[Morgana]

Robertson please STFU before I lose my religion.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Senility is sad to watch. Why do his people let him continue? Can’t he retire?

[steve86]

Pope Francis needs to set him straight on this.

[NonValueAdded]

W	T	F

[al baby]

Robertsons views are that stronger than your connection to God ?

[BeadCounter]

No, No, No.

Where would we be without Bluegrass and Dwight Yoakum!

[BeadCounter]

No, No, No.

Where would we be without Bluegrass and Dwight Yoakum!

[elcid1970]

Twenty years ago a TV evangelist was sending 18-wheelers full of food into Appalachia saying wasn’t it a shame that white children had to live like this. The footage of the kids was heartbreaking. So what’s happened to Pat?

[laplata]

Ignore him.

[MNDude]

Pat, shut up!

[Norm Lenhart]

People say senile dementia. I think not.

Anyone who ever paid the slightest attention to this whack job’s ranting over the years know it’s par for the course. He has ALWAYS had his own religion and it has little to do with Christianity. It has everything to do with making him wealthy.

[SkyDancer]

Ragamuffins? Is that word still being used.

Ragamuffin

[BeadCounter]

700 Club started as a good idea, you know, reach the drunk or drug addict or homeless person and had some good assisting personalities as well. This is plain silly and offensive. I think the Good Lord may well deal with someone saying things like this.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Party_presidential_primaries,_1988 Ran for Prez. Actually carried 4 states.

The wikipedia article says Robertson helped found the organization we always see with Jay Sekulow, ACLJ, American Center for Law and Justice.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Robertson

ACLJ I think does good Christian work, sometimes pro-life work. http://aclj.org/

So this story is disappointing to say the least.

[Republican1795.]

Robertson will not be making many friends in Appalachia now.

[Liberty Valance]

[Ransomed]

Well, it’s true that the troglodytes crouching in their burrows down in benighted Appalachia have never heard tell of this super-science of the future known as birth control. Sure.

“Robertson said that “birth control in the Protestant churches has always been permitted,” because they “feel that the care and rearing of children is a tremendous obligation.”

It’s funny how that good looking host just nods and smiles at his gibberish in that video. I wonder what the Amish and old order Mennonites think about his historical proclamation?

Freegards

[campaignPete R-CT]

Some of my best friends are ‘ragamuffins’.

In fact, as a ‘ragamuffins’ myself, I resemble that remark!!!

[ronnietherocket3]

VIRGINIA BEACH, VA, July 31, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Two days after saying he found nothing sinful about sex-change operations

Genesis 1:27

televangelist Pat Robertson said contraception is “a very important part of humanity” that would prevent the birth of too many Appalachian “ragamuffins.” He also said that Natural Family Planning violated the provisions of the Old Testament.

The typical explanation for this mitzvah is that by creating a period of seperation, the only way a husband and wife can interact would be through conversation and hence it would build up the marriage. This mitzvah has been superceded by Ephesians 5:25.

When Robertson's co-host, Wendy Griffith, said not all families could afford to have multiple children, Robertson replied, “That's the big problem, especially in Appalachia. They don't know about birth control. They just keep having babies.”

I suppose since we are going to start citing Torah, we should also cite Talmud, Yevamot 6:6. OTOH, if we are to reject Talmud, Gen 1:28

Robertson said that “birth control in the Protestant churches has always been permitted,” because they “feel that the care and rearing of children is a tremendous obligation.”

Chapter and Verse on where feelings determine doctrine.

However, the 83-year-old host had negative words for the Natural Family Planning method. “Our good friends in the Catholic Church forbid the use of birth control but they allow people to use what's called 'rhythm,'” he said at the beginning of his answer. “If you read the Old Testament they were forbidden to have sex while women were having their menstrual period, and the Catholic Church is telling women to do just that, and it's OK.”

I take it he holds

• Deut 6:4-8
• Deut 8:10
• Deut 13:1
• Deut 31:19
• Ex 23:14
• Lev 23:27
• Deut 23:2
• Deut 22:11
• Lev. 15:16

I hope he believes that a woman should wash herself in a mikvah.

The Bible discouraged men from having sexual relations with a woman during her menstrual cycle – or touching her – in Leviticus 15:19-33, a provision taken up by Judaism and Islam.

I would like to know his position on Lev 15:25-28 is. And the provision on touching women during her mentrual cycle is found here. If we are going to bring the Talmud in, I would his opinion on shomer negiah.

However, Robertson went on to tell another writer later in the segment that eating pork, which is banned in Leviticus 11:7 and Deuteronomy 14:8, is not a sin. “Where do people get all these things?” he asked. “This is ridiculous.”

I also wonder what his opinion is on eating cheeseburgers. These appear to be prohibited by Ex. 23:19; Ex. 34:26; Deut. 14:21. I am unable to find a translation that gives a reason, for example cleanliness. If the reason were cleanliness, eating cheeseburgers would be valid vis-a-vis Acts 10.

[autumnraine]

Get this loon off the TV. PLEASE!

His family must hate him to allow this to continue.

[beaversmom]

I was really depressed several weeks ago and was watching TV upstairs in my bed. Came across the 700 club as that was about the only decent thing on after watching Idiocracy which come to find out is really a documentary on the here and now.

I’ve seen snippets of the 700 Club here and there before, but was pretty impressed with the stories they were talking about. Homosexual marriage. Israel. One story was of a Christian Iranian American woman whose husband/father of her children is being held in Iran. He was over there doing humanitarian work and they accused him of proselytizing.

Anyway, Pat Robertson is a little toony, but he’s fun to listen to on some things. Maybe he’s always been somewhat toony and maybe it’s getting worse with age. I don’t know. He’s at the end of his life, and I’m sure his ministry has done some very good things over the years. Other than the Muslims where so many are so fascist and violent with their beliefs, I don’t get too bent, normally, about what other people think and believe.

Not sure why Pat decided to single out the Appalachians, though. I can think of a big illegal demographic that’s doing a lot more sucking on the system. I’d rather very few have to get welfare, but if I had to choose, I’d choose the citizens over the non.

[freerepublicchat]

I’m genuinely curious: what is terribly offensive with what he said?

He might have been clumsy with his words, but I don’t understand the outrage.

If you can’t feed a family, you shouldn’t make a family.