Comments on: Christian Broadcasting Network founder Pat Robertson and the Haitian earthquake crisis

By: DS

DS — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 17:10:30 +0000

nutcase

By: OtherMike

OtherMike — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 13:55:26 +0000

He’s on the Disney Channel? That is a good example of the danger of people falling into the trap of thinking that religion is a Good Thing. It’s just a Thing, and there are people who use it for good and others who use it for ill. I hope Disney have learnt their lesson.

By: flapjack

flapjack — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 10:48:15 +0000

Joyce – This is shown on the Disney Channel? On one level I’m shocked, but on another I guess this kind of bizarre thinking is endemic in any animated Disney feature you care to think about.
Character is sad: it rains. Character is happy: Bright glorious sunshine. Villain is in a filthy/ evil/ stroppy mood: thunder and lightning and the occasional earthquake. For a typical example of this in action, check out the last half hour of the Lion king!
I guess if you’re brought up to think this is normal, it’s probably a natural kneejerk response to apply the same principle to all natural disasters, but I would have hoped someone of Pat’s advanced years would take a reality check once in a while and realise it’s only done in the movies for cheap dramatic effect, not as hard hitting evidence that god is tuned into everyone’s moodswings.

By: Joyce

Joyce — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 18:59:41 +0000

This show is shown on Disney Family Chanel for how much longer I don’t know.

By: Storm™

Storm™ — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 14:15:19 +0000

@Phillis – I know who he is really Phillis I was being ironic. The fact is that it is stupidity which promotes such an idiot. Stupidity that in 2010, we tolerate a man like this in the public eye. If he was someone on a street corner yelling the tripe this scumbag spews he would be arrested for it. Inciting a riot. Antisocial behaviour. Yet for some reason his opinions are given credence but the reason is not that his opinions are valid. It is because they are shocking. So that makes people watch and comment. So thats why they feature him. If we just laughed and didnt watch or comment he would vanish into media obscurity followed by a quick ambulance ride to the nut house.

By: Storm™

Storm™ — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 10:40:11 +0000

doh see so irrelevant is this Pat twat that I got his name wrong . . see its easy to do just ignore the twat.

By: flapjack

flapjack — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 10:38:56 +0000

Quite enjoyed this online skit of an exasperated god taking a personal phonecall from Pat Robinson, part of the “Mr Deity” series…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BvRTd-GGQw
But seriously, Pat is one of those evangelists who really shouldn’t bother with the weather forecast, as he knows all the really bad hurricanes and tornadoes are going to hit where there are large concentrations of ‘sinners’. Except aren’t the most devastating examples of tornadoes experienced in the US Bible Belt?
I think this is your basic confirmation bias in action.

By: Storm™

Storm™ — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 10:38:40 +0000

I am sorry being British I find this all very confusing. Pat Robinson – what relevance is this man. He is clearly a stupid idiot. Thats a given. But in Cornwall in my town there are lots of stupid idiots. I see them, I dont listen to them, and I pass them by. They do not make it on to U Tube or anywhere else because clearly they are unimportant idiots. Soooooooo my question is this: Who is the idiot, Pat Robinson or are the idiots you lot who listen to him, provide him with an outlet and then provide him with publicity? Just refuse him airtime and column inches and he dies a publicity death. Very simple really. Or you could carry on watching him and promote him further.

- There has been a hefty and heartfelt backlash against him. The question we need to ask is – is this man satan? – Phillis

By: Bill

Bill — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 21:15:13 +0000

Pat Robertson never ceases to amaze. How can such a cold, calculating evil bastard sit at the helm of an organization that masquerades as a organization that is all about love..

Lily Coyle said it well in her letter to the Editors of the Star Tribune Yesterday.

http://www.startribune.com/opinion/letters/81595442.html

By: Nopke

Nopke — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 18:23:42 +0000

Lots of stories, some true, will pop right now re Haiti. Some should have been out there before already, as it is too late in some ways (badly built houses etc). Not that I doubt that my house would probably not survive an earthquake either.

Terrible situation. As there are too many already. I can imagine that you wont stop searching if you’d been living there and had the energy and tools and such (left) for it. For those who are still alive underneath.