Pat Robertson once again standing up for Christian Values ..

[Smiles]

The Very Reverend Doctor Pat Robertson knows full well why those damn Haitians got hit hard, AGAIN!!
It's because they all practice Voodoo (canabalistic? Probably! Homosexuality as well for sure!! Other stuff too!!!).

But, apparently mis-speaking himself in the first instance, some minor backpeddlin' is happening and he's had second thoughts: " ... Just hours after saying that God was punishing Haiti for making a "pact with the Devil," televangelist Pat Robertson retracted the statement, telling TV viewers, "Haiti? I thought they said 'Hades' ... "

More stupid observations from Pat about all sorts of stuff can be found here: http://politicalhumor.about.com/od/funn ... ertson.htm (http://politicalhumor.about.com/od/funnyquotes/a/patrobertson.htm)

[Brad the Impala]

Even by American evangelist standards, these were appalling statements. If there is anything stranger and more shaming than the popularity of these evangelists, it is the popularity of the right wing shock jocks, like Limbaugh, who urged his listeners not to donate to charities helping in Haiti relief, as the funds would only be used to increase the standing of Obama with black people!

[Wesley]

The Very Reverend Doctor Pat Robertson knows full well why those damn Haitians got hit hard, AGAIN!!
It's because they all practice Voodoo (canabalistic? Probably! Homosexuality as well for sure!! Other stuff too!!!).

But, apparently mis-speaking himself in the first instance, some minor backpeddlin' is happening and he's had second thoughts: " ... Just hours after saying that God was punishing Haiti for making a "pact with the Devil," televangelist Pat Robertson retracted the statement, telling TV viewers, "Haiti? I thought they said 'Hades' ... "

More stupid observations from Pat about all sorts of stuff can be found here: http://politicalhumor.about.com/od/funn ... ertson.htm (http://politicalhumor.about.com/od/funnyquotes/a/patrobertson.htm)

Forget all the Ant-Christian rhetoric, The man is just Senile and senile, I would just say Stupid but he has been saying stupid stuff like this for years. Its Stupidity not Christianity.

again all the best,

Wes

Dad's really pleased with Himself over this earthquake. One of His followers on Haiti has said "'We say 'Thank you God.' What happened is the will of God. We are in the hands of God now.'" The Rev. Eric Toussaint said "Give Thanks To God". http://newsblaze.com/story/201001171104 ... story.html (http://newsblaze.com/story/20100117110433reye.nb/topstory.html)

[Beachlover]

Oh christ... our very own nut case.

[Beachlover]

When the Victorian bush fires killed hundreds of poeple in Australia... one christian leader actually got up and said it was "god's" anger for supporting legal abortions.

[bao-bao]

National Public Radio's Scott Simon did a piece about Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson and assorted ilk on September 22, 2001 that perhaps means more to me than some here in that he speaks of my friend Mark Bingham, who died aboard United flight 93 on 9/11. Robertson's renewed stupidity regarding Haiti reminded me of the piece:

Righteous Reverends - Sept. 22, 2001

I really don't want to be critical of anyone during a national crisis, especially people who are sources of spiritual guidance to millions of Americans. But sometimes the Reverends Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson say something so staggering, they renew your capacity to be shocked, amen, even in a shocking time.

Last week, when America was wounded and confused, the Rev. Falwell was a guest on Pat Robertson's television show, The 700 Club. He said that God Almighty, angered by America's abortion rights, gay rights and secularism in schools, had permitted terrorists to slay the World Trade Center and smite the Pentagon.

FALWELL: What we saw on Tuesday, as terrible as it is, could be miniscule if, in fact, God continues to lift the curtain and allow the enemies of America to give us probably what we deserve.

ROBERTSON: Well, Jerry, that's my feeling. I think we've just seen the antechamber to terror. We haven't even begun to see what they can do to the major population.

FALWELL: I really believe that the pagans and the abortionists and the feminists and the gays and the lesbians who are actively trying to make that an alternative lifestyle, the ACLU, People for the American Way--all of them who've tried to secularize America, I point the finger in their face and say, 'You helped this happen.'

This week, both the reverends issued apologies. Mr. Falwell called his own remarks "insensitive, uncalled for and unnecessary" -- everything but wrong.

This week, it was reported that Mark Bingham, a San Francisco public relations executive, may well have been one of the passengers who so bravely resisted the hijackers of American Airlines Flight 77. That flight crashed into an unpopulated field outside of Pittsburgh instead of another national monument.

Mr. Bingham was 31. He played on a local gay rugby team and hoped to compete in next year's Gay Games in Sydney, Australia. I don't know if Mark Bingham was religious, but it seems to me that he lived a life that celebrated the preciousness of this world's infinite variety. Not so the Revs. Robertson and Falwell and the mullahs of the Taliban, who seem to see a God who frowns at tolerance and smiles with approval on murder and destruction.

Let me put it in the bald terms in which many Americans may be thinking right now: If your plane was hijacked, who would you rather sit next to? Righteous reverends who will sit back and say, "This is God's punishment for gay Teletubbies," or the gay rugby player who lays down his life to save others? And by the way, which person seems closer to God?


You can hear his radio presentation of this by clicking the link at:
http://www.npr.org/news/specials/americ ... ntary.html (http://www.npr.org/news/specials/americatransformed/essays/010922.scotttsimoncommentary.html)

[Beachlover]

Thanks Bao Bao... I love the very succinct ending to that.

Dad's ever so pleased. At Sunday's Mass in Port au Prince there were people thanking Him for His latest Act, bringing them loser to God so they said.

[thrillbill]

...AS various faiths around the world ( gay, straight, or whatever) look at the average followers of Islam and ask why they never take action to "shut up" the crazy Islamic fanatics around the world, I feel the average Christian and "so called" church leaders need to take agressive action against these Christian fanatics they have in their circles of religion.