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mindmetoo
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 Posted: Mon Apr 10, 2006 7:18 pm Post subject: New testable claim: Pat Robertson + your money = |
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With one well-designed experiment giving no credence to the notion that prayer will necessarily lead to improved health, here's another testable claim, albeit one I'd rather not see actually tested. If you give money to Pat Robertson, god will solve your financial problems. Air America aired this "it would be hilarious if it weren't true" clip of Pat Robertson.
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| It's the law of reciprocity. It works. |
Pat is talking about a bible quote that seems to indicate if you give your time and money to god, god will unerringly reward you with material gain in your temporal life. According to Pat it's a law. Not a theory.
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| So, ladies and gentlemen, if you want to get out of the financial doldrums, the best way to do it is begin giving to the poor, giving to the needy, giving to those less fortunate, help the community in which you live, give of your time... |
Wow, he's not actually talking about assassinating world leaders or outing gay PBS characters. He's preaching sermon on the mount stuff. Give of your time! How un-Pat. But wait. There's more...
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| If you, uh, want to use a vehicle that's reaching out to a lot of people, you can give to CBN. |
Ah yes. Forget all that stuff he just said about getting out into your community and visiting the sick and picking up a hammer and building houses for the poor. Pat has a "vehicle" so you can sit on your fat Christian ass and buy your way to success, the Jesus Way.
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| It costs so little. We're talking about 65 cents a day you can join the 700 Club. Some of you can do 700 Club Gold at $40 a month. Others want to join our Thousand Club. Reach out to the Lord and watch what he'll do to you. |
Golly! Not quite the "give me a million dollars or god will kill me" plea from the 80s... But think about it, this is the guy Dubya takes spiritual guidance from. |
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tomato
Joined: 31 Jan 2003
Location: I get so little foreign language experience, I must be in Koreatown, Los Angeles.
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| Posted: Mon Apr 10, 2006 7:32 pm Post subject: |
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Pat Robertson must be borrowing ideas from Reverend Ike.
If you send a love offering to this fellow, you will be blessed financially.
He sends out full-color brochures containing testimonies to that effect.
In a dorm unit where I once lived, a student on his mailing list graduated but we continued to receive his brochures.
Whenever one of those brochures arrived in the mail, we would say, "Well well well, I wonder who won a Cadillac this time!"
His literature only tells one side of the story, though.
I have heard of people who got conned seriously by Reverend Ike.
He's good for a laugh, though.
If you want a good laugh, do a Google search on Reverend Ike. |
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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: Established in 1994
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| Posted: Mon Apr 10, 2006 8:08 pm Post subject: |
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| I wonder how Pat feels about the slogan: 'Jesus Saves; Moses Invests'? |
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canuckistan
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Joined: 17 Jun 2003
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| Posted: Mon Apr 10, 2006 8:17 pm Post subject: |
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| Leave it to Pat to put a new twist on the sale of indulgences--Martin Luther must be turning in his grave. |
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cwemory
Joined: 14 Jan 2006
Location: Gunpo, Korea
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| Posted: Tue Apr 11, 2006 1:04 am Post subject: |
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Journalist Greg Palast has done some excellent investigative work on Pat Robertson. At one point Robertson was a president of the Bank of Scotland. He's also possibly the world's greatest telemarketer. Still, Robertson's about as crazy and scary as they come.
http://www.gregpalast.com/columns.cfm?subject_id=13&subject_name=Pat%20Robertson
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| God's pattern is for men to be the leaders, both in the church and in the family... "Women should listen and learn quietly and submissively. I do not let women teach men or have authority over them." |
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| I know this is painful for the ladies to hear, but if you get married, you have accepted the headship of a man, your husband. Christ is the head of the household and the husband is the head of the wife, and that's the way it is, period. |
Robert's quotations on women. More here-http://www.positiveatheism.org/hist/quotes/revpat.htm |
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hogwonguy1979
Joined: 22 Dec 2003
Location: the racoon den
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| Posted: Wed Apr 12, 2006 3:28 pm Post subject: |
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Nothing new here, Evangelicals have doing this pyramid scheme for years to get people to send them money.
Go watch TBN, they have a guy who does a show called "principles of biblical economics" basically he says send your money to TBN and you'll get a 1000% return on your "love gift" then they show "testimonials" of people who send money to these clowns and how they've gotten all this stuff in return.
pretty sad people fall for this stuff |
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SirFink
Joined: 05 Mar 2006
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| Posted: Thu Apr 13, 2006 2:20 am Post subject: |
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| At one point Robertson was a president of the Bank of Scotland. |
This was when Robertson was planning to issue a "700 Club" credit card in partnership with the Bank of Scotland. After calling Scotland "a dark and godless place" the deal was killed.
Pat needs to read his Bible: (Exodus) If thou lend money to any of My people, even to the poor with thee, thou shalt not be to him as a creditor; neither shall ye lay upon him interest. |
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mindmetoo
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| Posted: Thu Apr 13, 2006 5:09 am Post subject: |
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Wow I loved that story about Robertson taking the contributions and using them to hunt for diamonds... and entering business arrangements with commies who persecute Christians. |
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