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Pat Robertson Cites ‘Angel Rape’ During Discussion Of NY Gay Marriage Law

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It has been a while since religious personality and serial end-of-the-world predictor Pat Robertson warned that God would smite America over things he didn’t like– since last January, from our records. This week, Robertson’s fear that America will be destroyed has been stirred by New York legalizing same-sex unions. On the 700 Club this week, Robertson reminded his audience that the last city known for homosexuality, Sodom, had residents willing to rape visiting angels.

“We need to remember the term sodomy came from a town that was known as Sodom, and Sodom was destroyed by God Almighty,” Robertson noted by way of explanation. Sodom’s sin, he noted, was “homosexual activity,” apparently a gateway drug to “tr[ying] to rape angels that came down there.” Robertson, to his credit (?), does note that the New Testament doesn’t really say anything about homosexuality in relation to Sodom’s destruction: “when [Jesus] spoke of Sodom, he didn’t say anything about the homosexuality. He talked about just the fact that business was as usual until God decided to destroy it.”

Despite ceding what appears to be a major point in that Jesus himself didn’t say anything about homosexuality regarding the destruction of this city, Robertson didn’t stop in making the analogy: “we’re heading that way as a nation.” Yes, statistically, Robertson argues we have little to no time left is America embraces alternative sexualities as naturally occurring and not heinous choices to engage in ungodly hedonism. “In history there’s never been a civilization, ever in history, that has embraced homosexuality and turned away from traditional fidelity, traditional marriage, traditional child-rearing and has survived.” The latter seems to require a bit of explanation– haven’t humans not been able to non-traditionally child-rear via artificial insemination for too short of a time in their history to really come to a conclusion on that one yet?– and the link between homosexuality and, say, “traditional fidelity” seems tenuous, at best.

In any case, Robertson concludes that “the same thing [as Sodom] is going to happen to us” should America continue on this path, because “we’re not exactly setting us up for His favor.”

The segment from The 700 Club below:


[h/t Towleroad]

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  • The Lantern of Truth

    Careful . Pat can do a 2,000 lb . leg press .

  • Nationman

    The Lantern of Truth said:
    Careful . Pat can do a 2,000 lb . leg press .

    and he’s never been wrong about predicting natural disasters.

  • http://www.snowspot.net Snowspot

    Is it rape if the angel is drunk?

  • LOGICandREASON

    Sodomy
    Homo-sexual
    Man to Man Sexual activity
    Sex with men by men
    Adam and Steve

    Something ties these terms together

  • Sanders Youth

    This old dude is looney tunes.

  • skyfet

    This guy needs to retire already, He should have been cursed years ago. Constant phony predictions should have been enough to send him to the asylum.

  • Nature Freak

    Pat Robertson just released a new statement:

    Pat now believes the Angels were to blame. The Angels were asking for it by dressing “provocatively”.

  • GuessWhoSuka

    Ahhh…….Angel rape…..that’s not good man……it’s mean…

  • Nature Freak

    At this point Pat Robertson probably believes he was a young boy living outside Sodom during those dark days.

    It is only a matter of time before Pat goes Harold Camping bat guano crazy. Take that to the bank.

    And people make fun of Scientology and Dianetics. Xenu makes as much or more sense than “angel rape”.

    In regards to an article posted last weekend here, I have heard angel rape is a problem in prisons.

  • Nature Freak

    LOGICandREASON said:
    Sodomy
    Homo-sexual
    Man to Man Sexual activity
    Sex with men by men
    Adam and Steve

    Something ties these terms together

    Father, why do these words sound so nasty?
    Masturbation
    Can be fun
    Join the holy orgy
    Kama Sutra
    Everyone!

  • http://TheDividedStatesBlog.com Publius219

    I thought he was dead

  • Nature Freak

    Snowspot said:
    Is it rape if the angel is drunk?

    Yes, If the Angel was drunk on Ambrosia or Soma, nectars of the Gods

    100 years in Dante’s Seventh Circle of Hell is the minimum punishment under sentencing guidelines.
    500 years if the defendant is not a natural born citizen of Sodom or Gomorrah.
    (source Vattel’s Law of Nations and Blackstone’s Commentaries)

  • Greg

    Makes Jeremiah Wright look like a hesitant Deacon.

  • Thelonious Funk

    Did you see the wings that angel was wearing? She was asking for it.

  • AmericaSucks

    LOGICandREASON said:
    Sodomy
    Homo-sexual
    Man to Man Sexual activity
    Sex with men by men
    Adam and Steve

    Something ties these terms together

    Yes: your dirty mind.

  • Greg

    LOGICandREASON said:
    Sodomy
    Homo-sexual
    Man to Man Sexual activity
    Sex with men by men
    Adam and Steve

    Something ties these terms together

    Prohibited in Bronze Age priestly text’s along with the consumption of shellfish?

  • Ronald McReagan

    What kind of pansy-assed angels can get overpowered and defiled by mere mortals?

  • Nature Freak

    Ronald McReagan said:
    What kind of pansy-assed angels can get overpowered and defiled by mere mortals?

    Some Angels loose their wings.

  • AmericaSucks

    What a shame it is that that big ball of suet-wrapped hatred, Jerry Falwell, didn’t keel over on top of Robertson and take him with him when he checked out. That would have been a great morning in America.

  • Ronald McReagan

    Nature Freak said:
    Some Angels loose their wings.

    Then they should ring some damn bells and get them back.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Bruce-Kennedy/1439463341 Bruce

    Nature Freak said:
    Yes, If the Angel was drunk on Ambrosia or Soma, nectars of the Gods

    100 years in Dante’s Seventh Circle of Hell is the minimum punishment under sentencing guidelines.
    500 years if the defendant is not a natural born citizen of Sodom or Gomorrah.
    (source Vattel’s Law of Nations and Blackstone’s Commentaries)

    What about underage Angels?

  • Nature Freak

    Bruce said:
    What about underage Angels?

    Those are known as Cherubs or Cherubim.

    Messing around with Cherubs is basically pedophilia.

    As for punishment, you think Hell is bad? Chris Hansen even feels sorry for those who mess with Cherubim.

  • CaptainAmerica

    Frances, the people of Soddom didn’t know they were Angels. And Lot even offered up his 2 virgin daughters to them, but they wanted the men.

  • CaptainAmerica

    Ronald McReagan said:
    What kind of pansy-assed angels can get overpowered and defiled by mere mortals?

    They weren’t. The angels blinded the men.

  • Nature Freak

    Ronald McReagan said:
    Then they should ring some damn bells and get them back.

    They’re fallen.
    And they can’t get their wings back up.
    Bells are useless at this point . So is Life Alert.
    It sucks being a fallen Angel.

  • Nature Freak

    CaptainAmerica said:
    Frances, the people of Soddom didn’t know they were Angels. And Lot even offered up his 2 virgin daughters to them, but they wanted the men.

    Lot had an incestuous relationship between his daughters. Lucky for Lot there were no Chris Hansen’s around in 1500 BCE.

    Lot was a pedophile. Look it up.

  • Nature Freak

    with his daughters.
    My Bad.

  • Call_Me_Ishmael

    “…I was a Flower of the mountain yes when I put the rose in my hair like the Andalusian girls used or shall I wear a red yes and how he kissed me under the Moorish wall and I thought well as well him as another and then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes to say yes my mountain flower and first I put my arms around him yes and drew him down to me so he could feel my breasts all perfume yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will Yes. ”
    – Pat Robertson as Ralph Spoilsport

  • Nature Freak

    On a serious note, I presume no one here actually believes this Sodom and Gomorrah story is literal.

    The Illiad and The Odessey are more factual and believable than Genesis

    BTW, Lots’ daughters may have been above the age of consent, so their relationship was perhaps only incestuous.

    The Rig Vida even makes way more sense than Genesis. Genesis is fascinating and is great science fiction as well as containing some lovely prose, it is a compilation of multiple authors and quite altered in a later date. And as a philosophical work it is lacking. Those crazy sky Gods!

    Google “Priestly source” “Jahwist” and “redactor”.

  • Nature Freak

    From the Song of Solomon.

    She
    12 While the king was at his table,
    my perfume spread its fragrance.
    13 My beloved is to me a sachet of myrrh
    resting between my breasts.
    14 My beloved is to me a cluster of henna blossoms
    from the vineyards of En Gedi.

    He
    15 How beautiful you are, my darling!
    Oh, how beautiful!
    Your eyes are doves.

    I find the Old and New Testaments beautiful collections of writings. Without the KJV English would be very different today.

    I would not base a modern worldwide civilization on the Bible, especially the Torah(the Torah is one of Man’s great literary works but in 2011 is past its prime). Shakespeare is beautiful but I still do not worship William’s collected plays. The New Testament does have some really good parts mixed in, but books like Revelation, which is meant to be allegorical (sorry Left Behinders), create problems.
    Enough, this is way to lengthy of a subject for me to dive into before bed.

    I apologize to any believers I have insulted. America is about freedom of religion and freedom of interpretation as well.

  • Nature Freak

    After all this “Gay” talk today, I changed my avatar to Catherine Zeta Jones. Even I have my limits.

  • mary1160

    FYI…If you consider yourself to be a follower of Christ yes, you do believe the bible. I will believe God before I believe humans lately. Lately we see nothing but slanderers, fibbers, and thieves in our government and media. The government unfortunately represents the people…or do they? If God states “Do not do it”, and Homosexuality is an abomination”, then I tend to believe it is not a very good idea to try it if you want God on your good side. God also said quite clearly to “kill” those who were committing homosexual acts. Of course today we would not even consider that (unless you’re a Muslim), and the best move would be to pray for those sinning such as homosexuals. But no, America must “celebrate” homosexuality and put it on a pedestal! We don’t happen to do that with any other sin do we? Well, we shall see how this pans out for those Americans who think this is no big deal. If God destroys towns where homosexuality is rampant I have to think we’re in for some righteous anger. And you thought global warming was bad…..

  • Nature Freak

    mary1160 said:

    If God states “Do not do it”, and Homosexuality is an abomination”, then I tend to believe it is not a very good idea to try it if you want God on your good side. God also said quite clearly to “kill” those who were committing homosexual acts.

    mary1160,

    Catherine Zeta Jones is my new sexy avatar….

    How much more to you want from Nature Freak? Please do not destroy my small Florida town. I will watch ESPN and read Tim Tebow’s new book until sunrise, then I will drive to Joe’s Mons Venus strip joint down in Tampa tomorrow afternoon. I promise on a stack of Bibles!

    I don’t want to turn into salt!

  • Nature Freak

    Let me redux this

    mary1160,
    Catherine Zeta Jones is my new sexy avatar….
    How much more to you want from Nature Freak? Please do not destroy my small Florida town. I will watch ESPN and read Tim Tebow’s new book until sunrise, then I will drive to Joe’s Mons Venus strip joint down in Tampa tomorrow afternoon. I promise on a stack of Bibles!

    I don’t want to turn into salt!
    I’m sorry………….

  • Yoda002

    I thought he was calling for the world to end back in May or was that someone else. It’s hard to keep track of these evangelical crazies out there.

  • Nature Freak

    mary1160,
    you say “God destroys towns where homosexuality is rampant ”

    Does watching Brazilian tranny porn count? Is that straight or gay? They look like women to me.
    Nature Freak is scared.

  • http://justplaythegame.us JustPlayTheGame

    Pat needs to worry about Pat and his diamond mines and let god handle the rest in his own way
    Im sure he got some words for Pat as well.

  • Nacho

    The angels didn’t call it rape. Now that they can look back on it, they just made a mistake, a lapse in judgment if you will…

  • justanotherconservative

    Nature Freak said:
    Let me redux this mary1160,Catherine Zeta Jones is my new sexy avatar….How much more to you want from Nature Freak? Please do not destroy my small Florida town. I will watch ESPN and read Tim Tebow’s new book until sunrise, then I will drive to Joe’s Mons Venus strip joint down in Tampa tomorrow afternoon. I promise on a stack of Bibles! I don’t want to turn into salt!I’m sorry………….

    you are not even funny.

  • Just4thefax

    Fact: Moral decay in loony liberal land is shown here on most of the Post before mine. When it’s at the end I wonder if they will repeat the same evil comments at the time when they themselves are judged. Pat is just trying to help and that’s it.

  • Cecelia

    Pat Robertson is the religious host of a show about religion.

    Religious belief WOULD naturally be the focus of the show…

    The 700 Club is not Meet The Press.

  • AmericaSucks

    Just4thefax said:
    Fact: Moral decay in loony liberal land is shown here on most of the Post before mine. When it’s at the end I wonder if they will repeat the same evil comments at the time when they themselves are judged. Pat is just trying to help and that’s it.

    This just in: no one is judging anybody. And if by some strange twist that judgement DOES happen, folks in your crew are really in for it. After all: judge not lest ye be judged.

    Moron.

  • Nature Freak

    Just4thefax said:
    Fact: Moral decay in loony liberal land is shown here on most of the Post before mine. When it’s at the end I wonder if they will repeat the same evil comments at the time when they themselves are judged. Pat is just trying to help and that’s it.

    If you actually believe Pat Robertson, even most of the conservatives on this site laugh in your face.

  • Nature Freak

    Just4thefax said:
    Fact: Moral decay in loony liberal land is shown here on most of the Post before mine. When it’s at the end I wonder if they will repeat the same evil comments at the time when they themselves are judged. Pat is just trying to help and that’s it.

    I rather spend eternity in Hell than be in some sort of pseudo Heaven with people like yourself and Cecelia.

  • Nature Freak

    justanotherconservative said:
    you are not even funny.

    Yes I am.
    Bite me.

  • Nature Freak

    Nature Freak said:
    I rather spend eternity in Hell than be in some sort of pseudo Heaven with people like yourself and Cecelia.

    Cecelia, I recently read one of your posts. I apologize for mentioning your name here. Please forgive me.

    Nature Freak

  • Just Like This

    Not only does Jesus not say it, the entire Bible *never* says that homosexuality was the problem in Sodom.

    Instead, it says that Sodom was destroyed because they were greedy: they were conservative Republicans.

    Now this was the sin of your sister Sodom: She and her daughters were arrogant, overfed and unconcerned; they did not help the poor and needy. – Ezekiel 16:40

    Isaiah chapter 1 says the same thing. This whole anti-gay thing is nothing but slander.

  • Just Like This

    Even the Genesis account says ALL the people of Sodom wanted to meet the angels. That means women, and children too for that matter.

    Why on Earth would people think that meant homosexuality?

    The most reasonable interpretation is that they thought Lot was lying when he said he had angels in his house who were going to destroy them. It was an angry mob – not an issue of sexuality, and not even rape, any more than “F* you” means rape.

  • http://none pyrope

    Sad.

  • Wayne Harropson

    Pat is right, but I have another take.  I wrote an artical called “Gay Marrage is Covetousness” http://dl.dropbox.com/u/31276689/Gay%20Marriage%20is%20Covetousness3.docx

  • Anonymous

    Pro Tip:  “Breaking near sacred guest laws to gang-rape one of God’s messengers” =/= “homosexuality”

    No, really.  I double-checked the Bible and several definitive dictionaries.  The definition of homosexuality doesn’t overlap with that at all.  And the boy needs to learn to choose the right passages if he wants to condemn homosexuality or whatever.  And if he’s going to call America names, calling us the new Rome or Babylon would be more effective and less … hilariously confusing.

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