Pat Robertson gives Christians a BAD name

I’m not a Christian. I’m an agnostic. If you pin me down I’ll tell you that I don’t believe there is an all knowing, all powerful being up in the sky who has a hand in our daily lives. I don’t buy into the notion that everything is preordained and what is going to happen right now or tomorrow has been mapped out by some benevolent human project manager. I just don’t buy it.

I have many friends who are Christians and I love and respect them and their beliefs. They try and get me to come over to their side and I respectfully explain that it will never happen. I don’t judge them for their beliefs – if it weren’t for Christians and their good works the world would have much more suffering that it does.

That said, my favorite quote of all time is one by Ghandi – “I like your Christ. I do not like your Christians. They are so unlike your Christ.” That quote is on a bumper sticker on the back of my vehicle. Pat Robertson personifies this quote. He is the least Christ like person and every time he opens his mouth I imagine Christians all over the world groaning.

The guy is plain and simple – a moron. His latest idiotic statement is that the earthquake in Haiti occurred because , and I quote:

“When Haiti was still a French colony its leaders swore a pact to the devil to get out from under the heel of the French.

They said, ‘we will serve you if you will get us free from the French.’ True story. And so, the devil said, ‘OK, it’s a deal’.

But ever since they have been cursed by one thing after the other. That island of Hispaniola is one island. It is cut down the middle on the one side is Haiti the other is the Dominican Republic. Dominican Republic is prosperous, healthy, full of resorts, etc. Haiti is in desperate poverty.

Not only is he unlike Christ, he’s just plain stupid or crazy or both. I really don’t understand why the 700 club keeps this old codger on the air. He can’t be doing any good at all for their recruitment. Unless of course they want to recruit old, fat, moronic, judgmental fools. Maybe that’s their target audience.

Whatever the case, Pat Robertson continues to prove Ghandi’s point.