And I Will Smite Thee Down With the Airwaves

Posted on January 7, 2006 in Hypocrites

The rain falls on the just and the unjust alike.

I normally don’t comment on anything Pat Robertson (who takes him seriously aside from the so-called liberal media and people who believe that they bought their way into heaven by paying $700?) says, but his latest pronouncement threw me to the floor, convulsing:

Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s stroke was divine retribution for the Israeli withdrawal from Gaza, which Robertson opposed.

“He was dividing God’s land, and I would say, ‘Woe unto any prime minister of Israel who takes a similar course to appease the [European Union], the United Nations or the United States of America,'” Robertson told viewers of his long-running television show, “The 700 Club.”

“God says, ‘This land belongs to me, and you’d better leave it alone,'” he said.

If I recall correctly, on the classic maps, Gaza and most of the present Israeli coastline was Canaanite/Phoenician territory. So Sharon wasn’t dividing up “God’s land” at all, but merely releasing what wasn’t his to own.

Personally, I think there are plenty of things which God could have smitten Sharon over, but pulling out of Gaza isn’t one of them. Robertson seems to be egging on Israeli extremists who want to return to Gaza and demolish what years of shelling have left untouched. This is yet another of Robertson’s power plays, attempting to cast himself in the role of God’s mouthpiece on earth. Cheap political capital except that he had to buy himself a broadcasting network using the proceeds from his buy-your-way-to-paradise Ponzi scheme.

What does Robertson think is going to face him when he turns Sharon’s age? Immortality? Strokes happen to the elderly. Stalin died in bed, I hasten to remind people who think that God sees that everyone receives her/his just punishment in this life. And Robertson may pass away peacefully in his sleep. Or die of something horrendous. God or no God.