Pat Robertson: Market swoon is God's punishment

[brooklynite]

Politico:

Televangelist Pat Robertson says he believes the Dow Jones Industrial Average’s massive sell-off Monday morning was God’s way of punishing the Obama administration for supporting abortion rights and funding Planned Parenthood, not the reverberations of China’s stock-market crash.

“We will pay dearly as a nation for this thing going on,” he said, as flagged by Right Wing Watch. “And possibly if we were to stop all this slaughter the judgment of God might be lifted from us. But it’s coming, ladies and gentlemen,” the host of the “700 Club” said. “We just had a little taste of it in terms of the financial system, but it’s going to be shaken to its core in the next few months, years or however long it takes and it will hurt every one of us.”

Good news! God's apparently over Gay Marriage...

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

1. Is the 'Obama administration' heavily invested in the market?

If it's punishment of anyone, surely it's God's punishment of the really rich, who own something like 80-85% of investments.

[lordsummerisle]

2. The Onion

Couldn't have said it any better...

[randys1]

3. Dear god will someone FINALLY walk up to this violent monster and tell him to shut

the fuck up, please!

[Koinos]

4. How about God's punishment for predator capitalists and snake-oil televangelists?

Nah, Wall Street Jesus wouldn't do that.

[SamKnause]

5. Pat, your 'God' stays pissed off all the time.

I am really sick of you and your hateful 'God'.

[Politicalboi]

6. I DEMAND to be blamed

I'm a lesbian and have been living a life of sin god damn it. I love playing god and ruining people's lives so I can have my civil rights. I'm disappointed at god and Pat.

[demwing]

7. Pat Robertson is God's Punishment

Repent, or Pat LIVES!!! Muhwhahah!!!!

[whatthehey]

8. God must still like Obama twice as much as Bush then

If memory serves the DJIA was about 7900 when Obama took over

[DavidDvorkin]

9. This makes perfect sense

if you're an idiot.

[pokerfan]

10. Can you prove him wrong?

Thought so.

Checkmate, atheist!

[trotsky]

11. Coming up on hurricane season.

Get ready for more "this is gawd's judgment" nonsense spewing from Pat.

Strangely he never did say why in 1998 Hurricane Bonnie veered as it approached Florida to "punish the gays", and instead hit Virgina Beach where his offices were located.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Robertson_controversies#Feminism.2C_homosexuality.2C_abortion_and_liberalism

The June 8, 1998 edition of his show, where Robertson denounced Orlando, Florida and Disney World for allowing a privately sponsored "Gay Days" weekend, also drew criticism from Americans United for Separation of Church and State. Robertson stated that the acceptance of homosexuality could result in hurricanes, earthquakes, tornadoes, terrorist bombings and "possibly a meteor," prompting Americans United to criticize Robertson, saying it was "deplorable that Robertson is using the tragedy of these fires to promote his religious and political agenda." The resulting outcry prompted Robertson to return to the topic on June 24, where he quoted the Book of Revelation to support his claims. The first hurricane of the 1998 Atlantic hurricane season, Hurricane Bonnie, actually turned away from Florida and instead damaged the rest of the east coast. The area hardest hit by the hurricane was the Hampton Roads region, which includes Virginia Beach, the place of origin of Robertson's The 700 Club. While other hurricanes did hit Florida, none of them hit Disney World.