Pat Robertson: Don't Worry About Living Next To Cemeteries...Unless There Are Witches
December 01, 2011 12:17 pm ET
From the December 1 edition of The 700 Club:
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Then I remember, there are enough people watching Pat Robertson to keep him on the air.
Anyone who understood what I just said?
I hope so, and yet I hope not!
(PLANESCAPE, baby! LOL)
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You're delusions are ridiculous, while mine are sacred. After all, does your God speak to you? Pat's does.
If a house recently landed on your sister, I'd think twice about planting petunias in the back yard.
Right?
Anyone hear about Bachmann and Santorum's latest foray into teaching creationism, aka intelligent design, in public schools? These people are crazy and they are driving a pretty large bus full of nutjobs. The intelligent, critical-thinking American is a dying breed, just the way the power players planned it.
There seems to be a large movement to ridicule intellectualism, education, the arts, and any other type of enlightenment. And what's worse is that it seems to be gaining steam in some regions.
He'll say that things have been bad before, but that he's never, ever seen anything like this in his life (he's 65). He says that even as tumultuous as the 60s were, he didn't witness anything near this kind of animosity between people then.
The modern difference is that we have to feed the 24/7/365 media beast with SOMETHING - we are fed both the ridiculous and the sublime daily that had no platform until the last few generations. But don't confuse pre-election red meat thrown to the fringes with legitimate threats to our liberties. The time to fear is when there are legitimate chances we will amend the constitution to repeal these advances.
Progressivism continues to march forward. Our kids are more liberal and better informed with better access to information than we are, as we were to our parents, just as it has been with every successive generation.
If history is a conveyor belt then it is a conveyor belt shaped like a mobious strip. (It loops endlessly and only has one side)
BTW Who is old enough around here to remember how the country was back in the early 60's and how proud we were of our nation and worked so hard in the race to the moon.
(yeah, I know squandered resources all based on fighting the "commies")
I just seem to remember more pride in our academic and scientific achievements back then.
But, oh no! They instist that it be taught in the SCIENCE Classroom. Where it DOESN'T belong. Where it serves no purpose other than to elevate the crack-pot alternative theory to Evolution to a level that we refuse to elevate OTHER crack-pot alternative threores (to things like heliocentrism, or relativity, for example) to.
EVERY scientific "fact" is really "just a theory," but evolution seems to be the only one they insist on constantly poitning that out about.
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Robertson is just Elmer Gantry. Anybody who thinks anything else has been bamboozled.
His Clothes are all red from the BLOOD of the Children he Catches waiting up for him.
He Can't be bought off with Sweets or Milk.
Watch out and lock your doors.. I am sure you will be OK.
Sorry, I put the Personalizing of "God" on the same level of making IT into a Santa.
Silly people limit the danged "thing",
And remember Religion and Nationalism are BAD THINGS.
You know, I teach History and English. There are many theories of social evolution in history. One is that humanity moves forward as a mass. It's essentially optimistic. The other is called 'Great Man' theory. It essentially postulates that the mass of mankind is, at best, stagnant. That they don't really contribute much to advancement. That it takes great men and women to essentially drag the rest of humanity kicking and screaming into the light of new discovery (for which they're often destroyed by those people they're giving benefit to). More and more, seeing more and more people as I age, I'm believing the 'Great Man' theory of historical advancement over anything else. People like this do nothing to disabuse me of my suspicion that humanity would be doomed if not for exceptional individuals throughout history that keep it alive and advancing.