Abso-fucking-lutely off the charts in mental gymnastics by the RR

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http://www.abpnews.com/content/view/4728/53/

VISTA, Calif. (ABP) -- As several religious leaders criticized Pat Robertson's comments blaming Haiti's massive Jan. 12 earthquake on a pact supposedly made by its people with the devil, one came out to defend him.

Gary Cass, chairman and CEO of the Christian Anti-Defamation Commission, issued a statement saying that while Robertson's comments made him an "easy target" for criticism, they are essentially theologically sound.

Cass, who before taking his current job in 2007 worked three years as executive director of the Center for Reclaiming America for Christ, an outreach of the late D. James Kennedy's Coral Ridge Ministries, said the Bible talks of connections between historical realities and spiritual influences when it uses the terms "blessing or cursing."

Cass said the majority of Americans believe in moral causality. Eastern religious call it "karma," while Christians call it "God's providence." In that regard, he said, Robertson's comments were "well within the bounds of historic Christian theology."

Cass suggested one reason Robertson's message is so unpopular is that it forces people to face the spiritual dimension of their lives.


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[WeDidIt]

1. If Pat Robertson's statements are "theologically sound"

I want nothing to do with such an evil theology.

[Dappleganger]

5. They're not.

[existentialist]

2. jaw dropping

[CJCRANE]

3. That's collective punishment not "karma". nt

[flakey_foont]

4. well within the bounds of historic Christian theology?

I suppose it is, if you go back prior to the 17th Century .........pacts with the devil were all the rage

[Motown_Johnny]

6. Why doesn't anyone point out how insane it is to assume that Satan helped free slaves while God

allowed them to continue living in bondage?




I would ask all the religious nuts why they think God didn't help free the Haitians and if it isn't possible that the French just made up a story about the Haitians making a pack with the Devil.

[JuniperLea]

8. That just makes too much sense...

They'd never even hear it.

But I'm glad you said it anyway.

[pipi_k]

7. Gary Cass, the stupid ass...

Cass suggested one reason Robertson's message is so unpopular is that it forces people to face the spiritual dimension of their lives.


Bullshit. There's nothing at ALL "spiritual" about Pat Robertson's vileness.

[librechik]

9. I thought "the Devil" was a mythical concept modern day religionists had put behind them

But they're turning back the clock on everything--pretty soon we'll be back to torturing heretics and selling indulgences.

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10. What--you didn't get the memo?

They're already doing that kind of stuff, only calling it information gathering, and attributing it to the "welfare of the homeland." Josef Goebbels would have been in ecstasy.

[sendero]

11. Is that the same "moral causality" ..

.... that made Ronald Reagan swim in his own drool for a decade?

[RagAss]

12. These fuckers cry out for Thorazine !