Robertson, Bush, Deities and Destiny
You know, every time I start thinking that there might be some remote point to religion, something like this happens:
Robertson's Divine Intervention on Bush
Let me provide you with the gist of this:
"I think George Bush is going to win in a walk," Robertson said on his "700 Club" program on the Virginia Beach-based Christian Broadcasting Network, which he founded. "I really believe I'm hearing from the Lord it's going to be like a blowout election in 2004. It's shaping up that way."
Now, I'll agree, reluctantly, that the Shrub is probably going to win again. But I don't think that God, if there is a God, has anything to do with big business or the Republican Party of America. Furthermore, it's rather disingenuous of Robertson to pretend that any deity responsible for running an entire universe would be remotely interested in the outcome of an election on a medium-sized continent on an obscure planet orbiting a typical sun within an average solar system. And don't talk to me about the fall of the sparrow, either. Gods may note the fall of every sparrow, but they don't intervene to keep sparrows from falling.
Robertson told viewers he spent several days in prayer at the end of 2003.
Uh-huh. And this is supposed to impress me? Why? Many people pray. Most of them don't boast about it, though. (Of course, whether or not someone has prayed isn't something that you can check.)
I wish that Robertson would just say openly that he, Robertson, approves of Bush's policies and wants Bush to be re-elected. I could understand that. But no, he's got to make up lies about how God told him PERSONALLY that God wants the Shrub in office.
I don't know why he bothers. If you're going to lie, you should at least make it credible. Claiming that God talks to him just makes him sound daft. Lots of people talk to God, but it's generally the paranoid and the mad who think that he talks back.
However, this seems to be a common delusion among the members of the Bush administration. They are always dragging God into things. I've even heard Bush say on the radio that he believes that he is the Lord's Anointed, sent by God to destroy nonbelievers and to bring America back to God and a Christian way of life.
Uh, yeah. Riiiiiiight.
I'd feel better if Robertson didn't have a multi-million-dollar empire with which to finance his delusions.
And I would feel INFINITELY better if the Shrub didn't have a sense of destiny. I've run into people with a sense of destiny before. They are scary. They want to change everything and everyone to fit their vision of reality...which often has little to do with actual reality. Frankly, I'd prefer an atheistic tie salesperson from Syracuse with no sense of destiny. Just an ordinary person who was just trying to do his/her best.
Robertson's Divine Intervention on Bush
Let me provide you with the gist of this:
"I think George Bush is going to win in a walk," Robertson said on his "700 Club" program on the Virginia Beach-based Christian Broadcasting Network, which he founded. "I really believe I'm hearing from the Lord it's going to be like a blowout election in 2004. It's shaping up that way."
Now, I'll agree, reluctantly, that the Shrub is probably going to win again. But I don't think that God, if there is a God, has anything to do with big business or the Republican Party of America. Furthermore, it's rather disingenuous of Robertson to pretend that any deity responsible for running an entire universe would be remotely interested in the outcome of an election on a medium-sized continent on an obscure planet orbiting a typical sun within an average solar system. And don't talk to me about the fall of the sparrow, either. Gods may note the fall of every sparrow, but they don't intervene to keep sparrows from falling.
Robertson told viewers he spent several days in prayer at the end of 2003.
Uh-huh. And this is supposed to impress me? Why? Many people pray. Most of them don't boast about it, though. (Of course, whether or not someone has prayed isn't something that you can check.)
I wish that Robertson would just say openly that he, Robertson, approves of Bush's policies and wants Bush to be re-elected. I could understand that. But no, he's got to make up lies about how God told him PERSONALLY that God wants the Shrub in office.
I don't know why he bothers. If you're going to lie, you should at least make it credible. Claiming that God talks to him just makes him sound daft. Lots of people talk to God, but it's generally the paranoid and the mad who think that he talks back.
However, this seems to be a common delusion among the members of the Bush administration. They are always dragging God into things. I've even heard Bush say on the radio that he believes that he is the Lord's Anointed, sent by God to destroy nonbelievers and to bring America back to God and a Christian way of life.
Uh, yeah. Riiiiiiight.
I'd feel better if Robertson didn't have a multi-million-dollar empire with which to finance his delusions.
And I would feel INFINITELY better if the Shrub didn't have a sense of destiny. I've run into people with a sense of destiny before. They are scary. They want to change everything and everyone to fit their vision of reality...which often has little to do with actual reality. Frankly, I'd prefer an atheistic tie salesperson from Syracuse with no sense of destiny. Just an ordinary person who was just trying to do his/her best.