Pat Robertson, the self proclaimned modern prophet is showing signs of mental fatigue if not mental incompetence. Saying that God inspires him to say all those radical things that he utters.
He also claims God talks to him !
With such grandiose communication with God Almighty he could run for President, and the superstitious 50% of the population would probably elect him !
Never the less; he would run into stiff competition running against the most “out of touch with reality, President” (George W Bush) we have ever had.
Bush, as I see it; is an atheist in disguise, making people believe that he recieves orders from God, to wage a religious War against all Arabs.
Millions of people doubt very seriously, that he has such communication with God Almighty.
We are not fooled, by this heretic and/or superstitious clown.
John M Sandoval - free lance writer

Let’s take it with a grain of salt, please Let him be judged by his God.  And let you not judge him but love him like you love yourself.

Nobody seemed to notice that Pat finally said he was sorry only after Israel cancelled his deal to open a religious theme park.
If you think Pat is nuts , what the hell can you think of the crazy Jews who are in bed with the Christian Zionists.
Okay, they know that there is NO chance that Jesus will come back so they will not have convert. Of course, the MESSIAH they are looking for isn’t going to come either.
He is smart enough that one of his organizations was amongst the first to get money from Bush’s slush fund otherwise known as faith based program.

Don’t you love it when people say the Bible says something but then do not directly quote what the Bible actually says? If you look at the passage in Joel that Pat Robertson was apparently basing his remarks on, you will see that His prophet said God was passing judgement (by means of a war) on several nations for dividing His land and people. I do not see any justification there for making the leap from a God who judges nations in such a manner to one who judges individuals (nor for the leap from judging other nations to judging Israel itself for choosing to divide its land).

I think Robertson is most likely sincere, if misguided. He seems to believe in almost a mechanistic God. If you follow the right formula, (send me $20 each month), God is obligated to respond (He will bless your life financially). Likewise, if you violate the terms of God’s rule, you are just as automatically cut off. And Robertson’s God can apparently be quite arbitrary.

With Gods like Pat’s, who needs Satan?

It is an outrageous and obscene joke that as quickly as a “preacher” was installed between mankind and the rest of the universe, he began scolding...and giving orders.  We do not need these guys.  We do not need these guys for anything.

I cannot concieve of a reason that anyone would listen to Pat Robertson, let alone report what he says or concern themselves with him.  Stop making him important and he will fade into the woodwork.

Obviously Robertson’s motovation is to build audience share. Saying wackey things and getting the mainstream media to report it is certainly one of the most cost effective methods.  He is crazy like a fox.

Let’s never forget that Pat owns a diamond mine with Charles Taylor - I guess all “strong-arm dictator(s)” are not created equal… god must like some of them (you know, the ones that STARVE their people) better than others…

How dumb must one be to tune in to his claptrap?  How lonely do you have to be to find Pat comforting?  Perhaps we should all engage in a little “Hug your dumb, conservative next-door neighbor.”

Read ‘Sins of Scripture’ by John Shelby Spong, a retired (and controversial) Episcopal bishop. In his book he points out all the ‘hateful’ texts that Robertson, Falwell and their ilk use to justify their hatred of other groups-minorities, other faiths, women, gays, abortion, etc. It is very eye-opening and definitely an interesting read.

Personally, I am getting so sick of the comments made by the Robertson’s in life that they make me wonder what it ever meant to be a born again Christian. Are they messengers attempting to promote atheism!

In other words, God doesn’t support them (and W) only.

it’s GREAT to read ALL the COMMENTS on your SITE , now i’ll add MINE ! ISAIAH 1:18 says ..come now ,let us reason together says THE LORD - lets do that . if we go back in HISTORY using the OLD TESTAMENT [ BIBLE ] as our guide this land belongs to the JEWS ! ABRAM [ ABRAHAM ] is father to JEWS & ARABS [read GENESIS chapters 15 ,16 ,17 & 18 ]we should remember THE LORD is still in control no matter what men may think or do ! HE’S got a plan & timetable , we can read HIS WORD & KNOW IT ! the HOLY SCRIPTURE says HE will make JERUSALEM - A CUP OF TREMBLING -ZECHARIAH 12 : 2. i’m not going to judge ROBERTSON or FALWELL , i do think they’ve gone BEYOND what they should have said - it’s PRETTY NUTTY ! i want to close in saying JESUS is THE LORD and HE LOVES SINNERS even those who HATE HIM & DENY HIM - JOHN 3: 16 - for GOD so loved the WORLD that he gave HIS OWN BEGOTTEN SON that whosoever belives in HIM shall not PERISH but have ETERNAL LIFE !

My problem with the Robertson mindset and allegations is that he makes the George Bush right wingers appear sensible, even rational.  And that’s far more dangerous than anything Robertson spews forth.

Zion of the heart;

For any Christians confused about the midguided, false teachings of these Zionist televangelists, read the Gospel of John, Chapter4, Verse 21.

Jesus made it very clear when he spoke to the woman at the well that Zion, that lofty “place” where we go to worship God, is not a place in geography, it is a place in the heart.

When geographical Zionists and misguided, prejudiced televangelists try to frame God’s limitless spiritual world into that tiny piece of geography, we get exactly what we have seen in the Middle east; war, death and destruction.

Pat Robertson is blinded by his worldly prejudice, he and Falwell both use the scriptures to justify their confusion and bitterness.

Just what do they think Jesus meant by those scriptures? How can such an important and truly clarifying verse be ignored? What spirit possesses them that they can not see the truth so clearly explaned? Once again, read Jesus’ own words, in John CH 4, Verse 21, how can it be any more clear and direct than these simple words?

Robertson, Falwell and the rest of these new Pahrisees are part and parcel of a much bigger deception than their own little lies and miscalculations. They may be in for quite a surprise when “the time” comes, and their own personal, internal Zion is not where it is supposed to be. They have all placed in geography.  But it should be in their hearts.

JEP

I know it’s a waste of time but… Robertson infuriates me beyond the point where I can just ignore him. His brand of revolting, ignorant vitreol makes me puke. Those who listen to this conman and follow his lead clearly have serious mental handicaps. For Robertson and his gang of thieves to take advantage of these mentally disabled folk in this way is an outrage.

I can’t describe in detail in public what I’d like to have happen to him and his thugs but I can tell I get a mental image of focusing an internet camera on them and publicly nailing them naked upside down on crosses.

Then, with a pair of rusty pliers, I and my team of happy, dancing atheists would begin removing, one per hour, each of their finger nails and toe nails.

Then… oh, but I can’t give away the whole show…

However, we would let them know we’d be praying for them 24/7 just so they wouldn’t feel lonely or fearful. After all, we’re not monsters! We’d make sure they knew that we had God’s approval for our actions and that He told us do it.

There is only one candidate who is activly fighting the Religious Right. See his book “Bare Naked Truth: on the Religious Right” at http://www.barenakedtruth.net

Stacey Tallitsch
Democrat for Congress
Louisiana First District

http://www.lafirst.org

i’m sorry, perhaps i’m a bit of a simple-minded intellectual type, but i can’t get over the more obvious, glaring strangeness of these outbursts of his.  somebody please tell me what kind of nit-picky, arrogant, infantile, greedy Gawd wants that tiny speck of land on this tiny speck of blue in the vast universe..... i guess the same Gawd who magically guides those touchdown passes we see every Sunday afternoon.  my bad....

At first pass it’s easy not to take Robertson seriously because he is, I believe, an absolute ignoramous--in the truest Dunce sense of the word. However, even a dunce can cause mischief. And his brand of mischief is continuing to help keep a respectable portion of our population in the Dark Ages.

The only way to fight that is continued public dissent to his opinions and rants. I would like to see mainstream media more involved in that--stricly from a ‘News’ perspective of course. These places are fine but admit it, we are all preaching to the choir--no pun intended. If you turn just one of his listeners from the Dark Side to the Force, you’ve won a battle. Maybe that person will raise their children with open minds…

I listened to Pat Robertson on this subject, talking like God had personally told him all this crap about “His Land” and had too thoughts -Since when does God only decree that little bit of land His. What about the rest of the world???!
And - this show is SOOOOoooooo political for the far right - is it taxed?

You shouldn’t hate anyone in life, but I can say I hate this guy and all of his followers.

Pat Robertson has always been a fraudulent Christian minister! Pat was a CIA agent, many years ago, and they dreamed up his cover as man-of-god! He was a good friend of Mobutu in Zaire, now the Congo, and would fly plane loads of guns into Africa to trade for diamonds! When Pat spews his crud, he forgets about his cover as a minister > lol.

A true atheist doesn’t even acknowledge the stupidity of a person like Pat Robertson.  But as a still recovering brain-washee of religious parents, Robertson continues to outrage me.  Maybe we can find peace by not paying any attention to these fanatics.

The holy bible warns us about multitudes of what it calls “False Prophets.”
However it does not mention the quantity - perhaps because they are “So Many in Number” that they can not possibly be counted.
John M Sandoval

Maybe its time for Pat Robertson and his flock to consider a slightly less literal interpretation of the Bible that has done so much to divide “Gods Land”.

Personally I am looking forward to the rapture.  I hope the world will be much better off once all the relgious right is gone, and it shold at the very least help the Democrats regain control of Congress.

We have subscribed to the LA Times for 25 years or more and I really miss Robert Sheer’s commentaries.  I always read his column.  We need more Journalists like him.
I think Pat Robertson is a criminal and must be psycotic!! How people can keep sending him money makes me think they are really stupid and half a brain!!  Thank you Florence McFarlane

I think that even the excellent Gottfried Wilhelm, Freiherr von Leibniz, who, when he wasn’t busy inventing the calculus or trying to convince Louis XIV to attack Egypt to draw Ottoman attention from Europe, coined the term «theodicé» to explain that God had created for us «die beste aller möglichen Welten», would have had a hard time explaining Pat Robertson’s necessary role in Creation. His younger contemporary, François-Marie Arouet, dit Voltaire, would have found the task much easier....

I hope that there is a GOD and on that day of Rapture I’d like to be in attendance just to see what He/She/It/They do to these scam artists. I think they will be in for a big surprise.Pat and friends deep down think they can get away with all this because they don’t believe in GOD any more than Atheists. Or they are completely dillusional and should be locked up. They should be in prison. But since they are “Religious” leaders, and their victims are all willing, they can’t be charged and tried as the criminals they are. Religious persecution they would cry and the country would be up in arms. But, alas and alack, they’ll only just pass away with all of their followers to be replaced by some more who are just as stupid!

For the sake of argument, let’s say Pat Robertson is partly right, that Sharon’s stroke was God’s (or G-d to Jews) punishment.  What would G-d most likely want to punish Sharon for? Would G-d be so petty as to punish Sharon for withdrawing from the tiny Gaza Strip (1% of the area of Palestine before 1948 that the Zionists coveted).  Or did G-d dispense a stroke because Sharon violated G-d’s laws, the Ten Commandments, such as You Shall Not Murder, You Shall Not Steal, You Shall Not Covet Your Neighbor’s House And Field, and You Shall Not Bear False Witness Against Your Neighbor?
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As Sharon lies in his hospital bed, his political career probably over, how will G-d and history judge him? Do people even know what Sharon has done? Robert Fisk, one of the most respected Middle East correspondents and who was in the region during several of Sharon’s deeds, shares his thoughts on the man:
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ARIEL SHARON by ROBERT FISK: 
“I shook hands with him once, a brisk, no-nonsense soldier’s grip from Sharon as he finished a review of the vicious Phalangist militiamen who stood in the barracks square at Karantina in Beirut…
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Back on 18 September (1982), Loren Jenkins of The Washington Post and Karsten Tveit of Norwegian television and I had clambered over the piled corpses of Chatila - of raped and eviscerated women and their husbands and children and brothers - and Jenkins, knowing that the Israelis had sat around the camps for two nights watching this filth, shrieked “Sharon!” in anger and rage. He was right.
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Sharon it was who sent the Phalange into the camps on the night of 16 September - to hunt for “terrorists”, so he claimed at the time.
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The subsequent Israeli Kahan commission of enquiry into this atrocity provided absolute proof that Israeli soldiers saw the massacre taking place. The evidence of a Lieutenant Avi Grabovsky was crucial. He was an Israeli deputy tank commander and reported what he saw to his higher command. “Don’t interfere,” the senior officer said. Ever afterwards, Israeli embassies around the world would claim that the commission held Sharon only indirectly responsible for the massacre. It was untrue. The last page of the official Israeli report held Sharon “personally responsible”.
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It was years later that the Israeli-trained Phalangist commander, Elie Hobeika, now working for the Syrians, agreed to turn state’s evidence against Sharon - now the Israeli Prime Minister - at a Brussels court. The day after the Israeli attorney general declared Sharon’s defence a “state” matter, Hobeika was killed by a massive car bomb in east Beirut. Israel denied responsibility. US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld traveled to Brussels and quietly threatened to withdraw Nato headquarters from Belgium if the country maintained its laws to punish war criminals from foreign nations. Within months, George W Bush had declared Sharon “a man of peace”. It was all over.
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In the end, Sharon got away with it, even when it was proved that he had, the night before the Phalangists attacked the civilians of the camp, publicly blamed the Palestinians for the murder of their leader, President-elect Bashir Gemayel. Sharon told these ruthless men that the Palestinians had killed their beloved “chief”. Then he sent them in among the civilian sheep - and claimed later he could never have imagined what they would do in Chatila.
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Only years later was it proved that hundreds of Palestinians who survived the original massacre were interrogated by the Israelis and then handed back to the murderers to be slaughtered over the coming weeks…”

READ THE FULL ARTICLE…
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11479.htm
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I’ve never accepted the myth that any part of the Middle East was God’s land.  Or that any group – Christian, Jewish or Muslim – had rights to the land based on such claims (or just because one group’s storytellers were better than other storytellers). In any case, according to Robert Fisk, the original “promised land” was largely on what is now the Palestinian West Bank—hence the Jewish colonization of Palestinian land—while the Western coastal plain syuch as Haifa, Tel Aviv, Gaza, etc. was not (of course, Zionist claims of a Greater Israel span a much larger area). The Jewish “entry into the promised land” over three thousand years ago was done by bloody conquest and genocide (first against the Canaanite inhabitants who had lived on the land long before the Jews arrived, including in Jerusalem). Furthermore, the Jews were merely one of about 20 invaders who invaded, occupied and settled parts of Palestine during its 9,000 year history, but they were all defeated by other invading powers. The Jewish kingdoms on Palestine lasted only 73 years (David and Solomon) to at most 414 years (destruction of Judah in 586 B.C.).
http://www.counterpunch.org/leupp05072005.html
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8500.htm
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article4950.htm
http://www.cactus48.com/earlyhistory.html
http://www.palestine-un.org/info/frindex.html
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10321.htm
http://www.counterpunch.org/alam0418.html
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According to the Neturei Karta orthodox Jews: “Neturei Karta oppose the so-called “State of Israel” not because it operates secularly, but because the entire concept of a sovereign Jewish state is contrary to Jewish Law… Jews are not allowed to dominate, kill, harm or demean another people and are not allowed to have anything to do with the Zionist enterprise, their political meddling and their wars…. The true Jews are against dispossessing the Arabs of their land and homes. According to the Torah, the land should be returned to them.” So according to the Neturei Karta, G-d should be pleased that Sharon returned partial control of the Gaza Strip to the Palestinians (the Israelis haven’t completely “withdrawn” from Gaza).  Of course, perhaps G-d wanted Sharon to return ALL the land to the Palestinians, and punished Sharon for not doing enough.
http://www.nkusa.org/AboutUs/index.cfm
http://www.nkusa.org/AboutUs/Zionism/judaism_isnot_zio nism.cfm