Pat Robertson: God Punishes Dems in Fun Ways Like Cutting off DC power
Loopy TV preacher Pat Robertson explained to his adoring fans on Thursday that God had caused a brief power outage in Washington, D.C. in order to mock Senate Democrats who held a late-night discussion about climate change.
The office of the Architect of the Capitol said on Wednesday that high winds had caused a power surge that temporarily shutdown the building’s exterior lights.
Robertson opened his 700 Club show the next morning by connecting the power outage to the Democrat’s Monday all-night Senate session that brought attention to climate change.
“Do you think God has a sense of humor? Well, I think he does,” Robertson opined. “Let me tell you what happened. In the United States Capitol, Harry Reid, Barbara Boxer and the Democrats had an all night marathon advancing global warming. And they said we have to be in fear of global warming.”
“So, God says, ‘Harry and Barbara, you’ve got it all wrong.’ He dropped the temperature 40 degrees, sent so much wind that it that it knocked out the lights in the Capitol dome for the first time in years,” the televangelist laughed. “And it’s still cold!”
“And the Lord is saying, ‘Democrats, it isn’t going to happen that way,’” he added. “Isn’t that fun? God has a sense of humor.”
Watch the video below from CBN, broadcast March 13, 2014.
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The problem with using the word “God” as though any two people would agree on which or what god we’re talking about, is that when Robertson talks about God, he’s obviously talking about the one who told him to go into business with Charles Taylor and mine blood diamonds in Liberia using money he stole under false pretenses and diverted to his own profitable use. That’s the God most people would call Satan and some would call greed.
But of course one could also speculate that Pat Robertson is our divine punishment for believing in gods, but whatever. Pat is a murderer, a liar and a thief and if there’s anything smelling of punishment here maybe it’s because we not only tolerate him but we spread his word. Maybe our national stupidity is our punishment.
Electricity, how the hell does that work anyhow.
Well, it looks like Pat Robertson’s deity is just as petty, vindictive and mean-spirited as…well…Par Robertson.
A deity who acts out of spite does not deserve my consideration, let alone worship and devotion – just my contempt.
You are correct. That is no surprise, though. In most cases, a person’s “god” always exactly corresponds to his own desires.
I have to disagree slightly. As a professional writer for decades, I have to say that, contempt as a word, does not begin to display my revulsion, distaste, and disgust with nearly all god concepts and their so-called leaders.
I could have included a whole list of negative feelings, but, for the sake of being pithy, I decided “contempt” was the single best word for the job.
If there were a god and he had a sense of humor, he would make Pat Robertson say things so astonishingly stupid, all rational people would be laughing their asses off at him.
Waaaiiitt. Hmmmm, this could be going somewhere.