During yet another shameful episode of the 700 Club, which runs on Disney-owned channel ABC Family, Robertson received an email from a woman who claimed that her grandson disrespects their Christian faith when they visit their daughter on Christmas and chose not to visit this past year.
"We declined going to our daughter's house on Christmas this year because there is always an argument, hard feelings etc.," viewer Karen wrote.
"One grandchild comes high on marijuana, cursing and challenging our faith. I correct him and have told my daughter to ask him to respect our beliefs, but he keeps it up. Our daughter say she is a Christian but will drink too much and offend her daughter and her husband. Were we wrong to not to attend another Christmas that leaves us upset or someone angry? I have shared my beliefs many times with them and am ridiculed by this grandson and son-in-law."Robertson's immediate solution? Beat the child until he respects Christianity.
"Somebody take that kid to the woodshed and let him understand the blessings of discipline," Robertson advised before predicting that the kid would end up in prison if a strong male figure didn't start beating him right away.
"He needs a strong male figure. He's going to wind up in a correctional institution, and the next thing you know, he's going to be doing hard time in some prison. And then he would wish he wasn't such a smart, you know, wise guy. Because he'll be disciplined in a way that he'll never forget in some prison... He needs discipline in the worst possible way."
Here's the video via YouTube.
One solution Pat Robertson conveniently didn't mention is for Karen to stop bringing up religion at her daughter's home. She says she has "shared her beliefs many times with them" and admits that it always causes an argument. Well, there's her problem. Stop trying to force your beliefs upon your daughter's family and the arguments will probably cease. It's not that people are offended by someone just because they practice a certain religion, they just tend to get offended when someone tries to force those beliefs onto them. By doing this, Karen is inviting arguments, hard feelings, and ridicule from family members who don't want to be preached to during a holiday or any other day of the year for that matter.
Robertson's solution is not only cruel, it constitutes child abuse, which is against the law. Beating a child into respecting a religious belief is the very definition of indoctrination and violates the constitutional rights of the abused.
Robertson's call for beating kids into religious submission is similar to a Glenn Beck rant from 2013 when he also advocated for parents to physically abuse their kids until they believe in God. Just two years earlier, fundamentalist Christian parents beat their nine kids in the name of God. One child actually died from the abuse. Telling religious extremists to beat their kids is a very dangerous thing to do, and if any religious parents beat their kids like Robertson is advising, he should be charged as an accessory to child abuse.
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Anyone arrogant enough to reject the verdict of the judge or of the priest who represents the LORD your God must be put to death. Such evil must be purged from Israel. (Deuteronomy 17:12 NLT)
Kill Witches
You should not let a sorceress live. (Exodus 22:17 NAB)
Kill Homosexuals
"If a man lies with a male as with a women, both of them shall be put to death for their abominable deed; they have forfeited their lives." (Leviticus 20:13 NAB)
Kill Fortunetellers
A man or a woman who acts as a medium or fortuneteller shall be put to death by stoning; they have no one but themselves to blame for their death. (Leviticus 20:27 NAB)
Death for Hitting Dad
Whoever strikes his father or mother shall be put to death. (Exodus 21:15 NAB)
Death for Cursing Parents
1) If one curses his father or mother, his lamp will go out at the coming of darkness. (Proverbs 20:20 NAB)
2) All who curse their father or mother must be put to death. They are guilty of a capital offense. (Leviticus 20:9 NLT)
Death for Adultery
If a man commits adultery with another man's wife, both the man and the woman must be put to death. (Leviticus 20:10 NLT)
Death for Fornication
A priest's daughter who loses her honor by committing fornication and thereby dishonors her father also, shall be burned to death. (Leviticus 21:9 NAB)
Death to Followers of Other Religions
Whoever sacrifices to any god, except the Lord alone, shall be doomed. (Exodus 22:19 NAB)
Kill Nonbelievers
They entered into a covenant to seek the Lord, the God of their fathers, with all their heart and soul; and everyone who would not seek the Lord, the God of Israel, was to be put to death, whether small or great, whether man or woman. (2 Chronicles 15:12-13 NAB)
Kill False Prophets
If a man still prophesies, his parents, father and mother, shall say to him, "You shall not live, because you have spoken a lie in the name of the Lord." When he prophesies, his parents, father and mother, shall thrust him through. (Zechariah 13:3 NAB)
Kill the Entire Town if One Person Worships Another God
Suppose you hear in one of the towns the LORD your God is giving you that some worthless rabble among you have led their fellow citizens astray by encouraging them to worship foreign gods. In such cases, you must examine the facts carefully. If you find it is true and can prove that such a detestable act has occurred among you, you must attack that town and completely destroy all its inhabitants, as well as all the livestock. Then you must pile all the plunder in the middle of the street and burn it. Put the entire town to the torch as a burnt offering to the LORD your God. That town must remain a ruin forever; it may never be rebuilt. Keep none of the plunder that has been set apart for destruction. Then the LORD will turn from his fierce anger and be merciful to you. He will have compassion on you and make you a great nation, just as he solemnly promised your ancestors. "The LORD your God will be merciful only if you obey him and keep all the commands I am giving you today, doing what is pleasing to him." (Deuteronomy 13:13-19 NLT)
I'm keeping that little selection handy because if it ever does come in handy it'll carry the day.
I've always disliked that smiting, blighting, jealous, hateful, misogynist of curmudgeon in a chair in the sky and this is the icing on that particular little cupcake . . .
Not that I'm a christian myself, but why the previous religion is allowed to parasitize on the body of its replacement, a completely different creed, has always puzzled me.
While other religions, hindu, zoroastrianism, etc, may have absorbed many of the beliefs and history of those they have replaced, I don't think any of them have ever carried them on their backs as their explicit foundation like christianity has had to.
The christian god and the jewish god are the same god. Same as the muslim god. You do realise this right? God of Abraham?
Was wondering if anyone else actually 'read' the bible.
This is why I refer to the god of Abraham as a bloodthirsty very humane faulted individual hardly divine and not worth worship, well...part of it anyway. Sound like peace, love, and tolerance to you?
Yes, of course, they originate from abram's god (as, perhaps, did the Brahmin's). I should have been clearer. But the ethos and the personality of the jews and christians' god are very different. The jews don't automatically and in everycase attach the new testement to their pentateuch, nor the muslims do the same to their koran. (And yes I realise that the koran does cover parts of the story of jesus, but it's very much their version of events, not the new testement's).
How come 'our' (europe's, the west's) christian religion comes with the jewish religion glued on, no questions asked?
Do the greek and russian and/or coptic christian bibles do the same?
I wanted to reply to this in a separate box.
As a typesetter, several years ago we were setting a new english translation of the Navarre (spanish catholic) bible
I was doing genesis and decided to actually read it, as well as just set it.
It was a stunning and very disconcerting eye-opener.
It is a foul book, describes a foul god, invented by a foul people. Masters of spin, propaganda and the historical record.
Used to justify and excuse their own foul deeds of murder, theft, rape and worse, to further their ambitions, and most of all to deceive and control most of 'us', those who possess an innate and natural sense and awe of the numinous, those who truly do believe in the power of love, a belief in Good (sic), too easily brought up to believe the BS spin that that is what the bible and its god is truly about. That's why it was a capital offence to translate it into english.
I have little time for the myths of judaism and christianity, but much for the people who in all sincerity believe that these deceivers are what they claim to be, and the cultures and art and music that their devotion has created.
I think that the psychopaths who have always been with us need the tie that binds, religion, as a place to put those whose decency, kindness, sincerity, honesty and true humanity would otherwise see them consigned to the dustbin of evolutionary history.
This from the man who said God sent the Haiti earthquake to punish the 'devil worshippers' who were practicing voodoo. Plus many other offensive things throughout the years. What a waste of flesh.
The Unholy Alliance - Christianity and The NWO [Link]
Does this guy look like one of God's little jolly leprechauns? Albeit now, too, with the wisdom brought about by advancing age?
Or what?
What an inspirational character.
He should write a book and appear on tv and radio.
Make that an abundance of books and several tv and radio shows.
Let's make this man rich and powerful.
And then make sure he stays that way.
signed,
those with more power and richer even, than Mr. Happy-Go-Lucky aka 'another useful retard'
fair is fair after all...Hammurabi's laws
Proverbs 15:18 ESV
"A hot-tempered man stirs up strife, but he who is slow to anger quiets contention"
Monotheism isn't religion & I find it disgusting to hear those variations being described as such. Human beings seem to have an innate connection to "God" anyway, by virtue of what makes humans human (or homo sapien sapiens human if you like), i.e. conscience & empathy.
Being sociable creatures with "higher centres" that move in conjunction with the the brain & nervous system (+ immune system) & building tribes villages, cities - networks - shows that any successful society would have a natural (though likely limited) understanding of themselves & their environments. Knowledge building/gathering & dispersal would be the norm & people WOULD be religious without having to slap a classification on it. IOW, you wouldn't have to call it religion because it IS WHAT IT IS.
People would be healthy & strong & would be able to develop themselves by having "TIME" to do so & would probably also be caretakers for the flora & fauna of this world as well as each other. This would mean that humanity would GROW into whatever it could that follows the path of CREATION & NOT destruction, a group of potent cells that carries a certain code & a potent charge for a larger creative structure within the universe? One thing I know is that LIFE , IS RELIGION, monotheism, (mind "control" - indoctrination, dogma, psychopathy) most certainly, IS NOT.
Its beyound me why these religious defensive types keep coming to a site that as Pinkfreud said, keeps pissing them off. Maybe thats their high? I have noticed here and on the forum some "very strange" characters. I gues Iits... The signs of the times...we are in.
If you don't like the site then simply go back to google and keep searching.