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Televangelist Pat Robertson likes to drive fast, and he says that God has given him permission to ignore the speed limit. On Thursdays edition of The 700 Club, a viewer asked Robertson if her husband was sinning by driving over the speed limit. My husband insists on speeding even when hes on time, the viewer named Nora explained in an email. In the last 2 years, hes gotten 4 speeding tickets and our insurance has gone up. He doesnt feel that God cares if we speed.
Youre asking a guy that had a Corvette with a 430 horsepower engine, who is now driving a car that has about a 650 horsepower engine, Robertson laughed. Who also drove 30 laps around the Charlotte Motor Speedway in a stock car. I dont get tickets, I pay attention, he continued. But there was one night up in the mountains, when it wasnt anybody around a four-lane highway late at night, and I did get that little bug up a little over 200 mph.
No, 100, Im sorry, it wont go 200, Robertson replied. Is it a sin? I think its a sin to hurt somebody. I think its a sin to drive recklessly
If youre driving imperils other people, you are sinning, theres no question about it. But in an open stretch of road, you go to Texas, I think some areas, theres no speed limit at all, he added. There are times when police do pick you up, but I better not say any more.
But the whole idea of traffic it is
sin or not sin it is to regulate the flow of traffic to keep people from hurting each other. Robertson suggested that drivers in some countries like Portugal were sinning because their driving was nuts. A guy youll be driving with, hell be driving along at 50-60 mph, hell get to an intersection and thinks all hes got to do is blow his horn, he opined. And just keep on going. So you asked me a question, and my answer to that question is dont imperil anybody else with the way you drive a car, and be careful. http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/11/pat-robertson-god-says-i-can-drive-my-corvette-over-100-mph-on-public-roads/
VanillaRhapsody
(21,115 posts)and a Corvette is not a good car to be in in a wreck....lets just hope he doesn't take anyone with him!
I have often said if Christians were so sure of their salvation and not afraid to die....why aren't they speeding all the time...
big_dog
(4,144 posts)without getting arrested
VanillaRhapsody
(21,115 posts)Sounds like he would like it....maybe try that 200mph!
big_dog
(4,144 posts)Pat Robertson in Montana
haele
(12,652 posts)Pat should also tell that woman that God wants her to get a nice insurance policy on her husband...
I wouldn't be suprised if he follows up with enough questions on her husband's data to get a nice fat insurance policy on him and put down the 700 club as a beneficiary...
Haele
VanillaRhapsody
(21,115 posts)Manifestor_of_Light
(21,046 posts)Only comment needed.
jwirr
(39,215 posts)RKP5637
(67,108 posts)3catwoman3
(23,975 posts)...him now.
RKP5637
(67,108 posts)TlalocW
(15,381 posts)When Oral Roberts was still building his empire in Tulsa and was getting better known, people in his neighborhood got to know his schedule pretty well, and they would make their kids come in at the time he normally came home from his church/office because he was a speed demon and careless driver.
TlalocW
big_dog
(4,144 posts)Joel Osteen's ferrari (alledgedly) ..
TlalocW
(15,381 posts)Be a Christian, show faith (and what better way to show faith than contribute to my ministry), and God will reward you with material things.
TlalocW
Initech
(100,068 posts)Enrique
(27,461 posts)Johonny
(20,848 posts)but 100 gets them to heaven faster...
GoCubsGo
(32,083 posts)...I say, "Go for it, Pat!"
muntrv
(14,505 posts)sakabatou
(42,152 posts)irisblue
(32,973 posts)3catwoman3
(23,975 posts)...special.