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Initech

(99,909 posts)
Tue Apr 2, 2013, 04:47 PM Apr 2013

Science-Educated Americans Less Likely To Get Miracles According To Pat Robertson

Televangelist Pat Robertson on Monday explained to his viewers that “sophisticated” Americans received less miracles because they had learned “things that says God isn’t real” like evolution.

On Monday’s episode of CBN’s The 700 Club, Robertson responded to a viewer who wanted to know why “amazing miracles (people raised from the dead, blind eyes open, lame people walking) happen with great frequency in places like Africa, and not here in the USA?”

“People overseas didn’t go to Ivy League schools,” the TV preacher laughed. “We’re so sophisticated, we think we’ve got everything figured out. We know about evolution, we know about Darwin, we know about all these things that says God isn’t real.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/04/01/robertson-god-gives-less-miracles-to-too-educated-americans-who-learn-science/


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Science-Educated Americans Less Likely To Get Miracles According To Pat Robertson (Original Post) Initech Apr 2013 OP
Or maybe educated people know a scientific explanation when they see one? MADem Apr 2013 #1
Science erodes religion's grip on culture. longship Apr 2013 #2

MADem

(135,425 posts)
1. Or maybe educated people know a scientific explanation when they see one?
Tue Apr 2, 2013, 04:58 PM
Apr 2013

Oh my....he walked into a room, pushed a button on the wall, and....it's a miracle!! Let There Be Light!!!!




What an ass, trying to turn ignorance into a virtue, and using the "us against them" argument to do that.


It's not a virtue--it's a crying shame.

If his faith was so doggone strong, you'd think it wouldn't be discombobulated by a little bit of "book learning." You'd also think that if this clown believes that his deity created all things, that said deity also created those Ivy League schools and those scientists and all those authors of those "book learning" tomes. Total logic fail, using his very own constructs!



longship

(40,416 posts)
2. Science erodes religion's grip on culture.
Tue Apr 2, 2013, 05:45 PM
Apr 2013

We need more science education so the world has to suffer fewer Pat Robertsons.

So, in this, I actually agree with that lunatic.

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