Will the near future be as Pat Robertson foresees?

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About the same time they stop believing other doomsday cults like the JW’s.

That said I don’t think he’s too far off base with the US thing, things do look tense over there at the minute. Now I’m not saying there’ll be a civil war or revolution or anything of the sort, but there are accelerationists on the far left of the far left that are advocating for people to vote for Trump to act as a catalyst for a revolution. I mean these are mostly LARPers who have no clue about what they’re doing, nor have they done the full triad of “educate, agitate, organise”, nor do they have the on the ground vanguard, but they are out there.
 
Isn’t this the heretic who prophesied Christ would return on a certain day in 1988? He did it to counter another failed prophet who set the date for 1984? Even wrote a 2000+ page book to “prove” it? He tried again for May of 2011, also a no-go!
What authority has Pat Robertson to speak for God? If one thinks with the Church, it is obvious he has no authority whatsoever.
If he wishes to speculate on the end of the world, fine. I guess anyone can do that. Is there any reason to feel compelled to believe him? No. Why are so many Catholics putting trust in a man who is not only a heretic, but a professed anti-Catholic?
I’ve nothing personal against the man as I don’t know him, but let’s use our common sense!
 
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Now I’m not saying there’ll be a civil war or revolution or anything of the sort, but there are accelerationists on the far left of the far left that are advocating for people to vote for Trump to act as a catalyst for a revolution.
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I think it will depend on the election results. Whoever wins if is a win by a big enough margin, people will accept it more or less quietly. But if it s a win by a small margin, expect big protests from the losing side.
 
Marie7 said:
Isn’t this the heretic who prophesied Christ would return on a certain day in 1988? He did it to counter another failed prophet who set the date for 1984? Even wrote a 2000+ page book to “prove” it? He tried again for May of 2011, also a no-go!
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I think that would be Harold Camping.
He went really off the rails with Rapture theology.
He was also very anti Catholic.

Unfortunately, he made himself, his church and Christians in general into laughing stocks by constantly getting it wrong.
 
Marie7 said:
Isn’t this the heretic who prophesied Christ would return on a certain day in 1988?
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No, that was a man named Edgar. C Whisenant, and he wrote a book called 88 Reasons Why the Rapture will be in 1988. It wasn’t 2000 pages, it was more like a pamphlet. We have a copy somewhere (I also have copies of most of the Jack T. Chick tracts.)

I dont think most Christians, Catholic and Protestant, will pay much attention to Pat Robertson.
 
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I said in my above post that not too many Christians, Protestant or Catholic, will pay much attention to Pat Robertson.

I am still friends with quite a few Evangelical Protestants (including my parents-in-law!), and I play piano for Evangelical Protestant churches.

I personally think that most Evangelical Protestants have learned to be wary of ANY Christian leader, pastor, teacher, celebrity, etc.

We have seen too many of these people brought down by their own sins and deceptions. I could probably rattle off a couple of dozen Evangelical leaders, men and women, in the last 20 years, who were caught up in sin, and eventually it became public, and their leadership credentials were destroyed and they are now…who knows?

Some of the scandals have been very public, as the perpetrators were well-known, popular Evangelical Protestant leaders/pastors, etc., and even known by the secular news media (e.g., Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker). Others are lesser known by the public, but are well-known and in many cases, beloved, by the Evangelical Protestant Christians–I won’t list these names. I actually know some of them personally, and it is heartbreaking to see what they have lost by getting caught up in sin and hiding it.

Getting caught up in sin can happen to any of us Christians, and thankfully, most of us are not in a position to be disgraced publically so that the entire news media is a-buzz with the scandal. But when it happens in a local church, there are still plenty of awful repercussions–people leave the church (and some renounce their Christianity entirely because they are so hurt that they simply can’t bring themselves to accept that God has allowed such pain to happen to them or their families), people stop giving money to the church, the persons involved with the scandal are stripped of their leadership credentials and have to find secular work to support themselves, if they are authors or performers, they see the sales of their books or albums or shows dry up totally.

In some cases, the church in which the scandal occurred shuts down forever.

So I think scandal and disgrace have happened so many times to so many Christian leaders that many Evangelical Protestants have tried to be careful about jumping on “bandwagons” like they used to.
 
I think there will be real trouble if Trump wins. I say that because, with the best will in the world, he won’t win the popular vote. At best with a wind behind him he’ll pull 40-45% of the vote, but the EC is a stretch but winnable. If that does happen I could see a not insignificant portion of the population being somewhat aggravated that ‘the will of the people’ hasn’t been heard.

If Biden wins can see some low level violence from 3 Percenters/Boogaloo Boys/Proud Boys type groups. However they could go catatonic for about a week after the election, much like the left did after 2016. If they do wait they’ll lose the energy and initiative to act.
 
It’s inappropriate because it’s true? So anyone who states irrefutable facts on this forum gets flagged?
 
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Why are so many Catholics putting trust in a man who is not only a heretic, but a professed anti-Catholic?
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I would bet money that 99% of Catholics have never heard of this, and of the few who have, most don’t care. It’s not like tons of Catholics are now panicking because of what Pat Robertson says.
 
Well, that’s good to know! I was just surprised to see it on a Catholic forum.
 
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I think that would be Harold Camping.
He went really off the rails with Rapture theology.
He was also very anti Catholic.

Unfortunately, he made himself, his church and Christians in general into laughing stocks by constantly getting it wrong.
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Yes, you are correct, that was Harold Camping.

I don’t mind Pat Robertson, I believe he has probably actually fed a lot of hungry people, people in need. I have never seen Robertson be anti-Catholic.
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If he wishes to speculate on the end of the world, fine. I guess anyone can do that. Is there any reason to feel compelled to believe him? No. Why are so many Catholics putting trust in a man who is not only a heretic, but a professed anti-Catholic?
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As said, this appears to be Harold Camping, Camping was never that well known.

Back to Robertson, if he is anti-Catholic, it’s mild, let’s see Bill Donahue’s Catholic League deal with Robertson.

The topic here is Marriage and Divorce and what the Pope said about it, Donahue seems to assert Robertson kind of smirked about the whole matter, that’s not so much as being “anti-Catholic” as he was just smirking off teaching:
Dr. Donohue, who has been interviewed by Pat Robertson and has appeared on the 700 Club on many occasions, sent a letter to the televangelist registering his outrage. He said “Not only were your remarks ignorant of the facts, they were presented in a manner that was offensive to Catholics: your snickering betrayed an attitude that is most disturbing.”

Donohue sent Robertson copies of the Catholic News Service and Vatican Information Service’s news release on the subject. He stressed that the so-called news was simply a pastoral letter from the Pontifical Council for the Family restating the Church’s teachings on divorce and remarriage. He also explained the flaw in Robertson’s characterization of this teaching of the Church.
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Okay, so is this being “anti-Catholic”?? I’d say not really, it might be in Robertson’s view sort of belittling the teaching itself.

What is Pat Robertson most well known for in incurring wrath about???

Well, in my view, it was some sort of statement that because in Haiti allegedly, Voodoo is widely practiced, it incurred the wrath of God through a hurricane. He was widely criticized for this.


Pat is definitely up-in-years now, I’d take anything he says with a grain of salt.

From wikipedia:
In 1994, he was an endorser of the document Evangelicals and Catholics Together.
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Pat Robertson has problems as with the Haiti affair, we all have flaws. We shouldn’t insert objections that may well not be founded.

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Hmm… well I don’t have any gift of prophecy but as far as the nation being torn apart, I could have told him that. It started quite some time ago.
 
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