God is trying to kill Ariel Sharon! Israeli docs thwart psychotic deity!

[PurpleChez]

Insane preacher Pat Robertson says that God is trying to kill Sharon. Apparently His aim must have been off -- even though Mr. Sharon's considerable bulk provides an ample target -- as the PM remains alive. Surely the Almighty will have another go at it shortly.

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

No wonder the world hates us.

[MnFats]

1. I'm still trying to figure out why God allowed Texas, Oklahoma..

..and New MExico to be smote with pillars of fire when they're mostly godly states. Perhaps Pat missed it.

[PurpleChez]

3. Because catastrophes are the Wrath o' God only when they happen to other

people. When they happen to YOU it's a quirk of nature. When it happen to someone else it's because city council OK'd pride flags. I was raised in a mainstream, old-time church, but they NEVER taught us twisted shit like this. They actually taught us that God loved us -- can you believe it? Lutherans must've been out of the loop.

[FreedomAngel82]

11. Same with me

I was brought up in the Church of Christ. I was never taught any of this nonsense of Robertson, Falwell etc.

[jaysunb]

2. Go Pat Go !!

Keep talking....it will only help us.

[Rodger Dodger]

4. What's up with all this God stuff?

I watched almost the two whole days of the ordeal regarding the West Virginia Coal Mine disaster.

Why is it that God gets all the credit, when thing go right: yet none of the blame when thing go wrong?

I watched as the coalminers families and love ones gathered at the small town church to pray for that their loved ones would come out alive and well.

When the bell rang and they were led to believe everyone was alright the proclaimed it a Maricela! And were thanking God. A few hours later, when the truth came out all but one had died, and the one still breathing was whisked off to the hospital.

Everyone began blaming the Coal Company management. WHY? I had to ask myself this question? Why does god get all the credit but none of the blame? I think everyone needs to reflect on that question.

[FreedomAngel82]

12. Yep

Always blame God for bad things. It's the first thing someone does when in reality God doesn't have control over us hence the whole freewill thing. The person they should blame is those who cut them like their lobbying group and the Bush administration who cut the funding and all that. It's not God's fault. Too many people think of God as a fairy godparent or whatever. Even though they went through something horrible they still have their lives.

[NoFederales]

14. Trying to put meaning into something meaningless is, well, meaningless.

NoFederales

[HR_Pufnstuf]

5. Pertinent quotes on the subject

"You know your god is man-made when he hates all the same people you do."
- from Usenet

"God created man in his own image. And man, being a gentleman, returned the favor."
- Rousseau

"Gods always behave like the people who created them"
- Zora Neale Hurston

[PurpleChez]

7. Where do I know the name Zora Neale Hurston from?

Now is the time...time for GOOGLE.

[PurpleChez]

9. never mind...I looked it up....

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[montieg]

8. Following Roberson's contorted, unChristian illogic

it would seem that those 12 miners and/or their families in Kentucky must have done something REALLY bad. This is the very worst kind of thing for people of faith to have to live through. "By their fruits shall you know them." Says enough for me.

[PurpleChez]

17. What sucks is that many folks (including some here at DU)

look at Patwa and Falwell and the rest and formulate blanket condemnations against all Christians, even against all people of faith. I haven't really been a Christian for some time (I live in a Jewish household and my own sympathies are with eastern schools) but I have tremendous respect for my Xian upbringing. I was taught compassion for all people -- it might sound corny but we sang "Jesus loves the little children, all the children of the world." All colors. No exceptions. Even though I might no longer be a Christian absurdities like Robertson's latest lunacy still strike me as a personal insult.

[FreedomAngel82]

10. Really

People like him are taken seriously. Sad.

[SONUVABUSH]

13. No wonder the world hates us...

You got that right. This bobblehead "man of God" calls for assassinations, says anti war believers are guilty of treason, etc etc. This is a dangerous mf'er. All the while people send him millions to spew such ignorance.

[PurpleChez]

15. What really blows my mind

is that Patwa and his followers believe deeply and sincerely that they are the true heirs to the America laid down by the Founding Fathers when, in reality, the Founders would have had little or no respect for their ways and, in fact, crafted the original Constitution to keep power out of the hands of yokels and bumpkins such as they. We make the point over and over and over and over but the fundies and thumpers just refuse to hear it: many (most?) of the Founders were not conventional Christians; many were Deists, some even borderline atheists. They likely would have had nothing but contempt for the dog and pony show of bigoted, hate-driven, fear-mongering churches trying to transform the US into an ipso facto theocracy. These cretins are NOT the true Americans, the true patriots, or anything of the sort, but I doubt that anything we could say would ever disabuse them of the illusion.

[theHandpuppet]

16. Fundies will only see this as proof that Sharon is the antichrist

http://www.carm.org/questions/antichrist.htm

From the Zechariah passage and the one found in Rev. 13:2-3, some theologians believe that the antichrist will suffer a head wound that will be fatal. But, like the devil who imitates the truth in order to deceive, the antichrist will rise from the dead. His resurrection will be assisted by Satan. However, he will retain his wounds. His right arm will be withered and he will be blind in his right eye.

"And the beast which I saw was like a leopard, and his feet were like those of a bear, and his mouth like the mouth of a lion. And the dragon gave him his power and his throne and great authority. 3 And I saw one of his heads as if it had been slain, and his fatal wound was healed. And the whole earth was amazed and followed after the beast," (Rev. 13:2-3).

Anyone wanna take bets on which psycho preacher puts this spin on it? My money's on good ol' Pat Robertson.