Haitians are fucked, too.
As Pat Robertson said, they’re being punished. Most likely, in his mind, for being Catholic.
Damn, Pat. I thought you’d found your big boy pants by now.
I suppose this is the sort of thing that people look at and cannot differentiate between Christians and Muslims. Thing is, Robertson isn’t a Christian. Christians by definition are followers of Christ, and Robertson is a follower of a guy named John Calvin, who claimed to have divine inspiration as to what the message of Jesus “really” was. Robertson flavors his “brand” of Christianity by running it through the filter of that nutball Calvin, and you can find the Baby Jesus outside in the garden, looking all confused in his puddle of bathwater.
A great deal of what Robertson espouses are decent Christian values, and then he pops off with a stunner like this, which make people suspect the other parts of his message, too.
Listen, folks, this is not Christianity. All of these idiots doing and saying all this crap in the name of Christ are going to be in for a rude awakening. Don’t judge Christians by the behavior of this fool. And keep the people of Haiti in your prayers.
Wonderful post. Amen!
“Robertson flavors his “brand†of Christianity by running it through the filter of that nutball Calvin,…”
Isn’t that the guy who loves to play ‘Calvin-ball’ with a stuffed tiger named Hobbes who just so happens to be a philosopher too?
… and I didn’t know Robertson got his understanding of the world from a comic strip character. This really clears tings up for me.
Thanks Og! ;)
To be honest, the only word I can think of to describe what happened there is “biblical.” You just don’t see this sort of thing much outside of the Old Testament.
On the other hand, I’m not about to guess at the motives of the Almighty, and I’m certainly not going to point to a disaster and say “X happened because they did Y.” That’s not my job to decide, and even if it was, it would still be more important to pray for those poor people than to say “I told you so.”
I really wish Robertson would shut up and go away.
You know I am a Christian, or at least, I TRY TO BE, but it seems to me that somewhere in the scriptures it says something about “Judge NOT, Lest YE BE JUDGED” and considering how Oral Roberts, Jim and Tammy Faye as well as a whole bunch of others wound up, I would keep my trap shut if I were some tv sky pilot.
Just saying…
All The Best,
Frank W. James
Mr James, I could not be more in agreement with you, on the “try to be” part as well as the “judge not” part and the “keep your yap shut” part.
Worth noting: I refer to my sister and her whacko husband as “Jim and Tammy-Faye” on a semi-regular basis. I guarantee they’d be shoulder-to-shoudler with Robertson on this one — or, if they weren’t, it would be because they were so godly that they couldn’t possibly judge another’s suffering — God’s just taken them so far above that, you see … In some ways, it’s a blessing that they don’t show up at reunions.
Robertson’s finger pointing twists Christ’s message all up in clusterfook of Calvinist Reformation Gone Wild ~ (videos available for $9.95)
That kind of bullpucky is reminicent of the nutcase in Kansas who blames all of America’s troubles, including the military, on the inclusion of Gay and Lesbians.
Our little Anglo-Catholic congregation is already in the process of raising funds to help. A mission trip to help in clean-up is being discussed.
BTW, Calvin and Hobbs apocalyptic snowmen sculptures still crack me up!