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Archae

(46,345 posts)
Wed Aug 12, 2015, 12:24 PM Aug 2015

Pat Robertson has some peculiar ideas about the Bible...

But we knew that, right?

For Pat Robertson, Levitical Laws Apply To Gays But No One Else

Submitted by Brian Tashman on Wednesday, 8/12/2015 12:05 pm

Televangelist Pat Robertson regularly cites the Book of Leviticus as proof that homosexuality is a grave and evil offense, doing so as recent as Monday. But it seems that homosexuality may be the only area in which Robertson still thinks Old Testament admonitions still apply.

The host of “The 700 Club,” who has gotten used to explaining away the Old Testament’s dictates on violence, slavery and polygamy, fielded a question today about whether Christians must obey strict Levitical laws about menstruation.

Robertson laughed off the prospect and seemed unaware of the menstruation passage’s existence, saying that Christians don’t need to obey Leviticus and only need to love God and their neighbors as Jesus said.

Unless you are gay, of course, in which he case you need to abide strictly by Leviticus.

- See more at: http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/pat-robertson-levitical-laws-apply-gays-no-one-else#sthash.GJptpSDf.dpuf

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ladjf

(17,320 posts)
1. Pat Roberson is a serial abuser. It's unfortunate that because he
Wed Aug 12, 2015, 12:35 PM
Aug 2015

is a known Christian, he has a free pass to give out any crazy thoughts he might have under the guise of the "word of god".

 

Rex

(65,616 posts)
3. As if that shithead knows what is in the Bible or OT or for that matter reads either one.
Wed Aug 12, 2015, 12:41 PM
Aug 2015

I doubt the man can read or write.

Shrike47

(6,913 posts)
5. So the little woman has to have her own bed and couch and kitchen chair for 'those' times.
Wed Aug 12, 2015, 12:46 PM
Aug 2015

Also, these rules seem hard on the pigeon population.

Warpy

(111,338 posts)
6. Sanctimonious cafeteria Christians
Wed Aug 12, 2015, 12:47 PM
Aug 2015

always censure everybody else for committing sins they themselves aren't tempted to commit, usually citing Leviticus as the inerrant law of gawd. Remind them of what else is in there and they'll just blow it off, their sins are completely understandable. Yours are intolerable.

This is another reason people have had it with the Jesus jumpers playing politics.

Pat, you're senile. Time to retire.

Oneironaut

(5,524 posts)
7. It's amusing to see the logical hoops extremists jump through.
Wed Aug 12, 2015, 12:50 PM
Aug 2015

They'll pull evidence out of anything, but outright ignore something else that is as clear as day. Usually they start with an idea, and then mold everything else to fit that idea.

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