← Autodidact Archive · Original Dissent · arthur
Thread ID: 4989 | Posts: 8 | Started: 2003-02-13
2003-02-13 19:35 | User Profile
Hmm, I wonder how God could possibly allow something like that to happen. Then again, maybe all that selling of snake oil to old ladies has finally caught up to him. [url=http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/South/02/13/robertson.cancer/index.html]http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/South/02/13/rob...ncer/index.html[/url]
2003-02-13 20:03 | User Profile
Arther, Pat Robertson is 72 years old. The only thing that has caught up to him is his age. You should be so blessed to make it to such an age with only so much as a treatable prostate cancer. If you're looking for evidence of judgment against Robertson for getting poor old ladies to send in their food money, you're probably not going to find it... in this life.
2003-02-13 21:32 | User Profile
Maybe God wants to take Pat Robertson to heaven, Arthur?
In all seriousness, this is a non-story. Robertson may hold sway in the Deep South, but most of the nation does not look to him for political guidance. Too bad they don't, b/c MTV has taken his place.
-Jay
2003-02-13 21:44 | User Profile
I think it's important neither to wish cancer on anyone, nor to celebrate it.
I don't wish cancer on Sharon or Perle. A firing squad, yes, but not cancer. Or Alzheimer's or leukemia or any wasting illness.
And not for any squishy reasons of Niceness but out of a long-noted observation that feeling joy at news of your opponent's terminal illness is a 100% Jewish cultural phenomenon, now sadly co-opted by many gentiles who think themselves edgy for doing so.
Whites treasure and venerate life, love, health, beauty....joy. Leave the schadenfreude to the schadenvolk**.
2003-02-14 00:21 | User Profile
I would not wish to see either Sharon or Perle executed. That will only imply my being tainted by the manifestly Jewish blood thirstyness. Rather, I'd have the old Arik and the ever-eloquent Rich exiled to a shack in, say Jeddah, where they would spend the rest of their days in the company of beloved semitic cousins of Arab extraction. Also, we in the gentile community did not one day stick a wet thumb up in the air , and then proceeded to affirm the sanctity of life and celebrate the virtue of health. It was the travelling Hebrew salesmen Peter and Paul hawking their Christian ethic door-to-door in the rapidly decomposing Rome who in fact have introduced us to them. I know, the irony is delicious enough to taste.
2003-02-14 00:26 | User Profile
Yeah, well, God started out on their team, too, and they're not getting him back either.
2003-02-14 01:21 | User Profile
Il Ragno said: "I don't wish cancer on Sharon or Perle. A firing squad, yes..."
[Suddenly, Franco realized that Il Ragno was.....Linder's younger brother. He then walked off, sat in a corner and contemplated this shocking turn of events, as eerie music played in the background.....things would never be the same at OD....ever again......]
2003-02-14 01:51 | User Profile
**Hmm, I wonder how God could possibly allow something like that to happen. Then again, maybe all that selling of snake oil to old ladies has finally caught up to him. **
Arthur,
While it is true that problems in life are caused by sin, that does not mean that a specific problem is caused by a specific sin for which we are punished.
Recall the time where Jesus encounters a man blind from birth and made it clear that the disciples were mistaken in their belief that a specific problem was the result of or punishment for a specific sin.
John 9 1 And as Jesus passed by, he saw a man which was blind from his birth. 2 And his disciples asked him, saying, Master, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind? 3 Jesus answered, Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents: but that the works of God should be made manifest in him.