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Friday, November 11, 2005
Pat the Prescient — 051111
Looks like we have another opportunity to evaluate Pat Robertson’s ability to predict the future.
Pat recently made a pronouncement about Dover, PA, where the school board had kicked out any discussion of Intelligent Design theory as an alternative to evolutionary theory in their school system.
According to sources, Pat’s comment was as follows:
I’d like to say to the good citizens of Dover: If there is a disaster in your area, don’t turn to God. You just rejected him from your city.
This is hardly what any rational person would describe as calling down hellfire and brimstone to consume the ungodly. But you couldn’t tell that from the hellfire and brimstone that people are heaping upon him for making such a statement.
I think it rather odd....
I say that because, as I mentioned before, Pat’s been doing pretty good for making such pronouncements. And, just to drive this point home, I’ll point out his recent success, as it relates to the prior hellfire and brimstone poured out upon him for his comment regarding how US should approach Presidenté Chavez of Venezuela.
Remember that one? How he said we should “take him out”? Now, I don’t agree with outright murder of the heads of state of hostile powers. It would be a violation of Executive Orders. However, we’ve all known that el Presidenté has an attitude about US. Apparently it goes deeper than most of US were aware.
Remember the Madrid 3/11 bombing? The one that killed a couple hundred people on their train system? Well, it seems we captured one of the perps of that massacre in Pakistan a week or so ago. And guess where he was apparently lying low? Can you say, “V E N E Z U E L A”? I knew you could. Not only that, but apparently, according to the report, under the auspices of the Venezuelan government.
As I said back when that kerfuffle arose, back when Pat made the comment about a more pro-active approach to dealing with el Presidenté, we should keep an eye on this Named Area of Interest (NAI)—Venezuela—and see if Pat has as much success with it as he has with other previous pronouncements.
Apparently he did. But does anyone care to remember that? And if not, why?
I suspect the reason that they continue to ‘hate Pat’ has something to do with either envy of him or hatred of the very idea that God exists in the first place.
We’re hardly likely to get Pat to ‘shut up’, in spite of all of the calls for him to do so. But you have to consider his motivation. Seriously. If YOU were convinced of God’s existence, as any real christian should be, and YOU were convinced that you were supposed to pass on information from Him to everyone else, would you tell Him to buzz off? Personally....I kind of doubt it.
I understand that the prophets of old were as motivated as Pat is today. This is not to declare Pat as a prophet. Rather it is to reflect upon the apparent fact that Pat is doing better at this sort of prognostication than many Senators are doing ‘playing’ the stock market. In the latter case we might get the impression that the Senators are getting ‘inside information’. So, if high government officials do such, and in light of the evidence it seems that they do, why should we complain if Pat can do the same, albeit in a different, and perhaps more far-reaching, venue?
Since he is not a government official, you can’t really say it’s a violation of the ‘separation of church and state’.
Oh well, as they say....
The love of money is the root of all evil.
So where does that leave the love of God?
ADDITIONALLY [051111 1656]: I recall that during last weeks Western Hemisphere summit, el Presidenté proclaimed that the United States was planning to invade Venezuela. I wonder if he has a guilty conscience....
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