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Pat Robertson says Haiti under a Curse

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challupa

Well-Known Member
Autodidact said:
One sick puppy and one of the most powerful Christians in the world.

It occurs to me that there's a thread on RF right this minute about whether Muslims are doing enough to denounce terrorism. It occurs to me to wonder whether Christians are doing anything to denounce Pat Robertson.
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Sometimes freedom of speech is an ugly thing. I would never trade it for anything though. However, isn't there something in the law that can charge him with defamation of character. Why does he get away with these crazy things he says about people and groups of people?
 
JMorris

JMorris

Democratic Socialist
challupa said:
Sometimes freedom of speech is an ugly thing. I would never trade it for anything though. However, isn't there something in the law that can charge him with defamation of character. Why does he get away with these crazy things he says about people and groups of people?
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because he hides behind religion to do it & religion in this country is bullet proof (unless the religion is Islam apparently)
 
gnostic

gnostic

The Lost One
I really don't know much about Pat Robertson...me, being an Australian and all, but I only know his reputation, as being an attention-grabbing, hypocritical evangelist, so I am not sort of not surprise by all this.
 
ChrisP

ChrisP

Veteran Member
Smoke said:
It's a sad commentary on this country that a psycho like Pat Robertson has any influence at all.
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I'd substitute "Attention Whore" or "politically ambitious" but otherwise wholly agree with your statement.

What an idiot.
 
Amill

Amill

Apikoros
Why does the christian god waste time sparing people when he makes it appear to have been due to the technological advancement of that siociety. Archer has conpletely ignored legitimate responses.

Easiest question ever. What has more of an impact on the survivability of a society during a natural disaster... Building structure or religiosity? Cheers, and don't forget to look at Japan, which you have yet ro respond to...(I wonder why).
 
Mr Cheese

Mr Cheese

Well-Known Member
tumbleweed41 said:
I know you did not say Jesus, but it has been brought up. (Remember, Jesus is the Christ in Christian)
Where, in what version of the bible, did Jesus take the time to condemn homosexuality as a sin?
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and no answer is forth coming...

lending weight to my theory, Jesus is rather superflous for literalist christians such as archer
 
Mr Cheese

Mr Cheese

Well-Known Member
Skeptisch said:
Sicko - a person who is mentally or morally sick. That seems to describe Pat Robertson rather well.

Shouldn’t we give up old books that, along with moral guidelines, promote hate, division and violence? Shouldn’t we liberate ourselves form superstition, and from the paranormal and supernatural? In the twenty first century shouldn’t logic and critical thinking guide us?


We can’t pick and choose from different passages, the bible is either true or it isn’t. If we believe it to be true what about passages that ask us to kill:
  • Homosexuals (Lev. 20:13, Rom. 1:26-32)
  • Adulterers (Lev. 20:10, Deut. 22:22)
  • Disobedient children (Deut. 21:20-21, Lev. 20:9, Exod. 21:15)
  • Women who are not virgins on their wedding night (Deut. 22:13-21)
  • Those accused of wickedness by at least two people (Deut. 17:2-7)
  • Anyone who works on the Sabbath (Exod. 35:2-3, Num. 15:32-6)
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actually it depends on the translation, interpretation and if a scholar is reading it or not.....

but yeah

literalism is literalism.....there are other ways
 
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Archer

Well-Known Member
Mr Cheese said:
and no answer is forth coming...

lending weight to my theory, Jesus is rather superflous for literalist christians such as archer
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Actually I am quite busy but I have a spare moment. Jesus was under the law, there would have been no need to mention it unless he condoned it, in which case he would have mentioned it like so many other things! Read the Bible, go to a conservative church, not to be converted but to grasp what I am trying to tell you. Those who do not believe twist the scriptures.
 
APW

APW

Member
Getting back to Pat...
This is the same guy who has been making comments like this for years. Another great one was how America deserved Sept 11 because the churches were not full (or something of that ilk).

He represents a cult attitude with some very old roots. Long before any of the current "named" religions were started, people put the responsibility of every natural event to whatever god was currently in vogue.

I guess Pat believes in that "Old Tyme Religion"!
Al
 
Myers

Myers

Member
APW said:
Getting back to Pat...
This is the same guy who has been making comments like this for years. Another great one was how America deserved Sept 11 because the churches were not full (or something of that ilk).
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Didn't Fred Phelps say something along those lines?
 
Autodidact

Autodidact

Intentionally Blank
Archer said:
Actually I am quite busy but I have a spare moment. Jesus was under the law, there would have been no need to mention it unless he condoned it, in which case he would have mentioned it like so many other things! Read the Bible, go to a conservative church, not to be converted but to grasp what I am trying to tell you. Those who do not believe twist the scriptures.
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Are you saying that the reason you twist the scriptures is that you don't believe? Because we've firmly established that you twist the heck out of them.
 
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