This past summer it was Tom Cruise and his " You don’t know the history of Physciatry."
Now it’s " Jesus with a Glock " by Pat Robertson.
New looney. New Tune.
I think Pat’s right.
I think we should give Pat Robertson a gun and send him down there to do the job.
The 700 Club has been around for…how many years now?
-Joe
Oops. Slipped up there.
How is it that, still, the only thing you can say is “But a Democrat…”.
I mean, fuck, get a new game already.
-Joe
Are you kidding? That was hardly meant as a criticism of JFK. It was simply the most obvious example I could think of. Don’t be so thin-skinned. I’m sure a Republican president has tried to have someone assassinated, OK?
For the same reason he created boogers.
I cringe at the amount of play Robertson is getting for this. I want to reassure our foreign readership that while Pat Robertson may have been a semi-serious political figure at one time, he has been widely regarded as a crazy old fart for at least the last 10 years.
Actually, 35 AD would be a bit early. Current estimates are that maybe one of the gospels were written by somebody who actually met Jesus.
I personally believe there are truths in the bible and they generally got the events right( I think a number of things we can be reasonably sure about, such as the crucifixion), but many of the details are at best, mistakes that invariably crop up in any oral retelling that was written down a generation after events occured.
Maggie shot Mr. Burns.So, I’m sure Jesus could do anything he wanted, including microwave a buritto so hot that he could not eat it.
The 700 Club - Sweeps In - Tremendous Ratings Growth
Why the increase?
To outwit potential harmful substances trying to enter the corpus?
Kythereia
No you don’t agree with me at all, because I never said anything of the sort. My theology is not flawed however.
If I were the baby Jesus, I would totally will King Herod’s head to pop. Show him who’s the true OG.
Erek
Aww, MAN! Now the extremism smells funny!
Unlike Robertson, I’m sorry about my Jesus mistake. Apparently I mixed up that movie with Vampire Hunter D or something.
OK, I’ll give you the first part, it’s an easy misunderstanding. But:
(emphasis mine)
That’s the big difference? The big difference between God and Lucifer, in Christian mythology, is that God is good and Lucifer is bad. Period. Jesus, whether he was a hippie freak or Messiah or what have you, wasn’t evil–he can’t be the avatar of Lucifer.
Plus, Lucifer didn’t end up on earth after he was cast out, he landed down in hell. Jesus went down to earth and was born of Mary for the very specific purpose of saving mankind from Adam and Eve’s original sin–he wasn’t tossed out.
Ummm no… there’s a huge difference between “believing” something is true, and actually being able to prove it empirically. As Mark Twain once noted… faith is believing what you know aint so…
Eh… blah blah blah. Just get your head around the following, OK? When you use the words “when in fact” on the Straight Dope Messageboard, a shitload of people are gonna jump down your throat with the word “Cite?” in just one nanosecond. And on the SDMB, it doesn’t pass the muster to say “It’s a fact because I (and a shitload of other people) believe it’s true.”
For example, there are Holocaust Deniers who believe that the Holocaust was a huge Jewish Conspiracy. Just coz they believe it to be true doesn’t make it so. Faith is nothing more than wishful thinking - a belief system that something you’d LIKE TO BE TRUE actually is.
Ultimately it makes little difference to me if you personally deny that, or you can accept it - but in the interests of fairness, just ponder the following… what makes you think that YOUR version of faith is any more correct than some Muslim in Rhiyadh for example? Seriously? The Bible, the Koran. They’re both simply social constructs designed to uphold a certain moral culture which manifested itself by accident at various times in human evolution. They’re still based on centuries of handwritten layers of translation, oral discourse, and reinterpretation. Each of us are products of the cultures we grew up in. It’s the height of arrogance, in my opinion, to believe that MY personal version of faith is the ONLY one which counts. To do such a thing is the emodiment of intolerance.
In short, believe what you will… but don’t dare tell us it’s a “fact”. You’re entitled to your faiths, to your beliefs. However, the moment you start telling me that your beliefs are “Facts” is the moment you start to belittle MY beliefs - and that’s when you lose respect. I’m happy to concede I might be wrong - but you’re not. That’s difference between us.
Most amusing!
You condemn Robertson’s call for murder by calling for the murder of Robertson himself (“Same to you, Pat Robertson”), and then claim you’re stunned at the hypocrisy.
Proof, firsthand, that Jimmy Kimmel gets his jokes from Guin.
*** Actually Jimmy Kimmel is my favorite
Don’t miss “Jesus & Hutch”, a short film that pops up occasionally on late-night cable.
“Jesus…he’s back, he’s mad and he’s got a gun!”
At least the admin has made a comment.
http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/08/23/robertson.chavez/index.html
Kind of weak, but better then nothing I suppose.
One sec, there’s a quota?
I though Jesus said you had to accept him into your heart and let your deeds follow your words to be saved. I’m sure more than 144,000 have done that in the last 2000 years.
How are the 144,000 chosen? Is there a ranking? Is it by lot?
Will St. Peter be at the pearly gates turning people away saying, “I know you did everything right, and spent your life spreading the gospel and in the service of the poor, but your number just didn’t come up. Here’s your lake of fire. Enjoy.”