Can someone please explain to me why the hell the so called Reverend, Pat Robertson speaks as though he believes he is a modern day prophet, offering nutsoid rhetoric about how the US will be be attacked again by some major terrorist plot? Does anyone else think this guy is nuts? I mean not in some rubber room, throw away the key sort of way. But, in the "Hey, that so called pastor is a piece of chicken short of a full bucket" sort of way? His conservative right views on all things, makes me vomit red, white, and blue! I can assure the good ole Pat (and who the hell names their boy Pat anyway?) that the God who I understand and love, and worship, and who reveals himself in the most unexpected kinds of ways, absolutely wants no part in allowing his stupid predictions to become a focal point for the already divided and angry American public! See, here is the funny part. Robertson believes that God spoke to him, warning him on some prayer retreat, that there will be another major terrorist attack within the year 2007.
Now let's think about this rationally, a function that obviously Robertson fails to use. Would God be so desperate enough to get his snippets of prophetic spin, as to use some dufus who basically works himself as a political patsy for the Bush White House? Is God really that desperate? Can't God find someone else to predict horrible tragedy for this country? Does He really have to use scary end of times, right wing, dorkus boys who trade in their intelligence for bloated, overinflated self-important moments in the spotlight? I wonder if God really did speak to Patty. God often speaks to me, but it's mostly through other people, in those moments of connection and trust, and consolation. It's in those least expected moments when I am not in prayer that God's voice is the loudest in the noise of my life. It's in those moments of walking through a hospital that God speaks to me and lets me know that He is there. It's in those moments of playing football with my son, that God speaks to me about life and how to live it. I honestly have to question the validity, the sensibility, and the profundity of realizing that God speaks to me in the most gratifying of ways, when God also speaks to Patty about fear, terror, death, destruction, and Revelation.
It seems to me, that anything that does not give life, promote life, advocates life, or is responsible for gifting life, God wants nothing to do with. Robertson's prophecy is all about fear, paranoia, paralysis, and wide-eyed fear of each other. It offers this country nothing new. It offers us just another reason why not to trust, old washed out, bad televangelists like Pat. Someone like him speaks for himself...not me. I do not claim that just because I have the title Pastor or Reverend in front of my name, that does not give me the clearest and easiest channel with which God communicates to me all of his world controlling secrets. God speaks to whomever and whenever He wants, but He speaks unexpectedly, lovingly, supportively, sometimes gently. God speaks what He wants to say, but I highly doubt that God is all that interested in speaking fear into people, so that it makes Robertson correct in his predictions. Of all people God could use to speak his will, his hopes, his love, and his grace through, I really do not think God would ONLY, EXCLUSIVELY use a right wing, ultra conservative, Bushy backer to speak for Him. I think Robertson is full of shit, and I think God knows it. If you listen carefully, you can actually hear God doubling over in laughter, shaking His head at Patty, and the rest of us. It's WE who misinterpret God's word into our own, thinking we speak for God. God is God, and God prefers it that way. Well, this is one pastor who is not going to be a prophetic ass, and speak nonsensical, self-important spotlight predictions about 2007. Well, I might go as far as predicting who will win the World Series, but that's as far as I will go! Uh, can we say Brewers versus Cardinals...Brewers take it all in four games! GOD TOLD ME...WHY WON"T YOU BELIEVE ME? More later...
Now let's think about this rationally, a function that obviously Robertson fails to use. Would God be so desperate enough to get his snippets of prophetic spin, as to use some dufus who basically works himself as a political patsy for the Bush White House? Is God really that desperate? Can't God find someone else to predict horrible tragedy for this country? Does He really have to use scary end of times, right wing, dorkus boys who trade in their intelligence for bloated, overinflated self-important moments in the spotlight? I wonder if God really did speak to Patty. God often speaks to me, but it's mostly through other people, in those moments of connection and trust, and consolation. It's in those least expected moments when I am not in prayer that God's voice is the loudest in the noise of my life. It's in those moments of walking through a hospital that God speaks to me and lets me know that He is there. It's in those moments of playing football with my son, that God speaks to me about life and how to live it. I honestly have to question the validity, the sensibility, and the profundity of realizing that God speaks to me in the most gratifying of ways, when God also speaks to Patty about fear, terror, death, destruction, and Revelation.
It seems to me, that anything that does not give life, promote life, advocates life, or is responsible for gifting life, God wants nothing to do with. Robertson's prophecy is all about fear, paranoia, paralysis, and wide-eyed fear of each other. It offers this country nothing new. It offers us just another reason why not to trust, old washed out, bad televangelists like Pat. Someone like him speaks for himself...not me. I do not claim that just because I have the title Pastor or Reverend in front of my name, that does not give me the clearest and easiest channel with which God communicates to me all of his world controlling secrets. God speaks to whomever and whenever He wants, but He speaks unexpectedly, lovingly, supportively, sometimes gently. God speaks what He wants to say, but I highly doubt that God is all that interested in speaking fear into people, so that it makes Robertson correct in his predictions. Of all people God could use to speak his will, his hopes, his love, and his grace through, I really do not think God would ONLY, EXCLUSIVELY use a right wing, ultra conservative, Bushy backer to speak for Him. I think Robertson is full of shit, and I think God knows it. If you listen carefully, you can actually hear God doubling over in laughter, shaking His head at Patty, and the rest of us. It's WE who misinterpret God's word into our own, thinking we speak for God. God is God, and God prefers it that way. Well, this is one pastor who is not going to be a prophetic ass, and speak nonsensical, self-important spotlight predictions about 2007. Well, I might go as far as predicting who will win the World Series, but that's as far as I will go! Uh, can we say Brewers versus Cardinals...Brewers take it all in four games! GOD TOLD ME...WHY WON"T YOU BELIEVE ME? More later...
2 comments:
I may be wrong, but didn't he (after the fact) say he had been told by God about 9/11?? Oh yeah, he is a main reason why Christians get such a bad wrap!! Total nut job!
WOW!!! I think you have better do some "re-communicating" on that Brewers thing!!!!!
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