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SomethingFishy

(4,876 posts)
Tue Aug 28, 2012, 11:32 AM Aug 2012

Ya knew it was coming.. "God moved the hurricane for the Republicans"

http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/david/pat-robertsons-cbn-suggests-god-moved-hurric

The religious lifestyle show hosted by televangelist Pat Robertson on Monday suggested that Christians in Florida had convinced God to move soon-to-be Hurricane Isaac away from Tampa, Florida to protect Republicans.

During a segment about how Isaac forced the first day of Republican National Convention to be cancelled, Christian Broadcasting Network's Paul Strand noted that Current TV host Jennifer Granholm sent out a "snarky tweet" saying that "God has ways to shut that whole thing down."

"For anybody who's a liberal who's part of a party that would like to whitewash God out of America, it's amazing that she's acknowledging that God has any part in the storm," conservative radio host Bill Bunkley told CBN.

Snip

"We have had lots and lots of people praying around the clock that it would move," Rev. Jesten Peters explained. "And if you watch from the very beginning where they were saying it was coming up and now where they're saying it's going, then it's really moved a lot for us, and we appreciate God doing that and moving it for us."

So I guess Christians really hate New Orleans.
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2pooped2pop

(5,420 posts)
1. yeah why didn't the sadistic bastards pray it away
Tue Aug 28, 2012, 11:34 AM
Aug 2012

instead of praying for it to hit somewhere else? Christians, my ass.

greatauntoftriplets

(175,731 posts)
2. And when it hits New Orleans on the 7th anniversary of Katrina....
Tue Aug 28, 2012, 11:38 AM
Aug 2012

some smartass is going to post this photo. Oh, wait! I already did.

Aeroette

(97 posts)
4. I guess the people in Louisiana made a pact with the devil to get hit twice
Tue Aug 28, 2012, 11:50 AM
Aug 2012

Or maybe they're just a bunch of sinners who don't pray hard enough.

jorno67

(1,986 posts)
7. Excellent! Now that you got your prayer skills sharpened....
Tue Aug 28, 2012, 11:57 AM
Aug 2012

Start praying for the poor, the elderly, the sick, and for peace.

 

Blue Meany

(1,947 posts)
8. Why does he only tell us after the fact what has happened...
Tue Aug 28, 2012, 12:01 PM
Aug 2012

If he is so sure of this, he should be able to tell us in advance.

aint_no_life_nowhere

(21,925 posts)
9. Where is Pat Robertson on this?
Tue Aug 28, 2012, 12:07 PM
Aug 2012

He's a Saint. He cured my hemorrhoids a few years ago when I stuck my ass up to his face to moon him over the TV screen.

Buns_of_Fire

(17,175 posts)
13. The Lord works in mysterious ways...
Tue Aug 28, 2012, 01:09 PM
Aug 2012

Just smiting the hell out of the bubba's convention would be pretty obvious. I give God credit for being a bit more subtle than that.

No, Isaac will landfall -- around New Orleans -- both seven years to the day after Katrina, plus at the same time as the bubba party is anointing Prince Romney. Everyone knows who was in charge when NOLA drowned.

Surely many will see what this is all trying to tell us.

PD Turk

(1,289 posts)
14. But, but
Tue Aug 28, 2012, 01:14 PM
Aug 2012

They cancelled the first day of the convention when it looked like it was heading to FL. O ye of little faith!!

dogknob

(2,431 posts)
15. And God said unto Isaac...
Tue Aug 28, 2012, 01:39 PM
Aug 2012

"Go not into Tampa Bay, lest thy wrath fall short of driving the unwelcome from the place. They shall bloweth and speweth on the scale of ten of thou."

 

Sheepshank

(12,504 posts)
16. They didn't trust God enough. They cancelled the first day of the Convention
Tue Aug 28, 2012, 01:53 PM
Aug 2012

After the fact, they make the presumption that God loves them more that New Orleans? Alrighty then.

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