Robertson: Disasters point to 2nd Coming

[mshasta]

Robertson: Disasters point to 2nd Coming
Evangelist observes quakes, hurricanes 'starting to hit with amazing regularity'
Posted: October 9, 2005
4:45 p.m. Eastern

http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=46737

Pat Robertson

This weekend's catastrophic earthquake in South Asia in the wake of recent U.S. hurricanes and December's tsunami is catching the eye of televangelist Pat Robertson, who says we "might be" in the End Times described in the Bible.

"These things are starting to hit with amazing regularity," Robertson said on CNN's "Late Edition."



Some New Testament verses often cited by Christians regarding signs of the end of this present age before the return of Jesus to Earth include:

# "For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places. All these are the beginning of sorrows." (Matthew 24:7-8)

# "And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring;" (Luke 21:25).

Last month, Robertson suggested the assassination of Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez.

"We have the ability to take him out, and I think the time has come that we exercise that ability," he said, but later backed away from the suggestion of assassination after an uproar of criticism.


Anybody who believes this bullshit needs to have a head exam. Religion is made up! It is a process to surpress the people.

http://www.whatthebleep.com/

[Vinnie From Indy]

1. Good!

Maybe Pat will quit asking everybody for money since very soon, he won't need it. He should probably buy a good hat because I hear the rapture will by very windy and dusty and stuff.

[Straight Shooter]

4. bush can stop pushing for Social Security *cough* reform

Tim LeHay or whatever his name is can donate all his profits from his Left Behind series to do some good for the unfortunate victims of these disasters, maybe he can assure himself a place in heaven, like perhaps his doors will have gold doorknobs as opposed to the pewter doorknobs that lesser beings such as myself may be given.

Many disasters are the result of humankind's actions or inactions. The rest are flukes of weather and overpopulation.

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

49. Boston Globe, 10/6/05: "Bush switches focus to overhauling tax code"

Apparently Bush thinks he's going to enslave and then obliterate the middle class with a "National Sales Tax" before the Second Coming:

Bush switches focus to overhauling tax code
Social Security effort shelved

By Ryan J. Donmoyer and Heidi Przybyla, Bloomberg | October 6, 2005

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2005/10/06/bush_switches_focus_to_overhauling_tax_code/

WASHINGTON -- The Bush administration is beginning to segue from its failed effort to overhaul Social Security to rewriting the tax code, an issue that is fraught with its own political challenges.

President Bush said Tuesday there is a ''diminished appetite" for changing the way Social Security is funded, the first time he's conceded congressional action is unlikely this year.

Four days ago the White House directed its tax advisory panel, headed by former senators Connie Mack and John Breaux, to recommend ways to revamp the tax code by Nov. 1, ending an indefinite delay in its work.

Changing the subject to overhauling the tax code gives the White House an opportunity to regain traction on its domestic agenda, analysts said.

"You know, I'm not exactly sure how big the national sales tax is going to have to be, but it's the kind of interesting idea that we ought to explore seriously," Bush said, according to a Reuters report.

[mshasta]

7. pigs will be flaying...

[ixion]

2. and won't he be suprised when he realizes that

he's the first in line to burn in eternal damnation. :evilgrin:

[mshasta]

16. lol

he will be part of the devil's rejects...

[hyphenate]

35. Unfortunately

we'll end up stuck with all those assholes here on earth for the next five years!

You know, I think for those who believe in the rapture, there's gonna be many, many, many disappointed fundies when they think the time has come.

:evilgrin:

Even more fun, we could say it's already come, and they've ALL been left behind!! :rofl:

[BeHereNow]

22. Yep, Camels will pass through the eyes of needles

before Pat passes through the gates of heaven.
BHN:smoke:

[bemildred]

3. So now they are using this drooling weasel to catapult the propaganda?

How debased and desperate can they be?

[mshasta]

11. I guess georgie needs more help..

from an expert of scare tactics..

[NYC Liberal]

5. Two other disasters: Pat Robertson and B*sh

[sniffa]

6. woohoo!!

:woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo:

ps: make sure you Leave notes for your Loved ones, so they know what happened to you if they were Left behind.

[BeHereNow]

27. Here is the link to generate letters to your loved ones post "rapture"

For your convenience:
http://www.raptureletters.com/
"After the rapture, there will be a lot of speculation as to why millions of people have just disappeared. Unfortunately, after the rapture, only non believers will be left to come up with answers. You probably have family and friends that you have witnessed to and they just won't listen. After the rapture they probably will, but who will tell them?

We have written a computer program to do just that. It will send an Electronic Message (e-mail) to whomever you want after the rapture has taken place, and you and I have been taken to heaven."

Too bad no one has told the fundies that the rapture
isn't in the bible.
If they could actually read, maybe they would know...
BHN

[jmowreader]

61. The letter it sends is just too precious!

First it tells you that your friend/acquaintance/fundie asshole who keeps trying to convert you against your will has been raptured.

Then it tells you that you need to accept Jesus right away.

Now let me get this straight: The whole purpose of this Rapture thing is to get all the Christians off Earth so that when de debbil comes, they won't be there, right? And when de debbil has you, he doesn't turn you loose, right? Well then, if this Rapture story is right on, once all the fundie assholes have been raptured there won't be any reason to turn to Jesus--you can't get free of de debbil's clutches anyway.

[AintIgreat]

8. They are going to make the 2nd coming come.

The are going to use lasers, and 3 D holograms to make it appear that christ is coming from the heavens to help. You will see how many losers by into it. Truth is GOD is inside of all of us. We dont need to go to some church to pray to him. We can talk to him anytime just go outside and look at the SUN. The Sun the giver of life. Without the Sun we would be dead and life on this planet would cease to exist.

[BeHereNow]

18. Welcome to DU AintIgreat-

Interesting that you bring up the laser show / hologram technology.
About a year ago, someone posted an article about
a Russian scientist who had developed a way to use
spcae as an advertising billboard. Coke commercials
on the moon and such...
I agree with your understanding of God, by the way.
I stopped going to church a long time ago.
Too many false Christians and preachers in those
places for my taste.
BHN
PS: Years ago, I had a dream about a false
coming, manufactured by the very technology
you are referring too- in the dream I knew it
was fake and I was trying to warn people
but they wouldn't listen-

[mshasta]

24. I do believe...it too..

the use of holograms is already in used by this people...they are getting ready for something huge.. and the "JESUS" will appear and disappear at their convenience. …will be very scary times for the rest of us..
:tinfoilhat:

[AintIgreat]

33. If you look at the last press conference bush did in New Orleans you will

the holograms used in action remember holograms are blue on the spectrum. Try to see the video you will be surprised. I believe in God and no one can take that away from me. However he much different than what was described. Can so many cultures before us be wrong when they worshiped the sun as their GOD. Could it be that we as americans are so agnorant we tell people what is what. Thank you ...Watch this DVD www.whatthebleep.com I saw that link here before went out to Borders Books and bought the dvd.

[mshasta]

21. and if they create a jesus...

will it be white, green eyes, with blond hair? }(

[BeHereNow]

23. Naturally, all the good 'murikkan X-tians KNOW that Jeebus

looks just like THEM.
BHN

[undergroundpanther]

25. Aint I great

Welcome to DU and I for one suspect you might be corrrect,I agree these pigs in thier own meglomaniacal mind are staging this apocolypse because they got what they want, and they are NOT going to share it,They'll collapse civilizastion before they ever SHARE,,they want the wisdom that most people take as"normal"to die in repeated disasters, so in a few generations it is lodst...They knowe as well as historians is all it takes for a cult to arise is for cutting edge technology to be forgotten,in social collapses ,then these pigs orchastrating this crap will come back and wow the ignorant..Just like a cargo cult and be gods among slaves in awe of thier power. May all these pigs exploiting human ignorance,the human condition,abuse, fear and pain die!!

[AintIgreat]

38. Thank you and yes (read)

They are following a book that man wrote what we call a bible they will never turn the earth over to us. They rather destroy the earth than give it back to the humans. If you read New Scientist there was an article that stated that 20% of Europeans have a DNA strand that no other has. Gee where this did DNA strand come from

Did early Europeans break the big taboo?
22 January 2005
Bob Holmes
Magazine issue 2483
The ancestors of today's Europeans may have interbred with another early human species, which would account for a peculiar stretch of DNA
THE ancestors of today's Europeans interbred with another early human species. That's one explanation being proposed to explain the discovery of a peculiar stretch of DNA in some modern Europeans.

As part of an extensive gene-mapping programme, researchers at deCODE Genetics in Reykjavik, Iceland, have been searching for places in the human genome where chunks of DNA containing many genes get turned back-to-front. One of these inversions, on chromosome 17, caught their eye because it turns up in about 20 per cent of Europeans, yet is rare in Africans and almost absent in Asians

[Kailassa]

9. I hope he's right.

The second coming is even more fun than the first.

O8)

[SpiralHawk]

10. Bush Family crony Rev. Sun Moon is Already Here

And he has proclaimed himself the Second Coming.

The Bushes appear to "get it."

Why doesn't everyone else?

[cornermouse]

12. Is this Robertson's way of saying he thinks Bush is the Antichrist?

[Dudley_DUright]

13. I don't know which is worse, Robertson spouting this nonsense,

or CNN giving him a national audience to do so. :eyes:

[Robb]

15. The latter, I'm pretty sure. n/t

[struggle4progress]

14. "Fools who eagerly await the day of the Lord! What will that day ..

.. be for you? It will be darkness not light -- as if you fled from a lion and met a bear, or leaned against a wall and were bitten by viper." Amos 5:18

[6000eliot]

17. Bet this won't stop Pat from fundraising

I doubt he'll give up his diamond mines either. Fuckhead!

[Scurrilous]

40. It's funny how many televangelists....

...go on television and warn their flock how the end is nigh, and then turn around and solicit funds for constructing a new church building.

If the world is ending, why do they need a new church?

I

[CoffeeCat]

19. I rarely say STFU, but someone needs to tell him to STFU!!

Why do they let Robertson near a keyboard? Clearly, his neurons have melded together, into some sort of discombobulated soup.

Yes, Pat. There are earthquake happening. However, did you know that the worst earthquake ever measured, was in 1960, in Chili; a 9.5 on the Richter scale. The worst earthquake in North America, struck Anchorage in 1964.

Many wackynuts back then, predicted the end was near.

YAAAAAAWN!!

Robertson obviously gets more donations--when the vulnerable, 90-year old ladies who watch his show are whipped into a frenzy of fear.

Seriously, Pat....just STFU. Really. S...T...F...U.

[Art_from_Ark]

62. There was also an earthquake in Chile in 1575

that is believed to have had a magnitude roughly equal to the 1960 quake. And research in ocean trenches is indicating that catastrophic earthquakes may be occurring on a regular (150-350 year) basis in offshore subduction zones around the world.

[undergroundpanther]

20. I wish that man

was dead,I hope he'd have a heart attack tommorrow, get struck by lightning NOW, slip on a banana peel and crack his ugly skull open like an over ripe watermelon,eat some botulism,ANYTHING,I don't care!! I hate him!He causes too much pain and corruption to go on existing.He is a cancerous boil on the ass of humanity,.This evil pharisee bully DISGUSTS me.No human being should be forced to share a universe with this putrid morally bankrupted piece of shit and his kind.

[mshasta]

34. I do agree...

this reptilians had take the our world by hand full. .parasites feeding out of the human misery x(

[redwitch]

26. It's one of those days, all of my friends are gettin' raptured

Taken away in their RVs and their pickup trucks
By electrolux on super suck
And I'm stuck here in sinners company
Madonna, my mother in law and me. -Camille West ( suburban housewife from hell)

[cassiepriam]

28. And hopefully He is coming for Bush.....I can hardly wait. nt

[AlphaCat]

29. Pat needs to go take a normal pill....

He's in his dotage for sure.

[malaise]

30. OK good now would someone ask Pat

to sign over all of that money he did not really earn to me since he won't need it in rapture land and I know many good people who would find it very useful.

[az chela]

43. ME too

If they are going to stage a rapture, and like their bumper stickers say WARNING IN CASE OF RAPTURE VEHICLE WILL BE UNMANNED I want to be behind a mercedes or Jaquar and will gladly drive it away for them.Actually I prefer red if one of those good ole boys has a nice one.Wouldnt mind a yacht either if they want to contact me at the chosen ones time

[malaise]

47. hehehehhee

I'd settle for a nice condo in the Caribbean.

[Walt Starr]

31. PAt Robem$ome is religiously insane

Put that man in an insane asylum!

[hyphenate]

32. Yeah, because they've fucked things up enough

to make it a self-fulfilling prophecy!

Assholes.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

36. Any quote references to Robert$on forecasting a 2nd coming come and gone?

Any references to where Robertson may have hinted or forecasted some kind of date or timetable for a second coming and where that date may have come and gone?

[mshasta]

37. he's date for the rapture...

always changes...:crazy:

[Ezlivin]

39. Rapture tomorrow and rapture yesterday, but never a rapture today

With apologies to Lewis Carroll.

[AintIgreat]

41. With the 2nd comming maybe I should quit my job,not pay rent, or car paymt

[bahrbearian]

42. And RayGun Proved deficits don't matter. Now we know why.

[Hotep]

44. robertson & 2nd coming

when was the first coming?

[tenshi816]

45. There have always been famines and pestilences

and earthquakes, and nations rising against other nations. And "waves roaring". And hurricanes and tornadoes. Nothing new there. Come to think of it, there have always been Pat Robertsons to say that these things "might" signify the end times. If they couldn't scare people, they'd have to find real jobs.

[FVZA_Colonel]

46. I've actually considered writing a short story

in which the Rapture occurs, but God then appears before the world a few days later and declares that it was done so that those who were left behind, Christian, Jew, Pagan, Athiest, would have a chance to fix life on Earth before religious fundamentalist ideology led to it's destruction.

[Pepperbelly]

48. Diamond Pat can kiss my ass. nt

[DemGirl7]

50. Seriously, Why isn't Robertson in a Mental Hospital Yet???

Pat really knows how to top himself...every single day, this fucktard tops the bullshit that he said the day before, with even more outrageous bullshit. How the hell this man is not in a mental hospital yet, is beyond my understanding.:crazy: :crazy: :crazy: :crazy: :crazy: :crazy: :crazy: :crazy:

[AntiFascist]

51. Poor man, maybe the End Times will come....

for Robertson!

[FreedomAngel82]

52. Robertson should read what Jesus said about this

"It will come like a theif in the night." In other words: we don't know! :eyes:

[ladjf]

53. These actions quoted above have been happening throughout

the history of mankind.

"# "For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places. All these are the beginning of sorrows." (Matthew 24 -8)
"


Those descriptions are like tales told by amateur fortune tellers. How could anyone take them to be significant signs of impending doom?

The real signs of doom are the actions being taken by the Bush administration, too numerous to even attempt to list.

[Dem2theMax]

54. Disasters point to Mother Earth being totally pissed off at the human race

for what we are doing to Earth, and she's not gonna take it lying down anymore.

And I don't blame her one damn bit.

[ismnotwasm]

55. If I didn't have to go to work soon

And I wasn't feeling lazy right now, I would google how many DAMN TIMES this "rapture" or whatever they call had been predicted since the time of Christ. When Jesus died, THOSE people thought he was coming right back. I'm agnostic, but I'm pretty sure it has conflicting accounts in the book of Revelation's, one saying something about Jesus coming back like a thief in the night and we ain't gonna know when, and we're not supposed to try and predict. Another part has him coming in a bright light or something. And isn't there supposed to be a thousand years of peace after he gets here, and THEN the world get destroyed? I'm pretty sure they are not presenting it correctly, even if I did believe in it.
Manipulative Pharisee Assholes.

[hollowdweller]

56. I'm ready. Bush will be the first to fry- Then Falwell- Then the Vatican

[understandinglife]

57. The last thing these dudes should ever hope for is for JC to return.

Peace.

[Czolgosz]

58. Damn right. The Rapture Index is 161 (which rates "fasten your seat belt")

which is the highest category. See <http://www.raptureready.com/rap2.html>

[mitchum]

59. Well, I will CELEBRATE Robertson's death

no apologies

If a genie ever offered me one "free k---", Robertson would be the lucky recipient

[tabasco]

60. How nice of CNN to give Wacko Pat the air time to scare ...

all of his gullible sheep that this is the end times. I'm sure the sheep give more money the more they are scared. Thanks again, CNN, for airing this "news."

Of course, right after Pat they had two more republicans come on to discuss the Plame investigation. I guess Dick Thornburg was the "liberal."

Liberal media , my ass. But we already knew that.

[newspeak]

63. yes, all we have to do is look at history

during Nostradomus' time, there were many "seers" like Nostradomus predicting the "end times." All through history there have been surges of end times prophecy and fear tactics used to control the "cultish" masses. Mother Earth does not stop changing just because some wish her to stay still. Because today there is a mass increase in population, the devastation is higher for humans. And "bottom feeders" like Pat only instigate and use those fears so that he can make another buck!

[OnionPatch]

64. Yes and the Bible says

that Jesus is going to return like "a thief in the night." At the same time, we have been having storms, wars and disasters since time began. So Pat, go away. No one needs you making your prophecies to scare people into your nasty little agenda. The Bible indicates you aren't supposed to be trying to "guess" when the second coming happens. (That's assuming it will even happen....Revelations could have been written by a bunch of monks tripping on mushrooms as far as I'm concerned.)