{"id":7161,"date":"2012-02-17T00:00:59","date_gmt":"2012-02-17T08:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=7161"},"modified":"2012-02-17T00:00:59","modified_gmt":"2012-02-17T08:00:59","slug":"when-supply-side-jesus-cant-cut-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/02\/17\/when-supply-side-jesus-cant-cut-it\/","title":{"rendered":"When Supply-side Jesus Can&#8217;t Cut It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Let me be clear that I am not attacking Christians here.&#160; Supply-side Jesus is completely opposite to the Jesus that authentic Christians worship.&#160; Supply-side Jesus was invented to justify the Republican false gospel of hate, greed and racism for Republican Supply-side pseudo-Christians.&#160; Many practitioners of this obscenity prey on their congregants and promise miracles, but when Supply-side Jesus can\u2019t cut it, and there is no miracle, guess whose fault it is.<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: left; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"17pat_robertson_devil_sign\" border=\"0\" alt=\"17pat_robertson_devil_sign\" align=\"left\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/17pat_robertson_devil_sign.jpg\" width=\"320\" height=\"238\" \/>One of the most sad and telling claims of so-called \u2018faith healers\u2019 from Benny Hinn to Todd Bentley is that the reason people are not healed at their healing conferences or through their television ministries is not because the faith healer wasn\u2019t able to cure the ailment or sickness but because of the lack of faith of the person (<strong>and often the inadequate size of their financial gifts<\/strong>) who sought the healing. If only the person had genuine faith, so it goes, then the healing would\u2019ve worked, so don\u2019t blame the healer!<\/p>\n<p>Today on the 700 Club [Theocons delinked], we saw an example of that when a viewer called in wondering why it is that when he prayed with Pat Robertson during his show for a healing of his knee pain the pain came back the next day. <strong>Robertson responded that people can \u201cgive up\u201d his healings because \u201cyou don\u2019t believe that it\u2019s real\u201d and never claimed the healing<\/strong>, \u201cthis is mine.\u201d\u2026 [<em>emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Inserted from &lt;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rightwingwatch.org\/content\/pat-robertson-tells-viewer-its-his-own-fault-not-robertson%E2%80%99s-healing-didnt-work\" target=\"_blank\">Right Wing Watch<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Here\u2019s the video.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3xEG8I__sYY?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It does not take rocket science to figure out how connected Robertson is with God.&#160; A few years back Disney World announced that they had discontinued their policy to discriminate against LGBT employees.&#160; Robertson quickly prophesied that God had told him Orlando would be smitten with a hurricane in retribution for Disney World\u2019s satanic policy.&#160; The next hurricane to hit the US made landfall at Virginia Beach and damaged Robertson\u2019s headquarters.&#160; God must have a wonderful sense of humor.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let me be clear that I am not attacking Christians here.&#160; Supply-side Jesus is completely opposite to the Jesus that authentic Christians worship.&#160; Supply-side Jesus was invented to justify the Republican false gospel of hate, greed and racism for Republican Supply-side pseudo-Christians.&#160; Many practitioners of this obscenity prey on their congregants and promise miracles, but <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/02\/17\/when-supply-side-jesus-cant-cut-it\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-religion","category-5-id","category-47-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}