The 10 Stupidest Things Pat Robertson Ever Said - plus an endorsement!

[RiverStone]

5) "I know this is painful for the ladies to hear, but if you get married, you have accepted the headship of a man, your husband. Christ is the head of the household and the husband is the head of the wife, and that's the way it is, period." –Pat Robertson

4) "I'd like to say to the good citizens of Dover: If there is a disaster in your area, don't turn to God, you just rejected him from your city. And don't wonder why he hasn't helped you when problems begin, if they begin. I'm not saying they will, but if they do, just remember, you just voted God out of your city. And if that's the case, don't ask for his help because he might not be there." --Pat Robertson, after the city of Dover, Pennsylvania voted to boot the current school board, which instituted an intelligent design policy that led to a federal trial

3) "God considers this land to be his. You read the Bible and he says 'This is my land,' and for any prime minister of Israel who decides he is going to carve it up and give it away, God says, 'No, this is mine.' ... 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 E.U., the United Nations, or the United States of America.' God says, 'This land belongs to me. You better leave it alone.'" --Pat Robertson, on why Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon suffered a massive stroke

2) "Maybe we need a very small nuke thrown off on Foggy Bottom to shake things up" –Pat Robertson, on nuking the State Department

1) "You know, I don't know about this doctrine of assassination, but if he thinks we're trying to assassinate him, I think that we really ought to go ahead and do it. It's a whole lot cheaper than starting a war ... We have the ability to take him out, and I think the time has come that we exercise that ability. We don't need another $200 billion war to get rid of one, you know, strong-arm dictator. It's a whole lot easier to have some of the covert operatives do the job and then get it over with." –Pat Robertson, calling for the assassination of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez

more (numbers 6-10):

http://politicalhumor.about.com/od/funnyquotes/a/patrobertson.htm

Oh, and today he endorsed....







http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2007/11/07/robertson-to-endorse-giuliani/

[daninthemoon]

1. What exactly are robertson's core beliefs? Has there ever been a

bigger hypocrite?

[Virginia Dare]

2. I can sum up his core beliefs very nicely..

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[Akoto]

3. Robertson's Core Belief: $$$

It's a lot easier to profit when you're exploiting peoples' beliefs and (more so) fears. He's a flimflam artist, like the many who preceded him. Just happens that he amassed enough followers and political influence to make it work.

[RiverStone]

9. Obviously

All his ranting and preachy bullshit goes not to priciple, but to who will somehow bring in the most $$$$ to the Robertson farm. Why else would Pat endorse a pro-choice rethug? Must be some sweet deal behind the scenes? :think:

[customerserviceguy]

Jim and Tammy Faye

come to mind. This endorsement is sending shock waves over at the Freeptards. Maybe some of them will get over the idea that TV preachers are infallible.

[daninthemoon]

6. Saw a bit of something on CNN this morning that congress may

start investigating televangelist megashurches and their rolls royce riding "preachers". They mentioned an Iowa congressman. Didn't catch the name, but he was a "R". Might be interesting if they really do something about the exploitation. Course, it could also be about winnowing the field to maximize profits to a smaller number of megachurches. Stay tuned.

[GodlessBiker]

8. They think he is senile.

[BOSSHOG]

4. Accept the Headship of a Man?!?

[Captain Hilts]

5. Isn't that grounds for impeachment? nt

[underpants]

7. Did he imply that Jesus was married?

:shrug:

[Jacobin]

10. Okay. We need this for balance:

"Question with boldness even the existence of God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear." 1787 letter to his nephew


"I do not find in orthodox Christianity one redeeming feature." Unknown


"Religions are all alike - founded upon fables and mythologies." Unknown


"To talk of immaterial existences is to talk of nothings. To say that the human soul, angels, God, are immaterial, is to say they are nothings, or that there is no God, no angels, no soul. I cannot reason otherwise: but I believe I am supported in my creed of materialism by Locke, Tracy, and Stewart. At what age of the Christian church this heresy of immaterialism, this masked atheism, crept in, I do not know. But a heresy it certainly is. Jesus told us indeed that 'God is a spirit,' but he has not defined what a spirit is, nor said that it is not matter. And the ancient fathers generally, if not universally, held it to be matter: light and thin indeed, an etherial gas; but still matter." letter to John Adams, August 15, 1820


"Millions of innocent men, women, and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burned, tortured, fined, and imprisoned, yet we have not advanced one inch toward uniformity. What has been the effect of coercion? To make one half of the world fools and the other half hypocrites." Notes on Virginia


"History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes" Letter to von Humboldt, 1813


"The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the Supreme Being as His father, in the womb of a virgin will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter." Letter to John Adams, April 11, 1823


"In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot, abetting his abuses in return for protection to his own" Letter to H. Spafford, 1814


"But a short time elapsed after the death of the great reformer of the Jewish religion, before his principles were departed from by those who professed to be his special servants, and perverted into an engine for enslaving mankind, and aggrandizing their oppressors in Church and State." in a letter to S. Kercheval, 1810


"...an amendment was proposed by inserting the words, 'Jesus Christ...the holy author of our religion,' which was rejected 'By a great majority in proof that they meant to comprehend, within the mantle of its protection, the Jew and the Gentile, the Christian and the Mohammedan, the Hindoo and the Infidel of every denomination.'" From Jefferson's biography


"I never told my religion, nor scrutinized that of another. I never attempted to make a convert, nor wished to change another's creed. I have judged others' religions by their lives, for it is from our lives and not our words that our religions must be read."


"Christianity is the most perverted system that ever shone on man."


"The authors of the gospels were unlettered and ignorant men and the teachings of Jesus have come to us mutilated, misstated and unintelligible."


“The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God.”


“It is not to be understood that I am with him in all his doctrines. I am a Materialist.”

http://atheistempire.com/greatminds/quotes.php?author=2

:-)