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I couldn't even come up with a good rejoinder when I first read Sinister's post--I was so floored. Unless he's always been this way, it sounds like Robertson is exhibiting early Alzheimer's dementia. Thanks for posting something from a voice reason in the Christian camp, doug--it's encouraging to see that not all Christians thing along the same lines as Robertson and his ilk. Unfortunately, these rational minds will not get the same level of media coverage. If Robertson's god truly is the vengeful and wrathful being he touts him to be, then old Pat better be ready for a divine smackdown for his weather/disaster predictions.

According to Deuteronomy 18:18-22 "I will raise them up a prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee; and I will put My words in his mouth, and he shall speak unto them all that I shall command him. And it shall come to pass, that whosoever will not hearken unto My words which he shall speak in My name, I will require it of him. But the prophet, that shall speak a word presumptuously in My name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or that shall speak in the name of other gods, that same prophet shall die.' And if thou say in thy heart: 'How shall we know the word which the Lord hath not spoken?' When a prophet speaketh in the name of the Lord, if the thing follow not, nor come to pass, that is the thing which the Lord hath not spoken; the prophet hath spoken it presumptuously, thou shalt not be afraid of him."

 

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More TRIPE from America's favourite false prophet... :googly: :googly: *clicky linky*

 

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I know...it made me giggle too.

Way to cover your bases there, Patsy!

 

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Here's my prediction: I think this summer it will be hot. The fall will be cool. The winter will be cold and the spring showers will bring may flowers. I think I got the hang of this!!!!! :googly:

LMFAO!

Now just proclaim to the media that you think you heard <insert deity here> tell you this while you were brushing your teeth the other day and you'll be just like ol' Pat! Pass the collection plate, folks!!

 

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Not defending Robertson but he did later issue an apology for his statements.

AFAIK this is an older "news" article. It only goes to show that the so-called fundamentalist view point can be problematic. Of course calling him or anyone "fundamentalist", when in fact they are extremist, is an attempt at altering people's perceptions.

He did issue an apology for his comments regarding Sharon. The latest stuff stems from comments he's made in the last two weeks according to the article in the link I posted.

 

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One of America's favourite attention whores/religious nuts weighs in again with God's supposed "to-do list" for 2007...

Pat Robertson Predicts 'Mass Killing'
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (AP) -- In what has become an annual tradition of prognostications, religious broadcaster Pat Robertson said Tuesday God has told him that a terrorist attack on the United States would result in "mass killing" late in 2007.

"I'm not necessarily saying it's going to be nuclear," he said during his news-and-talk television show "The 700 Club" on the Christian Broadcasting Network. "The Lord didn't say nuclear. But I do believe it will be something like that."

Robertson said God told him during a recent prayer retreat that major cities and possibly millions of people will be affected by the attack, which should take place sometime after September.

Robertson said God also told him that the U.S. only feigns friendship with Israel and that U.S. policies are pushing Israel toward "national suicide."

Robertson suggested in January 2006 that God punished then-Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon with a stroke for ceding Israeli-controlled land to the Palestinians.

The broadcaster predicted in January 2004 that President Bush would easily win re-election. Bush won 51 percent of the vote that fall, beating Democratic Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts.

In 2005, Robertson predicted that Bush would have victory after victory in his second term. He said Social Security reform proposals would be approved and Bush would nominate conservative judges to federal courts.

Lawmakers confirmed Bush's 2005 nominations of John Roberts and Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court. But the president's Social Security initiative was stalled.

"I have a relatively good track record," he said. "Sometimes I miss."

In May, Robertson said God told him that storms and possibly a tsunami were to crash into America's coastline in 2006. Even though the U.S. was not hit with a tsunami, Robertson on Tuesday cited last spring's heavy rains and flooding in New England as partly fulfilling the prediction.

I love the fact that he's quoted as saying "Sometimes I miss." Uh...isn't your all-knowing, all-seeing god telling you this stuff, Pat? Please go DIAF, false prophet. :finger: