"In 2006, Robertson relayed an inaccurate prediction he said he received from God about a possible tsunami devastating the Pacific Northwest, according to the Associated Press. The next year, he said God told him there would be a terrorist attack on the United States: “The Lord didn’t say nuclear. But I do believe it will be something like that.” According to his 1990 book, “The New Millennium,” Robertson predicted that the world would end on April 29, 2007. Again, the world was not destroyed."
In biblical terms, he is a false prophet and should be killed (according to the bible). But hey, Christians never heed the book unless it is to cherry pick something they already agree with anyway. He was a false prophet given a platform for decades to spread misinformation and BS.
What is remarkable is how many STUPID people believed whatever came out of this con-man's pie-hole and kept shelling out money to support him. If God created all of Pat Robertson's adherents in His image, then God did some-ting-wong.
Mark Twain is probably the most misquoted person in history. Things other people said are attributed to him, things he said are attributed to others and things he actually said are quoted incorrectly. Any time someone cites a quote and can't bother to look up who actually said it, they credit it to Twain.
I have long suspected the big time TV and mega-church preachers of being the worst kind of cynical atheists. There is no way they would want to face their maker and justify the lives they've lived.
My guess is that the bible's proscription against false prophets was always about the Robertson's. The sober, uncharismatic institution wasn't worried about schism so much as the popular draw of some (bronze age) infotainment barker.
And on the populous front, IMO it's a sort of belief-by-titillation. It's a very rare person who "really believes" in the sense of selling their home and giving away all their goods because Pat said the world is going to end. Rather, what Pat says is "real" to them in the sense that they get a real emotional charge from listening to him...at least sufficient to want to pay the guy to keep talking.
I'm shocked that you would say that. How dare you imply that his prophecies didn't come true. Example: In 2002, right there on live TV, he said this: "God has given me a vision. I wouldn't be at all surprised if something very untoward happens, as early as Friday, someplace in the world." And it did! Shame on you for even hinting that he couldn't see the future.
Moms spoke to The Philadelphia Daily News in 1971. She was talking about her husband. The actual full quote from her is this:
"It was a miserable marriage. But he's dead, thank goodness. I was always taught never to say anything about the dead unless it's good. He's dead. Good!"
(the quote I posted may have been the stage act version of that bit instead of the newspaper quote)
As for Bette Davis? She never said that. It was a comedian Craig Russell doing an impersonation of Davis onstage in 1979, 8 years after Moms Mabley said what she said. He's the originator of that quip about Crawford.
He made Trump possible. He was a part of a movement to politicize White Evangelical Christianity into white Christian nationalism. His demonization of the other helped polarize those believers against everyone outside of their tribe and made governing the nation that much more difficult.
And his part in the fifty year crusade to flood the judiciary with ideologues instead of judges who rule according to the law is currently being exploited to roll back 160 years of progress in human rights.
So, thanks for that, Pat. I hope you were right about Hell being a real place.
Robertson and Falwell, Sr., both made the current GOP possible, along with Ronald Reagan, who blatantly invited them and their fellows into the Republican party. It was at that point that the party truly began to lose its mind.
And at this point, I'm not certain that it can regain any semblance of sanity.
Pat has finally met his maker: Evolution, a return to non-living matter, and the dreaded reality that his entire existence (and massive wealth) was the propagation of a gigantic fraud: Jesus, Inc. The 700 Club is now the 0 Club.
That is about the extent of it. They look forward to life ever after, never to realize when they die, they have ceased to exist. The man is simply vaporized like we all will be. No one can escape it. No matter how evil or good.
Christianity (Jesus, Inc.) depends entirely on this false hope. And no 72 virgins to fuck, either. The Jews got one thing right: don't promise an after-life.
That's very true, Judiasm didn't teach soul theology until much later after being Greek influenced. Solomon was quite clear.
"For the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing; they have no further reward, and even the memory of them is forgotten. Their love, their hate and their jealousy have long since vanished; never again will they have a part in anything that happens under the sun."
I’ve long been astonished that Christians can claim with a straight face that, yes, the Yahweh of the Old Testament was a petty, vengeful, murderous jerk, but that everything was set right by Jesus (according to the fanfic of his most devoted followers, known as the New Testament). But that’s got it exactly backwards.
Sure, if you did something that pïssed off the easily irritated Yahweh, he’d smite you where you stood, plus your family and half the innocent bystanders in the surrounding county as collateral damage. But that was it. Dead. Done. Finito. Period. Game Over. Sayonara. Hasta la vista. It wasn’t until Jesus came along that they invented the concept of “No no no, my friend, we’re gonna fry your sorry äss FOREVER!!! And not just for the actions you actually performed but for some of those naughty little THOTS you’ve been having!”
Think about it. Which of these 2 arrogant, flaming sadists was actually worse?
But are like the chaff which the wind driveth away.
Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment,
Nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.
For the LORD knoweth the way of the righteous:
But the way of the ungodly shall perish."
Didn't sound like eternal punishing to me. Sounds like they would simply cease to exist. Believers may have had some hope of resurrection, but even that is debated. The Sadducees didn't even believe in that. That's why they were
Thank you, Hemant, for a brilliant epitaph to a horrible human who was responsible for propagating the world's oldest and largest collective delusion, Christinsanity. (This message was not paid for by Pence 2024; Mike Pence did not approve this message.)
Robertson graduated from the Yale law school, but could never pass the bar exam. He went into the religion business because it paid well, and didn't involve much work. He epitomized the grifting TV preacher, and he upped the game by largely co-opting the Republican party. A vile legacy we continue to live with. Robertson pretty well defined the idea there is no horror that cannot be, and has not been, justified in the name of religion. The evangelicals are their own worst argument.
Her defining role, in "It," is a charming, funny, and even rather progressive film. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVCQlKCz9q8 Just imagine what Ann Sheridan must have done to get called "the Oomph Girl."
I lasted until I saw the Errol Flynn moustaches. It was all a bit much. I'm off for a run, the physio doesn't want me to do more than 35 minutes, but I'm going to try to stretch it today – pretend I got lost or something.
So by the time I get back I will at least be tired. The drink and food can come later.
It was one of the first streets in the city to be planned out way back in 1853. One of the city founders (Arthur Armstrong Denny) named it after his younger brother James Marion Denny. The elder Denny also has a Way named after him.
Hallelujah! Every time someone like Robertson pops their clogs, the world becomes a slightly better place. If only Christopher Hitchens was still alive to memorialise him. 🥳
"In 2006, Robertson relayed an inaccurate prediction he said he received from God about a possible tsunami devastating the Pacific Northwest, according to the Associated Press. The next year, he said God told him there would be a terrorist attack on the United States: “The Lord didn’t say nuclear. But I do believe it will be something like that.” According to his 1990 book, “The New Millennium,” Robertson predicted that the world would end on April 29, 2007. Again, the world was not destroyed."
In biblical terms, he is a false prophet and should be killed (according to the bible). But hey, Christians never heed the book unless it is to cherry pick something they already agree with anyway. He was a false prophet given a platform for decades to spread misinformation and BS.
All prophets are false.
It's the profits that Christians truly believe in. Robertson certainly believed in profits.
Well that's true. I only meant from the Bible's standard Pat was one.
I know. I was just trying to support your statement. ;)
My Magic 8-Ball never steered me wrong O_o
What is remarkable is how many STUPID people believed whatever came out of this con-man's pie-hole and kept shelling out money to support him. If God created all of Pat Robertson's adherents in His image, then God did some-ting-wong.
Mark Twain — ‘Religion was invented when the first con man met the first fool.’
This needs to be the graffiti inscription on Pat's tombstone.
Voltaire said pretty much the same thing.
Never saw them in the same room together...
Mark Twain is probably the most misquoted person in history. Things other people said are attributed to him, things he said are attributed to others and things he actually said are quoted incorrectly. Any time someone cites a quote and can't bother to look up who actually said it, they credit it to Twain.
"Any time someone cites a quote and can't bother to look up who actually said it, they credit it to Twain."
"That's what I would have done"
-M Twain
https://authoradamgainer.files.wordpress.com/2015/10/do-not-believe-abraham-lincoln.jpg
I have long suspected the big time TV and mega-church preachers of being the worst kind of cynical atheists. There is no way they would want to face their maker and justify the lives they've lived.
My guess is that the bible's proscription against false prophets was always about the Robertson's. The sober, uncharismatic institution wasn't worried about schism so much as the popular draw of some (bronze age) infotainment barker.
And on the populous front, IMO it's a sort of belief-by-titillation. It's a very rare person who "really believes" in the sense of selling their home and giving away all their goods because Pat said the world is going to end. Rather, what Pat says is "real" to them in the sense that they get a real emotional charge from listening to him...at least sufficient to want to pay the guy to keep talking.
I'm shocked that you would say that. How dare you imply that his prophecies didn't come true. Example: In 2002, right there on live TV, he said this: "God has given me a vision. I wouldn't be at all surprised if something very untoward happens, as early as Friday, someplace in the world." And it did! Shame on you for even hinting that he couldn't see the future.
Yea you can make those ambiguous prophecies mean just about anything.
Someone posted this on another site.
"Celebrate P.R.I.D.E. Day!
Pat Robertson Is Dead, Everybody!"
And tomorrow...
"Pat Robertson is still dead."
P.R.I.S.D.? ;)
He damn well better be.
So is Francisco Franco.
So is Rush Limbaugh.
"They say you shouldn't say nothin' about the dead unless it's good. He's dead. Good!"
-- Moms Mabley
Someone posted the same quote on the previous post but attributed it to Bette Davis. Am I missing something ?
Moms spoke to The Philadelphia Daily News in 1971. She was talking about her husband. The actual full quote from her is this:
"It was a miserable marriage. But he's dead, thank goodness. I was always taught never to say anything about the dead unless it's good. He's dead. Good!"
(the quote I posted may have been the stage act version of that bit instead of the newspaper quote)
As for Bette Davis? She never said that. It was a comedian Craig Russell doing an impersonation of Davis onstage in 1979, 8 years after Moms Mabley said what she said. He's the originator of that quip about Crawford.
Damn. You’re really, really impressive!
Awwww! :)
He made Trump possible. He was a part of a movement to politicize White Evangelical Christianity into white Christian nationalism. His demonization of the other helped polarize those believers against everyone outside of their tribe and made governing the nation that much more difficult.
And his part in the fifty year crusade to flood the judiciary with ideologues instead of judges who rule according to the law is currently being exploited to roll back 160 years of progress in human rights.
So, thanks for that, Pat. I hope you were right about Hell being a real place.
Robertson and Falwell, Sr., both made the current GOP possible, along with Ronald Reagan, who blatantly invited them and their fellows into the Republican party. It was at that point that the party truly began to lose its mind.
And at this point, I'm not certain that it can regain any semblance of sanity.
If we can survive, I want it to become so insane it becomes irrelevant and the Democrats can properly fission into the two parties they really are.
And to think that, of all people, Goldwater was one who warned about this long before Reagan.
The current Arizona Republican party would disavow Goldwater three times before the rooster crowed.
Hell is nothingness--a giant void of non-existence. He gets the same treatment as everybody else. Even Jesus.
Isn't nothingness the Buddhist version of Nirvana?
I don't know, I just work here.
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!
The Red States are flying the 'murican flag at half mast. They've lost a patriot and a hero.
You misspelled zero.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMENQeCbxfI
How to know you've had a good day:
- You're tired and sore, but not exhausted and in agony.
- You have a good drink in your hand.
- You've got a belly full of delicious food.
- Pat Robertson is dead.
DING DONG the evil warlock's dead.
It is easier to delete the comment and start over than to try editing it
True.
Half of 1 (tired), 3 and 4 for me.
5 I am reading a good book.
- You're tired and sore, but not exhausted and in agony.
- You have a good drink in your hand.
- You've got a belly full of delicious food.
- Pat Robertson is dead.
It's Miller time
But not Bud Light, right?
I'm 1 for 4. Well 11/2 for 4. I'm always tired and sore.
And I get to do art!!!
Priceless.
Pat has finally met his maker: Evolution, a return to non-living matter, and the dreaded reality that his entire existence (and massive wealth) was the propagation of a gigantic fraud: Jesus, Inc. The 700 Club is now the 0 Club.
That is about the extent of it. They look forward to life ever after, never to realize when they die, they have ceased to exist. The man is simply vaporized like we all will be. No one can escape it. No matter how evil or good.
Christianity (Jesus, Inc.) depends entirely on this false hope. And no 72 virgins to fuck, either. The Jews got one thing right: don't promise an after-life.
That's very true, Judiasm didn't teach soul theology until much later after being Greek influenced. Solomon was quite clear.
"For the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing; they have no further reward, and even the memory of them is forgotten. Their love, their hate and their jealousy have long since vanished; never again will they have a part in anything that happens under the sun."
I’ve long been astonished that Christians can claim with a straight face that, yes, the Yahweh of the Old Testament was a petty, vengeful, murderous jerk, but that everything was set right by Jesus (according to the fanfic of his most devoted followers, known as the New Testament). But that’s got it exactly backwards.
Sure, if you did something that pïssed off the easily irritated Yahweh, he’d smite you where you stood, plus your family and half the innocent bystanders in the surrounding county as collateral damage. But that was it. Dead. Done. Finito. Period. Game Over. Sayonara. Hasta la vista. It wasn’t until Jesus came along that they invented the concept of “No no no, my friend, we’re gonna fry your sorry äss FOREVER!!! And not just for the actions you actually performed but for some of those naughty little THOTS you’ve been having!”
Think about it. Which of these 2 arrogant, flaming sadists was actually worse?
From Psalm 1
"The ungodly are not so:
But are like the chaff which the wind driveth away.
Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment,
Nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.
For the LORD knoweth the way of the righteous:
But the way of the ungodly shall perish."
Didn't sound like eternal punishing to me. Sounds like they would simply cease to exist. Believers may have had some hope of resurrection, but even that is debated. The Sadducees didn't even believe in that. That's why they were
"sad you see"
Let's all go to Bible class! So much to learn from ancient humans who had nothing better to do than write fiction.
Pure tribalism. My God is better and stronger than your pagan god(s).
Thank you, Hemant, for a brilliant epitaph to a horrible human who was responsible for propagating the world's oldest and largest collective delusion, Christinsanity. (This message was not paid for by Pence 2024; Mike Pence did not approve this message.)
Gordon will keep the 699.99 Club going.
I would join a 69 club.
I did. But you have to take an oral exam to get in.
I took the exam but got all tongue-tied.
Hope you scored at least a 69 on the test. :)
Giving or receiving?
It was a two-way thing.
Finally some good news.
Appropriate that this old homophobe breathes his last during Pride Month.
LGBTQIA+s go on living their lives in spite of the Christian-fueled reichwing hatred against them.
Now if we finally see Trump indicted we'll have so much to celebrate we may overdose on joy.
My joy would be complete to see that arse jailed for years.
SCOTUS will decide that a state court can't try a sitting President.
Especially if what Mark Meadows has on him finally sinks him.
Unfortunately, there are more where he came from.
They seem to breed like cockroaches. Can't get rid of them all no meter how hard you try.
Robertson graduated from the Yale law school, but could never pass the bar exam. He went into the religion business because it paid well, and didn't involve much work. He epitomized the grifting TV preacher, and he upped the game by largely co-opting the Republican party. A vile legacy we continue to live with. Robertson pretty well defined the idea there is no horror that cannot be, and has not been, justified in the name of religion. The evangelicals are their own worst argument.
Fucking FINALLY. Is he the one getting an enema and being buried in a matchbox?
No, I think that's what Hitchens said of Falwell.
Ah, well, works for both. ;)
Donald Trump indicted for 2nd time, in classified documents investigation: Sources
https://abcnews.go.com/US/donald-trump-indicted-time-sources/story?id=99408228
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/17464d574c8153b2bf50419d77fb75317741956717766af72580358af1712030.gif
Just gets better and better. Fingers crossed for conviction and lengthy consecutive sentences.
Guerillasurgeon beat both you and larry parker to it. :)
And yet, somehow, I don't get tired of reading it again...
https://thewritepractice.com/it-bears-repeating/
That's just because it's tomorrow in Guerillasurgeon Land. : )
When it rains, it ...
What do John Wayne and Pat Robertson have in common besides being reactionary Republican media figures?
They share a common first name: Marion.
I was gonna guess "decomposition."
That too. But I don't think Robertson was on the USC football team that gangbanged Clara Bow. Then again, who knows, really?
"The It Girl." Rather an unfortunate name for her.
Her defining role, in "It," is a charming, funny, and even rather progressive film. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVCQlKCz9q8 Just imagine what Ann Sheridan must have done to get called "the Oomph Girl."
I lasted until I saw the Errol Flynn moustaches. It was all a bit much. I'm off for a run, the physio doesn't want me to do more than 35 minutes, but I'm going to try to stretch it today – pretend I got lost or something.
So by the time I get back I will at least be tired. The drink and food can come later.
Never realized there was a film called "It" that starred her. I just thought it was a Hollywood descriptor of her talents.
Pretty sure she’s my photo here. Only if the person who sent it to the internet was correct.
In France it's a girl/woman name 😁
In Iowa it's the name of a city named after a Revolutionary War military leader.
It's also Frank Burns' middle name.
I thought Eats Worms was his middle name. : )
I thought it was "Ferret Face." :D
In my city, there's a Marion St. a block away from the library I'm at.
My cousin's daughter would have a good laugh knowing that.
It was one of the first streets in the city to be planned out way back in 1853. One of the city founders (Arthur Armstrong Denny) named it after his younger brother James Marion Denny. The elder Denny also has a Way named after him.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/capital-life/7396623/Street-history-Marion-St
Yours is earlier, ours is probably much smaller, and a bit seedier as well.
Hallelujah! Every time someone like Robertson pops their clogs, the world becomes a slightly better place. If only Christopher Hitchens was still alive to memorialise him. 🥳
How very sad that Pat didn't live to experience the Rapture. It will be happening any day now, ya know.
Just as long as it's not on the weekend. I may have movie plans.
You don't know how to operate a (beamer ?) ?
You'd have to drive your Beamer to drive-in, wouldn't you?
No, I wanted to call NOGODZ " Scotty".
Ohhhh, a "Transporter." THAT'S what you meant. :)
A "beamer," he asked?
(Projector ?)
I had the choice between this two words, beamer sounded more funny.
I know how to operate a projector, but it's an ancient technology. :)
It was a Rapture of 1.
Or as they call it in 𝘎𝘩𝘰𝘴𝘵𝘴, he was "sucked off."
Where's the brain bleach? And who's the poor soul who had to do it? He better have been well paid.
https://youtu.be/Ba8qYUPIuQY?t=60
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEW.
Haven't seen the show?
If you now an image of PR being sucked off stuck in your head, you'd holler EEEEEEEEEW as well. Gotta go now, I have to find my brain bleach.
Next Friday, after the NBA finals are over.
Just waiting to celebrate Trump eating one too many hamberders and clutching his chest.
That's far too kind.
Aggressive gastrointestinal cancer, metastisized. 😏
You, sir, have a nasty streak when it comes to Rethuglikkkan fascists.
Come sit by me.
Could he even reach his actual chest through all those layers of dough?
And what would he be clutching at? There's no heart inside him.
Maybe the Wizard gave him one?
The Wizard was a fraud like Trump. :)
The Wizard was human.
I looked behind the curtain. He didn't have a second one to give.
"On June 8, 2023, Robertson died at his home in Virginia Beach, Virginia."
So THAT'S why the air smells so fresh this morning.
If the Goddies were even remotely right about the LGBT community, why did we get such a nice gift for Pride month?
I won’t mourn his passing.
I'd go one further – I'll celebrate with a glass of gin tonight.
Fuck it, I'ma break out the Cognac.
I'll be with Joan.. :-)
Hope it's aged about 2 decades.