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Posted: Thu Jun 08, 2023 6:54 am Post subject: Pat Robertson passed
Pat Robertson passed at the age of 93. He lived a long life and had a huge following. I remember him twice incorrectly predicting the end of the world. Wherever you are Mr. Robertson RIP _________________ Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.
America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
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Posted: Thu Jun 08, 2023 7:09 am Post subject:
One of the main instigators of injecting religion into GOP politics. Also blamed homosexuals for catastrophic events like 9/11 and Katrina . . . _________________ You thought God was an architect, now you know
He’s something like a pipe bomb ready to blow
And everything you built that’s all for show
goes up in flames
In 24 frames
Good riddance. Hope if there is a big judgment chair up there he gets a huge surprise and is confronted with the fact that he harmed the world, not helped it, and then has to take the elevator down to the hot place.
PAT ROBERTSON, THE televangelist who ran for the Republican nomination for president in 1988, died on Thursday at the age of 93. The Christian Broadcasting Network, which Robertson founded in 1960, announced the news on Friday morning.
Robertson is widely credited with ushering Christian-conservatism into mainstream politics in the 1980s and 1990s, and laying the groundwork for the modern right-wing culture war. He has a history of extreme, bigoted commentary — including that gay people and abortion caused 9/11, that Haitians deserved the 2010 earthquake that ravaged the island nation, and that feminists are evil.
The 700 Club, Robertson’s long-running program on the CBN, was his most common platform for hate. In the days after 9/11, he brought on pastor Jerry Falwell to discuss the tragedy. “I really believe that the pagans, and the abortionists, and the feminists, and the gays and the lesbians who are actively trying to make that an alternative lifestyle, the ACLU, People for the American Way, all of them who have tried to secularize America, I point the finger in their face and say, ‘You helped this happen,'” Falwell said, to which Robertson said “I totally concur” and that the “agenda” has been adopted by the “highest levels of our government.”
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Robertson’s bigotry toward gay people was boundless. He said on The 700 Club that he wished Facebook had a “vomit button” for when he came across a picture of gay people kissing, equated gay people with Nazis and Satanists, suggested God unleashed hurricanes and other natural disasters punishment for homosexuality. “I would warn Orlando that you’re right in the way of some serious hurricanes, and I don’t think I’d be waving those flags in God’s face if I were you,” he said of Disney World’s Gay Days. “It’ll bring about terrorist bombs; it’ll bring earthquakes, tornadoes, and possibly a meteor.”
Robertson was very much an active participant in the modern, far-right Christian-conservatism he helped create. He supported Donald Trump in 2016 and 2020, and described those trying to stop him from doing so as “revolting against what God’s plan is for America.” After a gunman killed 60 people in Las Vegas in 2017, Robertson blamed “disrespect” for Trump. Robertson broke from the former president after the 2020 election, however, saying Trump needed to “move on” from the loss and that it would be “a mistake” for him to run again in 2024.
too soon? Rather, not soon enough. He lived longer than most and swindled money out of people under the guise of religion. His perspective on the gay community is nothing new in that circle. _________________ Kobe.
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No comment. _________________ On Lakersground, a concern troll is someone who is a fan of another team, but pretends to be a Lakers fan with "concerns".
So a loving god allowed an evil and despicable man live out his life, poisoning the minds of millions, while young kids are murdered in schools ... _________________ “Properly read, the bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.”
― Isaac Asimov
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Posted: Thu Jun 08, 2023 10:39 pm Post subject:
I won't say I'm glad Pat Robertson is dead, because then I'd be stooping down to his level. But I will say the world is better off without him. _________________ Lakers 49ers Chargers Dodgers
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Posted: Thu Jun 08, 2023 10:43 pm Post subject:
slavavov wrote:
I won't say I'm glad Pat Robertson is dead, because then I'd be stooping down to his level.
This is such a strange concept. You'd have to irreversibly harm millions of people who haven't even been born yet to stoop that low. _________________ http://chickhearn.ytmnd.com/
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Posted: Tue Jun 27, 2023 10:31 pm Post subject:
999 wrote:
C M B wrote:
999 wrote:
I hope he goes to a heaven where everyone there is non white and gay
999 with the pissbag on the scumbag!!!!
what.s up, dude? you alright?
Hey what up. Yea I’m alright. How bout yourself?
good to hear, fam. I'm ok. recovering from a couple of physical catastrophes but pretty dang good. What have you been up to for 2 years? _________________ http://chickhearn.ytmnd.com/
Joined: 17 Nov 2007 Posts: 67851 Location: In a world where admitting to not knowing something is considered a great way to learn.
Posted: Wed Jun 28, 2023 7:24 am Post subject:
C M B wrote:
999 wrote:
C M B wrote:
999 wrote:
I hope he goes to a heaven where everyone there is non white and gay
999 with the pissbag on the scumbag!!!!
what.s up, dude? you alright?
Hey what up. Yea I’m alright. How bout yourself?
good to hear, fam. I'm ok. recovering from a couple of physical catastrophes but pretty dang good. What have you been up to for 2 years?
Yeah, upside down devil. How in the hell are you? What kept you away for so long? _________________ Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.
America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
I hope he goes to a heaven where everyone there is non white and gay
999 with the pissbag on the scumbag!!!!
what.s up, dude? you alright?
Hey what up. Yea I’m alright. How bout yourself?
good to hear, fam. I'm ok. recovering from a couple of physical catastrophes but pretty dang good. What have you been up to for 2 years?
Yeah, upside down devil. How in the hell are you? What kept you away for so long?
I’m doing better. Last few years have been a rollercoaster. My wife had 2 miscarriages. So it took an emotional toll on her. The second miscarriage almost took her life. So we gave up on trying expand our family. We have our son which we are happy. Combined that with the pandemic and Kobe’s death. It was just a dark few years which I didn’t want to bring to the board. So I took a step back and focused on work family and such. Now we’re better wife has a new job I got promoted and our son in high school.
How bout yourself? How’s everything? . It seems like the old crowd here is still around .
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