Robertson’s Stoke of Stupidity

January 6, 2006

This week Pat Robertson, of “The 700 Club” celebrity and infamy said Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's recent stroke was God's punishment because Sharon divided ‘God's land” and He will not tolerate it. Robertson went on to declare: "I would say woe to any prime minister of Israel who takes a similar course." And spoke for God by saying, "This land belongs to me. You'd better leave it alone."

Now, let's get this straight… Sharon gave the Palestinians some land with the hope for peace and God decided to pop a blood vessel in Sharon's brain to show how really pissed off He is. Plus, it seems He authorized Robertson to be His spokesman on Middle East issues and the Bible in general.

God help us!

It appears God does not like peace, especially in the Middle East and will smite anyone who tries to the violence. Based on events in the past 100 years, this might be true because there has been one war after another. Robertson's God must be pleased at the holocaust.  God’s rule, “Keep killing or be smitten” is not much of a choice, but God's ways are mysterious.

But.....

Jesus said to love everyone and if we took this to heart, there would be peace.  Now, now Robertson implies it is God’s prerogative to disregard the “love everyone” rule and hate is god-like.

God help us with the confusion!

If a person believes in God, they would readily understand that the entire universe, the earth included is “God's Land”.  And because God is God, no one can take anything away from Him.

Let’s err on the side of love and peace and disregard Robertson’s vindictive and parochial rantings and find it within us to love him anyway. Damned, now that is going to be hard to do!

Please God, forgive us if we fail, we are only human!