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2006-05-18 Home Front: Culture Wars
Robertson: God Says Tsunami Possible For U.S.
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Posted by ryuge 2006-05-18 06:48|| || Front Page|| [11134 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 By the way, you all might want to know that a french ex-army air controller turned ufo-guru (he's written two books on the subject IIRC) has announced that his alien pals/ascended masters told him a comet was gonna hit the Pacific on may 25th and smash us all really bad.
He may be a raelian, I think.

Given that 25th is my birthday, I firmly hope the End-Of-Civilization-As-We-Know-It will come AFTER I've finished eating my cake, thankyouverymuch.
Posted by anonymous5089 2006-05-18 07:03||   2006-05-18 07:03|| Front Page Top

#2 If I heard the Lord right about 2006, the coasts of America will be lashed by storms

And then the central plains will be baked by sun and then in November, the earth will be chilled and frozen water will drop from the sky .....

Posted by lotp 2006-05-18 07:29||   2006-05-18 07:29|| Front Page Top

#3 Robertson must have been watching the Weather Channel's "It Could Happen Tomorrow" and wanted in on the latest fads ... figures it will raise $$ I suspect.
Posted by lotp 2006-05-18 07:30||   2006-05-18 07:30|| Front Page Top

#4 My only problem w/his comments about Chavez was that he apologized for them.

Now Pat, please retire and stfu.
Posted by Broadhead6 2006-05-18 08:21||   2006-05-18 08:21|| Front Page Top

#5 Christianity has lost it's social power and moral influence in America. One reason is that instead of fulfilling the message of Christ, many of us listen to stark raving lunatics. Turn off the 700 club and go do good for your fellow man.
Posted by mcsegeek1 2006-05-18 08:23||   2006-05-18 08:23|| Front Page Top

#6 Maybe he's the 12th Imam???
Almondjoy will be pissed...
Posted by tu3031 2006-05-18 08:53||   2006-05-18 08:53|| Front Page Top

#7 My mahdi can beat up your mahdi...
Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious  2006-05-18 08:57||   2006-05-18 08:57|| Front Page Top

#8 Deuteronomy 18:20-22

20'But the prophet who speaks a word (A)presumptuously in My name which I have not commanded him to speak, or (B)which he speaks in the name of other gods, that prophet shall die.'

21"You may say in your heart, 'How will we know the word which the LORD has not spoken?'

22"(C)When a prophet speaks in the name of the LORD, if the thing does not come about or come true, that is the thing which the LORD has not spoken The prophet has spoken it (D)presumptuously; you shall not be afraid of him.


Time to collect a few stones and be done with it.

Posted by Slaimble Hupolurong3352 2006-05-18 09:17||   2006-05-18 09:17|| Front Page Top

#9 This is only half of the story.

....unless you send donations to the 700 club. Then the lord will reward us with great surfing waves and beaches full of bikini clad beauties.
Posted by wxjames 2006-05-18 09:29||   2006-05-18 09:29|| Front Page Top

#10 Go check your tire pressure, Pat.
Posted by Sam Kinison">Sam Kinison  2006-05-18 10:58||   2006-05-18 10:58|| Front Page Top

#11 Pat when bonkers decades ago. Why do folks still report what the moron says?
Posted by 3dc 2006-05-18 10:59||   2006-05-18 10:59|| Front Page Top

#12 Christianity has lost it's social power and moral influence in America. One reason is that instead of fulfilling the message of Christ, many of us listen to stark raving lunatics. Turn off the 700 club and go do good for your fellow man.

With all due respect mcsegeek1, have you been to church lately? Any church, anywhere? If you'd gone with me to the vigil mass last Saturday and taken a look at the bulletin, you'd've seen items soliciting donations for St. Vincent dePaul Society, looking for families to host summer Bible study, on missions work, and various volunteer projects around the parish. Oh, and Fr. Russ' homily--'bout as far from "stark raving lunatic" as you can get.

If, instead, you'd gone to the Baptist church with my wife and mother-in-law, you'd see much the same, including a very intelligent and well-rendered, non-stark, non-raving sermon of about 30 minutes duration. They're sending a missionary team to the Dominican Republic to build playgrounds this summer, did'ya know?

I daresay that Christianity has quite a lot of influence, but it's the sort of quiet, low-key, local influence that the MSM doesn't think of as "news."

As for Pat Robertson, he was a lot more influential (and a lot more sane) 20 years ago. He's discovered that if you say something outrageous that makes Christianity look bad, you can get a lot of coverage and attention from the MSM. Pat loves to do this because it gets his name in the papers. The MSM loves Pat because they can use him to reinforce their hostility to religion. You'll never see the MSM engage a Father Russ or a Pastor Dave or anyone like that with the same enthusiasim, because they might be hard-pressed to hold fast to their smug little bigotries when confronted by reality.
Posted by Mike 2006-05-18 11:04||   2006-05-18 11:04|| Front Page Top

#13 SH3352, don't dare trying to quote scripture unless you intend to fully adhere to it as well: the verses plainly state that you must wait for the prediction to fail BEFORE you throw stones. And if digging up Old Testament laws is to your taste, then consider that a false accuser, when discovered, is sentenced to the same punishment he intended the system to inflict on the one he accused. Shall we go on and impose the adultry, witchcraft, and homosexuality/lesbianism rules as well?

Countering what appears to be pseudo-religiosity by equally false religiosity that selectively quotes scripture (the clear identifying mark of hypocrisy) is a losing game. Better to counter the false with the true, as mcsegeek1 notes.

However, the 700 club DOES do a lot of social work as well: chalk up suppression of that knowledge to the same group of media assholes who write about Iraq. Lying and suppression of the truth are like Lay's potato chips: you can't stop at just one.
Posted by Ptah">Ptah  2006-05-18 11:05|| http://www.crusaderwarcollege.org]">[http://www.crusaderwarcollege.org]  2006-05-18 11:05|| Front Page Top

#14 Ho Christianity, well God is there and we can all talk to him, what do you need Pat Robertson for???

The creatures of nature and all the beautiful things speak of god and i don't need a stupid corrupt corpulent fat person to tell me!
Posted by anon1 2006-05-18 11:36||   2006-05-18 11:36|| Front Page Top

#15 freaks
Posted by bk 2006-05-18 13:55||   2006-05-18 13:55|| Front Page Top

#16 Hell, science says a tsumani is possible for the U.S.

And any other coutry with an ocean coastline.

Moron.
Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut  2006-05-18 14:01|| http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/page/15bk1/Home_Page.html]">[http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/page/15bk1/Home_Page.html]  2006-05-18 14:01|| Front Page Top

#17 Mike, let's not get sidetracked with personal attacks on whether I attend Church or not (BTW, I do, every week).

You may not like it that Pat Robertson and other clowns like him are doing great harm to the cause of Christ, and contributing to the waning influence of Biblical Christianity in American social life. I don't like it either. The fact that there are many good preachers and good churches does not change this. Attacking the anti-religion, particularly anti-Christian MSM is too easy. Much of the blame lies with the Preachers in the pulpits and the parishoners in the pews not denouncing these charlatans, loudly and publicly.

Posted by mcsegeek1 2006-05-18 14:42||   2006-05-18 14:42|| Front Page Top

#18 mcsegeek1, I wasn't meaning to be personal or judgmental, and I apologize if it came off that way, though I'll admit I did read your comment as carrying the implication that you aren't as churchgoer. Glad to be proved wrong on that point.

I actually think we're probably 90% in agreement on this stuff. I disagree with your assessment of the magnitude of the damage that the unholy duality of Pat Robertson and the MSM does to the cause, but not with the underlying point that he is doing damage.
Posted by Mike 2006-05-18 14:52||   2006-05-18 14:52|| Front Page Top

#19 Path, notice carefully, I said collect. Yes, I'm waiting for the event first. As to citing the verse, it is his law that he himself [Robinson]uses. I'm simply using the very thing he uses as measure to measure him.
Posted by Slaimble Hupolurong3352 2006-05-18 15:10||   2006-05-18 15:10|| Front Page Top

#20 Mike, well said.
Posted by mcsegeek1 2006-05-18 15:12||   2006-05-18 15:12|| Front Page Top

#21 I can only suppose that the purpose Fred Phelps serves in this world is to make Pat Robertson look less asinine good.
Posted by Zenster 2006-05-18 16:04||   2006-05-18 16:04|| Front Page Top

#22 Fine work Ptah.
Posted by 6 2006-05-18 17:26||   2006-05-18 17:26|| Front Page Top

#23 Picked up a Farmer's Almanac did he?
Posted by Thinemp Whimble2412 2006-05-18 21:04||   2006-05-18 21:04|| Front Page Top

#24 There will be a subduction superquake off the Pacific northwest and it will cause a huge tsunami that will be funneled up Puget Sound and the damage and loss of life will be horrendous. From memory, there is a 50% chance in the next 2 or 300 hundred years.

And on a related point, the much hyped tsunami warning system will do no good, because there won't be enough time to react. The tsunami hit Ache just fifteen minutes after the earthquake and there will be a similar amount of time to react.
Posted by phil_b">phil_b  2006-05-18 21:33|| http://autonomousoperation.blogspot.com/]">[http://autonomousoperation.blogspot.com/]  2006-05-18 21:33|| Front Page Top

#25 Seaside, OR, will have under 10 minutes warning.
Posted by Brad 2006-05-18 21:40||   2006-05-18 21:40|| Front Page Top

#26 Wel now, according to the local MARIANAS VARIETY [mvariety.com], an independent think-tank known as the OXFORD RESEARCH GROUP has indicated that Guam's USAFB will be used for long-range strikes by USAF bombers [B-2's/B-52's]in support of Milops against IRAN, operations which are surreally/ tentatively scheduled to begin around OCTOBER 2006 acccording to the think-tank. TIMING?Human nature is by definition NON/ANTI-SECULAR. As someone whom has seen extranormal phenomenon a myriad times, including extra-human spiritual entities preparing andor escorting sick relatives for the passage from life to death [and beyond?], NO INTELLECTUAL SECULARIST OR SCIENTIFIST IN THE WORLD COULD'VE RATIONALLY EXPLAINED OR FAKED THESE PHENOMENON DESPITE THE CURRENT ADVANCES IN SCIENCE AND TECH - NOT HOUDINI, NOT CHRIS ANGEL, NO ONE. And iff unexplainable entities such as these exist, entities which are consistent with the teachings, ptenets, or traditions of JudaoChristianity, then Scientifism and Secularism must accept that God, or a higher-than-mortal/human sentient Being, at minimum, may exist, and exists in a way(s) that is presently incomprehensible to mankind. Man, even wid all the capabilities of current technology-thought, is the Inferior, NOT the Superior. MAN DOESN'T RULE THE PLANET, GOD DOES IN HIS WAY - IT IS NOT THE PLACE NOR POWER OF MAN TO TELL GOD WHO IS, AND WHO ISN'T, WHAT IS OR WHAT ISN'T, IN REALITY, REALITY(S), OR ANYWHERE OR ANY DIMENSION(S) IN THE UNIVERSE. It is Madonna's daddy's job to serve and obey God as God wants him to be, not the mortal or physical world, not the United Nations, not World Govts or Washington or the CIA or world Intel, not the Vatican or the Pope, not even Madonna, etal. herself or themselves.
Posted by JosephMendiola 2006-05-18 23:13||   2006-05-18 23:13|| Front Page Top

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