BS: Pat Robertson- Apoplectic Voice of God

Subject: RE: BS: Pat Robertson- Apoplectic Voice of God
From: Peace
Date: 13 Nov 05 - 07:50 PM

Filthy caPEEtalist. See your 10 fold and raise you 50.

Subject: RE: BS: Pat Robertson- Apoplectic Voice of God
From: bobad
Date: 13 Nov 05 - 07:46 PM

If anyone wants to lend me $100,000.00 I will pledge to repay them 10 fold in heaven.

Subject: RE: BS: Pat Robertson- Apoplectic Voice of God
From: Peace
Date: 13 Nov 05 - 07:24 PM

Sheesh. Thought it was the first donation being pledged.

Subject: RE: BS: Pat Robertson- Apoplectic Voice of God
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 13 Nov 05 - 07:23 PM

Are polititians the only ones who take this guy seriously?

He gives Christians a bad name -- surely other Christians know he doesn't speak for Christians.

And surely anyone who agrees with him has never read the New Testiment.

Linn
(former Lutheran from a large Midwestern town)

Subject: RE: BS: Pat Robertson- Apoplectic Voice of God
From: Peace
Date: 13 Nov 05 - 06:52 PM

Ladies and gentlemen: There is a window of opportunity opening here. We could all get VERY VERY rich. Stay with me on this.

"Religion of the Wholistic Gestalt".

Come bretheren, let us march forward into a new day, a new beginning. Donations gratefully accepted. No tax receipts will be issued, but GOD will pay you in Heaven. Send your donation and we will PRAY for you. Donations of more than $100,000 American will provide for you a special seat with a plaque carrying your name in our RWG House of Worship.

Need some input here.

Subject: RE: BS: Pat Robertson- Apoplectic Voice of God
From: GUEST,Martin Gibson
Date: 13 Nov 05 - 02:48 PM

At this point I think people are taking Pat Robertson about as seriously as Carol C

Subject: RE: BS: Pat Robertson- Apoplectic Voice of God
From: robomatic
Date: 13 Nov 05 - 06:16 AM

Pat Robertson already tried for Prez in the 80s. The second there were implications leaked about his past he pulled out of the race. He has more to lose than to gain by leaving his current position. He is not so much to be feared as the folks who believe the sun rises and sets with him, and after he is no longer in the catbird seat they will flock to someone else hopefully not more of a loony.

Subject: RE: BS: Pat Robertson- Apoplectic Voice of God
From: Peace
Date: 13 Nov 05 - 03:40 AM

It is scary. Hitler started with fewer followers than that. And Hitler wasn't rich!

Subject: RE: BS: Pat Robertson- Apoplectic Voice of God
From: Ebbie
Date: 13 Nov 05 - 01:54 AM

Peace, that link is just about the scariest thing I have ever read. The 700 Club has something like a million members/faithful, and that doesn't even include those people who don't watch the man on TV but read his stuff.

I'm going to pursue the collection of his ravings and send them to my family. If they never speak to me again, I will have misjudged them, but it would tell me more about them than I wish to know.

Subject: RE: BS: Pat Robertson- Apoplectic Voice of God
From: Peace
Date: 13 Nov 05 - 01:24 AM

Ladies and Gentleman, the universally unaware...............Mary Gibson.

Subject: RE: BS: Pat Robertson- Apoplectic Voice of God
From: GUEST,Martin Gibson
Date: 13 Nov 05 - 01:23 AM

Ladies and Gentleman, the culturally unaware..............Peace.

Subject: RE: BS: Pat Robertson- Apoplectic Voice of God
From: Peace
Date: 13 Nov 05 - 01:18 AM

Jackie who?

Subject: RE: BS: Pat Robertson- Apoplectic Voice of God
From: GUEST,Martin Gibson
Date: 13 Nov 05 - 01:11 AM

Now you're talking. Ed Sullivan, however, did not.

Subject: RE: BS: Pat Robertson- Apoplectic Voice of God
From: bobad
Date: 13 Nov 05 - 01:09 AM

I worship Jackie Mason.

Subject: RE: BS: Pat Robertson- Apoplectic Voice of God
From: GUEST,Martin Gibson
Date: 13 Nov 05 - 12:59 AM

[bleep] (for gratuitous vulgarity) Fuck you, you godless soul.

Subject: RE: BS: Pat Robertson- Apoplectic Voice of God
From: bobad
Date: 13 Nov 05 - 12:58 AM

So is being atheist.

Subject: RE: BS: Pat Robertson- Apoplectic Voice of God
From: GUEST,Martin Gibson
Date: 13 Nov 05 - 12:56 AM

Being Jewish is easier with Pat Robertson as Jesus' rep.

Subject: RE: BS: Pat Robertson- Apoplectic Voice of God
From: Peace
Date: 13 Nov 05 - 12:55 AM

Interesting site: Information about Pat Robertson.

Subject: RE: BS: Pat Robertson- Apoplectic Voice of God
From: GUEST
Date: 12 Nov 05 - 06:07 PM

Pat Robertson is just exercising his First Amendment rights in this country. It's up to the listeners to engage their cerebral matter and suss out for themselves what Pat is trying to say. It isn't Pat's fault if listeners blindly accept whatever drivel pops into his disillusioned brain.

Robertson's agenda is political, not religious. He is symbolic of the moneychangers that Jesus threw out of the synagogue. His politics and his religion are all about money.

I welcome the opportunity for him and those of his ilk to get the chance to broadcast their message across the airwaves - otherwise people like us would probably neither know what people like him are thinking, nor would we get the chance to examine the rationality of his thought processes. It is an educational experience, and keeps me from becoming too insular. Besides, his show 700 Club show is always good for a laugh. Pat Robertson is a joke, a well heeled joke. God does have a sense of humor.

Subject: RE: BS: Pat Robertson- Apoplectic Voice of God
From: Ebbie
Date: 12 Nov 05 - 05:37 PM

Have you noticed how they all resemble Karl Rove?

Subject: RE: BS: Pat Robertson- Apoplectic Voice of God
From: Mrrzy
Date: 12 Nov 05 - 04:08 PM

I am reminded of something I read once, not too long ago, about someone who was in an accident and wakes up in the dark, and someone robed in white comes in from a lighted background and says My name is Mohammed and I will take care of you, and the guy thinks, Oh, no, I died, and I'm the wrong religion! Turns out he was in the hospital and it was his night nurse... anyone know where I read it?
I only just found out about Pat Robertson, even though I've been following the Dover trial... my, my, all he needs is his Oxycontin addiction and he'll look just like Rush Limbaugh and the Dover school board guy!

Subject: RE: BS: Pat Robertson- Apoplectic Voice of God
From: Beer
Date: 11 Nov 05 - 06:04 PM

It's been said that when the U.S. catches a cold Ottawa sneezes and Quebec gets La Grippe. The church use to play a part in the Quebec politics. Not now though. At least not on an open level. I don't think the Federal Government would play that game as yet. Then again???? Lets hope not. They don't need religion anyway, they have enough shit hitting the fan as it is.

Subject: RE: BS: Pat Robertson- Apoplectic Voice of God
From: Barry Finn
Date: 11 Nov 05 - 05:55 PM

It seems to me that Pat's in good company with most others that hear & speak for God. They all have a bad case of verbal diarrhea shit coming out of their mouths & they all talk through their ass.

Barry

Subject: RE: BS: Pat Robertson- Apoplectic Voice of God
From: Peace
Date: 11 Nov 05 - 05:04 PM

Well, there was that group of idiots a few years back--the Stockwell Day crew--that tried to invoke the name of the Lord and Moral Majority crap into Parlimentary debate, but their party told them to sit down and behave. We get some lulus too, but not on the scale that seems to be prevalent in the USA. I mean, we wouldn't VOTE for them.

Subject: RE: BS: Pat Robertson- Apoplectic Voice of God
From: Little Hawk
Date: 11 Nov 05 - 04:36 PM

Hmmm. Well, there's no doubt that American politicians all feel they must pay lip service to organized religion...or face the wrath of numerous voters...so they all do it to some extent.

You'd like politics in Canada better, Bill. Canadian politicians virtually never bring religion into their public debating. It would be considered kind of tacky to do so, I think.

Subject: RE: BS: Pat Robertson- Apoplectic Voice of God
From: Bill D
Date: 11 Nov 05 - 03:16 PM

Pat Robertson is not the worst problem...he DOES have his lunatic followers, but it is folks like Tim LaHaye & Jerry Jenkins who wrote the "Left Behind" series that worry me. Have you seen them? They are nice, friendly, well-spoken regular fellows...who just happen to espouse a pretty scary viewpoint. They are getting to the ones who wouldn't listen to Pat R. alone.

Since it is considered so 'unseemly' (and often downright dangerous)to directly criticize anyone's religious views, even in a political campaign where your opponent is using religion to herd voters into his corral, I have a hard time seeing how to even have the debate on a level playing field!

Subject: RE: BS: Pat Robertson- Apoplectic Voice of God
From: Don Firth
Date: 11 Nov 05 - 02:48 PM

Oh, boy! God is gonna give Robertson such a wedgie!!!

Don Firth

Subject: RE: BS: Pat Robertson- Apoplectic Voice of God
From: Tannywheeler
Date: 11 Nov 05 - 01:23 PM

Nah, Paul Burke. God--who invented grandchildren, pecan trees, Berneice Reagon/Sweet Honey In The Rock, ripe avocados and tastebuds--is obviously putting all Its energy into spreading joy, health, peace.
Robertson is seriously mistaken. There's a prayer in the (Episcopal) 1928 prayer book that addresses Almighty God, "...who desireth not the death of a sinner, but rather that he may turn from his wickedness and live..."
I see so many wonderful people who struggle with the human tendency to anger/bitterness/fear, and its concommittent(sp?) energy toward revenge/vindictiveness. They know, first, that ACTING out those feelings is wrong. They attempt to use the energy to work toward being more reasonable and just themselves, to teach others how to live in greater health and peace with their neighbors, to find ways to protect the most vulnerable from harm--and they pray to God(see 1st parag. this post) to help them understand the evil and avoid it. They want to contribute to the flow of love and well-being where they are. Pat Robertson seems not to be following that path. He seems more interested in the politics of power and viciousness. "...Rather that he may turn from his wickedness and live..."               Tw

Subject: RE: BS: Pat Robertson- Apoplectic Voice of God
From: Peace
Date: 11 Nov 05 - 01:07 PM

If you are waiting for "The Rapture", you live with lotsa hope that the world will end. Religion a la Pat Robertson appeals to people who do not think for themselves. Read some of his comments when he gives advice to people over their personal problems. He quotes from "The Book". Does so very convincingly, if ya believe a literal interpretation. The followers of Robertson are basically fairly stupid. Hell, his personal worth is estimated at over $200,000,000. Only thing I can think is that it's easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. But, hey, I only read "The Book" 3 1/2 times, so what do I know? He presents his followers with a velcro presentation of biblical things--that 'velour on a background' stuff that Sunday schools use to begin the indoctrination. Robertson and that TV evangelist crew control millions of votes. Hell, wasn't Billy Graham a friend to many Presidents? Ain't far from that to having influence. And having billions of dollars at your disposal gives ya lots of influence in this world. IMO.

Subject: RE: BS: Pat Robertson- Apoplectic Voice of God
From: Little Hawk
Date: 11 Nov 05 - 01:02 PM

Boy, I can just imagine what Pat would have to say about me... LOL!

Subject: RE: BS: Pat Robertson- Apoplectic Voice of God
From: GUEST,Ken
Date: 11 Nov 05 - 12:55 PM

Didn't the voters of Dover, PA voted out the school board on the grounds of "Intelligent Design?" It now seems to me that "Intelligent Design" is more equivalent to (gasp) "Creationism." I thought "Intelligent Design" had more to do with omnipotent beings placing humans here on the planet known as Earth (I digress to a science fiction definition which seems to be IMHO what extreme environmentalists say indirectly).

I have always thought that Pat Robertson was 2 enchiladas short of a combination plate (or any other metaphor you can think of). Assasinating world leaders is one thing, but bombing a government agency? That is new to me. And now this condemnation of the town of Dover, what will it take for the people (and Mr. Robertson's parishioners) to see "the emporer has no clothes?" Any thoughts on this?

Subject: RE: BS: Pat Robertson- Apoplectic Voice of God
From: Ebbie
Date: 11 Nov 05 - 12:44 PM

"completely without political influence." MarkS

The problem is that that isn't so. There are tons of people out there who follow him and the others (oral roberts, jerry falwell, etc) who have tremendous power. Who do you think votes for dubya? And whose anger makes many politicians shake in their boots?

Subject: RE: BS: Pat Robertson- Apoplectic Voice of God
From: Little Hawk
Date: 11 Nov 05 - 12:44 PM

I'm all for the idea of "intelligent design", since I think that everything that comes into being does so through intelligence. I think atomic structures are intelligent. I think energy is intelligent. I think the whole Universe is an aftereffect of intelligence expressing itself, not a result of some kind of accident or unthinking process. I never thought of it as a justification for espousing the fundamentalist Christian religious view, though. ;-)

Study Taoism or Buddhism instead. They are far more enlightening in terms of articulating intelligent design. They do not even propose a "God" who is somehow seen as separate from his creation (which he cannot be, by definition!)..they propose a unified reality that is itself the very function and working OF intelligence. It's innately intelligent, and that intelligence can be seen reflected in both the microcosm (subatomic particles) and the macrocosm (the whole ball of wax). This does not require a human-like God figure to run it like some big Kahuna.

Accordingly, I think Pat Robertson is talking horse puckey! (to use DougR's old phrase)

Subject: RE: BS: Pat Robertson- Apoplectic Voice of God
From: GUEST
Date: 11 Nov 05 - 12:36 PM

Three cheers for Dover, an oasis of sanity in a desert of fundamentalist nonsense.

Subject: RE: BS: Pat Robertson- Apoplectic Voice of God
From: Bill D
Date: 11 Nov 05 - 12:12 PM

I have several times posted the logical truth: "From false premises, anything follows."

As we can see, it did.

Subject: RE: BS: Pat Robertson- Apoplectic Voice of God
From: Rapparee
Date: 11 Nov 05 - 12:02 PM

Gee, if the Christian God is like that then a whole bunch of other religions are lookin' pretty good.

Subject: RE: BS: Pat Robertson- Apoplectic Voice of God
From: Paul Burke
Date: 11 Nov 05 - 11:26 AM

Maybe he's right, and God IS like that.

What then?

Subject: RE: BS: Pat Robertson- Apoplectic Voice of God
From: Wesley S
Date: 11 Nov 05 - 11:18 AM

My biggest problem with Pat Robertson is that a lot of people seem to think that he speaks for ALL Christians. He doesn't - he just gets a lot of press.

Subject: RE: BS: Pat Robertson- Apoplectic Voice of God
From: MarkS
Date: 11 Nov 05 - 10:25 AM

Aw C'mon
This guy is a nonentity and completely without political influence. These days he is no more meaningful than a soapbox orator on a street corner. He has had his 15 minutes of fame.
Mark

Subject: RE: BS: Pat Robertson- Apoplectic Voice of God
From: Rapparee
Date: 11 Nov 05 - 09:24 AM

GW had better pray for guidance, 'cause he sure as hell is wandering around lost right now. I think his moral compass might be a tad busted.

Subject: RE: BS: Pat Robertson- Apoplectic Voice of God
From: Greg F.
Date: 11 Nov 05 - 09:15 AM

...he waves "god" around like a cudgel, acting as if the supposed Creator were his special policeman...

As does George Dubya every chancehe gets ditto Cheney & the rest of the BuShite crew.

Even the Bushites have distanced themselves from him now

Oh, no they ain't; not half far enough. Look more closely... at Kansas, say, & coming soon to a location near you:

From story on Latest AP Poll:" Just over four in 10 say the administration has high ethical standards and that Bush is honest. Whites, Southerners and white evangelicals were most likely to believe Bush is honest..."I know he is a man of integrity and strong faith," said Fran Blaney, a Republican and an evangelical who lives near Hartford, Conn. "I've read that he prays every morning asking for God's guidance."

Subject: RE: BS: Pat Robertson- Apoplectic Voice of God
From: Rapparee
Date: 11 Nov 05 - 09:09 AM

Ah, poo. I wanted to start this one.

I think that the booze he distributed to the Marines during the Korean War has finally caught up with ol' Pat.

Unless...

Unless...

Maybe he DOES have a direct connection to God....

Nah, in that case God would have hung up long ago.

Subject: RE: BS: Pat Robertson- Apoplectic Voice of God
From: katlaughing
Date: 11 Nov 05 - 06:52 AM

What irks me is the tv stations which carry his show accept it for pay, i.e. it is essentially a paid commercial announcement. It'd be better if it was kept to the religious channels, but then anyone without cable wouldn't be able to get it. I hate that it is shown every day on the station for which my husband works; it's a corporate decision to accept the money and run it. In this conservative, church-ridden area it gets big ratings.

He is also the same self-righteous-direct-pipeline-to-God-his-Goon who called for the assasination of Chavez of VZ, and blamed a hurricane in FL on the "godlessness" of the people. I think I remember him blaming 9-11 on that, too, making it partially the sinful city of New York's fault, too.

The best thing I can get out of this is karmic payback is going to be a real bitch for him and it couldn't come a moment too soon, imo.

katfeministwhodidnotdivorcemyhusbandkillmychildrennorgolesbain, so...he is a lousy predictor all the way round!

Subject: RE: BS: Pat Robertson- Apoplectic Voice of God
From: GUEST
Date: 11 Nov 05 - 02:09 AM

These t.v. evangelists have been around since the inception of t.v. Trouble is, the population has increased and so has the audience. These people pray, alright. They prey upon shut ins, invalids and couch potatoes. I actually think they should be outlawed but they realized a long time ago that you could get away with anything as long as you cloaked it in religion.

Subject: RE: BS: Pat Robertson- Apoplectic Voice of God
From: Peace
Date: 11 Nov 05 - 12:26 AM

Is this the same man who in 2003 suggested that the US State Department should be nuked?

Subject: RE: BS: Pat Robertson- Apoplectic Voice of God
From: GUEST,Boab
Date: 11 Nov 05 - 12:14 AM

Dudelo---why drag the poor sheep down to such depths?

Subject: RE: BS: Pat Robertson- Apoplectic Voice of God
From: Ebbie
Date: 10 Nov 05 - 11:55 PM

'sanctimonious' doesn't even quite describe it. I think the man has a serious case of grandiosity. I think he is deluded. I think he is meanspirited and vengeful. I think he is dishonest and consiously, deliberately deceptive. My guess is that at night he sleeps with the light on.

I will never forget what I saw on the '700 Club' one day. I was taking care of an elderly woman and she had the television on.

On it Robertson had a guest who was making the preposterous claim that the color pink is deleterious and disabling to men. He demonstrated the fact to Robertson.

First he had PR show that he could easily hold his arm rigid when the guest tugged on it. Then Guest laid a pink cloth on PR's arm and said, OK now don't let me bend it.

Pat Robertson strained mightily and guess what- he couldn't.

The next time I saw my very conservative, faith-filled, Pat Robertson-following Christian brother in law, I asked him to hold his arm rigid and demonstrate that I couldn't bend it. Then I laid a pink pillowcase on his arm and said, OK NOW bend it, and I held on.

He looked at me quizzically but he bent it. No problem.

Subject: RE: BS: Pat Robertson- Apoplectic Voice of God
From: Bill D
Date: 10 Nov 05 - 11:51 PM

I am running out of words for the contempt I have for Pat Robertson and his ilk....he waves "god" around like a cudgel, acting as if the supposed Creator were his special policeman to harass anyone to the left of ...oh, never mind...*sputter*

Subject: RE: BS: Pat Robertson- Apoplectic Voice of God
From: GUEST,Dudelo
Date: 10 Nov 05 - 08:42 PM

Rick M had the rights of it. Pat R is a sanctimonious son of a bitch in sheep's clothing.

Dudelo

Subject: RE: BS: Pat Robertson- Apoplectic Voice of God
From: Beer
Date: 10 Nov 05 - 08:32 PM

People will believe in just about anything and many are more than willing to try and get you to believe in their way. Some do it for money while others hold a firm belief. When I married my Protesant wife I was bound for hell. And others said it wouldn't last. That was 34 years ago.
But the point I want to make is this. A thread ( Catholic Bishop and Priest Scandal)in April of 2002 had a reply by a mudcatter by the name of Rick M. In his response he stated the following. " Don't Give Any Other Human The Right to Dictate Your Spirit Path". I'm sure Rick M if you read this you won't mind me quoting you. In all my years of confusion, RickM made it so clear to me.