On Monday’s 700 Club, Robertson responded to a viewer who wanted to know if she should bless purchases from Goodwill before bringing them home because her mother said that demons could "attach themselves to material items."
Robertson recalled a story about a "witch who had prayed over a particular ring and asked for a spirit to come into it." And then when a girl purchased the ring, "all hell broke loose."
"Can demonic spirits attach themselves to inanimate objects? The answer is yes," the TV preacher explained. "But I don’t think that every sweater you get from Goodwill has demons in it."
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Demons now? I only thought I had to worry about bed bugs.
And then when a girl purchased the ring, "all hell broke loose.
No, but she did have a problem with the Nazgûl pestering her.
Why is Pat an expert on anything? Why are people writing to him with questions, like he's some sort of authority? The only question I would ask Pat and expect some sort of reasonable answer is, how do I get money from stupid people?
Can demonic spirits attach themselves to inanimate objects? The answer is yes.
That's when you tell them that no matter how attached they are to it, you saw it first.
I've been known to bless an object under the moonlight on occasion and I have yet to have 'all hell break loose'.
Methinks thou art full of shit, Pat Robertson. This is a good thing, as it allows my opinion of you to remain consistent.
"But I don’t think that every sweater you get from Goodwill has demons in it."
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Of course you don't, Marion. I mean, that'd just be nutty .
"Can demonic spirits attach themselves to inanimate objects? The answer is yes,"
Then please furnish me with the contact details/URL of an import dealer of anime merchandise, so's I can have a talking Fate T. Harlaown figurine? Even one with just a soundchip with the digitally recorded voice of her VA, the pant-melting seiyuu Nana Mizuki...:
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(*sigh *)
...I wish! :3
That's it. Pat is officially insane.
Someone take him behind the garden shed & do the only humane thing left. Then, if there's time-bury him out in the pasture.
"But I don’t think that every sweater you get from Goodwill has demons in it."
Of course not. He's just advising you to pray over clothing to be safe. He's not in any way suggesting that all of the clothes you buy there have demons in them. That would be silly.
Wait, I think I pressed wtf too quickly.
I mean, is he really a rabid fundie just because he believes that demons exist and can theoretically possess objects?
I would like to change my "wtf" into a "meh", if at all possible.
I paid full price for this sweater, and there's no demon in it. I demand a refund!
This man is barking mad. Why the Hell won't someone put him in a nice soft room where he belongs? Tim Conway, in the midst of one of his most disjointed and deranged improvisational monologues makes more sense than this shit-spewing fucktard. I've heard more coherent statements from a person who killed all but four brain cells with model airplane glue. Seriously, it's time to take away the microphone and give a sane person a shot at defining reality. /rant
"Can demonic spirits attach themselves to inanimate objects? The answer is yes"
My grandmother used to warn us about drinking alcohol. She said it had demons in it.
Strange, even as a small child I always assumed she was speaking metaphorically.
I wonder what Pat would say.
Are we sure Pat didn't get this story from the plot of some C-grade 1960s horror flick?
It's a toss up who's the dumbest person involved here. The caller's mother or Pat for believing in demonic possession, or the caller for having to ask the question.
"But I don’t think that every sweater you get from Goodwill has demons in it."
GODDAMN GOODWILL WHAT A RIPOFF.
FROM NOW ON I'M GETTING MY SPIRIT-LADEN GOODS IN LITTLE CHINA.
I HEARD EGG SHEN IS GIVING A TWENTY PERCENT DISCOUNT ON SIX DEMON BAGS THIS WEEK. PASS IT ON.
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Marion "Pat" Robertson has a very long and rich history of saying insane things. From claiming to leg press over 2,000 pounds to predicting an asteroid will hit Florida because Disney World has a "gay day". Everything that comes from his mouth would result in him being committed for psychiatric care if he had a family as wise and caring as mine.
I don't know what is more sad, the person calling in who believes that goods purchased at goodwill are possessed, or that a prominent christian authority figure encourages and condones that frame of mind.
I have read some prize garbage in the time I've been on FSTDT, but that last sentence takes the cake. I mean, really, how the fuck can anyone say or write that while keeping even a semblance of a straight face?
I think this is the wrong way round. It should be "Do Demons that you get in Goodwill have sweaters on them?"
In reality my initial is D, and the first three letters of my family name are MON. So, am I a DMON? If so when can I starke breaking all hell loose?
"But I don’t think that every sweater you get from Goodwill has demons in it."
It's good to know that only some sweaters have demons. To claim that ALL sweaters have demons would just be crazy. Let noone say Pat is an alarmist.
Fundies really do believe this shit. I (briefly) had a college roommate who made me stop playing my Ministry CD on his nice stereo because the demons in the music could posses it.
When I was a kid, my grandmother (who is now a faithful viewer of 700 Club for over 30 years) and her friends tried to cast demons out of the idol in the vacant lot next to our house. In reality, it was a dead tree with a poorly carved and painted face on it. They spent a good long while circling the tree, praying, singing and splashing it with holy water. After the exorcism of the badly painted dead tree carving, grandma stayed on the safe side and still didn't allow my sister and I to play near the demonic tree.
Confused?
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