Robertson: Europe committing 'racial suicide'; blames Sartre.

[edbermac]

Summary: Pat Robertson said, "Europe is right now in the midst of racial suicide because of the declining birth rate."

During the February 6 edition of Christian Broadcasting Network's (CBN) The 700 Club, host Pat Robertson said that "Europe is right now in the midst of racial suicide because of the declining birth rate." Robertson blamed the declining birth rate on the existential philosophy of Jean-Paul Sartre, which, according to Robertson, "has permeated the intellectual thinking of Europe" and has left Europeans without "a faith in the future."

ROBERTSON: Studies that I have read indicate that having babies is a sign of a faith in the future. You know, unless you believe in the future, you're not going to take the trouble of raising a child, educating a child, doing something. If there is no future, why do it? Well, unless you believe in God, there's really no future. And when you go back to the existentialism of Jean-Paul Sartre, the whole idea of this desperate nightmare we are in -- you know, that we are in this prison, and it has no hope, no exit. That kind of philosophy has permeated the intellectual thinking of Europe, and hopefully it doesn't come here. But nevertheless, ladies and gentlemen, Europe is right now in the midst of racial suicide because of the declining birth rate. And they just can't get it together. Why? There's no hope.

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This guy gets nuttier by the minute...:wtf:

[central scrutinizer]

1. raise your hand if you think Robertson has actually read Sartre

I don't see any hands. Although Pat does induce a state of Nausea in anyone with a triple digit IQ who listens to him long enough.

[drduffy]

14. nicely said and right on

[trotsky]

2. Every time he opens his bigoted hateful trap...

another jaw-dropper emerges.

There's also a philosophy that the earth has too many people to support, and that a responsible thing to do is to refrain from procreating.

With it costing a great deal more to raise children, there is also less incentive to have many of them, or even any at all.

Robertson is one of the most vile people on the planet. He supports thugs and dictators in Africa because they make him richer.

[Bluzmann57]

3. Here's another thought

Maybe the Muslim fundamentalists are no better than the right wing fundamentalists in America. Neither group wants free speech and neither group has any tolerance for anything different than what they believe.

[Nutmegger]

4. Is Robertson still alive?

Sorry, I thought he was dead.

[FiveGoodMen]

9. Wishful thinking

[Archae]

11. He is near-brain-dead...

n/t

[AspenRose]

5. EVERYTHING is about race to these people

EVERYTHING.

Even if it's in Europe.

[GreenPartyVoter]

6. Typical Dominionist. Has no thought as to what overpopulation will do

to this world.

Here are some Christian groups who feel differently than Pat about how precious the earth is: http://www.hostdiva.com/liberalchristians/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=113&Itemid=31&limit=1&limitstart=1

[qazplm]

7. I think Robertson has the worlds

slowest moving form of rabies.

It kills one brain cell at a time, causing craziness that slowly gets worse and worse over time.

[progdonkey]

8. "Well, unless you believe in God, there's really no future."

Last time I checked, Atheists aren't the ones going around saying the Second Coming and Armageddon are just around the corner.

:mad:

[cantstandbush]

10. And this is really what is behind the anti-aboritionists and so-called

pro-live movement. Want to get all those white, professional, working women back in the kitchen, bare-foot and pregnant.

[Archae]

12. Robertson is no Christian.

He's a reactionary, greedy son of a bitch.

[Swamp Rat]

13. America is committing mass murder and suicide. I blame Pat Robertson.

[Old Smokey]

15. I pay no attention to anything that shithead says.

[bertha katzenengel]

16. What does he care about the future of the earth? He's waiting for

the rapture, the apocalypse, the new world order headed by Christ Himself. :eyes:

[Initech]

17. I swear, Robertson is mentally ill. Why do they keep giving him TV time?

:wtf:

[bunkerbuster1]

20. because he owns the damn station

He can buy and sell everyone here posting to DU, that's why. He's filthy rich, emphasis on the "filthy."

[Just Me]

26. That's 'cause he IS mentally ill.

Honestly,...he is. He believes he knows God better than God knows God. He is an awful influence upon the Christian community because he is sick in the head,...and heart.

[Solly Mack]

18. chicken shit - he means "white" babies - but too chicken shit to give

full measure to his racism. And more to the point, white "christian" babies, at that -

You're a hater, Robertson - your word choice doesn't disguise that.

[Me.]

19. Next He'll Be Blaming Socrates n/t

[bunkerbuster1]

21. Can't wait to hear the chorus of support from RWers

Something along the lines of "It's way past time time we have an honest discussion of European demographics, it's something that goes to the character of our ancestral Fatherlan--er, homeland..."

Get your barf bags ready.

[The Stranger]

22. Christian Fundamentalism is White Supremacy warmed over.

Connect the dots -- they are everywhere.

[Johonny]

23. having babies

without any controls on the human population and what over population can do to the resources on the planet shows a complete lack of vision for the future. I guess god is going to save us?

[applegrove]

24. Pat Robertson - let me introduce you to the story of Adam

Adam was a man in Africa 60,000 years ago - from whom all of us are descendant. Every single one of us has Adam's DNA.

This recent photo is of "San" whose people live in Southern Africa. He might still speak the language "Adam" spoke.


Your fear seems to be of looking more like this man. His face shows all sorts of things, high cheekbones & eyes that remind us of Asia, the body type of Nothern Europeans, the color of Africans and on and on.

So don't be afraid, Pat please. We are all related.

We would all be honored to look like this man. In fact - we all - already do. Take a good long look.

[AlienGirl]

25. Sounds more like Pat Buchanan all the time