Pat Robertson Tells Grieving Mother Her Dead Baby Could’ve Grown Up to Be Hitler

Mediaite ^ | June 9, 2015 | Jamie Frevele

[Kommodor]

Ping to nab that pic later...

[driftless2]

If Robertson actually said that, what he’s saying is the mother should be happy her child is dead. What a creep.

[driftless2]

"the left"

Robertson regularly makes so many stupid statements, I'm wondering if he isn't being paid off by the left. He says the most incredibly stupid things.

[onedoug]

Taking the Lord’s name in vain is more than merely cursing. Among other things, it’s also blaming God for things which only He understands.

Robertson does this regularly, and should be restrained by his staff for his own soul’s sake.

[MS.BEHAVIN]

I am so terribly sorry for your loss, Nikos.
I am also sorry you had to see the asinine comment made by this fool.

I will keep you in thought and prayer.

[railroader]

I had a very dear friend die very suddenly at a very young age of a heart attack. Well-meaning Christians told me similar things. That maybe God had looked into his future and saw that he was going to die a long, slow painful death from some horrible disease and killed him quick to spare him that suffering. OK, if you truly believe God is capable of seeing the future and killing somebody, don’t you also believe He’s capable of altering the future to ensure the horrible disease doesn’t happen? When you’re the omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent God, surely there are better ways of handling an unpleasant future than just killing the person in the present. I don’t mean to sound disrespectful to God. I simply mean to point out that this line of reasoning defies logic.

A few years ago, I was copied on an email in which a woman (whom I've met once) sent a story of someone thanking God for giving her a flat tire because it may have spared them from a deadly collision at an intersection, etc. While I get the motivation for sugar-coating these things, you have to wonder if they believe God had no power to prevent the near-future deadly collision?

[mjp]

He could have quoted Is. 55:8-9. “My intentions are not always yours, and I do not go about things as you do. My thoughts and My ways are above and beyond you, just as heaven is far from your reach here on earth.”

[Tax-chick]

Dittos.

I think it’s probably that Pat Robertson has done a lot of good in his life, and someone who cares about him should have taken control when he obviously went around the bend ... quite a while ago.

[Lizavetta]

Then why did God let Hitler and Stalin live?

He needs to shut up.

[Lizavetta]

You’re not alone, my friend. Quite a few grieving parents here on FR, including me.

[madison10]

LOL He supposedly was/is a pastor. My grandparents thought the world of him on the 700 Club. Personally cannot stand that version of Christianity.

[MHGinTN]

That ‘version’ of Christianity has morphed full into the Joel Osteen, Benny Hinn, and Creflo Dollar name it and claim it apostasy.

[MD Expat in PA]

[madison10]

That ‘version’ of Christianity has morphed full into the Joel Osteen, Benny Hinn, and Creflo Dollar name it and claim it apostasy.

Agreed.

[editor-surveyor]

You’re obviously hung up on something you know absolutely nothing about.

That’s truly unfortunate.

[editor-surveyor]

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He’s the biggest turkey to ever fake belief.

He hasn’t the slightest clue to Yeshua’s path.
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[editor-surveyor]

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The “Emerging Lurch.”
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[overdog2]

Man justifying personal tragedy by suggesting it was God’s plan is a slippery slope. Most especially when it is suggested or hinted that God might be punishing the man, woman, child, family, city, country etc..

Could it have been God’s plan to make this His personal intervention? Who is Pat Robertson to say one way or the other?

What human being alive today can speak for God’s intentions case by case, moment by moment.

That’s the error Pat Robertson made... explaining on behalf of God something beyond his ability to address without God’s knowledge and accuracy (being God himself).

To complicate the equation. Factor in Satan and the Book of Job. Then add Satan offering Jesus all the kingdoms on earth if Jesus would just kneel to Satan and worship him. The author of sin, lies, death and disease doesn’t get the credit he deserves.

[MHGinTN]

Are you typical of the Michael Rood ilk?

[editor-surveyor]

Are you typical of the Pat Robertson ilk?