Pat Robertson: Christians should not join ‘Occupy Wall Street’

[RamboLiberal]

Televangelist Pat Robertson said Thursday on The 700 Club that Christians should not be involved in the “Occupy Wall Street” demonstrations in cities around the nation.

His comment was picked up by the liberal watchdog website RightWingWatch.org.

“I think this is a rebellion,” he said. “I think it is atavistic. Nobody knows exactly what it is, they don’t know what they’re doing, why are they there? Well they’re just mad. Well, is it right for a Christian to get involved in a protest of anger?”

“If you’re going to demonstrate demonstrate for righteousness, demonstrate to lift the yoke of oppression, demonstrate to help those that are poverty stricken. But don’t just go out and mess up a park and just scream and tear up things. Why would you get involved in something like that? It’s formless, it has no purpose, but it could be used for radicals who want to destroy this nation, and that’s the bad part of it.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/10/27/pat-robertson-christians-should-not-join-occupy-wall-street/

Pat if Jesus was here today I believe he would be with the 99% and you would be calling him a clown and a nut.

[MADem]

1. Wasn't that troublemaking old Jew, Jesus, a peaceful protester?

And didn't he get pissed at the moneychangers in the temple?

Pat needs to hit the books. Hell, I don't come from a "Bible" tradition, and even I know some of this stuff!

[safeinOhio]

14. Didn't he over turn their tables?

[Jello Biafra]

28. You know...Jesus...the long haired one with the sandals......n/t

[Withywindle]

43. Yup. The only time in the Gospels that Jesus gets really REALLY angry

is when he throws the moneylenders out of the temple.



He talked about lots of kinds of sins, but it was exploitative capitalist greed that really seriously pissed him off.

[chollybocker]

2. Tax his ass off.

[MFrohike]

3. Haha, atavistic

Funny he'd use that word when his chosen party has spent 30 years doing the prep work to reinstall feudalism.

[Aerows]

33. I didn't miss that word, either n/t

[WCGreen]

4. i wonder if he spoke out against the teabaggers...

[CaliforniaPeggy]

8. I very much doubt that!

[doublethink]

5. His own words ...

"... It’s formless, it has no purpose..." Pretty much describes him if ya ask me. :eyes:

[Canuckistanian]

6. Jesus would forget the "love thy neighbor" thing if he met Pat

Jesus would slap him silly.

[cliffordu]

7. Pat Robertson is an agent of satan.

What a scumsucking cretin.

[nadinbrzezinski]

9. Ok the far RW is feeling threatened

Oh and pat, as one of them heathens...that hippie, poor lovin Jew...would be there leading the parade. In fact, he occupied the temple! Just saying Pat.

[sabrina 1]

10. What would Pat Roberson know about Christians?

Whatever it is he preaches, it sure isn't what Jesus was preaching.

Someone should ask him how his old friend the Dictator is doing at the Hague. I wonder if Jesus would have been hanging around with a Dictator just to enrich himself from the country's diamond mines?

[ClassWarrior]

11. "Demonstrate for righteousness, demonstrate to lift the yoke of oppression..."

"...demonstrate to help those that are poverty stricken."

Geez, make up your mind, Pat.

NGU.

[DLnyc]

20. exactamundo

"demonstrate to lift the yoke of oppression, demonstrate to help those that are poverty stricken"

I'm going with that. Funny how the old Nazarene was saying what all we are saying. A little embarrassing for the super super rich preacher types.

[Matariki]

12. Pat, you just aren't relevant.

[Contrary1]

13. Pat, Pat, Pat...

You ignorant bigot.

[nebenaube]

15. well, that shows who he shills for... n/t

[Zorra]

16. Geez, could that greasy, pathetic, money loving megalomaniac be any more obvious?

Gosh, we are just following the example of Jesus, Pat. Kind of like this


OWS is clearly your enemy,

"Reverend"

Just like Jesus is.
O8)

[Viva_La_Revolution]

34. that would make a kickass protest sign!

even the teabaggers would understand.. like the murals in the churches for the illiterate masses.

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

17. says the guy who buddies around and gets rich with the brutal dictator of Liberia

Pat should STFU

[Ichingcarpenter]

18. Blood Diamond Pat

who advocates assassinations and violence against publicly elected leaders and pogroms against gays, foreigners and minorities.
His Agnew__istic use of atavistic reminds me of the 60s when protesters were called similar terms.

[stillrockin]

19. Oh sweet Jesus, what a hypocrite.

[athenasatanjesus]

21. One of these days Pat Robertson will remember to look up the definition of Christian.

Maybe he could wiki it.

[quaker bill]

22. Christ

could not pass as "christian" these days.

[durablend]

31. "Dirty...leftist...hippie" n/t

[WCGreen]

23. There ain't a true Christian in that whole bunch of sycophants

parading around all holy just to get at the pension of old women and men....

[piratefish08]

24. pat robertson is a racist, ignorant fuckstick.

jesus would kick 99% of Pat Robertson's wrinkly, white ass if he were around.

[sendero]

25. Real Christians..

.. wouldn't listen to a word Robertson had to say, but then most of the folks in American who call themselves Christians couldn't be less like Jesus if they tried.

[2pooped2pop]

26. lol More desperate attempts to stop us

What a fucking joke he is. Christians? Dude if your mantra is God hates:whoever u decide today, then I must question who is this God you speak of? Weren't you guys already warned about following a false prophet or something like that?

Real Christians don't hate.

[chade]

27. Wow, he's totally right

We really need to demonstrate against the 'yoke of oppression.'

....Who wants to have a gay rights rally?!

[CanonRay]

29. The man has zero credibility. He is a total waste of time

to think about, report on, or talk about.

[mmonk]

30. Yes, all who have abandoned the teachings of Jesus aren't a good fit.

[Aerows]

32. "Atavistic"

Well, THAT's an interesting choice of words.

"The notion of atavism was used frequently by social Darwinists, who claimed that inferior races displayed atavistic traits, and represented more primitive traits than their own race."

Gee Pat, what exactly are you trying to say here?

[AsahinaKimi]

35. Pat is a hater...

The truth is, if he showed up to one of these protests, they would probably throw cake at him. I would pay to see that...

[ladywnch]

36. good then his instigators will stay away! Bonus! Thanks Pat !

[Johonny]

37. I agree Christians like mega rich Pat Robertson

If you make as much money as Pat spreading the word of God then you probably don't read a lot of the Bible because you're clearly missing the point. Either way Pat isn't one of the 99% so why be shocked the greedy bastard wants to hold onto fleeced $$$.

[mysuzuki2]

38. If Jesus were here today, Pat and his friends

would be the ones with the hammer and nails.

[LanternWaste]

39. A little too late for that, Mr. Robertson...

A little too late for that, Mr. Robertson-- regardless of how little you (or anyone else) want people of faith involved in social justice, it's already done and done.

[The Second Stone]

40. Pat Robertson is not a Christian

he worships money. Christ fed the hungry and healed the sick.

[ljm2002]

41. "Well they’re just mad." he says...

..."Well, is it right for a Christian to get involved in a protest of anger?”

Oddly enough he never made a similar statement when the Teabaggers were out there packing heat and disrupting town halls.

[GreenPartyVoter]

42. Does. Not. Get. It.

[WilliamPitt]

44. I think Jesus was pretty pissed when he cleared the moneylenders from the temple.

Maybe I read the wrong Bible.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

45. Pat would have stood with Cornwallis and King George

He would have hated the anger expressed by the colonists during the Boston Massacre, the Boston Tea Party, and Lexington and Concord.

"This is a rebellion", he says. I hope he's right.