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A friend of a woman mourning the loss of her three-year-old wrote in to The 700 Club asking what to tell her friend when asked how a good God would let some ill children live but let her child die. In his infinite wisdom, Robertson said that God can see the big picture of life and probably killed her child before he or she could become Adolf Hitler.
Dont believe me? Dont think Robertson himself would have the gall to say such a thing to a woman grieving her three-year-old? Heres the full quote:
As far as Gods concerned, He knows the end from the beginning and He sees a little baby and that little baby could grow up to be Adolf Hitler, he could grow up to be Joseph Stalin, he could grow up to be some serial killer, or he could grow up to die of a hideous disease. God sees all of that, and for that life to be terminated while hes a baby, hes going to be with God forever in Heaven so it isnt a bad thing.
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/pat-robertson-tells-grieving-mother-her-dead-baby-couldve-grown-up-to-be-hitler/
Only Pat Robertson could take a grieving mother's question about life and death and turn it into a Nazi reference.
Starry Messenger
(32,342 posts)Before birth=you could be Einstein and Gandhi rolled into one. After birth=Hitler
Chellee
(2,102 posts)And God didn't kill the ACTUAL Adolf Hitler when he was three, why, exactly?
dawnie51
(959 posts)and why does anyone with a functioning brain call to ask him ANYTHING? Pat Robertson is the poster boy for religious crazy. Just when you think he can't say anything more insane, he says something worse.
Big Blue Marble
(5,150 posts)Mariana
(14,860 posts)because lots of Christians agree with the things he says. He rakes in tons of money being on TV. If all of those Christians stopped supporting him, he would go away.
Initech
(100,102 posts)Don't get me wrong, I'm not defending that asshole in the slightest. However considering that he owns the Christian Broadcasting Network that airs his bile and garbage, it will be impossible to get rid of him.
However, his boss, the almighty God that he worships, can cancel his show when he sees fit to do so.
Tom_Foolery
(4,691 posts)WDIM
(1,662 posts)Filling people full of lies and misleading people on faith and religion just to make millions of dollars to put in your pocket seems pretty evil to me.
Mariana
(14,860 posts)Maybe his interpretation of Christianity is the correct one. I don't think anyone can say for sure. It's clear that lots of Christians agree with Pat, since so many of them keep sending him money.
Anyway, even if God considers Pat to be thoroughly evil, God lets plenty of evil people get very rich and live long, healthy lives. Pat is hardly unique in that.
mainer
(12,029 posts)If He's so all-seeing, He must have known what that baby would someday grow up to do.