Pat Robertson: Had enough people prayed God would have stopped tornados

[WI_DEM]

In the aftermath of the tornadoes that devastated parts of the Midwest, television evangelist Pat Robertson is adding his two cents about the situation. Not enough people prayed, he said — because if they had, God would have intervened.

During an episode on The 700 Club, Robertson questioned why people would knowingly live in tornado-prone areas to begin with. “Why did you build houses where tornadoes were apt to happen?” he asked.

Then, when asked about people wondering why God didn’t intervene during such a tragic disaster, Robertson responded, “If enough people were praying, [God] would intervene. You could pray, Jesus stilled the storm, you could still storms.”


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[center rising]

1. Maybe God can still Pat Robertson's mouth

[nanabugg]

33. How does he know how many people prayed? Why isn't he blaming the tornados on

the "immoral left?" That's what he used to do. Or maybe he thinks someone will come back with God being angry at the "immoral right?"

[sharp_stick]

2. If prayer worked Pat

I would have the sky wizard crushing your pint sized melon live on your moronic TV show.

[lpbk2713]

11. ... and only slick televangelists would win the Lottery.

Every week.

[Justice wanted]

3. Man, to me that sounds like it one step below all those old religions that would scarifice humans

to make the Volcano god/godess happy.

[unblock]

4. because god is very bureaucratic and operates on a strict quota system.

[Matariki]

5. I'm confused. I thought Pat Robertson was dead.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

14. No such luck. You may be thinking of Jerry Falwell

who no doubt is being jabbed in the ass with Satan's pitchfork as we speak.

[pitohui]

18. only from the neck up EOM

.

[Matariki]

31. LOL, of course. That's why I was confused

[OriginalGeek]

6. srsly doe

[bowens43]

7. so his god

is an egotistical psychopath who will not intervene until he has enough people begging?


what a mean nasty little god he has

[catbyte]

8. Christ on a cracker. Put this putz out to pasture already.

[Matariki]

9. Does this mean that God is a crazy rampaging monster that is only controlled by prayer?

Is that what he's saying?

[hifiguy]

10. Perhaps the folks in the path of the tornadoes

were just a bit more concerned with finding shelter for themselves and their families. Does this moran have even three functioning brain cells left?

[Old and In the Way]

12. Pat, here's my suggestion.

Next time there's a cat.4 tornado in Kansas, why don't you and your buddies - Franklin, Dobson, Perkins, and Reed (and whatever other moral hypocrites you can gather)- stand in front of it and pray like hell and let's see what happens. If you stop it dead in its tracks, I'll promise to start attending church regularly.

[The Magistrate]

35. That Is Pretty Much the Biblically Recommended Test, Sir

See Elijah v. Priests of Baal in the matter of flame consuming sacrifices....

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

13. So ol' Jehovah is sitting there on his celestial throne

in front of his golden iMac looking at a spreadsheet of prayer totals.

"Hmmm.... Bunch of folks prayed for new cars. Ha, like that's gonna happen. Buy your own damn cars. Think I'll smite a few of them with bad transmissions and water pumps. Here's some prayers for sick kids. I might cure a few of them, just so they keep paying attention to Me.

And look at this - bad weather. Tornadoes. Well, they did it to themselves, dicking up My creation with their damn greenhouse gases. Still, I'd have stopped the tornadoes if they'd made their prayer quota, but they didn't. For 3,487 prayers I'd have made them all go away, but I got only 3,272 prayers. Too bad. Maybe next time they'll take Me a little more seriously.

But it might be kind of fun to smite Pat Robertson. He gives Me a bad name..."

[L0oniX]

15. Most of us couldn't afford his house either ...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/claynoe/469284431/

I hope he can manage to feed some homeless people after his house payment!

[leeroysphitz]

16. First 9-11 and now these tornados... Can't the Christians™ in this country get anything right?

[Moonwalk]

25. Evidently it's us non-believers who are messing things up. It's because we're not...

...offering up prayers that the Christians have to suffer. Amazing how much more powerful we are than the Christians. They pray with all their might and it does no good, we don't pray and cause all this destruction.

I think we should make better use of this power. Threats. Blackmail. Good old Mafia extortion stuff. "You gonna have to make a small monthly donation to our organization if you want us to pray away the tornados...otherwise, we ain't gonna pray and you know what'll happen then...."

[tanyev]

17. Well, Pat, why did you build your house where a hurricane might happen?

Good luck with that.

[Archae]

19. Wy doesn't Pat's God spare these?

Church in Illinois:

[tularetom]

20. Why does he think God is such a dick?

And why would anybody want to worship a god who was such a dick?

If I was God I'd have a lot better things to do than aim tornados at a bunch of people who failed to kiss my ass enough to suit me. I could drive a cool car, get any girl I wanted, go fishing all day every day, and have free beer. Why would I want to fuck people up with tornadoes?

[Angry Dragon]

23. +15,547

[Moonwalk]

26. Boredom? When you're the omnipotent, omniscient master of the universe...

you get easily bored. It's why Satan exists. To amuse god

[Angry Dragon]

21. I guess the syphilis that he picked

up while he was overseas has finally reached his brain

[spanone]

22. i can't figure out if pat is a comedian or just plain stupid

[Initech]

24. Does Pat live in the 12th century?

[Moonwalk]

28. Actually, he only goes back to about 1348...

...black plague time when the dark ages were at their darkest. Everyone believed in god, and everyone was sure the plague was god's punishment for something if someone got it--and if someone didn't get it, then they must be worshiping the devil and had to be killed. Talk about crazy logic Very Pat Robertson.

[bongbong]

27. Hardest hit

The hardest hit areas voted Red.

Maybe if they didn't do all those satanic rites (voting for repigs is one of them), they wouldn't have been smote so badly.

[rudycantfail]

29. It's possible

[JitterbugPerfume]

30. Damn Pat! prayed as hard as I could

[Rex]

32. Oh...Pat...

How bout a nice cup of SHUT THE FUCK UP?

The lobes hurt.

[shanti]

34. kee-rist