Pat Robertson Defends Faith Healing, Compares Practice To Santa Claus

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/16/pat-robertson-faith-healing_n_3937061.html?utm_hp_ref=religion

Posted: 09/16/2013 6:28 pm EDT

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Likening the practice to Santa Claus giving out gifts, Pat Robertson struggled to explain faith healing to the viewers of the "700 Club" this week.

On Monday, a viewer asked about faith healing and how it works. In response, the TV evangelist -- who has himself conducted many faith healings -- said the practice is a "manifestation of the Holy Spirit." He said the powers to heal come not from human effort but from God.

"Listen, when we're praying together, the word of knowledge, the Lord, just shows us what he's doing at some point of time. [It's] not what we're doing, it's his do," he said, later adding: "I do not believe in 'a resident gift to heal.' I don't think that's biblical. I think it is a word of knowledge, it is gifts of healing."

Still struggling to find the right words, Robertson went on to compare faith healing to Santa Claus.

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[gopiscrap]

1. This guy is such a fucking loon,

why does anybody listen to him anymore

[backscatter712]

2. Faith healing is like Santa Claus...

...both are figments of the imagination.

[cleanhippie]

3. It's like some of the old Religon discussion we used to have.

Where believers actually tried to justify and rationalize their beliefs. Most just got angry tht we said it was nonsensical, just like we are ALL saying about our friend Pat here, and have since turned to the "tone" argument in some form.

In the end, when one attempts to rationalize a belief based on a religious view, it ALL comes out sounding like Pat Robertson.