Somebody tell me how Pat Robertson is not wandering around a dog track with his name and return address pinned to his sweater?
The televangelist kook has once again claimed that God has told him the future. This time, the Creator took time out of his busy schedule (pronounced shedjule, of course) to let Pat know who the next US president will be and for Pat to let us all know that he knows, but that he shouldn’t tell anyone.
Pat Robertson, host of “The 700 Club,” apparently knows who the next president will be. He said on his Christian television program that after much prayer God has revealed the candidate who will lead America in 2012.
“I spent the better part of the week praying and saying, ‘God show me something,’” Robertson shared on CBN’s “New Year’s Prayer 2012” Tuesday. “I think He showed me the next president, but I’m not supposed to talk about that so I’ll leave you in the dark.”
“I’m going to read just as I wrote down, as if I’m hearing from the Lord these words,” he continued. The founder and chairman of the Christian Broadcasting Network shared that the “country was disintegrating, and to expect chaos and paralysis.”
“Your country will be torn apart by internal stress, a house divided cannot stand. Your president holds a radical view of the direction of your country which is at odds with the majority,”
Radical view of the direction of your country? Against the majority? Does that sound like God?
Pat has to stop praying next to his radio tuned into talk radio. That’s not God talking, that’s the drive time host.
January 5, 2012 at 4:01 pm
Perhaps Rev. Robertson should question the source of these revelations after he was told George H.W. Bush would defeat Bill Clinton in 1992.
January 5, 2012 at 4:24 pm
And just thinking outloud here…whenever God made a huge pronouncement to someone he typically instructed them to make it known. Noah was to build an ark, Moses was to speak to Pharoah, Jonah was to travel to Ninevah, and Zachariah was to name his son John. And when people didn't make God's revelation known, God had something unpleasant in store (Jonah got swallowed by a whale and Zachariah was struck dumb) so, if God has revealed this to Pat Robertson, I'm thinking he was probably supposed to announce it and since he isn't, I wonder what fate God has in store for him (aside from being Pat Robertson…he's stuck with that).
January 5, 2012 at 4:35 pm
Pat Robertson is a quack-a-doodle, no doubt. But it sounds like he's saying that Barack Obama will be the next president–he DOES hold a radical view of the country which is at odd with the majority. What's wrong with that? Considering BO's views on partial birth abortion and infanticide, I think God would agree.
January 5, 2012 at 7:04 pm
Er, just to nitpick, but the candidate to lead the US in 2012 is candidate Obama. The next President isn't sworn in until 2013.
January 5, 2012 at 7:07 pm
Such disrespect on a site like this for a man who prays. No one can say what the Lord has said or directed someone to do for Him. An apology is required here for this nasty ungodly piece of just trash—and much prayer.
January 5, 2012 at 8:50 pm
If God did talk to Pat Robertson, he ought not be bragging.
January 5, 2012 at 10:09 pm
Pat (and his fellow holy rollers) call these little revelations, a word of wisdom. Hey Pat, I got one for you: Retire!
January 5, 2012 at 11:48 pm
Robertson has never been able to decide whether he wants to be a holy man or a secular/political success. A deeply divided man.
January 6, 2012 at 12:41 pm
As a native of Pat Robertson territory (VA Beach area), I have long been embarrassed by this mans pronouncements "from on high". He acts like he is a prophet rather than the host of an evangelical cable show. That said, the college he started, Regent University, seems to have a good reputation and a great library (nothing Catholic though).
January 6, 2012 at 7:16 pm
Pat Robertson continues to embarrass himself on the air.
January 6, 2012 at 7:16 pm
Pat Robertson continues to embarrass himself on the air.
January 7, 2012 at 2:51 am
I used to be an avid watcher of the 700 Club back in the 1990s, but in recent years, Robertson has been showing signs of … well, losing himself in his work. I'm sure God talks to him. God talks to all of us. But He doesn't always tell us what we think we hear.
January 7, 2012 at 7:58 pm
He shoots of on TV, you shoot off on a blog. The difference is Pat Robertson is a "kook" who has dispensed lots of godly advice, runs a zillion dollar operation and gives away towns of charity money. You on the other hand are OK because you only slam non-Catholics and Obama. Sheesh. What you say in your kitchen and what you write on your blog should be two different things. Robertson has at least as much sense and class as the proceedings here.
January 7, 2012 at 8:00 pm
PS. Kat, as a note, Regent's library has tons of Catholic books in it, and Robertson has been a biog supporter of ecumenical relations between Evangeliocals and CAtholics. He invited Neuhaus to speak at Regent's graduation. The late great found him not kooky enough o accept the invite.
January 9, 2012 at 2:25 pm
I do recall going to a debate between a traddie Catholic (friend of Scott Hahn) and a protestant at Regent many years ago.
I wasn't Catholic at the time of studying in the Regent library so I didn't really look too hard. Thanks for the info.