Has Pat Robertson Completely Lost it?
 

Pat Robertson has been a 'mo foe for a long time. I'm pretty used to him blaming natural disasters on a particular region's "acceptance of homosexuality". But now I think he's just flat out lost his mind. He blames the recent Haiti earthquake on a pack Haitians made with the Devil in the 17 hundreds.

Seriously Pat? I realize this is a dumb question, but do you have any evidence for that claim?

I'm stunned by his ignorance. But I eagerly await the backlash he will, hopefully, receive.

Pat Robertson is the hemorrhoid on the sphincter on the butthole of the universe and exists because God didn't eat enough fiber and strained too much when he rested on the seventh day. Funk him.

He completely lost it a long time ago

I completely agree with this!

:D

While it is of course a stupid thing to believe and even more stupid to say out loud it is not some bit of nonsense original to him but rather a long-standing "theological urban legend" in certain quarters (here's a page from 2004 and there was an upsurge in such rumblings back in the early '90s when Bush/Clinton were dealing with the first Aristide ouster; we just didn't have YouTube).

I'm not at all surprised to learn that Robertson travels in those quarters.

What is surprising is people who think this is a good riposte (as I've now seen in several places: "So what he's saying is god has spent 200 years punishing people who simply live near where other people did a bad thing. Who would believe in such a god or hold to such a moral system?" I've been seeing that from Christians. Is not such an idea, in essence, the fundamental belief of Christianity (and plenty of other religions)? If original sin isn't crazy then god punishing Haitians because of misdeeds isn't particularly crazy either.

Yes, because finger pointing and being judgmental are so much more pleasing in the eyes of the Lord than compassion and understanding.

The OP makes the mistake of assuming PR "had it" to begin with. You cannot lose what you never had.

I'm not sure what that response means since I said nothing about gods views on people finger pointing and judging instead of being compassionate and understanding.

Pat Robertson showed plenty of compassion, immediately following what he said with calls to help, support, and aid the people of Haiti in any way we can. He did not say that the people currently living in Haiti were in responsible for their condition any more than he views me as being personally responsible for original sin even if, nonetheless, I live under its cloud.

My point is more that it is odd for people who believe in the same god as Robertson to say that this god would never behave in the way described when similar behavior is central to the beliefs of Christians (as well as Judaism and Islam).

ETA: It occurs to me that maybe you weren't responding to my post. If so, never mind.

I wasn't.

Yeah, he's always been a whack-job, but there are degrees of insanity....