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Pat Robertson: Tornadoes Could Have Been Stopped If People Had Prayed (VIDEO)

Posted: 03/ 5/2012 2:06 pm Updated: 03/ 5/2012 2:12 pm

Pat Robertson Tornadoes

Pat Robertson has a theory for why tornadoes ripped through the Midwest last week: People didn't pray enough.

Right Wing Watch found a clip of the television evangelist making the claim during an episode of "The 700 Club."

"If enough people were praying [God] would’ve intervened, you could pray, Jesus stilled the storm, you can still storms,” Robertson said on the show.

Robertson also blamed people for living in tornado-prone areas.

"Why did you build houses where tornadoes were apt to happen?” he asked.

As Right Wing Watch noted, Robertson had a different take on why the 2010 Haiti earthquake happened.

That natural disaster was caused, according to Robertson, because of a pact Haitians made with the devil.

"Something happened a long time ago in Haiti, and people might not want to talk about it," he said on Christian Broadcasting Network's "The 700 Club." "They were under the heel of the French. You know, Napoleon III, or whatever. And they got together and swore a pact to the devil. They said, we will serve you if you'll get us free from the French. True story. And so, the devil said, okay it's a deal."

For more outrageous Robertson quotes, check out the slideshow below:

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  • God vs. Gay

    "This country cannot continue to violate God's principles and to make a mockery of His laws and think we're gonna get away with it. And when the boil comes, it's going to be horrible."

  • 'Un-acquire' It

    "I know people disagree on the question of homosexuality: Is it something they're born with or is it something they acquire? I think a lot of it is acquired. ... Normally speaking, a person who has acquired this can un-acquire it. We've had many people who have indeed left the homosexual lifestyle and gone into a heterosexual relationship and been very, very happy."

  • Mac 'n' What?

    "What is this mac 'n' cheese? Is that a black thing?"

  • Alzheimer's Justifies Divorce

    "I hate Alzheimer's. It is one of the most awful things, because here's the loved one -- this is the woman or man that you have loved for 20, 30, 40 years, and suddenly that person is gone ... I know it sounds cruel, but if he's going to do something, <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/14/pat-robertson-divorce-alzheimers_n_963305.html" target="_hplink">he should divorce her</a> and start all over again, but to make sure she has custodial care, somebody looking after her." (The 700 Club, Sept. 13, 2011)

  • Feminist Witchcraft

    <strong>Pat Robertson:</strong> If a woman is a lesbian, what advantage does she have over a married woman? Or what deficiency does she have? <strong>Terry Meeuwsen:</strong> Well, she can't have children. <strong>Robertson:</strong> That's exactly right. And so, if these married woman can't, don't have children, if they abort their babies, then it kinda puts them on a level playing field. "The feminist agenda is not about equal rights for women. It is about a socialist, anti-family political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians." (1992 Iowa fundraising letter opposing a state equal-rights amendment, "Equal Rights Initiative in Iowa Attacked," <em>Washington Post</em>, Aug. 23, 1992)

  • Hindu Heresy

    "We're importing Hinduism into America. The whole thought of your karma, of meditation, of the fact that there's no end of life and there's this endless wheel of life, this is all Hinduism. Chanting too. Many of those chants are to Hindu Gods -- Vishnu, Hare Krishna. The origin of it is all demonic. We can't let that stuff come into America." (The 700 Club, March 23, 1995) "If anybody understood what Hindus really believe, there would be no doubt that they have no business administering government policies in a country that favors freedom and equality." ("The New World Order," p. 219)

  • In the Spirit of the Anti-Christ...

    "I think the Antichrist is Islam." "Presbyterians are the spirit of the Antichrist." ("The Best Democracy Money Can Buy," p. 239) "You say you're supposed to be nice to the Episcopalians and the Presbyterians and the Methodists and this, that, and the other thing. Nonsense, I don't have to be nice to the spirit of the Antichrist." (The 700 Club, Jan. 14, 1991)

  • Separation of Church and State is a Lie

    "The separation of God from government has been a tragedy for the whole country. It has been a tragedy to think that this is a secular country." (The 700 Club, February 2009) "There is no such thing as separation of church and state in the Constitution. It is a lie of the Left and we are not going to take it anymore." (address to his American Center for Law and Justice, November 1993)

  • Haiti's Deal with the Devil

    "Something happened a long time ago in Haiti, and people might not want to talk about it. They were under the heel of the French. You know -- Napoleon the Third or whatever. And they got together and swore a pact to the devil. They said, 'We will serve you, if you'll get us free from the French.' It's a true story. And so the devil said, 'OK, it's a deal.' And they kicked the French out -- the Haitians revolted and got themselves free -- but ever since, they have been cursed by one thing after the other."

  • Legalize It. Really.

    "We're locking up people that take a couple of puffs of marijuana, and next thing you know they've got 10 years. They've got mandatory sentences, and these judges, they say, they throw up their hands, they say, 'There's nothing that we can do. There's mandatory sentences.' We've got to take a look at what we're considering crimes, and that's one of them. I'm not exactly for the use of drugs -- don't get me wrong. But I just believe that criminalizing marijuana, criminalizing the possession of a few ounces of pot and that kind of thing, I mean, it's costing us a fortune and it's ruining young people. Young people go into prisons, they go in as youths, and the come out as hardened criminals. And that's not a good thing."

  • Karate or Devil Worship?

    "I don't see anything wrong with being a wrestling coach, or a boxing coach. But if you get into that business where those who are involved in martial arts, before they start, are actually inhaling some demon spirit -- and some of them do that, by the way -- that enormous strength comes about not from a human source but from a demonic source. You don't want to have anything to do with any of that. So I'll leave it to you, but it's a question of: Are you going to help little kids get out of the ghetto, like Chuck Norris does, or are you gonna teach rich people how to hurt their friends?"

  • Obama's Clowns Occupy Wall Street

    "[President Obama] has chosen to attack a segment of our population: those who have been successful. He is attacking those who own capital, those who use jet aircraft as a business tool. He's attacking all the people who have any kind of luxury or wealth, and yet, he goes to Martha's Vineyard and hobnobs with the rich. ... <strong>These clowns up there at Occupy Wall Street are just picking up the President's message</strong>, perhaps in a cruder form."

  • ACLU + Abortion = 9/11

    <strong>Pat Robertson:</strong> I think we've just seen the antechamber to terror. We haven't even begun to see what they can do to the major populations...<br> <strong>Jerry Falwell:</strong> The ACLU's gotta take a lot of blame for this.<br> <strong>Robertson:</strong> Oh yes.<br> <strong>Falwell:</strong> ...and I know I'll hear from them for this, but throwing God -- successfully, with the help of the federal court system -- throwing God out of the public square, out of the schools -- the abortionists have got to bear some burden for this because God will not be mocked, and when we destroy 40 million little innocent babies, we make God mad. I really believe that the pagans and the abortionists and the feminists and the gays and the lesbians, who are actively trying to make that an alternative lifestyle, the ACLU, People for the American Way, all of them who tried to secularize America, I point the finger in their face and say, "You helped this happen."<br> <strong>Robertson:</strong> Well, I totally concur.

  • Sodom and America

    "There's never been a civilization, ever in history, that has embraced homosexuality and turned away from traditional fidelity and traditional marriage, traditional child rearing, and has survived."

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Pat Robertson has a theory for why tornadoes ripped through the Midwest last week: People didn't pray enough. Right Wing Watch found a clip of the television evangelist making the claim during an e...
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yourmuse
Perspective pries your once-weighty eyes
12:37 PM on 09/17/2012
What century does he live in?
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lensamy
Humpty Dumpty was pushed.
10:18 AM on 04/21/2012
Whenever I see a "preacher" like Robertson I always imagine God shaking his head in disbelief and wondering "evolution gone wrong! wth with this guy?"
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greggrwag
When in doubt. Bug them.
09:27 PM on 04/12/2012
Tornadoes are a natural occurrence.
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soma77
Author, Speaker, Retreat Facilitator
08:06 PM on 04/11/2012
He needs to teach Republicans how to pray since their states are targeted. He might be on to something because Republicans are doing nothing about creating jobs, but praying and that is not working.
06:27 AM on 07/05/2012
He needs to teach liberals how to pray since their states are targeted. He might be on to something because liberals are doing nothing about creating jobs, but praying and that is not working.
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soma77
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12:14 PM on 07/05/2012
The states hit the hardest by the tornadoes are all Republican strongholds: Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee, and Georgia. Surely.

Republican fake Christians so God punishing these conservative states because they’re not taking care of the poor, the elderly, and the sick, as Jesus commanded?

Republicans block every jobs bill. Don't believe the lies.
02:16 PM on 03/20/2012
It is truly amazing someone that spews such drivel has the platform that Pat R has.
My only question is; Is Pat R (and others like him) truly ignorant, hateful, manipulative...or what?
I'm not big on scripture, but I do remember "...the greatest of these is love." Pat, show a little love.
09:48 AM on 03/19/2012
Why do people that claim to have intelligence listen to this idiot? He only preaches hate.
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secondcoming
06:04 PM on 03/17/2012
My prognosis is they better get to it and hard it's only just begun.. 12/21/2012, stick to high ground folks lot more than tornado's are going down.
hnnbar
Universal river of thought...
01:25 PM on 03/18/2012
LOL- how long has the second coming been coming?
10:58 AM on 03/19/2012
Thank you hnnbar. That was the point I was going to make. I grew up in a home where every natural disaster was another "sign of the times!" and another harbinger of the second coming. Every generation thinks they are the last one it seems.
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soma77
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12:01 AM on 03/17/2012
Pat Robertson is saying the Christians in those Red States hit by disaster are not sincere so God is punishing them? Let me see he is saying the people who are punishing our women, sisters, mothers, wives and poor are being punished?
06:31 PM on 03/14/2012
Looking at the face of Christianity as represented by Pat Robertson makes me glad that I am an atheist. Jesus is purported to have said in Matt, 17:20 "He said to them, “Because of your little faith. For truly, I say to you, if you have faith like a grain of mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move, and nothing will be impossible for you.”
Well go for it Pat... Put Chimney Rock into Va. or if that's too hard just stop all the tornadoes that form from now on.
04:43 PM on 03/13/2012
Maybe if we pray enough then a tornado will suck up Pat and all his goofy dangerous kind. Maybe devolve them back to some sort of slime. Oh, sorry I didn't want to say he is. My bad
themeekeer
Voting is like driving. Choose "R" to go backward
03:21 PM on 03/13/2012
Maybe if we all pray really hard, we can stop Pat Robertson.
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07:00 PM on 03/10/2012
Excerpted from Newsvine: Jason Miller is the neighbor in New Pekin, Ind. who tried to help the Babcock family. Miller found the family lying face-down and praying in the hallway of their home. He took them to his home, which was larger, they all grouped in the hallway and dropped to the ground praying. “I can’t believe it was me and the rest of them didn’t make it. I was sitting right there holding their hands seconds before they died,’’ he told TODAY's Ann Curry. “I went back outside and when I saw how close it actually was, that’s when I went back inside and I told everybody to grab hands, and we started praying,’’ Miller said. “We just laid down, and it was within a split second that it just crushed us.’’ So who wasn't praying, Mr. Robertson?
El Justiciero
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02:15 PM on 03/09/2012
Why do people let their grandparents watch such garbage? It'll rot their brains out and steal their life savings. Pat Robertson is a S C A M - A R T I S T
09:50 AM on 03/19/2012
Amen, they all are and have always been!!
05:48 AM on 03/09/2012
Considering he seems to be in direct contact with GOD on a regular basis, an must know the number of people God requires to avert a diaster. He should work with the National weather service, so when there is a potential for a deadly storm, he could alert his people to pray it away. Wow just think what pat could do with War, Famine, Disease, the common cold !
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Neil20
02:38 AM on 03/09/2012
Mr Robertson - the tornadoes and the twisters that the US mid-west experiences frequently like the recent ones is but a natural outcome that happens due to shifts in the world's pressure systems, ocean currents and trade winds including the heating of the earth and similar factors. Not God. However, people are responsible for the resulting destruction indirectly. They have built towns, cities houses and various other objects along the corridor of these natural events. Why? The simple answer is: too many people. They just cannot select any place which they consider safe and build their towns and residences due to over-population. America is turning out to be one huge, mega- metropolis caused by the unforgivably booming population. Anywhere in the world where disaster strikes the result is similar - destruction of cities and towns and a heavy toll on human life. So, Mr Robertson - don't bring God into this. Man has abused nature and is paying the price. Also, as long as animals such as wolves continue to be destroyed by ranchers and farmers in American mid-west, these disasters will continue to strike these areas. Mr Robertson, Mother Nature will not pardon Ohio, Idaho and Montana for the recent slaughter of wolves in their hundreds. The cruelty and the pain caused by destruction of these beautiful animals has been overwhelming for her. She has her own way of exacting vengeance. Robertson, your God is a very selfish God, I think.