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Pat Robertson claims prayer is the best medicine for just about anything. But what does he say when prayer fails? Well, like any other fraudulent huckster, he blames the person who prayed instead of the deity who is supposed to answer them. Such was the case on Wednesday, when Robertson told a mother that its her fault her prayers havent healed her deaf child.
During his 700 Club show, Robertson took a question from a woman who has a deaf son. She told Robertson that despite her prayers, God hasnt restored her childs hearing. Instead of comforting the woman, the conservative charlatan shamed her for not being able to heal her son with prayer. Robertson told her that she must have done something wrong that caused God to reject her pleas. Robertson also claimed that he has successfully healed deafness himself.
I have dealt with people who are deaf and you rebuke the spirit of deafness and they get healed, Robertson claimed. I dont know what youre doing wrong. Why dont you try that and if it doesnt work, try something else.
http://www.addictinginfo.org/2013/10/25/pat-robertson-shames-mothe/
gopiscrap
(24,130 posts)he's a fucking ignorant, insensitive asshole.
Mnemosyne
(21,363 posts)sarcasmo
(23,968 posts)Blue Owl
(54,410 posts)...if the alternative was listening to Pat's bullshit...
defacto7
(13,485 posts)Adsos Letter
(19,459 posts)Well then, Pat, get busy rebuking the spirit of cancer, or Alzheimer's, or diabetes, or AIDS...
C'mon, man, start rebukin'...there's a whole bunch of messed up, helpless, suffering people in this world who could use the help.
No?
Alkene
(752 posts)longship
(40,416 posts)I'm sure Benny Hinn could do it, if he had Pixar studios to help him.
Tempted to call 700 Club and ask ol' Pat how to pray to God to have my brother's amputated leg grow back. (N. B. I don't have a brother.)
Quantess
(27,630 posts)God wants cash. Visa or Mastercard also accepted.
atreides1
(16,319 posts)...he still hasn't been taken in for a mental evaluation, like the Congressional stenographer was!
Marrah_G
(28,581 posts)TlalocW
(15,597 posts)The illness has not gotten better! Show your devotion by giving me money, and God will act through me to heal!
The illness has been arrested (though not through any supernatural means, but I won't tell you that). Show your devotion by giving me money, and God will act through me to completely heal!
The illness is completely gone (though not through any supernatural means, but I won't tell you that). Show God your thanks by sending me money so that I might continue to heal others in His name!
TlalocW
johnd83
(593 posts)but God is "punishing" someone here so it can't be used.
Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)This poor woman, however misguided she is, loves her son, wants him to hear, and will not be blaming herself because someone she holds faith in told her it's her own fault.
Robertson and his ilk are carbuncles on society.
Demo_Chris
(6,234 posts)Demo_Chris
(6,234 posts)Le Taz Hot
(22,271 posts)Wife/kids sick? Almost to death? Take them to a doctor? HELL NO! Pray! And if you didn't pray hard enough you were beat because you were EVIL! It's so sad that people are ignorant enough to continue to send this guy money. One of these days one of his insiders is going to expose him for what he really is. On second thought, isn't there a documentary coming out about him? Something about how the money these poor suckers sent to him for his "African ministries" was diverted to diamond-mining equipment (he owns a diamond mine). The sad thing is? If/When this phony is exposed, there will be people by the millions defending him and still sending them their disability/SS checks.
cali
(114,904 posts)and by permanently I mean.....
Orsino
(37,428 posts)Suckers.
spanone
(137,448 posts)may they burn forever in hell
SamYeager
(309 posts)It certainly has a much better chance of working than prayer.