# Pat Robertson Pit Thread Number 342: "Dover, Watch Your Bloomin' Arse!" **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 10, 2005, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-robertson-pit-thread-number-342-dover-watch-your-bloomin-arse/330474 "2005-11-10T21:30:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2005, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-robertson-pit-thread-number-342-dover-watch-your-bloomin-arse/330474/81 "2005-11-11T20:17:46Z")
Now, they’re “Is There A God?”, “The 7 God Prayers”, “God is not a sadist”, and “God Without Religion”. Beautiful, man, just beautiful. I know it’s been said, but I for one am very glad to have this new addition to the boards. The Google ads give it what the French call “a certain I don’t know what”. ---
**Author:** ![HPL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3da27b/32.png) [@HPL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HPL)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2005, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-robertson-pit-thread-number-342-dover-watch-your-bloomin-arse/330474/82 "2005-11-11T20:51:06Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > I will never understand why he has any power base at all- I can just assume that most of his ardent supporters are too ignorant or gullible to know anything of his business dealings and long history of lunatic predictions or indictments. Because if you think Pat Robertson sucks, you think God and Christnity sucks, you commie, athiest anti-american scum. At least, that’s the idea I’ve gotten from his supporters. Apparently they can’t seem to handle the concept that maybe Pat Robertson is an idiot who only thinks he’s speaking for God. ---
**Author:** ![HPL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3da27b/32.png) [@HPL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HPL)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2005, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-robertson-pit-thread-number-342-dover-watch-your-bloomin-arse/330474/83 "2005-11-11T20:55:16Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > Do fishes sleep? What is Pat’s position on sleeping fishes? It is an abomination unto God, and they will burn in the pit of hell! Hallejuah! Pra–ise the Lo-rrd! ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2005, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-robertson-pit-thread-number-342-dover-watch-your-bloomin-arse/330474/84 "2005-11-11T20:58:38Z")
> [@NurseCarmen](#): > > I think that’s what we need. A scientific theory that takes into account window treatments. **Butch**? Is that you? Ohmigod, they got **Butch**! Shields up! ---
**Author:** ![HPL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3da27b/32.png) [@HPL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HPL)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2005, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-robertson-pit-thread-number-342-dover-watch-your-bloomin-arse/330474/85 "2005-11-11T21:02:47Z")
> [@mrrealtime](#): > > I think the “theory of intelligent design” is ridiculous, but from what I read in Pat’s quote, all he is saying is “if you dont believe in God, dont call on him in times of need (disaster) and expect Him to help” . > > That seems reasonable to me. Im surprised he has been misquoted and taken out of context so readily by the newsmedia, all that does is fuel their argument that the news is “leftist” and unbalanced. So Let me get this straight. Voting out the school board members who want intelligent design taught in science class = Kicking out God. Could you give me an inductive proof for this statment? I don’t see the connection. ---
**Author:** ![mrrealtime](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e8c25b/32.png) [@mrrealtime](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mrrealtime)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2005, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-robertson-pit-thread-number-342-dover-watch-your-bloomin-arse/330474/86 "2005-11-11T21:05:10Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > Might want to try actually reading the quote before you offer your interpretation of it. > > “If there is a disaster in your area, don’t turn to God. You just voted God out of your city.” > > The vote he refers to was a vote to remove Intelligent Design proponents from the school board. It has nothing to do with atheists: he’s saying that anyone who doesn’t support schools teaching Christian theology in science class has turned their back on God. Doesn’t matter if they believe in God, doesn’t matter if they’re even Christian. They aren’t _his_ kind of Christian, and God only cares about his kind of Christian. That’s not even remotely close to your interpretation. I did read the quote. Perhaps I should clarify, Pat is simply implying that _his_ God was voted out. so don’t turn to _his_ God for help in natural disasters. You probably would not consider Pat Robertson’s version of God your God, so you have nothing to worry about. He is stating a simple “fact” from his perspective based on his faith. ---
**Author:** ![HPL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3da27b/32.png) [@HPL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HPL)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2005, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-robertson-pit-thread-number-342-dover-watch-your-bloomin-arse/330474/87 "2005-11-11T21:06:50Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > It amazes me that an omnipotent and omnipresent being could be evicted by mere mortal vote. Why does God need an election? ---
**Author:** ![HPL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3da27b/32.png) [@HPL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HPL)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2005, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-robertson-pit-thread-number-342-dover-watch-your-bloomin-arse/330474/88 "2005-11-11T21:10:02Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > That’s why many gay activists insist that Fabulous Design Theory be taught alongside evolution. Can we get it taught in Kansas? After all, we need to “teach the controversy”. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2005, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-robertson-pit-thread-number-342-dover-watch-your-bloomin-arse/330474/89 "2005-11-11T21:13:22Z")
> [@HPL](#): > > Why does God need an election? Because we live in a democracy and this is God’s Country. Duh. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2005, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-robertson-pit-thread-number-342-dover-watch-your-bloomin-arse/330474/90 "2005-11-11T21:16:50Z")
> [@mrrealtime](#): > > I did read the quote. > > Perhaps I should clarify, Pat is simply implying that _his_ God was voted out. so don’t turn to _his_ God for help in natural disasters. You probably would not consider Pat Robertson’s version of God your God, so you have nothing to worry about. He is stating a simple “fact” from his perspective based on his faith. Okay, seriously: what the fuck are you talking about? Are you saying Pat Robertson is a polytheist? 'Cause I’m pretty sure Pat believes that his god is the only God. Or is this more of that tired, “Well, you can’t blame him for being a miserable bigoted asshole, because it’s part of his religion,” bullshit? Sorry, but believing in God isn’t an excuse for being a piece of shit, or acting like a moron. Pat does both regularly. The possibility that he’s getting his marching orders from the divine doesn’t alter that. ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2005, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-robertson-pit-thread-number-342-dover-watch-your-bloomin-arse/330474/91 "2005-11-11T21:34:30Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > It amazes me that an omnipotent and omnipresent being could be evicted by mere mortal vote. Votes? In Florida one Mayor can ban Satan without breaking a sweat! [http://www.sptimes.com/2002/01/29/TampaBay/Inglis\_\_Mayor\_acted\_a.shtml](http://www.sptimes.com/2002/01/29/TampaBay/Inglis__Mayor_acted_a.shtml) Regarding Pat: the idiot did not get the message that obviously God is now in favor of gay rights: In 1998 (Same year Pat posted the divine retribution against Orlando) the post-sandinista government of Nicaragua, not content on already passing more laws against sodomy, passed laws to the effect that it will not treat anybody with AIDS, even if they are paid up members of the National Health insurance program. While even then it was clear AIDS is not exclusively a gay disease, the prejudice that AIDS is a gay disease is still prevalent in Central America. And what happened in 1998? Hurricane Mitch destroyed Nicaragua and Orlando just got some showers. God is telling us something, but Pat is not listening. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2005, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-robertson-pit-thread-number-342-dover-watch-your-bloomin-arse/330474/92 "2005-11-11T21:34:47Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > God is queer? Huh. I guess that explains our fabulous universe. From the transcrips of the Falwell/Robertson 9/11 jerk off session: JERRY FALWELL: And, I know that I’ll hear from them for this. But, throwing God out successfully with the help of the federal court system, throwing God out of the public square, out of the schools. The abortionists have got to bear some burden for this because God will not be mocked. And when we destroy 40 million little innocent babies, we make God mad. I really believe that the pagans, and the abortionists, and the feminists, and the gays and the lesbians who are actively trying to make that an alternative lifestyle, the ACLU, People For the American Way – all of them who have tried to secularize America – I point the finger in their face and say “you helped this happen.” PAT ROBERTSON: Well, I totally concur, and the problem is we have adopted that agenda at the highest levels of our government. And so we’re responsible as a free society for what the top people do. And, the top people, of course, is the court system… ---
**Author:** ![NurseCarmen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5daacb/32.png) [@NurseCarmen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NurseCarmen)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2005, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-robertson-pit-thread-number-342-dover-watch-your-bloomin-arse/330474/93 "2005-11-11T21:37:18Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > **Butch**? Is that you? Ohmigod, they got **Butch**! Shields up! It’s not so bad Luci. I suddenly know what Taupe and Mauve are. Come along, and I’ll show you that Salmon looks nothing like what you’d see at the end of a line… ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2005, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-robertson-pit-thread-number-342-dover-watch-your-bloomin-arse/330474/94 "2005-11-11T21:38:39Z")
> [@NurseCarmen](#): > > It’s not so bad Luci. I suddenly know what Taupe and Mauve are. Come along, and I’ll show you that Salmon looks nothing like what you’d see at the end of a line… Mmmm, no, no thanks. But does this mean I can have all your power tools? ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2005, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-robertson-pit-thread-number-342-dover-watch-your-bloomin-arse/330474/95 "2005-11-11T21:45:51Z")
> [@HPL](#): > > Because if you think Pat Robertson sucks, you think God and Christnity sucks, you commie, athiest anti-american scum. Actually, George Bush [said](http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/11/AR2005111101116.html) a very close thing (in Pennsylvania, in fact) about politicians who challenge his presidency. > [@](#): > > The stakes in the global war on terror are too high, and the national interest is too important, for politicians to throw out false charges. These baseless attacks send the wrong signal to our troops and to an enemy that is questioning America’s will. As our troops fight a ruthless enemy determined to destroy our way of life, they deserve to know that their elected leaders who voted to send them to war continue to stand behind them. Our troops deserve to know that this support will remain firm when the going gets tough. And our troops deserve to know that whatever our differences in Washington, our will is strong, our nation is united, and we will settle for nothing less than victory. Of course how _he_ defines “baseless attacks” is a bit different from how most people would. I think a key tenant of **Fabulou** S!\*\* \*\*Design Theory is that the universe came into fashion not through random and unguided ways but with the aid of gifted designers from Rome, Paris, London, Hong Kong and New York, thus accounting for such wonders as the wonderful “distressed casual” look of Ethiopia, the stark minimal but elegant simplicity of the Middle East, the tasteful gaudiness of the rain forests and the basic black of most caves and basic white of the polar caps. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2005, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-robertson-pit-thread-number-342-dover-watch-your-bloomin-arse/330474/96 "2005-11-11T21:53:56Z")
> [@SteveG1](#): > > From the transcrips of the Falwell/Robertson 9/11 jerk off session: Thanks for that, but I’m a bit puzzled as to why you posted it. Perhaps my post whooshed you. Or yours did me. ---
**Author:** ![HPL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3da27b/32.png) [@HPL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HPL)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2005, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-robertson-pit-thread-number-342-dover-watch-your-bloomin-arse/330474/97 "2005-11-11T21:58:18Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > Because we live in a democracy and this is God’s Country. Duh. Isn’t God all powerful? Can’t he just arrange for all the “evolunists” to be eaten by chainsaw wielding monkeys or something? And why does he need Robertson to talk for him? Is God so short handed? Can’t God come down and tell us himself what he wants? Or pull a Constatine and have a big cross made of fire hover over Dover for a couple days and nights? ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2005, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-robertson-pit-thread-number-342-dover-watch-your-bloomin-arse/330474/98 "2005-11-11T22:00:58Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > It’s not so much that He has diplomatic immunity as that the process servers just can’t seem to find Him. That’s because he keeps moving in mysterious ways. ---
**Author:** ![HPL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3da27b/32.png) [@HPL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HPL)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2005, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-robertson-pit-thread-number-342-dover-watch-your-bloomin-arse/330474/99 "2005-11-11T22:03:30Z")
> [@GIGObuster](#): > > God is telling us something, but Pat is not listening. 🙂 Well, I do wonder why God keeps throwining Hurricanes at the Red states. Even when he hit NO, he missed the sinful part(The Quarter). Either God has really bad aim, God isn’t directing the hurricanes or God is trying to kill someone, but not those that Pat thinks he is. ---
**Author:** ![rayh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e79b87/32.png) [@rayh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rayh)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2005, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-robertson-pit-thread-number-342-dover-watch-your-bloomin-arse/330474/100 "2005-11-11T22:19:48Z")
Why does God need an erection? Because as far as i can tell he has only had sex once and she was still a virgin afterwards. What? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-robertson-pit-thread-number-342-dover-watch-your-bloomin-arse/330474.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-robertson-pit-thread-number-342-dover-watch-your-bloomin-arse/330474.md?page=6)