Televangelist Robertson Likely Possessed By Satan
by Valerie Tarico
It appears that televangelist Pat Robertson is in the thrall of Satan, according to spiritual warriors, Drs. Valerie Tarico and Marlene Winell. "It's the only possible explanation," said Tarico. "How else can we make sense of his repeated attempts to humiliate both God and Christianity in the wake of recent natural disasters."
Tarico spotted what she saw as a suspicious pattern after Robertson's recent remarks about Haiti. As people lay dying in the rubble of Tuesday's tragic earthquake and nations around the world scrambled disaster experts, Robertson spoke to the Christian Broadcasting Network's "The 700 Club:" "Something happened a long time ago in Haiti, and people might not want to talk about it," "They were under the heel of the French. You know, Napoleon III, or whatever. And they got together and swore a pact to the Devil. They said, we will serve you if you'll get us free from the French. True story. And so, the Devil said, okay it's a deal." Robertson summed it up: "Ever since, they have been cursed by one thing after the other."
Could this be the work of any old run-of-the-mill demon? "Christians aren't perfect, just forgiven," said Tarico. "When Robertson blamed the Katrina disaster on God, and said He was punishing those poor gray-haired Black people for the sins of their gay neighbors, I thought it might just be human error. All we like sheep have gone astray, you know. Let he who is without sin cast the first stone. But suddenly, when I read Robertson's remarks about Haiti, it was like a light blazed down from heaven and a voice spake saying, 'Behold, the Father of Lies.' I picked up the phone and called the only person more familiar with these problems than I am, Dr. Marlene Winell. She confirmed my worst fears."
We spoke with Dr. Winell in her Bay Area office. "Demons need a host, and they can jump from one person to another," she explained. "We know this because Jesus cast demons out of a possessed man and into a herd of pigs. The pigs drowned themselves, the same kind of self-destructive behavior we are seeing in Mr. Robertson. It is possible that he was infected at or around the funeral of Dr. Jerry Falwell. In hindsight we can see that Dr. Falwell was possessed by a similar--possibly the same-- demon."
Back in 2001, when the U.S. was reeling from the Twin Tower bombings, Falwell horrified Christians around the world by blaming the disaster on gays and woman who have had abortions. "The abortionists have got to bear some burden for this because God will not be mocked," Falwell said on The 700 Club television show. "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.'"
Could this be the work of any old run-of-the-mill demon? "I doubt it," said Winell. "Those remarks were broadcast to an enormous audience. Probably tens of thousands of people were turned off of Christianity and the Christian God. I think this is an organized media strategy by Satan himself. We're talking about Beelzebub, the Father of Lies. He's a marketing genius. This is the snake that sold Adam and Eve an apple in trade for paradise."
Winell went on to remind us that "Sarah Palin, as a prominent Christian could easily have been possessed by Satan, like Roberts, but she is deeply vigilant about spiritual warfare. She had the foresight to allow an African Minister to pray over her for protection against witchcraft. Now would be the time for Palin to help Robertson. With her connections, she could arrange an exorcism and then get him the same protection treatment." **
Our reporter pointed out that similar comments have been made by Islamic leaders about natural disasters: "A Saudi professor at Al-Imam University said the devastating tsunami that killed over 150,000 people was Allah's punishment for homosexuality and fornication at Christmastime."These great tragedies and collective punishments that are wiping out villages, towns, cities, and even entire countries are Allah's punishments of the people of these countries, even if they are Muslims," said sheik Fawzan Al-Fawzan. "
Both Tarico and Winell saw this as confirmation of their hypothesis. To quote Tarico, "'Anyone who listens to Reverend Hagee knows that Muslim leaders are controlled by Satan himself. And now you tell me they have been using words that are virtually identical to those of Falwell and Robertson?! Fawzan Al . . . It sounds a lot like Falwell, doesn't it. Look no further."
**Friends of Sarah Palin interested in helping Pat Robertson and defending the honor of Christianity can post this article on her wall at http://www.facebook.com/sarahpalin.
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Marlene Winell is a psychologist and writer in Oakland, California. She is the author of Leaving the Fold: A Guide for Former Fundamentalists and Others Leaving Their Religion. She has a psychotherapy practice and works with people recovering from toxic religion. Valerie Tarico is a psychologist and writer in Seattle, Washington. She is the author of The Dark Side: How Evangelical Teachings Corrupt Love and Truth, and the founder of www.WisdomCommons.org
It appears that televangelist Pat Robertson is in the thrall of Satan, according to spiritual warriors, Drs. Valerie Tarico and Marlene Winell. "It's the only possible explanation," said Tarico. "How else can we make sense of his repeated attempts to humiliate both God and Christianity in the wake of recent natural disasters."
Tarico spotted what she saw as a suspicious pattern after Robertson's recent remarks about Haiti. As people lay dying in the rubble of Tuesday's tragic earthquake and nations around the world scrambled disaster experts, Robertson spoke to the Christian Broadcasting Network's "The 700 Club:" "Something happened a long time ago in Haiti, and people might not want to talk about it," "They were under the heel of the French. You know, Napoleon III, or whatever. And they got together and swore a pact to the Devil. They said, we will serve you if you'll get us free from the French. True story. And so, the Devil said, okay it's a deal." Robertson summed it up: "Ever since, they have been cursed by one thing after the other."
Could this be the work of any old run-of-the-mill demon? "Christians aren't perfect, just forgiven," said Tarico. "When Robertson blamed the Katrina disaster on God, and said He was punishing those poor gray-haired Black people for the sins of their gay neighbors, I thought it might just be human error. All we like sheep have gone astray, you know. Let he who is without sin cast the first stone. But suddenly, when I read Robertson's remarks about Haiti, it was like a light blazed down from heaven and a voice spake saying, 'Behold, the Father of Lies.' I picked up the phone and called the only person more familiar with these problems than I am, Dr. Marlene Winell. She confirmed my worst fears."
We spoke with Dr. Winell in her Bay Area office. "Demons need a host, and they can jump from one person to another," she explained. "We know this because Jesus cast demons out of a possessed man and into a herd of pigs. The pigs drowned themselves, the same kind of self-destructive behavior we are seeing in Mr. Robertson. It is possible that he was infected at or around the funeral of Dr. Jerry Falwell. In hindsight we can see that Dr. Falwell was possessed by a similar--possibly the same-- demon."
Back in 2001, when the U.S. was reeling from the Twin Tower bombings, Falwell horrified Christians around the world by blaming the disaster on gays and woman who have had abortions. "The abortionists have got to bear some burden for this because God will not be mocked," Falwell said on The 700 Club television show. "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.'"
Could this be the work of any old run-of-the-mill demon? "I doubt it," said Winell. "Those remarks were broadcast to an enormous audience. Probably tens of thousands of people were turned off of Christianity and the Christian God. I think this is an organized media strategy by Satan himself. We're talking about Beelzebub, the Father of Lies. He's a marketing genius. This is the snake that sold Adam and Eve an apple in trade for paradise."
Winell went on to remind us that "Sarah Palin, as a prominent Christian could easily have been possessed by Satan, like Roberts, but she is deeply vigilant about spiritual warfare. She had the foresight to allow an African Minister to pray over her for protection against witchcraft. Now would be the time for Palin to help Robertson. With her connections, she could arrange an exorcism and then get him the same protection treatment." **
Our reporter pointed out that similar comments have been made by Islamic leaders about natural disasters: "A Saudi professor at Al-Imam University said the devastating tsunami that killed over 150,000 people was Allah's punishment for homosexuality and fornication at Christmastime."These great tragedies and collective punishments that are wiping out villages, towns, cities, and even entire countries are Allah's punishments of the people of these countries, even if they are Muslims," said sheik Fawzan Al-Fawzan. "
Both Tarico and Winell saw this as confirmation of their hypothesis. To quote Tarico, "'Anyone who listens to Reverend Hagee knows that Muslim leaders are controlled by Satan himself. And now you tell me they have been using words that are virtually identical to those of Falwell and Robertson?! Fawzan Al . . . It sounds a lot like Falwell, doesn't it. Look no further."
**Friends of Sarah Palin interested in helping Pat Robertson and defending the honor of Christianity can post this article on her wall at http://www.facebook.com/sarahpalin.
__________________________________
Marlene Winell is a psychologist and writer in Oakland, California. She is the author of Leaving the Fold: A Guide for Former Fundamentalists and Others Leaving Their Religion. She has a psychotherapy practice and works with people recovering from toxic religion. Valerie Tarico is a psychologist and writer in Seattle, Washington. She is the author of The Dark Side: How Evangelical Teachings Corrupt Love and Truth, and the founder of www.WisdomCommons.org
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Anybody up for writing a version of this that does not quote anybody recognizable as an atheist?
I think Pat Robertson has some sort of new geriatric mental illness, sub-heading dementia. Only this one has delusions of grandeur. Oh I've got is! Some demon is eating away at his brain and must be released via holes in the head. lol Just kidding. I would never really want to see anyone go through such a primitive and superstitious procedure.
I think tens of thousands of intelligent people will get turned off Christianity when they read this rubbish!
I can hear some detractor in the Bible Belt sniping, "Her words are clever, but I bet you she can't turn a shepherd's staff into a snake. So there!"
My ex-mother-in-law said that Mary was interceding for us but "more prayer was needed to avert the tragedy" or something like this. Yes, I even have attended the mass where one of the "children" (now adult) tells us what Mary is saying to us through him. I expected to feel something in that room or a imperceivable sensation as I knelt for 20 minutes, but nothing. Just a pain in my knees.
The Xtian nature of God always confounds me; "God is love." "God is slow to anger and abounding in kindness." And yet when something awful happens--a fire, a hurricane, or earthquake--"He works in mysterious ways." That makes no sense. What makes even less sense is when people attribute these natural disasters to his anger; they are called NATURAL by their very definitions-not God's vengeance.
If one is to follow the flawed logic here, I assume that all nations lying on a fault-line, sitting by a large body of water/volcano, or near mountains can expect the wrath of god to be frequent..it has nothing to do with the proximity to dangerous geography, right?
Dear Father God Jesus, We ask thee in your Holy Name to remove Satan and his league of sinful angels from the confines of Brother Robertson's sick and deluded mind. We know he has constant thoughts of the same sex and molestation of little children constantly flowing in his sick and perverted mind. We know that only through the name of JESUS can we remove the evil and wickedness that dwells in Brother Robertsons demented mind...Out with you Devil!....Come out you bastard, Satan!!! Spill out that ole demon!!! Thank you JEBUS!!!!
How anyone can take that jackass serious is beyond me!
You can bet he won't go down there to Haiti and get his pretty fingernails dirty or his pretty shoes dirty either or mess up his pretty beauty parlor hair out of place up either.
How is this for delusional? This is well worth reading, for it show you how much contempt modern Christianity really has for the individual. This Pastor actually says all humans deserve to die!
http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/guestvoices/2010/01/haiti_and_earthquake_theology.html
This is a key excerpt:
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Evil and suffering constitute prima facie evidence that there is a God. The fact that we even care about such things in the world argues strongly for the existence of God...
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How is that for a load of BS. Christianity defines particular activity as "evil" and then claims that its existence proves God exists.
BTW, this is the same guy who wants $130 million to build his temple in downtown Dallas, Texas. I will be shocked if he finds enough saps to pay for his temple.
The bitter, cynical, and generally more accurate half of me thinks it's along the lines of, "Please God, we love you. We didn't mean to make you angry. Please don't hit us again; we don't like it when we make you hurt us."
After that comment, he'll probably raise twice that amount in the next week. He's giving his flock exactly what they want to hear; make them feel better without having to think too much.
Here it is:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dS91gT3XT_A
Here it is:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dS91gT3XT_A
family, divorced her husband Bob Green in 1980. Aren't Xians not
supposed to do that? Maybe if she had paid more attention to her
marriage and less time persecuting those whose "crime" was simply
having a different sexual orientation it might have worked out
differently.
Watching CNN today, and watching the Haitian's give praise to " God ", and thanking him ( ! ) just reinforces my dismay over just how powerful that " Jesus drug " really is. It's just sad.
phenomenon.
I always enjoy reading your contributions to this website.
Damn pat is a fucking idiot. If people 200 or whatever years ago made a pack with satan why didn't god kill those people then? The flawed logic of the megalomaniacal xians scares me.
In short, they take a trip to la-la-land.
:-)
The xian mind-virus, from which PR suffers is not a geriatric mental illness, but can strike at almost any time of life.
Sad, but true.
;o(((
I suppose it makes sense, as certain entrenched, but previously suppressed opinions/beliefs are expressed as the bitterness of failure colours their feelings of worthlessness and strengthens their anger at their god's lack of real interest.
Hence, they feel the need to create ludicrous and logically impossible scenarios as PR has recently done.
Yes, the syndrome becomes clearer and more inevitable in the geriatric/senile xian, the more I think about it. Thank you for bringing it to my attnetion - I look forward to reading your paper on the subject when you publish.
;o()
David
that pact with the devil, but he was so far behind schedule with his
mass annihilations in other parts of the world, he didn't get around
to it until this year.
With your musical prowess and my past association with con-men preachers and evangelists, I'll bet we could put together a real money making ministry (hey, 3M ministries....catchy).
We could be multi-millionaires within months!
Of course we would have to become completely, despicable pieces of shit.............yeah, I guess I'll pass.
How's it going in China?
XPD (Ex-Pastor Dan)
My mom's convinced Satan is using the media to make Christians look bad. After all, the only time they quote Robertson is when he's says something insensitive. When he's says something smart (she didn't give an example) they ignore him. See it's all part of the media's liberal bias against Christians! This just proves Christians are the real victim here (as always).
Don't believe me. Believe the word of GOD!
Everything she says sounds like an attempt to 'mask' or 'cover over' what the actual question was that was posed to her.
She constantly tries to divert the attention via her comments with deception. And yes, I know that is a typical politician 'thing'. But Sarah does it in a manner that is so above stupidity that one wonders... is she 'really' saying that?
Also -- why do these “Evangelicals” (who, by the way have hijacked
the Christian ‘Faith’ in America from those who most would call
'the TRUE Followers of Christ' — making it into a “religion” of
both ‘worshipping-mammon and legislating-morality’) seem
to arrogantly think that God is so ready and willing to “punish
America for all the aborted babies” — and YET also somehow
manage to believe that God is (perfectly accepting of and)
NOT at all willing to “punish America for any of the …?
1) American Indians murdered for their land;
2) People (of all “races”) held in slavery (chattel,
indentured-servitude, debt, wage, etc.) in the nation;
3) Abused and exploited vulnerable people
(children, women, elderly, sickly, poor, etc.)
3) Rape and destruction of the ecology
(not to mention corporate-welfare
at the expense of the most needy);
4) Miscarriages of justice in the courts;
5) etc. and so on.” ?!?!?!?!
Why do they honestly (and arrogantly — not to
mention ‘unscripturally’) think that God is ONLY
concerned with the things that “bother them”?!?!?!
In my opinion — those aborted fetuses will have a long line
of OTHER INJUSTICES (MADE AGAINST MANY OTHER
GROUPS IN AMERICA) to stand behind — before they get
their chance to present their “demands to God for justice”.
Also — why does it seem that the very same people who are
against gender right’s, reproductive rights; sexual rights;
work wage rights, education rights; social rights; equality
rights; etc. — often seem to have ‘no problem’ at all with
the many other SAD FACTS ABOUT AMERICA (such as
the past slavery/segregation-system; the destruction of
98% of the indigenous-people of the land; etc. and so
on -- NONE OF WHICH the nation, as a whole, nor
any of it's leadership has EVER repented of; asked
God to forgive/pardon; or attempted to 'make amends').
Seriously … talk about cherry-picking of ‘abominations’!
They are simply Unbelieveable !!!!
.
Amen!!!
If Christ walked the earth today - those so-called
Evangelical "christians" would be the-first-in-line to
shun, persecute, discriminate against & crucify Him
-- "after all (they'd say to each other) ... He's asking
for it ... just look at the kind of people He has the
gall to see as call His friends, to care about and
openly associate with -- fornicators, adulterers,
non-religious people; the disabled, poor people,
foreigners, immigrants, gay people, single people,
women, people with kids; & maybe even worse."
Never in my life have I witnessed a more non-Christian
(i.e. non-'Christ-like') and more 'anti-Christ' (i.e. against
Christ) group than the infamous Evangelicals (who have
literally hijacked that particular 'faith'; raped it of it's true
purpose; robbed it of it's truths; & maimed it to the point
that it's unrecognizable as anything associated with Christ).
They are about the worst, most hypocritical people that I
have ever encountered -- and to answer their question of
"What Would Jesus DO?" -- I can tell them one thing that
I am sure He would NOT do and that's associate Himself
with the Evangelicals found in the U.S. & western world.
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The bitter, cynical, and generally more accurate half of me thinks it's along the lines of, "Please God, we love you. We didn't mean to make you angry. Please don't hit us again; we don't like it when we make you hurt us."
I always enjoy reading your contributions to this website.
Anybody up for writing a version of this that does not quote anybody recognizable as an atheist?
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