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ck4829

(35,076 posts)
Wed Jun 12, 2013, 10:43 PM Jun 2013

Pat Robertson: Making predictions about disasters are 'nutty'

Last month, televangelist Pat Robertson admonished viewers to beware false prophets… despite his own terrible track record of predicting events. Today, Robertson received a question from a 700 Club viewer who wondered about people in her church who “speak in tongues and prophesy to people in the congregation about accidents in their future or some great sorrow in their lives” as a result of the “great judgment” of God.

Robertson answered that such works come “from the pit of Hell” and claimed that these people are trying to “dominate other people and so they do it, like, ‘I’ve got a word of God from you.’” He later added that “predictive prophecy about disaster is almost always something from the psychic world, it’s not something from God” and called the prophets “nutty.”

http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/pat-robertson-still-lacking-self-awareness-calls-disaster-prophecies-nutty-and-pit-hell

Now wait a second, who's this?

"I guarantee you by the end of 1982 there is going to be a judgment on the world."

"There well may be something as bad as a tsunami in the Pacific Northwest."

"Mass killings" (But don't worry, it won't be nuclear) in 2007

- All Pat Robertson.

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Pat Robertson: Making predictions about disasters are 'nutty' (Original Post) ck4829 Jun 2013 OP
India, whose Vedanta is thousands of years old, describes Yoga, which is "seeking God" Fire Walk With Me Jun 2013 #1
I predict that Robertson will be taking a long, long trip in the next two years. Kurovski Jun 2013 #2
I will make the prediction of self-immolation of Pat's pants. sakabatou Jun 2013 #3
 

Fire Walk With Me

(38,893 posts)
1. India, whose Vedanta is thousands of years old, describes Yoga, which is "seeking God"
Wed Jun 12, 2013, 11:00 PM
Jun 2013

through scientific (empiric) methods such as meditation, devotion, service...and name the empiric, naturally-occurring results "Siddhis". As you directly seek God, you become open to characteristics of the Godhead. It is as natural as breathing. Loving-kindness is one major aspect of this. Expanded vision is another. These things are there, widely accepted.

Some Siddhis are taken from negative sourcing, yes, but this is no absolute whatsoever.

Pat Robertson knows fuck-all and should shut his filthy hole, not only for being wrong about this, but also for his own fear-mongering hate crimes as you have pointed out.

Kurovski

(34,655 posts)
2. I predict that Robertson will be taking a long, long trip in the next two years.
Wed Jun 12, 2013, 11:12 PM
Jun 2013

I hear the month as "May".

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