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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPat Robertson: God is "compelling" Putin to bring on the End Times
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/retired-evangelist-pat-robertson-says-putin-is-fulfilling-biblical-prophecy/ar-AAUrMtF?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531CurtEastPoint
(18,643 posts)OLDMDDEM
(1,572 posts)or Satan.
CurtEastPoint
(18,643 posts)eShirl
(18,490 posts)True Dough
(17,304 posts)Maybe it's time for him to start on his own personal quest to meet "god".
Beat it, Pat.
Jarqui
(10,123 posts)Response to allegorical oracle (Original post)
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hlthe2b
(102,239 posts)Mariana
(14,856 posts)PCIntern
(25,541 posts)Must be a sign of the End Times.
What narrow stupidity -
End Times = Send money
Docreed2003
(16,858 posts)What a prick! These aholes never cease to amaze me with they're hypocrisy. It's not like there are actual verses calling out people waiting for end times in the early church or anything...🤦🏻♂️
Buckeyeblue
(5,499 posts)Everything is a sign. And yet signs of catastrophic climate change are fake science.
What is interesting to me is that as prophetic as the bible is held up to be, I don't believe there are any prophesies that speak to the advances humans have made in science and technology.
Just these vague notions of war...
allegorical oracle
(2,357 posts)Amendment's use of "militia".
Buckeyeblue
(5,499 posts)I'm sure at some point second amendment purists will hold up Ukraine as an example of why we all need to be armed.
Even though many of them seem to be pro-Russia.
allegorical oracle
(2,357 posts)LastDemocratInSC
(3,647 posts)have constructed a death cult. Their greatest happiness would be Armageddon and its aftermath when the few of their members who remain can stand around amid the rubble of civilization with broad smiles on their faces, singing hymns of praise, and marvel at "what God hath wrought."
But after an hour or so of that one person, then a few more, will begin wondering where their next meal is coming from. Man cannot live on radioactive fallout alone.
markie
(22,756 posts)please excuse my language... why does he have a platform
**and while I'm at it fuck Bill Barr
Wuddles440
(1,122 posts)confounds me how these so called "pro-life christians" are always longing for the rapture.
C_U_L8R
(45,002 posts)Sounds demonic. Only evil would cheer on such suffering.
Atticus
(15,124 posts)RussBLib
(9,008 posts)too many already unstable, religiously insane people will hear it and who TF knows what they will do. Try to help bring it on for the *glory of God? "
allegorical oracle
(2,357 posts)$6-million donation. He claimed that God spoke to him overnight and said if he didn't raise the $$, he was going to be taken home to Heaven. God was essentially blackmailing him with a guaranteed trip to glory? A Florida guy sent him the bucks. Thought getting to Heaven was the whole point of the religious right.
Mariana
(14,856 posts)He knows exactly what kind of preaching rakes in the most money.
7wo7rees
(5,128 posts)For f's sake!!!!!
And where is his appeal for funds for EndTimes?
RussBLib
(9,008 posts)unless you expand "god" to cover all motivated humans.
Mariana
(14,856 posts)He appears to be in excellent health for his age.
sop
(10,167 posts)As a believer myself, this stuff is blasphemy. For Robertson to presume that he knows more than others is sickening. How many other times has he already been way off base?
He needs to stop. They all do.
phylny
(8,380 posts)Its as though he thinks God needs man to accomplish this.
Clash City Rocker
(3,396 posts)Unless he really likes extreme heat, the smell of sulfur, and getting poked with the occasional pitchfork. He hasnt exactly led an exemplary life.
Politicub
(12,165 posts)enemies. Its a form of depraved porn for them.
The person who said that Trump isnt punishing the right people is a branch off this awful tree.
Paladin
(28,254 posts)PJMcK
(22,035 posts)Seriously, Roberson is so profoundly stupid that I cannot understand how anyone can put value in his verbal farts.
Anyone who takes him seriously and/or sends him money is an idiot.
Mariana
(14,856 posts)Hundreds of thousands of Christians.
CrackityJones75
(2,403 posts)This motherfucker has been saying this shot since before I was born. It MUST be close to the of his time.
Generic Other
(28,979 posts)Just rapture already!
Blue Owl
(50,356 posts)Chainfire
(17,536 posts)njhoneybadger
(3,910 posts)LiveToLurk
(286 posts)You need to shut the hell up.
czarjak
(11,269 posts)Politicub
(12,165 posts)She has been going on about the end-times when the shortages began during the pandemic. Now that the food supply chain is getting worked out, shes turning her attention to the war. She doesnt watch Pat Robertson, but most of the fundies are attracted to this idea like catnip.
I grew up around this shit. The church of god and independent fundamentalist baptist churches that I went to as a kid basically make the apocalypse and punishment their central teachings. Oh, and blaming gay people for ushering in the end of the world. That was part of it.
With my mom, shes going through a health scare and memory issues as she ages. And it makes me so sad that her faith is causing more hurt, mental pain and fear than comfort. Fundamentalists are toxic on so many different levels.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)If there was a god, these two clowns would have been fried by lightning long ago.
mzmolly
(50,992 posts)struggle4progress
(118,282 posts)Why would you hope to see that day?
It will be dark, not bright,
as if you fled from a lion but then met a bear
or went into your house to rest against a wall and were bitten by a snake there
Amos 5
marmar
(77,078 posts)LetMyPeopleVote
(145,176 posts)I am Jewish and I have been following the RW religious obsession with Israel for a long time. This obsession is based on the belief that Jews and the state of Israel are necessary for second coming.https://www.rawstory.com/2019/02/apocalypse-another-disturbing-reason-behind-right-wings-pro-israel-obsession/
These are the folks who believe that there will be a millennium in the future, a golden age, where Christ reigns on Earth, [and] they believe that before Christ will return, there will be a tribulation where Christ defeats evil, she said. There will be natural disasters and wars, and perhaps an Antichrist, as the book of Revelations notes. Then at the end of that period, the people of the Mosaic covenant, including the Jews, will convert. Then after their conversion, the great millennium starts.
She continued: You have this group of people looking around for signs of the end time, and in the 20th century when Israel was founded, this was seen as a major sign. This was electrifying for that community because the gathering of all the Jews in exile to the Holy Land is a prerequisite for all of these events unfolding. So for the subset of evangelicals in the 20th century, support for Israel became a really, really important political position.
And as evangelical Christianity grew into a central part of the GOPs coalition, pro-Israel policies became cemented in the partys ideology.
The alliance between the evangelicals and pro-Israeli Jews, though, is a peculiar partnership. The Christians enter into the bargain with the assumption that, when they reach their goal of the apocalypse, any Jews will either become Christians or go to hell. But their pro-Israel allies dont seem to mind this much, perhaps because they dont believe this version of the apocalypse will ever actually come to be and as long as it is just a fantasy, their interests and those of evangelicals remain aligned.
Jews and supporters of Israel are aware of the reason why these religious nut jobs are supporting Israel. Israel needs all of the help it can get and so plays on and uses these religious nut jobs. The downside to these nut cases is that they want Jews to convert to Christianity and my kids and my friends' kids have been targeted by these nut cases.
Robertson's latest pronouncement is part of a long-established pattern.
Collimator
(1,639 posts). . . And Putin deploys the nuclear option, during those final minutes when people start to contemplate their fates--there will be a swath of Christians who will be absolutely PISSED that the End of the World did not feature Israel in some central way.