Religious broadcaster Pat Robertson warned residents of a rural Pennsylvania town Thursday not to be surprised if disaster strikes there because "you just voted God out of your city" by ousting school board members who favored teaching "intelligent design."
"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 Thursday on the Christian Broadcasting Network's "The 700 Club."
(Via Ravynstone Abbey.)
I'm honestly surprised I snagged this before Jason did.
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I am definitely losing what little edge I might have had.
Hardly.
Did Pat Robertson assasinate God when he called for the assasination of Hugo Chavez? ...
Mac if the coffee shop comes to fruition, may i suggest you serve some good turkish coffee :)
Wow.
``God is tolerant and loving, but we can't keep sticking our finger in His eye forever,'' Robertson said.
If anyone is guilty of poking God in the eye, it is this prat.
Shame there is no hell, since he would surely go there.
Pat Robertson IS the Tribulation.
weevee: klbtizbh (Kind of like "kibitz" only not.)
Got this from a rabid atheist's site, http://www.evilbible.com/Top_Ten_List.htm My, that web author does go on. Doth pursue the subject most religiously .... ;-) Anyway, even though it's a bit severe, I think Pat Robertson fits this bill rather closely.
Top Ten Signs You're a Fundamentalist Christian
10 - You vigorously deny the existence of thousands of gods claimed by other religions, but feel outraged when someone denies the existence of yours.
9 - You feel insulted and "dehumanized" when scientists say that people evolved from other life forms, but you have no problem with the Biblical claim that we were created from dirt.
8 - You laugh at polytheists, but you have no problem believing in a Triune God.
7 - Your face turns purple when you hear of the "atrocities" attributed to Allah, but you don't even flinch when hearing about how God/Jehovah slaughtered all the babies of Egypt in "Exodus" and ordered the elimination of entire ethnic groups in "Joshua" including women, children, and trees!
6 - You laugh at Hindu beliefs that deify humans, and Greek claims about gods sleeping with women, but you have no problem believing that the Holy Spirit impregnated Mary, who then gave birth to a man-god who got killed, came back to life and then ascended into the sky.
5 - You are willing to spend your life looking for little loopholes in the scientifically established age of Earth (few billion years), but you find nothing wrong with believing dates recorded by Bronze Age tribesmen sitting in their tents and guessing that Earth is a few generations old.
4 - You believe that the entire population of this planet with the exception of those who share your beliefs -- though excluding those in all rival sects - will spend Eternity in an infinite Hell of Suffering. And yet consider your religion the most "tolerant" and "loving."
3 - While modern science, history, geology, biology, and physics have failed to convince you otherwise, some idiot rolling around on the floor speaking in "tongues" may be all the evidence you need to "prove" Christianity.
2 - You define 0.01% as a "high success rate" when it comes to answered prayers. You consider that to be evidence that prayer works. And you think that the remaining 99.99% FAILURE was simply the will of God.
1 - You actually know a lot less than many atheists and agnostics do about the Bible, Christianity, and church history - but still call yourself a Christian.
BTW: Pagan Origins of the Christ Myth makes for interesting reading. http://home.earthlink.net/~pgwhacker/ChristianOrigins/
Mr. Robertson is remarkable in that he is quite obviously...seriously...mentally ill, and yet attracts a crowd whenever he sputters some barely coherent bile.
I'm long past the outrage at his emanations. I only pity him and his unfortunate remaining followers. Anyone who actually puts pen to paper (virtually or otherwise) to comment on them accomplishes little more than the equivalent of narrating a head-on collision.
Your derision...when made public...provides grist for the mill. Silence is golden. :)
Best to all,
Kyle
UFOreflections.blogspot.com
Kyle--
I hear you. Sometimes all you can do is laugh.