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Adenoid_Hynkel

(14,093 posts)
Tue May 21, 2013, 10:38 PM May 2013

Pat Robertson says Oklahoma tornado victims didn't pray hard enough



A couple of years ago when asked why God lets tornado happen, Robertson’s answer was that God created weather patterns (or something like that) and that the blame should be placed on the people that chose to live in the weather’s way. If only there was a follow-up question asking where, exactly, people were immune from weather and natural disasters. He also said that Jesus would have stopped the tornado if only people had prayed enough.

“If enough people were praying He would’ve intervened, you could pray, Jesus stilled the storm, you can still storms.”


http://thebigslice.org/you-wont-believe-what-pat-robertson-is-blaming-the-ok-tornado-on/

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Pat Robertson says Oklahoma tornado victims didn't pray hard enough (Original Post) Adenoid_Hynkel May 2013 OP
I figured one of them would come out with something like this, just did not know when. I do not Thinkingabout May 2013 #1
On the same vein, Infowars says Obama caused the tornado. 'Cuz he's the Anti-Christ, donchaknow. freshwest May 2013 #15
You're right, but I also would like to know if Pat prayed, guess he didn't. I sure am glad Pat is Thinkingabout May 2013 #18
Pat *prays in public.* Enough said. freshwest May 2013 #20
So why again is this guy not in the Dementia unit? MichiganVote May 2013 #2
No, listening to too much country music mindwalker_i May 2013 #3
Inbred. Dawson Leery May 2013 #4
Isn't he about due for a massive heart attack? Apophis May 2013 #5
Well, he'd have to have a heart customerserviceguy May 2013 #10
sure pat, sure. spanone May 2013 #6
Nothing fails like prayer. n-t Logical May 2013 #7
Pray LOUDER!! chollybocker May 2013 #8
You can't win with that snake oil salesman malaise May 2013 #9
Creepy olde fucker. nt rrneck May 2013 #11
Wish Pat would enlighten us with an example of when enough snappyturtle May 2013 #12
Just another in a long line of stupid Pat Robertson quotes. JeffHead May 2013 #13
That picture reminds me of what Jesus said: freshwest May 2013 #14
So has Robertson said anything at all about this current tragedy? duffyduff May 2013 #16
Isn't that kind of collectivist of him? Shouldn't one prayer be enough? reformist2 May 2013 #17
I think there needs to be a national prayerometer. sibelian May 2013 #19

Thinkingabout

(30,058 posts)
1. I figured one of them would come out with something like this, just did not know when. I do not
Tue May 21, 2013, 10:42 PM
May 2013

think God has given Pat Robertson the title of spokesman for God. How does he know if they prayed hard enough, maybe their prayers did help to have fewer deaths. Pat, this is not how it works, get over yourself. I guess he will say Noah did not pray hard enough and this is why the earth was flooded.

freshwest

(53,661 posts)
15. On the same vein, Infowars says Obama caused the tornado. 'Cuz he's the Anti-Christ, donchaknow.
Tue May 21, 2013, 11:09 PM
May 2013

On the Noah thing, the world was flooded because God said He'd made a big mistake making mankind and He wanted to start from scratch. The reason Noah's neighbors drowned was because they didn't believe the old dude and so they didn't make their own big boats to survive. Really, these folks have got an answer for everything, ya can't win.

Thinkingabout

(30,058 posts)
18. You're right, but I also would like to know if Pat prayed, guess he didn't. I sure am glad Pat is
Wed May 22, 2013, 02:54 PM
May 2013

not in charge, he doesn't get it right.

mindwalker_i

(4,407 posts)
3. No, listening to too much country music
Tue May 21, 2013, 10:42 PM
May 2013

Caused the tornado. Now they have to play the tornado in reverse to get their trucks back, get their houses back...

customerserviceguy

(25,183 posts)
10. Well, he'd have to have a heart
Tue May 21, 2013, 10:52 PM
May 2013

No luck wishing for a stroke, either...

We need to celebrate like hell the day his mouth is finally closed for good.

JeffHead

(1,186 posts)
13. Just another in a long line of stupid Pat Robertson quotes.
Tue May 21, 2013, 11:02 PM
May 2013

10. "Lord, give us righteous judges who will not try to legislate and dominate this society. Take control, Lord! We ask for additional vacancies on the court." –Pat Robertson

9. "Just like what Nazi Germany did to the Jews, so liberal America is now doing to the evangelical Christians. It's no different. It is the same thing. It is happening all over again. It is the Democratic Congress, the liberal-based media and the homosexuals who want to destroy the Christians. Wholesale abuse and discrimination and the worst bigotry directed toward any group in America today. More terrible than anything suffered by any minority in history." –Pat Robertson

8. "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, This is not a message of hate -- this is a message of redemption. But a condition like this will bring about the destruction of your nation. It'll bring about terrorist bombs; it'll bring earthquakes, tornadoes, and possibly a meteor." –Pat Robertson, on "gay days" at Disneyworld

7. &quot T)he 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." –Pat Robertson

6. "I know this is painful for the ladies to hear, but if you get married, you have accepted the headship of a man, your husband. Christ is the head of the household and the husband is the head of the wife, and that's the way it is, period." –Pat Robertson

5. "God considers this land to be his. You read the Bible and he says 'This is my land,' and for any prime minister of Israel who decides he is going to carve it up and give it away, God says, 'No, this is mine.' ... He was dividing God's land. And I would say, 'Woe unto any prime minister of Israel who takes a similar course to appease the E.U., the United Nations, or the United States of America.' God says, 'This land belongs to me. You better leave it alone.'" --Pat Robertson, on why Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon suffered a massive stroke

4. "Maybe we need a very small nuke thrown off on Foggy Bottom to shake things up" –Pat Robertson, on nuking the State Department

3. "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. It's a whole lot cheaper than starting a war ... We have the ability to take him out, and I think the time has come that we exercise that ability. We don't need another $200 billion war to get rid of one, you know, strong-arm dictator. It's a whole lot easier to have some of the covert operatives do the job and then get it over with." –Pat Robertson, calling for the assassination of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez

2. "It may be a blessing in disguise. ... Something happened a long time ago in Haiti, and people might not want to talk about it. Haitians were originally under the heel of the French. You know, Napoleon the third, or whatever. And they got together and swore a pact to the devil. They said, we will serve you if you will get us free from the French. True story. And so, the devil said, okay it's a deal. Ever since they have been cursed by one thing after the other." –Pat Robertson, on the earthquake in Haiti that destroyed the capital and killed tens of thousands of people, Jan. 13, 2010

1. "Like it or not, males have a tendency to wander a little bit. What you want to do is make a home so wonderful that he doesn’t want to wander." –Pat Robertson, giving advice on "The 700 Club" to a woman whose husband cheated on her


freshwest

(53,661 posts)
14. That picture reminds me of what Jesus said:
Tue May 21, 2013, 11:02 PM
May 2013
1 Then Jesus spoke to the crowds and to His disciples, 2 saying: “The scribes and the Pharisees have seated themselves in the chair of Moses; 3 therefore all that they tell you, do and observe, but do not do according to their deeds; for they say things and do not do them. 4 They tie up heavy burdens and lay them on men’s shoulders, but they themselves are unwilling to move them with so much as a finger. 5 But they do all their deeds to be noticed by men; for they broaden their [a]phylacteries and lengthen the tassels of their garments.

Matthew 23:1-5

While all the people were listening, Jesus said to his disciples, "Beware of the teachers of the law. They like to walk around in flowing robes and love to be greeted in the marketplaces and have the most important seats in the prayer houses and the places of honor at banquets. They devour widows' houses and for a show make lengthy prayers... Such men will be punished most severely."

Luke, 20:45-47; Mark, 12:38-40

Pat Robertson Diamond mines that used slave labor, swindled relief efforts, and helped Al-Qaeda

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x7464342

Anyone who gives that man any credence has the attention span and IQ of a gnat.


 

duffyduff

(3,251 posts)
16. So has Robertson said anything at all about this current tragedy?
Tue May 21, 2013, 11:21 PM
May 2013

Or has he decided to keep his big mouth shut for a change?

sibelian

(7,804 posts)
19. I think there needs to be a national prayerometer.
Wed May 22, 2013, 03:34 PM
May 2013

A big measuring device like the hubble telescope could be placed in orbit measuring "prayerons" and the data fed back to the populace so they know how well they're doing.

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