Bullshit of Biblical Proportions

Hey everybody, sorry my updates have been a hair delayed, but Amp has the winter flu. Sweating through the sheets for all the wrong reasons. Anyway…

> Pat Robertson - Televangelist

Now that America appears to be polarized to the point where we sometimes are suspicious even of each other, after five years of Homeland Security, threats that haven’t materialized, color-coded daily danger levels, airport proctology, and all the other new things we are adjusting to in the Land of the Free, this might be a good time to take a breath of free air, relax, and hope 2007 ends with a safer America that isn’t waiting for the next shoe to drop.

If this happens, much of it will be a result of our political, religous, and spiritual leaders assurances that whatever can be done is being done, leaving us free to enjoy life and not worry too much about events beyond our control.

Which is why Pat Robertson, Southern Baptist Preacher, and TV-evangelist leader of the 700 Club is pissing me off. He came out yesterday and announced that God came to him personally and told him there will be a devastating attack on U.S. soil in 2007, with a possibility it will be a nuclear bomb. To me, this is the most irresponsible horse-shit imaginable. To make it worse, he phrased it in cleverly passive-agressive screw-speak. He said "I’m not necessarily saying it’s going to be nuclear", followed by "The Lord didn’t say nuclear. But I do believe it will be something like that".
OK, so he said twice it isn’t necessarily nuclear, but the language is clearly designed to get people thinking nuclear. How irresponsible and out of touch can a leader be? He followed his prediction with "I have a relatively good track record". Wow. He must have a good track record if he is, as he claims, repeating the very word of God!

Now, here is the counterpoint to his fear-mongering bullshit. Last year, on the heels of several devastating years of hurricanes making U.S. landfall, Pat Robertson, in his New Year’s "talk with God", predicted that storms and possibly a tsunami were to crash into America’s coastline in 2006. Pretty safe bet, given the last couple of years and global warming. Well, when zero storms made U.S. landfall and the Atlantic hurricane season was as quiet as could be, he came out and cited last spring’s heavy rains and flooding in New England as partly fulfilling the prediction. Beyond lame.
So, if you were to bet, would you say Pat Robertson was wrong or God was wrong? Thought so. Relax. And Pat, you can relax too, we’re thinkin’ it was a prank call.

BIO of the MONTH - Pat Robertson Pat Robertson as a young man Born in 1930 during the depression, and son of former Democratic congressman (1933-46) Absalom Willis Robertson, Pat has a law degree from Yale and served in the Korean War. One of the world’s most successful Conservative Christian activists, Pat Robertson is a good friend of George Bush (pick one). His many credits include founder of the American Center for Law and Justice, a conservative Christian and the Christian Coalition, a political organization widely credited with increasing the power of conservative Christians in American politics. He opposes gay marriage and abortion. In 1995, Pat Robertson, responding to comments that Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez might stop selling oil to the U.S.and was worried the U.S. might try and kill him, said "If he thinks we’re trying to assassinate him, I think we really ought to go ahead and do it. It’s a whole lot cheaper than starting a war, and I don’t think any oil shipments will stop… We have the ability to take him out, and I think the time has come that we exercise that ability"…Pat Robertson, Man of God.