Robertson suggests God smote Sharon

[Freedom_from_Chains]

Robertson suggests God smote Sharon
Evangelist links Israeli leader's stroke to 'dividing God's land'

Thursday, January 5, 2006; Posted: 7:08 p.m. EST (00:08 GMT)

(CNN) -- Television evangelist Pat Robertson suggested Thursday that Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's stroke was divine retribution for the Israeli withdrawal from Gaza, which Robertson opposed.

"He was dividing God's land, and I would say, 'Woe unto any prime minister of Israel who takes a similar course to appease the , the United Nations or the United States of America,'" Robertson told viewers of his long-running television show, "The 700 Club."

"God says, 'This land belongs to me, and you'd better leave it alone,'" he said.

Robertson's show airs on the ABC Family cable network and claims about 1 million viewers daily.

Sharon, 77, clung to life in a Jerusalem hospital Thursday after surgery to treat a severe stroke, his doctors said.

The prime minister, who withdrew Israeli settlers and troops from Gaza and parts of the West Bank last summer over heated objections from his own Likud Party, was breathing with the aid of a ventilator after doctors operated to stop the bleeding in his brain.




http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/01/05/robertson.sharon/index.html

[rsmith6621]

1. Topic Discussed To Death

Try using the search feature......

At least 15 threads on this topic today....

[Freedom_from_Chains]

10. Oh, one can never say too many disparaging things about

the radical cleric Pat Robertson.

[IndianaGreen]

24. Perhaps it is because Pat Robertson has millions of sheep fuckers

as his followers that take his word as Gospel. Since the rightwing controls the media, every word that Pat and his other cohorts among the Christian Jihadists, has an effect on the gullible public.

[FloridaPat]

2. I thought God "smote" everyone when it's their turn. And if it is God's

land only, why did God allow the Arabs to own it for about 2000 years. Why isn't Pat Robinson in a funny farm. Is he now against America? He's just insane, like the rest of the right wing nuts.

[MADem]

3. Pat figured out that Ariel was out to FUCK him (pardon my french)

Read this: http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,1677557,00.html

Salient clip: Biblical tourism

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Plans for Holy Land theme park on Galilee shore where Jesus fed the 5,000

· Evangelical groups and Israel on brink of deal
· Some Israelis fear motives of US Christian right

Conal Urquhart in Tel Aviv
Wednesday January 4, 2006
The Guardian


The Israeli government is planning to give up a large slice of land to American Christian evangelicals to build a biblical theme park by the Sea of Galilee where Jesus is said to have walked on water and fed 5,000 with five loaves and two fish.
A consortium of Christian groups, led by the television evangelist Pat Robertson, is in negotiation with the Israeli ministry of tourism and a deal is expected in the coming months. The project is expected to bring up to 1 million extra tourists a year but an undeclared benefit will be the cementing of a political alliance between the Israeli rightwing and the American Christian right.
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Perhaps no one TOLD PAT that the land abutted some disputed Syrian territory, which, if returned to Syria, would place Pat's JESUSLAND smack-dab in the middle of the Israeli-Syrian DMZ, as it were.

Buffer fundies!!!

[rsmith6621]

5. This Park Idea Ia A.......

Mockery to Jesus.....

[LittleClarkie]

11. It's something Jesus would have taken a whip to

like he did to the moneylenders in the temple.

[madeline_con]

7. "Some Israelis fear motives of US Christian right"

The 5 who don't are nuts! :rofl:

[LittleClarkie]

9. Reminds me of Flanders and his plans to have a theme park

to remember his wife by.

That is the most garish, disgusting suggestion I have ever heard! Talk about moneychangers in the temple!! A THEME PARK!!!!!??????

What, DisneyWorld not wholesome enough!?

Oh, migraine...

[LittleClarkie]

4. So he's suggesting that God opened a can of "Old Testament" on Sharon?

Has Pat ever read the New Testament, do you think? You know, about forgiveness and love and stuff?

[Freedom_from_Chains]

6. To Pat and others, that's new age stuff.

[Canuckistanian]

16. God got Medieval on his ass

That'll teach him as he languishes in the burning pits of Sulphur.

Although, I've always thought that Magnesium would make better pits. A higher oxidation temperature would make 'em suffer even more. I've got to write some letters....

[Canuckistanian]

8. He should be indicted for Conspiracy to Smite

Or Assault and Smitery.

That is, if he REALLY has some pull with The Big Guy(TM).

[Freedom_from_Chains]

13. It would be more appropriate to indict him for being a dumb-ass

Unfortunately, we don't have laws covering that.

[Canuckistanian]

18. There wouldn't be enough prison space, for one.

Dumb-assery is way of life for about 35% of the population.

[sam sarrha]

12. i dont think god would smote his chosen..

[Freedom_from_Chains]

15. Oh, come on, every good Christian knows that the Jews

don't recognize the one true god Jesus Christ.

[madeline_con]

14. That explains the silence from his corner lately.

He's been in "prayerful meditation" trying to figure out a way to keep the fundy freeks sending money.

It's the End Times and the Lord will need plenty of dough for THAT!

EDIT: BTW, is this really a political msg? Shouldn't it be in the Mentally 'Round the Bend forum? ;)

[DemoTex]

17. Sharon had a cerebrovascular accident.

Pat Robertson has severe, religion-induced drain bammage. What a moran.

[cliss]

19. Pat Robberson is great.

He's funny. He makes a great conversation topic at parties. I just love bringing up his new latest and greatest quotes.

[IndianaGreen]

20. The Christian Right is inherently anti-Semitic

They love us Jews alright! They need us so that they can murder the whole lot of us right after we refuse to accept the divinity of their Jesus. The scariest part is that they are in control of the government, and they will do their dam nest to make sure their interpretation of non-canonical prophesies in the Christian Bible come to pass.

Pat Robertson represents that segment of Christianity that wants to shove their Anglo-Saxon Jesus up our collective asses, and without lubrication.

It is time for the mainstream Christians to condemn this fraud and his fraudulent cult that he tries to pass as Christianity.

[Seeker30]

21. So it must be Gods wrath

that Robertson is one of the ugliest fucks on the planet.

[DemoTex]

22. Absalom Willis Robertson must be spinning in his grave.

Pat Robertson's father, Absalom Willis Robertson, was a Democratic congressman (1933-46) and senator (1946-66) from Virginia.


Senator Absalom Willis Robertson (D-VA)
(Damn! Looks like a Senator from central casting! Perfect!)

[Payne]

23. Actually there not that far apart.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absalom_Willis_Robertson

"Robertson had a typically socially conservative Southern Democrat voting record"

"In 1956, Robertson was one of the 19 senators who signed The Southern Manifesto, condemning the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Brown vs. Board of Education and the resulting public desegregation. When President Lyndon Johnson sent the First Lady on a train trip through the South to encourage support for the Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts, Sen. Robertson was one of four Southern Senators who refused to meet with her on the whistle stop trip."

Remember Democrats,especially Southern Democrats were alot different back then.

[DemoTex]

25. Good points. Good post. Welcome to DU, Payne.

You have posted good research. Keep it up!

Mac

[ISUGRADIA]

26. Robertson has a point

I mean how many fat, 77 year old men ever have a stroke? <sarcasm off>