A year ago from Pat Robertson: "Tornadoes wouldn’t happen if enough people prayed"

[cynatnite]

This is over a year old. Do you think he'll repeat it this time around?

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Televangelist Pat Robertson on Monday tried to deflect the blame for tornadoes away from God, saying people shouldn’t build houses in the Midwest and could prevent the deadly storms by praying.

“God doesn’t send tornadoes to hurt people,” he said. “We call them acts of God, but they’re not. All I can say is, why do you build houses in a place where tornadoes are apt to happen?”

Recently, early spring tornadoes in the Midwest and South have killed 39 people.

“If enough people were praying He would’ve intervened, you could pray,” Robertson continued. “Jesus stilled the storm, you can still storms.”

“But the hurricane for example is a release mechanism that God set in to take the heat out of this world and to transfer heat around various parts of the globe,” he added. “It’s very necessary. The fact that people want to build houses on the edge of an ocean is their fault, it’s not God’s… So don’t blame God for doing something foolish.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/03/05/pat-robertson-tornadoes-wouldnt-happen-if-enough-people-prayed/

[Buzz Clik]

1. Maybe Robertson isn't doing his job.

He needs to kick it up a notch and protect us.

[Rex]

2. I wonder if God will have a real long conversation with Pat when he dies?

The guy seems to be bonkers in the head and pretends to know what God wants or is going to do.

[Initech]

4. Pat Robertson is a grifter and a troll, I doubt God wants anything to do with him.

[Laelth]

3. A vile human being. That's all I have to say. n/t

-Laelth

[sinkingfeeling]

5. Everybody to the West Coast! Wonder what will happen when we abandon

all the farmland of the Midwest.

[Zorra]

9. Interesting. That's also a map of the Bible Belt.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/fboosman/127769429/lightbox/

I'm just sayin'.

[Arkansas Granny]

10. That's an interesting map. Do you have a link?

[sinkingfeeling]

15. Here's a link, but I actually saw a better one this morning and

can't locate it.

[Politicalboi]

6. The next tornado

Pat should go prove his bullshit by standing in front of the path of one and pray it away.

[ladjf]

7. Waste no time thinking about what Pat Robertson has said unless you simply find it amusing. nt

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[Arkansas Granny]

8. I think you have the right idea.

[gopiscrap]

11. Pat Robertson is a fucking idiot

I get pissed off every time the media quotes that shit stain and passes it off as Christianity

[Blue Owl]

12. Oh FFS

Really Pat? Really?

Quit being such a dumb shit and get with the program, you idiot.

[City Lights]

13. You're a sick man, Pat. Get help.

[47of74]

14. The last thing I want is to hear from that fuckstick

The last thing I want is to hear from that fuckstick on why he thinks the tornadoes happened.