{"id":1307,"date":"2015-06-10T16:04:15","date_gmt":"2015-06-10T20:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=1307"},"modified":"2015-06-10T16:05:27","modified_gmt":"2015-06-10T20:05:27","slug":"you-cant-make-this-stuff-up-department-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=1307","title":{"rendered":"You-can&#8217;t-make-this-stuff-up department"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pat Robertson helpfully suggests that a parent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/friendlyatheist\/2015\/06\/10\/pat-robertson-if-your-baby-dies-it-might-be-because-god-was-stopping-the-next-hitler\/\" target=\"_blank\">might be consoled<\/a> upon the death of a child with the thought that it was just God&#8217;s way of stopping the next Hitler.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>As far as God\u2019s concerned, he knows the end from the beginning and He sees a little baby and <SPAN style=\"BACKGROUND-COLOR: #a8f2f5\">that little baby could grow up to be Adolf Hitler, he could grow up to be Joseph Stalin, he could grow up to be some serial killer<\/span>, or he could grow up to die of a hideous disease. God sees all that, and for that life to be terminated while he\u2019s a baby, he\u2019s going to be with God forever in Heaven so it isn\u2019t a bad thing.<\/p>\n<p>So how could God do that? How could a good God let happen? Well, the good God is going to take that baby to heaven right now, and that isn\u2019t a bad thing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So there you go: Maybe your Li&#8217;l Precious was going to grow up to be a sociopathic killer, and God did a good thing by <i>WHOOSHING<\/i> him up to Heaven before that could happen.<\/p>\n<p>The other possibility is that Pat Robertson is totally barking insane, and millions of Americans are so pathetically stupid that they don&#8217;t see it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pat Robertson helpfully suggests that a parent might be consoled upon the death of a child with the thought that it was just God&#8217;s way of stopping the next Hitler. As far as God\u2019s concerned, he knows the end from &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=1307\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1307"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1307"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1309,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1307\/revisions\/1309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}