October's Autumn Posted January 6, 2006 Share Posted January 6, 2006 (edited) http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060105/ap_on_...obertson_sharon In a nutshell because Sharon wants peace in the Middle East God gave him a stroke. I guess his being massively overweight has nothing to do with it. When someone going to shut Robertson up? How embarassing! Pat Robertson had a cancerous prostrate removed (I just visited his website). I wonder what God was punishing him for! Interesting that the judgement only works in one direction. Edited January 6, 2006 by October's Autumn Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rene Posted January 6, 2006 Share Posted January 6, 2006 To me Pat Robertson reflects a small, but powerful religious movement in American society. They appear to be trying to establish a theocratic perspective as a reasonable alternative to democracy as we practice it now. Its ugly head appeared over the Shivo (sic) case and mostly recently seen in the great "Christmas" debate. The cultural turn to the right by the American electorate seems to be allowing once kooky perspectives to become just a little bit nutty now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flowperson Posted January 6, 2006 Share Posted January 6, 2006 What's Pat and all these nutcases smoking anyhow ? I want to make sure I don't get any of it by mistake !! flow.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cynthia Posted January 6, 2006 Share Posted January 6, 2006 What's Pat and all these nutcases smoking anyhow ? Hateweed?????????????????????? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
October's Autumn Posted January 7, 2006 Author Share Posted January 7, 2006 I'm wondering if Robertson is "losing it." Some people get a little off when they get older. Not to malign the elderly. But my grandfather would have periods of dementia and say some crazy stuff whenever he'd get an infection in his last years. (I'm not sure dementia is the right term). But I'm wondering about our friend Pat. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jasn Posted January 7, 2006 Share Posted January 7, 2006 I do think Pat is losing it b/c of old age. The curious thing to me is that cbn seems to be such a top-down organization that no one over there has the guts to sit him down and get him out of the front of the camera. Surely there are people over there who are embarassed by just about everything that comes out of his mouth. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
October's Autumn Posted January 8, 2006 Author Share Posted January 8, 2006 Surely there are people over there who are embarassed by just about everything that comes out of his mouth. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I hope so. But I sometimes find I'm way too optimistic about these things. Then I found the UCC so it isn't as bad as I feared at one time Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rene Posted January 8, 2006 Share Posted January 8, 2006 Pat may have just gotten to the point in his old age that he finally is saying what he truly believes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flowperson Posted January 12, 2006 Share Posted January 12, 2006 I heard a report on NPR today that Israel has disinvited Rev. Robertson's organization from building an evangelical resort in their country. The Israelis were going to donate the land to Robertson's organization for the project, and the land alone has been valued at $50 million. This reaction stemmed from Robertson's observations that Ariel Sharon's stroke was G-od's punishment for his removal of Israeli settlers from Gaza earlier this year. In the Patster's opinion G-d was angered at this action because it effectively divided the entirety of Israel and somehow rendered it a less holy place in G-d's eyes. Duh 'oh !!!!!! flow.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beautiful_Dreamer Posted January 13, 2006 Share Posted January 13, 2006 I haven't read the whole thread and I am new here, but I think Robertson's comments were beyond insensitive and just plain rude. He seemed almost *happy* that Sharon was in such bad condition. Heaven forbid anything ever happen to him. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MOW Posted January 13, 2006 Share Posted January 13, 2006 I think Robertson is expressing a concept called Deuteronimism. That is that your life circumstances are determined by how you are keeping God's laws (Levitcus Deuteronomy etc.). When Jesus' disciples asked him "who sinned that this man was born blind" they were expressing that concept. Jesus , of course rejected that idea. Also when Job's three "friends" tormented him, demanding that he tell them what sin he had commited, that his misfortunes had happened to him is another example. MOW Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flowperson Posted January 13, 2006 Share Posted January 13, 2006 Welcome Beautiful Dreamer. Love your signature re: cats. Although I do not have one at present, I well remember my love/hate adventures with them in the past. We hope you enjoy playing word games with the good souls that meet here from time to time. As far as the Patster, I think he might be a prime candidate for the first brain transplant, should that ever be attempted. Judging others is definitely a lost art as MOW pointed out, and good riddance ! In fact most of the cats with which I was associated made more sense than the Rev. Robertson, and they were never on TV and couldn't even speak english. But they were oh so good at getting whatever they wanted from me and my family. flow.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beautiful_Dreamer Posted January 14, 2006 Share Posted January 14, 2006 What makes it worse is that, unlike our cats, people *listen* to Robertson and think all Christians are like that. You do not want to know *how* many times I have had to tell non-Christians that he doesn't speak for all of us when he says hateful things like this. Maybe we need to have our own TBN? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
October's Autumn Posted January 14, 2006 Author Share Posted January 14, 2006 Beatuiful Dreamer: I love cats too! I have that quote on picture collage I made for my cat who died three years ago. Pat Robertson has since apologized. http://www.kfdx.com/news/default.asp?mode=shownews&id=10690 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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