Pat Robertson Predictions("Tsunami in the Pacific Northwest")

CBS NEWS ^ | May 18, 2006 | STAFF

[kellynla]

In another in a series of notable pronouncements, religious broadcaster Pat Robertson says God told him storms and possibly a tsunami will hit America's coastline this year.

Robertson has made the predictions at least four times in the past two weeks on his news-and-talk television show "The 700 Club" on the Christian Broadcasting Network, which he founded.

Robertson said the revelations about this year's weather came to him during his annual personal prayer retreat in January.

"If I heard the Lord right about 2006, the coasts of America will be lashed by storms," Robertson said May 8. On Wednesday, he added, "There well may be something as bad as a tsunami in the Pacific Northwest."

Robertson has come under intense criticism in recent months for suggesting that American agents should assassinate Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and that Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's stroke was divine retribution for Israel's pullout from the Gaza Strip.

[Spiff]

Already posted.

[Rakkasan1]

if I heard the Lord right, Pat Robertson is an assclown.

[Elpasser]

IF he heard the Lord right...

[Cementjungle]

Great. Recently one of my clients recently requested her files be sent to her because she had a dream that I got killed in a giant explosion of the Cascades. And now this, sheesh!

[RolandBurnam]

what an idiot

[Spiff]

Oops. Actually, it was a different story about the same subject. Sorry.

[SIDENET]

Pat Robertson Predictions("Tsunami in the Pacific Northwest")

LOL. He must have watched the same show ("Mega Tsunamis") that I saw a few days ago. It was either on the Discovery Channel, or the History Channel.

[catholicfreeper]

Good grief. He an the President of Iran should write letters to each other. What has gotten into him nowadays

[Mr. Mojo]

"There well may be something as bad as a tsunami in the Pacific Northwest."

I never thought I'd have to use the "Tsunami escape road" about 1/2 mile south of here.

....and I still don't.

[SusaninOhio]

I would sure like to know which god Robertson is chatting with, because it certainly isn't my God.

[kellynla]

oops! well I checked both the title and score and nothing came up

[randog]

Yeah, there have been a lot of those "ways-you-can-die-spectacularly" shows on cable lately, haven't there?

[Owl558]

Hurrumph, well I predict an earthquake in California and a hurricane in the Carribean.

[Global2010]

About 20 yrs ago a then kid suffering severe headaches (side effect to a med) was watching Pat and his word of knowledge he just recieved about a child suffering from severe headaches would be healed.

The then kid thought for sure it was him...3 days later no improvement then the parent figured it was the meds and discontinued.
Kid never listened to Pat again.

[JennysCool]

Y'know, it seems to me if the Lord's talkin', you really ought to be listenin' kinda close. Especially if you make your living at it.

[heights]

I predict Bobtail in the 2nd race at Santa Anita to place.

[A CA Guy]

Pat Robertson says God told him...

He's a false prophet IMO, if God was REALLY talking to him, He would have been telling him at times to shut up and not say the stupid things that at times he has on such a global stage.

[Global2010]

It has been very quiet this last week.

Unusual not to have a few micro's a week.

Had to miss a seminar on the Cascadia fault today and really was looking forward to it. It was over at Hatfield Marine Sci Center.

The Cascadia is due for its every 300 yrs great quake, but that is common knowledge.

God did not give Pat the exculsive vision on that subject.

Being God does not work in a "time" frame just how did Pat hear "possibly in the next year" in his word of knowledge.

[Paleo Conservative]

I predict Pat Roberston will make a fool of himself again within the next 12 months.

[Global2010]

Does Pat call him by his name?

My God's name is Jesus the Christ all inclusive of the trinity.

I am going to assume that is yours too. : )

Meanwhile I am on e mail (they have a cell phone alert too) alert via USGS and have a weather/quake radio on just in case we need to evacuated up the hill to avoid the wave.

[ShandaLear]

Wrong coast and a year too late.

[Global2010]

Must be send a love gift time.

[A CA Guy]

Must be send a love gift time.

Sure, send a get well soon card.

[Talking_Mouse]

All I have to say is, for Pat's sake, there better be a tsunami. Since Pat calls himself a prophet, ever word he speaks "from the Lord" must come true.:

Deuteronomy 18 20 But a prophet who presumes to speak in my name anything I have not commanded him to say, or a prophet who speaks in the name of other gods, must be put to death." 21 You may say to yourselves, "How can we know when a message has not been spoken by the LORD ?" 22 If what a prophet proclaims in the name of the LORD does not take place or come true, that is a message the LORD has not spoken. That prophet has spoken presumptuously. Do not be afraid of him.

[Dead Dog]

Dude, just stay the hell of Camano Island..OK. Nothin' personal or anything....

[Global2010]

We laugh at the tv preachers who are willing to send veiwers a .50 cent made in China trinket for a love gift of only $80, and how sending that love gift will prosper the viewer.

(shaking my head at the tv tent preachers) God is not a slot machine ya cant toss in a few bucks and hit the jackpot.

[A CA Guy]

Hmmm, are love gifts made by communist slave labor in China considered a religious love gift in God's eyes these days? Lordy!

[pineybill]

Of course, if the wind comes near his Va. Beach home, he will use his influence with the man upstairs to try to pray it away like he said he did with one hurricane many years ago - but after that, they got hit pretty bad by what was it - Isabel?, so maybe he does not have the influence he once did.

[applpie]

Well, the media is famous for misquoting Pat Robertson all the time. I have actually heard specific quotes he made that bore NO resemblance to what the media SAID he said. Besides I can only imagine the news media lurking around these Christian shows FOR christian believers just waiting for a chance to take something out of context. When I see the quote on his website then I will believe it.

[rintense]

I predict snowstorms in Michigan this December.

[streetpreacher]

"There may be"? Doesn't God know?

"If I heard the Lord right about 2006, the coasts of America will be lashed by storms,"

If you don't know if you've "heard the Lord right", you probably should do the Lord a favor and shut your pie hole.

Pat's left the reservation, if he ever was on it (doubtful).

I wonder if Clinton and his cronies did a covert MK-Ultra project on him to embarrass Bush and conservatives.

[streetpreacher]

When I see the quote on his website then I will believe it.

Well there's evidence of an independent objective mind...

[ccmay]

Words fail me when I try to describe how much I hate the thieving, lying, money-grubbing false prophets of TV. They are among the worst that American society has ever produced.

-ccm

[Bigg Red]

Pat, get a grip! And shut up!

[Bubba M. Aurelius]

He could not hear the Lord as he was too busy mumbling over his pablum.

[RBroadfoot]

If Robertson was series, he's a maroon.

[blam]

"LOL. He must have watched the same show ("Mega Tsunamis") that I saw a few days ago. It was either on the Discovery Channel, or the History Channel."

Yup. Saw that too. Apparently they're due for another tsunami in the NW US, the last one was 1700ad and was also recorded in Japan.

[Robwin]

All this anger and vitriol aimed at Robertson intrigues me. He is either right, or he is wrong. Only time will tell. And, no, I am not a follower of his, nor do I support the 700 Club. I am just fascinated by how so many on here have jumped down his throat for making predictions about the future that may yet come true. If he is wrong, that fact will become more than common knowldege, and the Damnhim chorus on here can have a ball. But if he is right; well, Christians on here ought at least consider Acts 5:34-39.

[onja]

I'm a very dedicated Christian. But some evangelists are just plain wrong. We have Trinity Broadcasting and sometimes I watch it for a laugh. Those "preachers" lie to the audience, mostly poor and black it seems, and go on about how if you give them so much money that God will bless you. Or how the Holy Water they sell will fix most anything. I kinda feel bad watching it because the ignorant audience believes whatever they say even when it not their god speaking.

[FreedomPoster]

<*phones in a bet to a friend in the area*>

[Dinsdale]

So if there are no storms at all on the american coast Robertson was wrong, otherwise we should stand in awe of his predictive powers? Tsunami predictions couched in weasel words don't mean much.

Wait a minute. I'm getting something...

God says 'send ALL your money to my humble servent Dinsdale before it's too late'.

[fso301]

Why is it that if Robertson says something, it's headline news but if the Iranian guy claims history will end in two or three years or, that his role is to usher in the return of the twelfth imam, nobody pays him much attention?

[nothingnew]

Does Pat where a Rolex?

Elmer Gantry revisited.....

FMCDH(BITS)

[Mr. Mojo]

LOL @ that vid.

[George W. Bush]

"If I heard the Lord right about 2006, the coasts of America will be lashed by storms," Robertson said May 8. On Wednesday, he added, "There well may be something as bad as a tsunami in the Pacific Northwest."

Can't we confine this fool to a nursing home? He is no longer entertaining.

[George W. Bush]

The then kid thought for sure it was him...3 days later no improvement then the parent figured it was the meds and discontinued. Kid never listened to Pat again.

What an inspiring testamonial!

[George W. Bush]

I am just fascinated by how so many on here have jumped down his throat for making predictions about the future that may yet come true.

He's been a false prophet since the Eighties when he was predicting the Apocalypse. Fleeced the flock many times with this crap. Books, videos, telethons, etc. Very profitable.

If his followers were astute Bible students, they would stone him. I'd even send money to 700 Club to watch that show.

[RBroadfoot]

Well, I suppose we'll see for sure whether he's a false prophet in the next year or so.

[George W. Bush]

Here's another nice bit: Robertson on why Ariel Sharon deserved a stroke.