I feel that requesting a "Pat Robertson Doomsday Asteroid Forum" on DU is ENTIRELY within reason.

[Miles Archer]

SURE, you scoff NOW, but just wait until the doomsday asteroid is on its collision course with Earth. You'll be THANKING me THEN.

Pat Robertson Says Doomsday Asteroid Could Hit Next Week

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/04/21/pat-robertson-doomsday-asteroid_n_5189084.html

Former NASA astronauts are expected to warn today that the Earth has been slammed by far more asteroids than previously thought -- including 26 impacts since 2001 that caused explosions on the scale of an atomic bomb.

Now, televangelist Pat Robertson says one of those rocks could bring about the prophesied "end times" -- just as he predicted in a 1995 novel.

"I wrote a book, I wrote a book. It's called 'The End of the Age' and it deals with an asteroid hitting the Earth," Robertson said on his show, "The 700 Club," which airs on ABC Family. "I don't see anything else that fulfills the prophetic words of Jesus Christ other than an asteroid strike. There isn't anything that will cause the seas to roil, that will cause the skies to darken, the moon and the sun not to give their light, the nations terrified on Earth saying 'what's happening?'"

"Hey, just get ready. Get right and stay right with the Lord," he urged in a clip posted online by The Raw Story. "It could be next week, or it could be a 1,000 years from now, but nevertheless we want to be ready at whatever time the Lord says 'I'm wrapping it up, it's time to come home.'"

[notadmblnd]

1. I don't want to talk about Pat's ass roids

I have my own medical issues to deal with.

[lob1]

2. "...the moon and the sun not to give their light..."

The moon doesn't give off light, it's reflected light. Remember a couple of years ago when Bill Nye, in a lecture, said the moon doesn't give off light, and a group of fundies got up and walked out?

[Journeyman]

3. Why would Jesus need an asteroid when he can merely command the cosmos and it obeys?. . .

Or does Robertson have no faith in the power of the Lord?

"I don't see anything else that fulfills the prophetic words of Jesus Christ other than an asteroid strike. There isn't anything that will cause the seas to roil, that will cause the skies to darken, the moon and the sun not to give their light, the nations terrified on Earth saying 'what's happening?'"

I love his "out" -- gonna be next week, or maybe a 1,000 years from now.

[shraby]

4. If you believe anything that thing says, you are on the wrong site.

[LadyHawkAZ]

5. No time to fill up a forum

How about just a Doomsday Asteroid DU Survival Tips & End-Of-The-World Cocktail Party megathread?

[okaawhatever]

10. That would be pure awesomeness. nt

[Ex Lurker]

6. The thing about Robertson is, once in a while, he can sound almost normal

in calling out some of the excesses of his fellow fundies. It's almost like he's possessed by a Reasonableness Demon. Then he exorcises the demon, and goes back to stuff like this.

[Beearewhyain]

7. Was this what Robertson was thinking?

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I am inclined to think not

Some say the end is near.
Some say we'll see Armageddon soon.
I certainly hope we will.
I sure could use a vacation from this

Bullshit three ring circus sideshow of freaks

Here in this hopeless fucking hole we call L.A.
The only way to fix it is to flush it all away.
Any fucking time. Any fucking day.
Learn to swim, I'll see you down in Arizona Bay.

Fret for your figure and
Fret for your latte and
Fret for your lawsuit and
Fret for your hairpiece and
Fret for your Prozac and
Fret for your pilot and
Fret for your contract and
Fret for your car.

It's a bullshit three ring circus sideshow of freaks

Here in this hopeless fucking hole we call L.A.
The only way to fix it is to flush it all away.
Any fucking time. Any fucking day.
Learn to swim, I'll see you down in Arizona Bay.

Some say a comet will fall from the sky.
Followed by meteor showers and tidal waves.
Followed by fault lines that cannot sit still.
Followed by millions of dumbfounded dip shits.

Some say the end is near.
Some say we'll see Armageddon soon.
I certainly hope we will cause
I sure could use a vacation from this

Stupid shit, silly shit, stupid shit...

One great big festering neon distraction,
I've a suggestion to keep you all occupied.

Learn to swim. [3x]

Mom's gonna fix it all soon.
Mom's comin' round to put it back the way it ought to be.

Learn to swim.

Fuck L Ron Hubbard and
Fuck all his clones.
Fuck all these gun-toting
Hip gangster wannabes.

Learn to swim.

Fuck retro anything.
Fuck your tattoos.
Fuck all you junkies and
Fuck your short memory.

Learn to swim.

Fuck smiley glad-hands
With hidden agendas.
Fuck these dysfunctional,
Insecure actresses.

Learn to swim.

Cause I'm praying for rain
And I'm praying for tidal waves
I wanna see the ground give way.
I wanna watch it all go down.
Mom, please flush it all away.
I wanna see it go right in and down.
I wanna watch it go right in.
Watch you flush it all away.

Time to bring it down again.
Don't just call me pessimist.
Try and read between the lines.

I can't imagine why you wouldn't
Welcome any change, my friend.

I wanna see it all come down.
Bring it down
Suck it down.
Flush it down.

[Egnever]

8. It could be next week, or it could be a 1,000 years from now

I realize the guy is looney tunes but I am not sure how pretending he said something he didnt makes him worse off.

There is plenty in that addled brain to make fun of this is a reach. Unless of course you dont think there is a very real chance we could be wiped out by an asteroid. I mean it isnt like it hasn't happened before.

[ProfessorGAC]

9. That Was What Stuck With Me Too

How convenient! A week or a thousand years? Why not a minute or a billion years?

I still find it incredible that anybody out there ever paid attention to that buffoon.

[rurallib]

11. send Pat some money. That will save the earth.

[malaise]

12. And buy the fugging loser's book

to save yourself

[IDemo]

13. If nothing else,

a "Right-winged, flaked out, self-important spokesperson wannabe" forum for all of the Pat Robertson, Bryan Fischer, Glenn Beck et al verbal farts of the day. That, or just see RawStory.