VIDEO: Pat Robertson reveals that Heaven has "golden streets and walls filled with precious stones"

[Amerigo Vespucci]

VIDEO at the URL below.

Pat Robertson Describes Heaven



During a very special Q & A sesh with "The 700 Club" audience this week, Pat Robertson took a question from a 10-year-old boy, who wanted some very specific details about heaven. After he asks things like, "What are the buildings made of in heaven?" and "What do they wear?", Pat cracks up at the curious kid, saying "We don't take questions from anybody that's under 12" because "they're always too embarrassing." Too embarrassing, Pat? Right! Because kids don't understand the line between fact and fiction, right? So is this where you set the little guy straight and tell him you don't actually know anything about heaven and can't prove there is such a thing, but you imagine that it's filled with wonderful things? No! You're Pat Robertson! This is where you give a very straightforward answer about how heaven has golden streets and walls filled with precious stones. Oh Pat, please don't ever retire.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/02/22/must-see-video-a-talking_n_87449.html

[lligrd]

1. Funny, I Remember Thinking, As A Kid, When Told The Same

that if God Didn't let me in, I would be ok hanging out with the animals (I was told they couldn't get in either) in the woods outside. The woods always did and still do fascinate me more than Gold and jewels. LOL

[eShirl]

2. and a Big Rock Candy Mountain!

[trusty elf]

3. "I've talked to one guy who died and went to heaven..."

Sure you have Pat. What a pathetic con-artist.

[Submariner]

4. Gee, and to think we passed up 8 years of President Pat Robertson

We could have all been christianized by now, if not vaporized in a nukular rapture armageddon.

[cornermouse]

5. Probably what the interior of his house looks like

and also shows what he values in life; gold and precious stones/wealth. I could see the stones due to their color value, but lots of things have pretty colors. I've always thought that angels would be either opalescent or iridescent.

[6000eliot]

6. I think he owns some African mining interests.

[ikojo]

7. Pie in the sky when you die..Utah Phillips sang about this

http://www.utahphillips.org/fedyouall.html

THE PREACHER AND THE SLAVE
(TUNE: IN THE SWEET BYE AND BYE) (BY JOE HILL) (1911 EDITION)

Long-haired preachers come out every night,
Try to tell you what's wrong and what's right;
But when asked how `bout something to eat
They will answer with voices so sweet:

(Main Chorus)
You will eat, bye and bye,
In that glorious land above the sky;
Work and pray, live on hay,
You'll get pie in the sky when you die.

And the Starvation Army they play,
And they sing and they clap and they pray
Till they get all your coin on the drum,
Then they tell you when you're on the bum:
(chorus)

If you fight hard for children and wife -
Try to get something good in this life -
You're a sinner and bad man, they tell,
When you die you will sure go to hell.
(chorus)

Workingmen of all countries unite,
Side by side we for freedom will fight;
When the world and its wealth we have gained
To the grafters we'll sing this refrain:

(Last Chorus)
You will eat, bye and bye,
When you've learned how to cook and to fry:
Chop some wood, `twill do you good,
And you'll eat in the sweet bye and bye.

[spinbaby]

8. So heaven is really tacky?

Who'd a thought.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

13. Not as tacky as L. Ron Hubbard's version...

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Library/Shelf/wakefield/us-02.html

In another bulletin dated May 11, 1963, Hubbard claimed he had twice visited heaven, 43 trillion and 42 trillion years earlier. Teaching his followers that heaven was just an implant station in space, he said that on the first visit he had found heaven "complete with gates, angels and plaster saints -- and electronic implantation equipment." On his second visit, a trillion years later, he says that he found changes in heaven.

The place is shabby. The vegetation is gone. The pillars are scruffy. The saints have vanished. So have the angels. A sign on one side (the left as you enter) says "this is Heaven." The right has a sign "Hell" with an arrow and inside the grounds one can see excavations like archaeological diggings with terraces that lead to "Hell." Plain wire fencing encloses the place.... (32)

In one of the tapes on the Saint Hill Special Briefing Course, Hubbard claims to have been flying around space without his body, getting caught in the Van Allen Belt, and he relates this experience in great detail for his students. Later, in the Sea Org, a student on the ship relates this experience with Hubbard:

LRH (Hubbard) was on the ship and in a real jolly mood. He used to stay up late at night on the deck and talk to us into the wee hours about his whole track (past life) adventures, how he was a race-car driver in the Marcab civilization. The Marcab civilization existed millions of years ago on another planet; it was similar to planet earth in the fifties, only they had space travel.... (Hubbard) said he was a race driver called the Green Dragon who set a speed record before he was killed in an accident. He came back in another lifetime as the Red Devil and beat his own record, then came back and did it again as the Blue Streak.

People would stand around listening to these stories for hours, very overawed. At the time it seemed like a privilege and honor to share these things, to hear him talking about things that went on millions of years ago like it was yesterday. (33)

Hubbard should probably have been diagnosed as a manic-depressive with paranoid tendencies, according to several people who knew him well. Certainly he did have periods of deep depression from time to time, in which he lay in bed in a torpor, once telling one of his attendants that he wanted to die. (34)

[tanyev]

9. That's why Pat wants to go there. More diamonds for him!

[Stinky The Clown]

10. That's gettin' pretty close to those 19 virgins some other religious nuts think is up there

A religious nut by any other stripe remains a religious nut.

[90-percent]

11. Zappa

Listen to "Heavenly Bank Account"


Or:

"Jesus Thinks you're a Jerk"

-90% Jimmy

[meow2u3]

12. That's just the screen saver Satan put up on his computer in Hell, Pat

:evilgrin:

[Swamp Rat]

14. He sounds just like the Taliban, except they get a better deal, adding 70 virgins into the bargain.

Robertson needs to work on his marketing tactics some more.