No, that he's a Yankee fan. http://tinyurl.com/yd8tfa2Like Curt Shilling? Good.
What's to make fun of? The fact that he kind of looks like the pirate from Dodgeball?![]()
Making a voodoo doll of someone and publicizing it sure is. Why not make one of Danny Glover? One says they deserved it because they offended God and the other says they deserved it because they offended the Earth.
Danny Glover said that?![]()
Why? It's a joke, and a darn funny one. And even if someone is going to stick nails in it, it's not like it actually works, innit?Making a voodoo doll of someone and publicizing it sure is.But this is not two wrongs. It is also not mean-spirited.
Let's not muck things up. Robertson said the Haitians deserved it because they made a pact with the devil. Glover said the Haitians suffered it due to man-made climate change. While still a stupid claim, it's on an entirely different level.Why not make one of Danny Glover? One says they deserved it because they offended God and the other says they deserved it because they offended the Earth.
And even if someone is going to stick nails in it, it's not like it actually works, innit?
And even if someone is going to stick nails in it, it's not like it actually works, innit?
Would it make any difference if it did?
And even if someone is going to stick nails in it, it's not like it actually works, innit?
Would it make any difference if it did?
Yes. If they worked then it's mean.
Just so we're clear, I'm not defending what he said about Haiti. That was way out of line. It was mean-spirited and hateful. But so is this doll, IMHO.
If I rolled my eyes at this thing as much as it deserves, they'd fall out and roll across the floor.
Guess a bit of hypocrisy really does work, eh?
If I rolled my eyes at this thing as much as it deserves, they'd fall out and roll across the floor.
Guess a bit of hypocrisy really does work, eh?
Just to be clear, you watch the 700 Club so you should be intimately familiar with the types of comments Robertson has made in the past, even though you claim you don't watch his portion of the show, which I doubt.
When the news of Robertson's comments was posted here, you refused to believe it and demanded more evidence even though you could have easily looked it up yourself and verified it before posting. You purposely chose not to do so, because playing naive and uninformed is your shtick.
Now, after finally acknowledging that Robertson's comments were actually made, you seek to partially excuse them by saying they were based on a real incident, as if that makes any difference at all in whether their descendants 200 years later should be held responsible for the actions of the ancestors.
So, time after time you're willing to sidestep the issue or make excuses for Robertson, yet when someone sells a voodoo doll which you know doesn't actually do anything magical, which will donate proceeds to the Red Cross relief efforts in Haiti, and which only criticizes one individual for his direct actions rather than millions of people for alleged actions they took no part in, you have the nerve to say the two things are at all comparable and that the voodoo doll eBay sellers are hypocrites?
You're the only one being hypocritical here. You should have shown the same outrage as you did toward the silly voodoo doll incident above toward Robertson's comments right from the start. You have the nerve to call those who criticize Robertson's religious bigotry "haters" yet make excuses for him and his advocacy for what is essentially divine genocide?
Get some damn perspective.
he didn't actually say that the earthquake was God's wrath, or that the Haitian people deserved what happened to them
Why does it matter? If they actually worked, the Jays would've won every series since 92.Of course it's mean, but I get the feeling that there are those who wouldn't care and would use the doll anyway.
Of course it would. If I take a toy phaser, point it at someone and yell "pew! pew!", is that the same as taking a real gun and actually shooting at people?Would it make any difference if it did?And even if someone is going to stick nails in it, it's not like it actually works, innit?
Yeah, a kooky ceremony made by superstitious people more that 200 years ago is a perfectly good reason to invoke for a devastating earthquake.And this may not mean anything to any of you, but Robertson's comments aren't as cut-and-dried as his haters seem to think they are. His claim that the Haitians signed a pact with the devil may be hyperbole in the extreme, but they are based in something that did happen: Dutty Boukman's ceremony over which he presided at Bois Caiman in 1791, in which animals were sacrificed and the blood drank. This may not have been a Satanic ceremony, but the overreaction to it would seem to have its roots in a long standing conflict between Christianity and African religious practices. So it is clear that Robertson didn't just make it up right then and there.
Yeah, a kooky ceremony made by superstitious people more that 200 years ago is a perfectly good reason to invoke for a devastating earthquake.![]()
Yeah, a kooky ceremony made by superstitious people more that 200 years ago is a perfectly good reason to invoke for a devastating earthquake.![]()
That's not what Mr. Laser Beam said. He merely pointed out there was actually a historic event that Robertson could have used as a basis for his stupid claims. And for Robertson it would actually be good reasoning, I think![]()
This voodoo doll is a bit of poking fun, and harmless or not, it's not a sign of appreciation towards Robertson, of course (Not that he deserves any). In that sense I agree with previous statements that it's a bit hypocritical. It's certainly not at the same level of Robertson's words, but it's not all daisies and sunshine either.
Voodoo dolls as a means of targeting or cursing a person who the doll represents are not used in Haitian Vodou
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