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Pat Robertson on Kwanzaa: "I think that's died a merciful death, because nobody paid any attention to it"

December 22, 2009 6:58 pm ET

From the December 22 edition of Christian Broadcasting Networks' The 700 Club:

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    • Author by liberalXtian (December 22, 2009 7:17 pm ET)
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      A large number do pay attention to Kwanzaa, you just don't. It doesn't fit into your so-called Christian world view. You know that world view that opposes health care reform despite Jesus' own words that tell us to help the sick.
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    • Author by ForTheLoveOfEllipsis... (December 22, 2009 7:20 pm ET)
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      "I think that's died a merciful death, because nobody paid any attention to it"

      Fortunately for humanity, Paddy, nobody (with any human sense or decency, at least) pays any attention to you either, you fraudulent piece of false-prophet garbage...
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    • Author by Boxer1979 (December 22, 2009 7:25 pm ET)
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      Pat Robertson on Kwanzaa: "I think that's died a merciful death, because nobody paid any attention to it"

      I know I will get responses off this, but Patty are really sure Jesus was born on December 25th? Is there eveidence? Why pitty other practices by other races, and call them frauds in comparrison to Christmas, which has so many smoke and mirrors in the name itself.

      By the way Kwanzaa is celebrated, just like Haunakkah, and any other holiday people want to celebrate. Your precious Christmas is not going nowhere nor do people want it to go anywhere. Some people Patty got better since to not get wrapped up in these wars on holidays, but rather enjoy their time with family and being loved. SMH!
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      • Author by edgewaterprog (December 22, 2009 9:32 pm ET)
           
        Boxer,

        The best estimates are that Jesus was probably born in the Spring (if the information given in the Bible is to be believed).
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      • Author by jjamele2880 (December 22, 2009 10:14 pm ET)
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        Sneering at Christmas isn't really the best way to point out someone else's intolerance. It isn't just Pat Robertson's "precious Christmas"- it's mine too, and more than a billion other Christians around the world.

        And yes, a whole lot of us know that Christ was probably not born on December 25. If we didn't know that already, we've sure been reminded pretty much every day for the last month by posters who think that they've got some kind of special, cool bit of historical information about pagan holidays to share. Like most Christians I know, we don't give a damn that December 25 is not Jesus' actual birthday, any more than we care that the Declaration of Independence was signed over many days, not just July 4th.

        Stick to the point, please- Pat Robertson is a bigoted jerk. He might as well have said that Ramadan is no big deal, because he's been ignoring it for years. Pat Robertson has nothing to do with Christianity. His religion is What's Good for Pat Robertson, and his Deity is Money, period.
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        • Author by liberalXtian (December 23, 2009 8:11 am ET)
             
          As you probably have experienced, jjamele, progressive Christians seem to have to navigate some choppy waters. Looked on by some as deluded fools and by other Christians as bound for Hell for opposing what is usually a political rather than moral view.
          Yes, we know Jesus was not born in December, and we readily accept Adam and Eve, Noah, etc as myth and metaphor. While many attack our faith by claiming historical falshood in the Bible, or call us sinners by not accepting all of the Bible as literal truth, we can see deeper meanings in the Biblical writers choice of story and myth. This time of year was chosen for Christmas for the same reason that the pagans chose it. It was to clebrate new life and new beginnings. The end of darkness and growing light! Knowing that deeper meaning for the holiday and the shared bond with even pagan religions, gives Christmas far more meaning.
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        • Author by Boxer1979 (December 23, 2009 10:21 am ET)
             
          Stick to the point, please- Pat Robertson is a bigoted jerk. He might as well have said that Ramadan is no big deal, because he's been ignoring it for years.

          jjamele,

          I was making my point that the Christmas holiday does not need to overhyped like that is the only holiday being celebrated this month. Plus Patty boy was trying to clarify the day as Jesus' b-day and I was making a point do people know. I knew I would get a response that someone would disagree with what I said, but I am intitled to my point and am keeping it.

          By no way shape or form did I disrespect christianity.
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    • Author by mjh (December 22, 2009 7:26 pm ET)
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      Pat Robertson on Kwanzaa: "I think that's died a merciful death, because nobody paid any attention to it"



      Well, Patty -- its obvious you haven't visited the American Museum of Natural History lately . . .

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    • Author by soze169880 (December 22, 2009 7:48 pm ET)
         
      Pat's just miffed his apartheid diamond mines aren't the easy money they used to be.
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    • Author by bilbo_dies (December 22, 2009 7:52 pm ET)
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      Pat, just because you celebrate the birth of christ on Christmas doesn't mean that this time of year does not have historical or religous meaning to people of other faiths.

      If nothing else then the pagan celebration of the winter solstice comes to mind. You know, yule logs, the christmas tree, etc.
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    • Author by slowtyper (December 22, 2009 8:41 pm ET)
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      Is Pat Robertson still alive..? i thought he died a merciful(for us) death..

      how sad he represents Christianity so poorly..but then he always has..
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      • Author by snoopy (December 22, 2009 8:56 pm ET)
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        Nah, he pays for his healthcare using donations to the church that could have been used to pay for food and shelter for the poor. God won't mind because he's on Pat's side, right?
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    • Author by epkklk851 (December 22, 2009 8:52 pm ET)
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      Pat you putz! You got it wrong, as usual! Hanukah is the Hebrew word for Dedication or Consecration, and it refers to the rededication of the Temple at Zion after the Greeks desecrated it, yes, it does technically also mean "they rested on the 25th" but you didn't explain to your nitwit Christian audience that the Festival of Lights predates Jesus by 150 years, so it hardly counts as recent, and donkey sphincter man, with donkey droppings for brains, Jesus celebrated it, too! Happy freakin Holiday to you! Dillweed!
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      • Author by rwmacdonald2091 (December 23, 2009 5:57 am ET)
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        Hey epkklk851, I wish you wouldn't hold back on the way you feel about Pat, you really need to let it all out , okay?
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    • Author by Bongo Fury (December 22, 2009 9:01 pm ET)
         
      It appears that opium is the religion ot Pat Robertson's masses.
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    • Author by truewesterner (December 22, 2009 9:04 pm ET)
         
      does anyone here know that Kwanzaa was invented in 1966?

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

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    • Author by edgewaterprog (December 22, 2009 9:22 pm ET)
         
      "Try saying Happy Holidays instead of Happy Ramadan...<snort>"

      Well we know she would never show the Christian love to offer a Happy Ramadan to a Muslim, even if she knew one.
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    • Author by edgewaterprog (December 22, 2009 9:27 pm ET)
         
      How many of his trips to Africa were to supervise his gold mines in Liberia.
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    • Author by cugagcmu805031 (December 22, 2009 9:44 pm ET)
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      Patty believes that only certain people should celebrate their heritage.
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    • Author by raddave43 (December 22, 2009 10:11 pm ET)
         
      Earth to Pat, Christians stole Christmas from the Pagans. Also Hanukkah is mentioned in the Old Testament (Catholic Bible) So Hanukka is not something recent. IDIOT
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    • Author by raddave43 (December 22, 2009 10:14 pm ET)
         
      I thought Pat would have suffered a merciful death by now.
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    • Author by pilotx (December 22, 2009 11:18 pm ET)
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      Not paying attention in my neighborhood because WVON hosted the pre Kwanzaa celebration at the University of Illinois Chicago and it was well attended. The St. Louis Art Museum also co-hosted the pre Kwanzaa celebration along with the women of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Inc. Not sure what is going on in other cities butI'm sure L.A. and NYC have some great programs. I will be celebrating it again as will my family and friends from all over the globe. Sometimes if you look beyond the obvious one might learn something. Take off the cultural blinders Pat. I'm also waiting with anticipation Ann Coulter's annual anti-Kwanzaa rant. I know I know I'm such a traditionalist.
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    • Author by MickD (December 23, 2009 1:28 am ET)
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      I've just added Kwanzaa to my holiday repertoire. Thanks Pat, expert on race in America.
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    • Author by PurpleState (December 23, 2009 8:26 am ET)
         
      Tell me, once again, why we're treating Pat Robertson as an authority on the news?

      And tell me why Channakuh, Christmas, and Kwanzaa have to compete against each other as if this was an episode of Highlander?
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    • Author by carlh (December 23, 2009 9:43 am ET)
         
      Well to be completely factual, Kwanzaa isn't an African holiday. He's telling the truth there. It's an African-based American holiday created to hearken back to African roots.

      I don't really have anything against it, but it's not wrong to say factually what it is.
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