Pat Robertson: God told me of 'mass killing' in 2007

[lovuian]

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/01/02/robertson.predictions.ap/index.html

VIRGINIA BEACH, Virginia (AP) -- Evangelical broadcaster Pat Robertson said Tuesday that God has told him that a terrorist attack on the United States would cause a "mass killing" late in 2007.

"I'm not necessarily saying it's going to be nuclear," he said during his news-and-talk television show "The 700 Club" on the Christian Broadcasting Network.

"The Lord didn't say nuclear. But I do believe it will be something like that."

Robertson said God told him about the impending tragedy during a recent prayer retreat.

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Well this is a warning isn't it

[951-Riverside]

1. Just curious, did he make any predictions for 2005-2006?

[lovuian]

3. Yes they were wrong

I think that we would when the Iraq war

[dave_p]

10. You mean they were wrong??

That's not what the Prez said!

Darn those... Americans!!

Why can't they see the big picture?

With all those angels... dancin'... and stuff??

[Kiouni]

4. I think the last was that bush would win

in a land slide. The only '06 info I can remember is that he can leg press 3,000 pounds.

[Miss Chybil]

2. I wonder if god is named Dick Cheney. nt

[Nedinu]

5. Some warning....

Ever since the call to wack Chavez and the little falling out over Ariel Sharon it's clear the man's going senile. Maybe he's undergoing withdrawal from his Alzheimer's medication.....

[RB TexLa]

6. If I honestly believed that God told me that, I think I would find a way out

of the US pretty quick. :crazy:

[beam me up scottie]

7. Yeah, God speaks to him a lot.

Robertson suggested in January 2006 that God punished then-Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon with a stroke for ceding Israeli-controlled land to the Palestinians.

The broadcaster predicted in January 2004 that President Bush would easily win re-election.

Bush won 51 percent of the vote that fall, beating Democratic Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts.

In 2005, Robertson predicted that Bush would have victory after victory in his second term. He said Social Security reform proposals would be approved and Bush would nominate conservative judges to federal courts.

Lawmakers confirmed Bush's 2005 nominations of John Roberts and Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court. But the president's Social Security initiative was stalled.

"I have a relatively good track record," he said. "Sometimes I miss."

In May, Robertson said God told him that storms and possibly a tsunami were to crash into America's coastline in 2006.

Even though the U.S. was not hit with a tsunami, Robertson on Tuesday cited last spring's heavy rains and flooding in New England as partly fulfilling the prediction.

That God, what a kidder. :eyes:

[Jcrowley]

8. Anything about diamonds

in that and that he would be responsible for those deaths?

Oh sorry wrong continent.

But right fascist.

[Dr.Phool]

9. Sounds like Pat's off his meds again.

We better send him money, so he can buy more.

[Erika]

11. I think its the BSU thunder he's talking about

I know, I know. But I'd lots rather hear about sports than the inane rumblings of this guy.

[opihimoimoi]

12. Hitler talked to God, Matthew Brady did too, Bush said he does too.

and now Pat reminds us of his frequent conversations with God...

Why would God wanna talk to these loser dudes?

[pnwmom]

13. Guess God must not like Blacks and Catholics

or he would have warned us about New Orleans, too.

:sarcasm:

[MonkeyFunk]

14. Usually...

when people hear voices like that, we lock them up and medicate them. Just sayin'...

[Old and In the Way]

15. You'd think God would tell him who would be doing the attacks....

Why does God tease Pat like this? Telling him there's going to be a terrorist attack, but no details that Pat can relay to us mere mortals to stop it. Is this God's idea of a joke? Does he have a rather sick sense of humor? I think Pat needs to get back in that prayer room and interrogate God some more on this...

[Bozita]

16. This guy's the craftiest of the fundie dingalings

Richest one too!

[LittleClarkie]

17. This is the same guy who says that Bush forsaw no casualties for the Iraq War

and who wanted Chavez assassinated. Demented little leprechan.

[LynnTheDem]

18. bush is working on it, Pat.

Rightwingnuts; anti-Jesus MFers.

[allalone]

19. what does he mean, sometimes he misses?

I thought GOD was telling him that crap.

[China_cat]

30. Like the hurricane he promised would take out Orlando

for being pro-gay. You know, the one that hit Virginia Beach instead.

[Lex]

20. Here's another great Pat Robertson moment:

"Maybe we need a very small nuke thrown off on Foggy Bottom to shake things up" – Pat Robertson, on nuking the State Department

[Fire Walk With Me]

28. That was a classic.

If God warned him about this, why didn't he ask what could be done to deter it? If there is a threat of nuclear attack, then make sure that the ports are exceptionally well scrutinized, etc.

Or is this Republican insider information prior to a power grab based upon increasing chaos? Not that any recent Republican power monger took advantage of chaos in order to cement international power and resource grabbing.

And hasn't Robertson made bids to be El Presidente himself? Too many coincidences. He's a dictator waiting to happen.

[Octafish]

21. In the USMC, pat robertson is known as a drunk coward.

The unctuous TV preacher Marion “Pat” Robertson once was a US Marine officer when he got the call that maybe his life was too important to risk on the battlefield. Sounds familiar to a certain "first family" we know and don't admire.

The story begins in 1951 aboard a Marine troop ship on the way to the fighting on the Korean peninsula. Leading a platoon was the greasy turd Pat Robertson, a newly minted 2nd Lieutenant. A 90-day wonder, 2nd Lt. Robertson got second thoughts about the dire situation that awaited him.

So, Pat Robertson decided to call his daddy, then a very, very conservative and Democratic Senator from Virginia, to get him pulled off his troop transport ASAFP. We wouldn't know about this from all his biographical information on the Pay the Lord Club.

But Robertson did tell the the other officers he would be saying “Sayonara!” when the ship pulled into Yokohama, its final stop before heading toward Korea. The other officers thought he was joking, but when the ship shoved off, there was Pat (and another 2nd lieutenant) on the dock, waving buh-bye.

Most of the officers and Marines went on to get wounded and killed in some of the most fierce action of the Korean War. Not Pat, though. He got assigned to Tokyo and Yokohama, where he earned a reputation as an officer who could get the job done, when it came to booze.

Very odd, in a hypocritical way. Robertson claimed, when he ran for presidunt in 1988, he was a "combat Marine." PTL, at least a couple remember the Truth.

The story was repeated in 1988 when Robertson ran for president as a “Combat Veteran.” The source of the story was Pete McCloskey (R-Calif.), then a 2nd Lieutenant leading a platoon of his own, one of the surviving USMC officers who was on the transport.

When Pat Robertson ran for President in 1988, Pete McCloskey decided to relate the story. Pat sued him for libel, but dropped the charges the day the case was to go to trial.

Here's a great resource on the subject:

THE LIQUOR OFFICER

Or PAT ROBERTSON GOES TO WAR

EXCERPT...

Robertson had sailed for Korea in January, 1951, as a new young Second Lieutenant fresh out of Quantico's 11 week basic platoon leader training course. With him was his friend and classmate from Washington and Lee, Ed Gaines. The First Marine Division had taken fearful casualties at the Chosin Reservoir in December when the Chinese had entered this war with a vengeance; new second lieutenants were needed badly and the rumored life expectancy of platoon leaders in combat was only six minutes. Robertson was one of 71 officers and 1900 enlisted men in the Fifth Replacement Draft aboard the U.S.S. General J. C. Breckenridge. The full draft was needed to bring the Divisions' three rifle regiments up to strength for General MacArthur's planned February counter-attack against the Chinese. On the last day before leaving for Korea, however, Robertson and Gaines had been pulled off the ship in Kobe, Japan, with four others whose names had the misfortune to be listed next to Gaines on the roster of lieutenants assigned to the 7th Regiment. The reason: ostensibly to train young Marines coming out of the hospitals after the Chosin Reservoir battle.

Both the First Marine Division personnel office and those officers aboard the Breckenridge who had had combat duty were offended. Captain Harry Steinmeyer, a decorated veteran of Guadalcanal wrote on February 14, 1951:

"Happy Valentines: Here's one I have to tell you. Lt. Gaines & a Lt. Robinson (Whose Father is Senator from Va) were taken off in Japan. In short there were 80 men and 8 2nd Lts pulled on the pretense of training men who came from Korea to go back there. Gaines slipped 2 days before we got to Japan and said he & the other one were going to be pulled off there. It's really rotten politics. I'd sure like to write Winchell on it. See what Walter & Daddy say about that. At least I can live with my conscience. Well so much for that"

First Lieutenant David Hartstein, the Draft's adjutant, wrote his wife the same day:

"Hi There Valentine: Oh yes, there is one thing I wanted to tell you about. When we were in Kobe yesterday a Col. came aboard to choose several officers to retrain casualties that were getting ready to 90 back to Korea. He chose 6 second Lts. none of whom have ever had any combat. Its interesting to note that two of them had said they wouldn't have to go to Korea. One was the Robertson that General Sheppard wanted to see and I'm sure that his father being the Senator from Virginia had nothing to do with it and the other was a kid named Gaines whose father is president of Washington and Lee university. it is interesting though isn't it. See that's what you get when you choose the wrong parents. Incidentally they are both very nice guys but no more anxious to go than the rest of us."

What had caused this extraordinary salvation? As the trial date of March 8, 1988 approached, Robertson found himself in an increasing dilemma. He had shocked the Republicans by strong second place finishes, in Iowa., South Dakota and Minnesota; he had nearly won Michigan, and expected to win South Carolina on Saturday, March 5. March 8, "Super Tuesday" with its 22 separate primaries, was expected to provide perhaps even a majority of delegates in the bible belt states where from whence came Robertson's strongest support. His lawsuit had suppressed any media comment on his alleged "liquor officer" background.

CONTINUED...

http://www.schlatter.org/liquor_officer.htm

Pat Robertson also sold his "Pass The Loot" Org for billions, keeping all the money he bilked out of all those senior citizens. He invested the money into gold and diamonds, big-time. Blood diamonds.

[Bozita]

22. Doesn't Robertson know that Bush's NSA is listening in?

GWB also talks to Gawd on the extra special elite line.

Robertson is one clearance level short.

[donheld]

23. If Pat would give his wife beano

He'd stop hearing the "voice of god"

[true_notes]

24. Maybe Pat

and his hysterical evilgelical buddies will be part of this inferno. Take the Extremist Muslim leaders, the Mahmoud Ahmadinejads, The Pope, and some Zionists keep the fire stoked a little longer.


*********************Religion is the Opiate of the Masses********************************************

[Patchuli]

25. Oh bullcrap!

God wouldn't talk to that cretin.

[Stuckinthebush]

26. Why would anyone believe

that God would talk to that piece of shit?

[SheWhoMustBeObeyed]

27. Previous Robertson Predictions That Did Not Happen:

2006
"And, you know, I go away at the end of each year to pray, and if I heard the Lord right about 2006, the coasts of America will be lashed by storms. I think we're going to see some really serious storms. And this warning from the storm center, one of the experts in Miami is just one of them. They're talking about storms up the East Coast, and there is a very real possibility of a tsunami or serious flooding and storming in the West Coast, as well. I am sure those in New Orleans are praying that such a thing has happened to them won't happen again. But one more hard hit without those levees being set up, and New Orleans may be part of history."
--The 700 Club, May 8, 2006

http://www.gainesvillehumanists.org/patr.htm

2005
"The vendetta against religion in America is about to end. ... 'I will remove judges from the Supreme Court quickly and their successors will refuse to sanction the attacks on religious faith.'"
--The 700 Club, January 3, 2005

"Well, the Lord has some very encouraging news for George Bush ... What I heard is that Bush is now positioned to have victory after victory and that his second term is going to be one of triumph, which is pretty strong stuff. ... He'll have Social Security reform passed. He'll have tax reform passed. He'll have conservative judges on the courts. And that basically he is positioned for a series of dramatic victories which I hope will hearten him and his advisers. They don't have to be timid in this matter because the wind is blowing at his back, and he can move forward boldly and get results."
--The 700 Club, January 3, 2005

"2005 will be another good year for the world. The terrorist threat will diminish. Nations will walk in peace, but it will be an illusion. The peril to Israel is greater now than it has ever been for she will be seduced into a false peace that will leave her vulnerable."
--The 700 Club, January 3, 2005

"In America, again if I'm hearing God right, we will see a tremendous incident of miracles in the year 2005. ... God's spirit is going to be moving in dramatic power around the world. And his spirit is going to be touching the hearts of many in the Muslim world and they will be turning to the gospel, to Jesus Christ. I think many of them already are, but this is going to be an acceleration that will really amaze the world. ... 'Revival will break out throughout the Muslim world, my truth will penetrate their hearts. The hold of that falsehood that has gripped them will be broken.'"
--The 700 Club, January 3, 2005

http://mediamatters.org/items/200501040010

Earlier Predictions

According to a February 15, 1988, Washington Post article, Robertson said, "I heard the Lord saying 'I have something else for you to do. I want you to run for president of the United States.'" The same article noted that during one campaign stop during the 1988 presidential race, Robertson stated: "This is where God wanted me to be. ... Here I am in New Hampshire, before a major primary." He then said, "I assure you that I am going to be the next president of the United States," according to a February 15 Washington Post article. After trailing George H.W. Bush and Senator Bob Dole in the Republican primaries, Robertson's 1988 presidential campaign ended before the Republican convention. A February 2004 article in Church & State magazine (published by Americans United for Separation of Church and State) noted several Robertson predictions that turned out to be false, including that Russia would invade Israel in 1982, and that there would be a worldwide economic collapse in 1985. The article went on to mention that "In his 1991 book, The New World Order, Robertson predicted that U.S. Sen. Jay Rockefeller would be elected president in 1996."

http://mediamatters.org/items/200501040010

[SalmonChantedEvening]

33. "if I'm hearing God right..."

You aren't Pat.

I used to wonder the same thing, but that was back in the late 70's and there were serious hallucinogens involved.

Lay off the blotter for your own good, Rev. Giggles.

[Warren Stupidity]

35. Does jehovahs transmitter malfunction?

When Pat listens to God is there static or something that breaks up the transmission? How does one hear god wrong?

So when David Berkowitz was getting messages from a dog, was that a similar communication channel to the one the supreme deity uses?

[Bolo Boffin]

29. Out with the old...

[Hubert Flottz]

31. God told Jim Jones that Kool-Aid was good stuff too...

God told Bush to invade Iraq and lied to Bush about WMD being North, West, East, South of Baghdad.

[Tsiyu]

32. And there was much rejoicing

did the Lord have anything to say about the mass killings going on right now around the globe, or did he just want Americans cowering in fear sometime in 2007?



What kind of....

never mind...


:yoiks:

[Warren Stupidity]

34. Burning bush?

How is old yaweh doing his communicating these days? Do Robertson's followers realize that either he is barking mad and having auditory hallucinations or he is a sociopathic manipulative liar?

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

36. Yeah? Well God to ME that Pat molests sheep...

So who are you going to believe?

[Xenotime]

37. I predict that something will happen in late 2001

Just a feeling

[radfringe]

38. why do we only get prophecies about bad things?

why are there no Pat Robertson, et. al, prophecies about good things that will happen? It distorts the whole picture.

Why would someone want to support a religious sect that only predicts doom and gloom? What happened to the Church of Rosie Glasses or Our Lady of the Smilie face?

[Parche]

39. Down Pat

Well Pat, DOG told me that you will be sent to a psycho ward soon.