Pat Robertson – Crazy AND Ignorant
By Carl Bussjaeger, January 13, 2010

Addendum 1/15/10

That nut case Pat Robertson is at it again. Click that link and watch as much of the video as you can stomach.

Haiti, already suffering the long term effects of decades of evil dictatorship followed by political instability has been hit by a 7.0 magnitude earthquake. But you knew that. There's a good chance you immediately offered prayers to the deity of your choice, and maybe started to see what you could do to help on a physical level. But you're not Pat Robertson.

Rather than help, Robertson thought his time was best spent explaining that his god destroyed Haiti because the nation made a pact with Satan. Yes, I know; delusional. Clearly off his meds.

As much as I heard of his explanation before I became nauseous, it seems he believes 206 years ago, the entire country, in rebellion against the French slave lords, made a pact with Satan. Assuming – for the sake of argument – that this is true, Robertson’s loving and forgiving god killed thousands (by some reports, hundreds of thousands) of people two centuries later who didn’t do it. Nice sense of justice and timing his god has. This freak makes Christianity about as appealing as Abdulmutallab does Islam.

Of course, Robertson isn't merely crazy; he's also pretty damned ignorant. History books tell us that the religion variously spelled Voodoo, Voudoun, or Vodou was common among the rebelling slaves. Naturally enough, since it was based on the African religious belief the imported slaves brought with them. But that's not a Judeo-Christian-Islamic religion. And Satan is very much a part the Judeo-Christian-Islamic belief set, not Haitian Vodou. So why would they be cutting deals with the Christian bad guy? They'd be talking to Bondye, or the lesser deities, the Loa.

But not Satan.

Someone please get that freak off television and back on his meds.

Edited 1/15/10 to add:

WTF?

Says clueless actor Danny Glover: “When we see what we did at the climate summit in Copenhagen, this is the response, this is what happens, you know what I’m sayin’? [...] All this hell because of global warming."

Yeah, I know what you're saying. You're telling us you're an idiot. Go ahead, tell us by what mechanism global warming causes earthquakes. Or is this "Gaia" getting her revenge on humanity for Copenhagen? She's apparently shut as stupidly viscious as Robertson's murderous god.

And with aim just as bad: Robertson's malicious deity misses by centuries, while Danny's misses by thousands of miles.

And as a side issue, Danny-boy really should take independent look at "Climategate" and the the new info coming out regarding the GISS and CRU temperature studies. Heck, he should take a look at the Sun; that's what a Sun looks like during an output minimum.