Has Pat Robertson Completely Lost it?

[Kevy Baby]

Originally Posted by Alex

ETA: It occurs to me that maybe you weren't responding to my post. If so, never mind.

I was preemptively

[Gemini Cricket]

As I said on Twitter, Pat Robertson is an evil man. You'd think that someone circling the drain would be nicer to people so that he could get his wrinkled ass into heaven...

[scaeagles]

Danny Glover appears to be equally on the insane side.

[flippyshark]

Alas, Pat is certain they will be rolling out the red carpet for him.

I don't personally think there's a heaven or a hell - but people like Pat make me wish that there was at the very least some kind of "moment of total revelation" just after death. Y'know, some cosmic equivalent of receiving a grade, having the truth of your life revealed, just so people like Mr. Robertson can see how wrong they were before moving on to oblivion. (Pat's evil is too piddling to bother giving him an eternity of torment - okay, maybe a period of self-realizing torment equal to the number of years he appeared on TV. Give him complete enlightenment, then make him watch every broadcast he ever did. That'll do.)

My Dad sends Pat money. My Dad is a warm-hearted, generous and even brilliant guy. (He's a rocket scientist, literally.)but Pat makes sense to him. I bet he completely buys into the latest Patism, 'cause Dad sees demons everywhere. (If you get a headache, my Dad will lay his hands on your head and rebuke the demons of suffering in the name of Jesus. He's not boring, my Dad. I genuinely love him, but boy are we different.)He's fond of pointing out to me that if he's right (about the whole God thing), I will find out for myself when I die, whereas if I am right (about the whole atheism thing), then neither of us will know anything after we go. He's correct, of course. But the universe doesn't care.

[flippyshark]

Originally Posted by scaeagles

Danny Glover appears to be equally on the insane side.

I'd say Glover blaming the quake on global warming is incredibly silly, and certainly unscientific. At worst, it's a Hollywood celebrity trying to link everything to a pet cause. But the site you linked to called it obscene, and added without apparent justification that Glover was blaming white people. This is the kind of language that should tell you you are getting your news from highly biased, and intellectually vacuous, sources. (And yes, that brush goes both ways on the partisan media spectrum, I fully admit.) But, yes, Glover's assessment is worth a

Edited to add - Oh, on second look , the "blaming white people" idea comes from one of the reader comments, not from the source. The source comments remain vapid, however, and link to a post about how Gaia-belief is worse than God-belief. Well, they are both irrational, that's for sure.

[scaeagles]

My point in posting that is stupid people will try to link any and everything to whatever suits their purpose. Robertson lost his mind? Absolutely.

[flippyshark]

Originally Posted by scaeagles

My point in posting that is stupid people will try to link any and everything to whatever suits their purpose. Robertson lost his mind? Absolutely.

I won't disagree. But Glover's brand of dumb seems less hurtful and twisted to me than Robertson's.

[scaeagles]

Well, I derailed in a way I didn't really mean to, and for that I apologize. My goal is not to draw comparisons as to which is worse, as I think Robertson is an idiot. I just wanted to show some of the idiocy out there coming from other directions in the name of their specific causes.

[flippyshark]

Originally Posted by scaeagles

Well, I derailed in a way I didn't really mean to, and for that I apologize. My goal is not to draw comparisons as to which is worse, as I think Robertson is an idiot. I just wanted to show some of the idiocy out there coming from other directions in the name of their specific causes.

Stupid is inevitable. At least nearly all of the parties involved are actually helping out, though, including Robertson. (Apparently not Rush, though. I'm ready to stand corrected, but it sounds like he is taking the lowest of low roads.)

[CoasterMatt]

I think Pat Robertson and Rush Limbaugh should team up for a "Wrath of God" comedy tour.