on your ignore list. I wear it like a badge of honor.
But anyway, Pat Robertson was just stating how he sees it. He basically said, you can't reject God cavalierly and then ask for his assistance. If people get their panties in a twist then my advice to anyone is to move on. Pat's words are not an edict of God. He just strongly sympathyzes for His message and in effect gets too zealous at times.
The catholic church has denied communion to people who don't support their views on reproductive life. Clergy's arena is religion. If you want to debate them, then go ahead. But don't think that your PC thoughts will hold water in a theoligical debate.
I don't understand why it's not enough to leave the teaching of intelligent design to Sunday Schools and sermons, but that's probably just me.
^ because more than a majority believe in a creator who influenced the beggining of the universe. Schools should teach both.
But there's a significant minority that doesn't believe in that. Why doesn't that matter?
If the majority voted to teach that the Holocaust never happened or that there never was a slave trade, would that be okay too?
"majority believe in a creator who influenced the beggining of the universe"
US public schools don't teach religious beliefs.
Religion and ideology produce closed-minded dumb s in enormous quan ies.
Last edited by boutons; 11-11-2005 at 04:31 PM.
^Your the magnificent proof that atheism doesnt safeguard one from horrible reasoning.
I respect Robertson's right to air his opinions but in my opinion he should have stopped it at this point.Quote=PatRobertson “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".
Consider the following quotes; "If they begin", "I'm not saying they will", "if they do", "if that's the case", and "he might not""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,...And if that’s the case, don’t ask for His help because he might not be there.”
I've never seen so many qualifiers and disclaimers in two sentences in my life!
I think he cautious in what he said to the point of making his statement laughable, if you have something to say, say it!
[QUOTE=gtownspurBut anyway, Pat Robertson was just stating how he sees it. He basically said, you can't reject God cavalierly and then ask for his assistance. [/QUOTE]
I believe that he was just stating it how he sees it, which leads me to ask, why do Christians still think that Robertson is one of them? Robertson's statements are not congruent with what Christianity teaches.
Pat is gone.
I've seen other Christian media spoof Robertson. I remember one fake Bill Moyers interview:
Bill: "So tell us about that hurricane."
Pat: "Yes, Bill. The storm was bearing down on North Carolina and our studios, but we and thousands of other prayer warriors knelt and prayed, and that power stopped the storm in its tracks and sent it back out to sea."
Bill: "But didn't the storm just turn up the coast and hit New York?"
Pat: "Well, ah, yes Bill, but see, there's sin in New York."
I would never put you on ignore, I love reading your posts too much.
The problem, my dear boy, is that people like yourself would not be happy with schools just teaching that there was a generic "creator" who "influenced" the beginning of the universe.
Oh sure, maybe at first you would be satisfied, because your myths and fables are being propagated in the minds of young, impressionable children, but eventually, you would insist that the creator be the God of Chrsitianity and that he not only just "influenced" the universe, but he created it in six days, people lived to be 900 years old, two of every animal lived on a boat, a man lived inside a whale and everything else that you wacky people say.
Your agument would be that the majority of people in the US that believe in a creator are Christian; therefore, their views should be represented. Where does it end?
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Last edited by Mr. Peabody; 08-23-2011 at 06:55 PM.
Since Texas voted to outlaw gay marriage, does that mean we won't get any hurricanes next year?
Pat Roberson is simply an example of the nutjobs that gravitate towards that end of the political spectrum.
The left has it's own nutjobs to be sure, and that is one of the reasons I am something of a centrist on many issues.
I think Pat Roberson is one of those "Christians" who makes a lot of sound and fury about being a Christian, but in the end consistantly demonstrates a lack of true understanding of basic Christian tenets. He is spiritually "stunted", for want of a better term.
Exactly. ID is just a stepping stone for religous zealots to not just have a "creator" recognized, but to ultimately make it a specific creator. Thereby bypassing freedom of religon in the sense that Muslim kids will learn that Ala doesnt exist and Jesus's father created everything and all things.
Basically, its political fodder best left to barren mid-Western states where it wont offend anyone. Its not a testing area, its an isolated phenomena. A quickly fleeting generalization held dear by the religously righteous.
There must be big money to be a demogogue.
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