[A comment added after Pat Robertson's claim that "that the acceptance of homosexuality could result in hurricanes, earthquakes, tornadoes, terrorist bombings and possibly a meteor"]
Yet, in an apparent support of Robertson's claim, Ray Boltz, a well known Christian songwriter and musician, announced to his family he was gay on December 26, 2004, the same day the world's deadliest tsunami struck in the Indian Ocean.
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"Pat Robertson's claim that "that the acceptance of homosexuality could result in hurricanes, earthquakes, tornadoes, terrorist bombings and possibly a meteor""
Yeah, Pat's serious. And don't call him Shirley.
Sweden is pretty accepting of homosexuality. We have never had any hurricanes, tornadoes or meteors, and we have very few earthquakes and terrorist bombings.
I bet there's at least one person announcing to his/her family that s/he is gay, each and every day of the year.
The tsunami happened around 1:00 gmt. If he told his family on Dec 26th in the US, then the tsunami already happened. Consequently, this means tsunamis turn people gay on the opposite side of the planet from which they occur.
And it's in Wikipedia! Look, I know that Wikipedia can sometimes have dubious moments but they usually at least try to show some accuracy and research. This weirdness is usually reserved for lesser-trod articles on fringey things. Methinks somebody added that passage in an act of vandalism. It's stupid, even for Wikipedia.
The administrators will probably have that passage removed. It sticks out like a sore thumb. It just randomly appears there. It's like that later-interpolation in 1 Corinthians where an exhortation to keep women silent in church is inserted within a schpeil about people of either gender "prophesying" during a service.
@ SpukiKitty
If you look at the link, it was added to a Wikipedia article on December 30 last year. If you click the link to "next edit," you can see it was deleted 20 minutes after it was added. It's not in the article now.
Pat Robertson's claim that "that the acceptance of homosexuality could result in hurricanes, earthquakes, tornadoes, terrorist bombings and possibly a meteor"
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Pat Robertson needs to be safely tucked away in a secure facility. Every day of the year, somebody does something that "god" disapproves of in one location, and someplace else in the world something bad happens to someone entirely unrelated to the first person. Also, every day of the year, someone prays in one location and someone else finds their missing car keys somewhere else. In what way do you misunderstand coincidence, person-whose-name-erroneously-suggests-he-has-some-understanding-of-basic-math?
So, basically, 'Two things happened on the same day. Clearly, this means God was punishing people for something they didn't do'. How can people think this is a good argument for their religion?
@SpukiKitty
That's one of the problems Wikis had since the beginning, the update edit feature was introduced to allow corrections and new info into the articles HOWEVER Wiki people have to watch for some people trying to muddy or rewrite facts.
Most famous is when Sarah Palin (idiot that she is) suggested Paul Revere was also warning the British that they had guns and were ready to fight. Her fan base repeatedly tried to insert that into the Wiki entry until they were forced to lock it down.
"announced to his family he was gay on December 26, 2004, the same day the world's deadliest tsunami struck in the Indian Ocean."
Also, other fundies claimed that god smited Indonesia because Sweden was mean to fundies.
@ cdcdrr
Well, there has been jaywalking. I've seen it happen.
Here's the thing his followers miss every time.
"that not accepting homosexuality WILL STILL result in hurricanes, earthquakes, tornadoes, terrorist bombings and possibly a meteor"
Same as it ever was.
I was playing Twister with my cousins one day in Truman, MN, and that very afternoon, we had a tornado!
Explain that, Robertson!
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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