Pat Robertson: Heretic?

[ck4829]

The San Francisco Chronicle reports that many in the evangelical community are growing increasingly weary of Pat Robertson’s tendency to make ridiculous statements, such as his recent claim that God told him to expect significant terrorist attacks near the end of 2007 that will claim possibly millions of lives:

It's downright embarrassing," said Todd Spitzer, pastor at Regeneration in Oakland and Dolores Park Church in San Francisco. "When he makes these statements and ties God's name to it, he's like the self-proclaimed spokesman for God and evangelical Christianity. It's an obstacle to us when we want to present a reasonable faith."

The more outrageous or quirky the comment, the quicker it zips into newspapers and television news programs and floods the Web. The result, evangelical ministers say, is that sincere believers get tarnished in the process.

The Bay Area, despite perceptions to the contrary, has dozens of evangelical churches, including many of the region's largest. Evangelical ministers said they are constantly battling stereotypes of evangelicals as uncritical thinkers who are "marching lockstep to some leader." They said Robertson's comments only strengthen those misperceptions.

http://www.rightwingwatch.org/2007/01/pat_robertson_heretic.html

[marmar]

1. I attended Lutheran schools all of my life....

and he definitely sounds like the heretics described in our bible studies classes......

[SpiralHawk]

2. D'oh! Slow on the uptake, are we?

Like Robertson was ever credible as anything beyond a fear-mongering, plate-passing, buck hustler.

As if.

http://www.iflipflop.com/uploaded_images/Robertson,%20Pat-723880.jpg

Dial 1-800-GiveME bucks. Now.

"Or gag for endless suffering eternity on the putrid, firey, agonizing scum of Hell." - Your friendly pastor

[LeftCoast]

3. Seems like he's claiming to be a prophet

Plus, he has a terrible record in terms of these doom & gloom scenarios that God supposedly tells him about.

[Der Blaue Engel]

4. He's been claiming the gift of prophecy since the '70s

and I'm sure earlier than that, but certainly since the first day The 700 Club hit the air.

So evangelicals are just now noticing The Official Spokesman of the Angry, Homophobic God(TM)? :eyes:

[LeftCoast]

5. Why does anyone even take him seriously?

I don't get it.