Pat Robertson says Haiti has been "cursed"

[Mountain Crown]

[quote author=bostonherald.com]Pat Robertson: Haiti ‘cursed’ by pact with devil
By Associated Press

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. - Evangelical broadcaster Pat Robertson says Haiti has been "cursed" because of what he called a "pact with the devil" in its history.
His spokesman said the Wednesday comments were based on Voodoo rituals carried out before a slave rebellion against French colonists in 1791.

Spokesman Chris Roslan says Robertson never stated that Tuesday’s earthquake was God’s wrath. He says Robertson’s Operation Blessing group is sending millions of dollars in medication and relief workers to the country.

Robertson has angered opponents many times before with comments on current events and criticism of other faiths.
He once said American agents should assassinate Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and said Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s stroke was divine retribution for withdrawing from the Gaza Strip.[/quote]

Psychopath

 

[Vulcan59]

Hi Jerry,

This story was posted on SOTT's news page and SOTT's comment is very appropriate. :)

http://www.sott.net/articles/show/200951-Psychopath-Pat-Robertson-says-Haiti-paying-for-pact-with-the-devil-

 

[Mountain Crown]

Thanks Vulcan, didn’t read much of SOTT today, and I totally agree with the comment.

It’s really a wonder that a public figure can open his mouth on several occasions declaring “I’m an ass----“, yet have so many ardent followers.

 

[Johnno]

Oh man, I read up on this rather intriguing character on Wikipedia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Robertson

Choice bits.

Blood diamond trader

According to a 2 June 1999, article in The Virginian-Pilot,[18] Robertson had extensive business dealings with Liberian president Charles Taylor. According to the article, Taylor gave Robertson the rights to mine for diamonds in Liberia's mineral-rich countryside. According to two Operation Blessing pilots who reported this incident to the state of Virginia for investigation in 1994, Robertson used his Operation Blessing planes to haul diamond-mining equipment to Robertson's mines in Liberia, despite the fact that Robertson was telling his 700 Club viewers that the planes were sending relief supplies to the victims of the genocide in Rwanda. In response to Taylor's alleged crimes against humanity the United States Congress passed a bill In November 2003 that offered two million dollars for his capture. Robertson accused President Bush of "undermining a Christian, Baptist president to bring in Muslim rebels to take over the country." At the time Taylor was harboring Al Qaeda operatives who were funding their operations through the illegal diamond trade.

Son of a Senator.

Robertson was born in Lexington, Virginia, into a prominent political family. His parents were Absalom Willis Robertson, a conservative Democratic United States Senator, and his wife Gladys Churchill (née Willis). He married Adelia "Dede" Elmer on August 26, 1954.

Liquor cabinet filler.

However, former Republican Congressman Paul "Pete" McCloskey, Jr., who served with Robertson in Korea, claimed that Robertson was actually spared combat duty when his powerful father, a U.S. Senator, intervened on his behalf, claiming that instead Robertson spent most of his time in an office in Japan. According to McCloskey, his time in the service was not in combat but as the "liquor officer" responsible for keeping the officers' clubs supplied with liquor. There he also was known to drink liquors himself and to frequent prostitutes -- consequently, he even feared that he had contracted gonorrhea.[23]

Horse Racing!

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/22/sports/horse-racing-a-moralist-who-loves-racing.html

With the Kentucky Derby less than two weeks away, the Christian Coalition founder Pat Robertson's attentions may briefly wander from the social, religious and political issues that dominate his agenda. With $520,000 invested in a horse named Mr. Pat, who is behind in his training at Belmont Park for the John Kimmel barn and has not yet raced, he had hoped to be a part of one of the Derby preludes.

Any owner would. Of course, Pat Robertson is not any owner, but a high-profile crusading moralist who bashes deviance of any kind. That has not stopped him from walking a tightrope between a gambling industry and a sport he says he is passionate about.

''I don't bet and I don't gamble,'' Robertson said. ''I just enjoy watching horses running and performing.''

 

[BK]

Robertson has quite a selective memory when it comes to the Bible.
Unborn fetuses are aborted in a trial by ordeal described in Num 5:11-31.
A jealous husband has the right to flush the fetus his wife is carrying if he's not the father.
That's the law of God per the Bible, not secular society.

Robertson could use this earthquake to put on a dazzling display of Holy Spirit power by jetting to Haiti and calling on the name of Jesus to revive dead people, heal injuries, and feed the hungry.
Such a demonstration would certainly be convincing evidence that his religion had some substance behind it.
Same goes for every other evangelical shyster that imagines they have God on their side.

 

[durabone]

I had the impression that Pat Robertson is 32nd or 33rd degree mason. If we buy into the argument that high mason ranks are incompatible with Christianity, then guess who he is loyal to? No one that high in the masons could possibly hold such a prominent position as public figure without obeying the rules of his lodge, no? If am near correct then what does this say about his integrity?