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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPat Robertson says Oklahoma tornado victims didn't pray hard enough
A couple of years ago when asked why God lets tornado happen, Robertsons 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 weathers 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 wouldve 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/
Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)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)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)not in charge, he doesn't get it right.
freshwest
(53,661 posts)MichiganVote
(21,086 posts)mindwalker_i
(4,407 posts)Caused the tornado. Now they have to play the tornado in reverse to get their trucks back, get their houses back...
Dawson Leery
(19,348 posts)Apophis
(1,407 posts)customerserviceguy
(25,183 posts)No luck wishing for a stroke, either...
We need to celebrate like hell the day his mouth is finally closed for good.
spanone
(135,781 posts)what a horse's ass
Logical
(22,457 posts)chollybocker
(3,687 posts)Also, send me money.
malaise
(268,664 posts)He has a plaster for every sore
rrneck
(17,671 posts)snappyturtle
(14,656 posts)people prayed a tragedy was avoided.
JeffHead
(1,186 posts)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. " 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 doesnt want to wander." Pat Robertson, giving advice on "The 700 Club" to a woman whose husband cheated on her
freshwest
(53,661 posts)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)Or has he decided to keep his big mouth shut for a change?
reformist2
(9,841 posts)sibelian
(7,804 posts)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.