I AM NOT HAPPY WITH THE UBER-RELIGIOUS RIGHT NOW

[filkertom]

Don't tell me how wonderful and virtuous God is. Not today. Not when, once again, God makes Pat Robertson open his big fat yap:

And you know, Kristi, something happened a long time ago in Haiti, and people might not want to talk about it. They were under the heel of the French. You know, Napoleon the third, or whatever. And they got together and swore a pact to the devil. They said, we will serve you if you will get us free from the French. True story. And so, the devil said, okay it's a deal.

And they kicked the French out. You know, the Haitians revolted and got themselves free. But ever since they have been cursed by one thing after the other. Desperately poor. That island of Hispaniola is one island. It is cut down the middle on the one side is Haiti the other is the Dominican Republic. Dominican Republic is prosperous, healthy, full of resorts, etc. Haiti is in desperate poverty. Same island. They need to have and we meed to pray for them a great turning to god and out of this tragedy I'm optimistic something good may come. But right now we are helping the suffering people and the suffering is unimaginable.

This greedy, squinty fucktard has, does, and will continue to blame anything on various and sundry people turning away from what he tells them is the True Faith. Notice that I didn't say "what he believes", 'cause I don't even think he believes it himself.

You want evil? Saying that an entire nation's troubles are based on a two-hundred-year-old fairy story, and further saying that they'd better come to your way of thinking before even worse happens... using a goddamn 7.0 earthquake as a warning poster to boost your church's recruitment... that is fuckin' evil.

ETA: Even Fox News is offended. Well, at least Shepard Smith, who is way, way better than a lot of people there.

Comments

[thistlethorn.livejournal.com]

Amen.

It's people like Robertson, Faulwell, et al that make me sometimes wish that hell existed -- just for those evil "men of God." Generally, I have no respect for any supposed "loving" supreme being that has created a hell of eternal torture -- that's not a being worthy of worship; that's a psycopath.

But in the case of these "men of God," I could almost wish for such a destination.

Hopefully, the time will come soon for Robertson to join some of his dearly departed pals there.

[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

I was taught - by a Methodist minister - that "man's relationship with his God, be it Heaven or Hell, is both present, and yet to be."

Pat Robertson *has* to be one miserable son of a bitch if that's true.

(That one phrase above is one of the few things I carried over when my spiritual journey took that hard left at Albuquerque... I still believe that, even more so today.)

[capplor.livejournal.com]

Heaven & hell exist, but not as geographical locations wherein one can purchase real estate. They are spiritual states of being near to the love of God or being remote from it.

In that I'd be inclined to assess that people of Mssr. Robertson's ilk are currently living in Hell & don't even know it.

[alverant.livejournal.com]

Well considering some of the evil things the christian god has done, I'd like to be far away from that kind of "love".

[capplor.livejournal.com]

Don't blame God for what those who purport to follow Him, but consistently breech the most basic parts of His contract, have done. I don't, & I'm not a Christian either.