Pat Robertson has died.
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Pat Robertson sent to hell
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Pens1566
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HomerJS
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I have good things to say about the Iron Sheik who died yesterday.
Taking mother's lesson, I have no comment on Pat Robertson.
Taking mother's lesson, I have no comment on Pat Robertson.
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A deeply immoral man who launched a movement responsible for untold suffering.
UNCjigga
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I guess it’s the 699 Club from here on out???
evident
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kage69
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How about this weather? We keep getting rain which is really helping with the smoke. States farther away from Canada have worse air than I do somehow.
Anyway...
Anyway...
KB
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If the man was as close to god as he thinks he was, surely god could have given him everlasting life to be able tell everyone the good word for eternity. But god didn't, so I guess he wasn't close to god after all.
I didn't wish him dead, but I do enjoy reading his obituary.
I didn't wish him dead, but I do enjoy reading his obituary.
pete6032
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This guy had so many controversies that there is a Wikipedia page dedicated to all of them.
en.wikipedia.org
Pat Robertson controversies - Wikipedia
MrSquished
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K1052
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"Some people are going to leave a mark on this world, while others will leave a stain." - Eleanor Roosevelt
It’s too bad he won’t know just how wrong he was.
It’s too bad he won’t know just how wrong he was.
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Excerpts from a dated New York times article: https://www.nytimes.com/1987/12/27/us/the-record-of-pat-robertson-on-religion-and-government.html
"Pat Robertson, the Republican Presidential candidate who resigned his ministry to allay concern that he would impose religion on government if elected, said emphatically when he was a minister that he believed only devout Christians and Jews were qualified to govern.
A review of his writings and commentary on the religious television program he headed for two decades, ''The 700 Club,'' also shows that Mr. Robertson maintained that government is subservient to the will of God and that democracy is ''next best'' to ''government controlled by God.''
''I think anybody whose mind and heart is not controlled by God Almighty is not qualified in the ultimate sense to be the judge of someone else. . . . No one is fit to govern other people unless first of all something governs him. And there is only one governor I know of that is suitable to be judge of all the universe, that's God Almighty. Yes, I did say that. You can quote me. I believe it.''
So I can safely assume he thinks the USA should be a theocratic form if gov't, if not a very heavily influenced one with everyone else subservient to the tenets of their faith and beliefs then?
Ha, fuck that shit. He'd have to (metaphorically) burn Our Constitution down into ashes and make a statue of Jesus out of it first, of which I believe he would've had no problem with.
Freedom of religion must be of equal prominence with the fact that we should also be free from it.
"Pat Robertson, the Republican Presidential candidate who resigned his ministry to allay concern that he would impose religion on government if elected, said emphatically when he was a minister that he believed only devout Christians and Jews were qualified to govern.
A review of his writings and commentary on the religious television program he headed for two decades, ''The 700 Club,'' also shows that Mr. Robertson maintained that government is subservient to the will of God and that democracy is ''next best'' to ''government controlled by God.''
''I think anybody whose mind and heart is not controlled by God Almighty is not qualified in the ultimate sense to be the judge of someone else. . . . No one is fit to govern other people unless first of all something governs him. And there is only one governor I know of that is suitable to be judge of all the universe, that's God Almighty. Yes, I did say that. You can quote me. I believe it.''
So I can safely assume he thinks the USA should be a theocratic form if gov't, if not a very heavily influenced one with everyone else subservient to the tenets of their faith and beliefs then?
Ha, fuck that shit. He'd have to (metaphorically) burn Our Constitution down into ashes and make a statue of Jesus out of it first, of which I believe he would've had no problem with.
Freedom of religion must be of equal prominence with the fact that we should also be free from it.
Brainonska511
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Re: thread title
Oh good - he can say hello to Ronald Reagan.
Oh good - he can say hello to Ronald Reagan.
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“A government controlled by god” is a pompous manner of saying a “government controlled by me”. We all believe that and so settled on democracy as a compromise.
I dont need to take you at your word that god spoke to you. If god truly wants me to believe that, theres all manner of bushes he can ignite to set me straight. I dont need to go on faith that youre not an egomaniacal POS.
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Some Pat Robertson gems.
On a man with an Alzheimer’s-stricken wife
“I know it sounds cruel, but if he’s going to do something, he should divorce her and start all over again, but to make sure she has custodial care and somebody (is) looking after her.”
On Walt Disney World’s “Gay Days”
“I would warn Orlando that you’re right in the way of some serious hurricanes, and I don’t think I’d be waving those flags in God’s face if I were you … It’ll bring about terrorist bombs; it’ll bring earthquakes, tornadoes, and possibly a meteor.”
On feminism
“The feminist agenda is not about equal rights for women. It is about a socialist, anti-family political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.”
On homosexuality
“Many of those people involved in Adolf Hitler were Satanists. Many were homosexuals. The two things seem to go together.”
On assassinating Hugo Chavez
“You know, I don’t know about this doctrine of assassination, but if he thinks we’re trying to assassinate him, I think that we really ought to go ahead and do it.”
On the tornadoes that ravaged the Midwest in 2012
“If enough people were praying, (God) would’ve intervened.
On 9/11
He agreed with Jerry Falwell when Falwell stated that the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks were caused by abortionists, feminists, gays, lesbians, ...
On a man with an Alzheimer’s-stricken wife
“I know it sounds cruel, but if he’s going to do something, he should divorce her and start all over again, but to make sure she has custodial care and somebody (is) looking after her.”
On Walt Disney World’s “Gay Days”
“I would warn Orlando that you’re right in the way of some serious hurricanes, and I don’t think I’d be waving those flags in God’s face if I were you … It’ll bring about terrorist bombs; it’ll bring earthquakes, tornadoes, and possibly a meteor.”
On feminism
“The feminist agenda is not about equal rights for women. It is about a socialist, anti-family political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.”
On homosexuality
“Many of those people involved in Adolf Hitler were Satanists. Many were homosexuals. The two things seem to go together.”
On assassinating Hugo Chavez
“You know, I don’t know about this doctrine of assassination, but if he thinks we’re trying to assassinate him, I think that we really ought to go ahead and do it.”
On the tornadoes that ravaged the Midwest in 2012
“If enough people were praying, (God) would’ve intervened.
On 9/11
He agreed with Jerry Falwell when Falwell stated that the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks were caused by abortionists, feminists, gays, lesbians, ...
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As a non-religious person, I see Robertson's death as symbolic: it's one more step toward the fuller secularization of society. Not that there aren't other theocracy advocates these days, but it seems like amateur hour in comparison. The politicians who push for it now are mainly cynics exploiting fear and hate (more than before, that is).
I can't say for certain that we'll never have another Robertson, but I suspect we won't given that each successive generation is more secular than the last. It'll be difficult to have another 700 Club-style success when the churches are empty.
I can't say for certain that we'll never have another Robertson, but I suspect we won't given that each successive generation is more secular than the last. It'll be difficult to have another 700 Club-style success when the churches are empty.
Pens1566
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How fitting is it that he died in Pride Month???
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HomerJS
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This man deserves a better sendoff.
www.nbcnewyork.com
The Iron Sheik, charismatic former pro wrestling villain and Twitter personality, dies at 81
The Iron Sheik, real name Hossein Khosrow Ali Vaziri, “departed this world peacefully," the WWE said in a statement on Wednesday.
www.nbcnewyork.com
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