
Here is a prediction that I am truly surprised has not happened already. Pat Robertson has been making predictions ever since I can remember. My grandmother watched him from as far back as I can recall and she thought the guy was a genuine prophet of God. Last week he made one of the direst predictions he has ever made. He stated, and I am paraphrasing, that ‘God told him the U.S. would be hit by a catastrophic terrorist attack, possibly nuclear.’ Oooooh! Wow! He’s a profit for the ages.
It does not take a prophet of God to make this prediction. It is just a matter of playing the odds. Recently, the Pentagon released a study on the mathematical probability of such an event occurring in the next ten years. It was somewhere on the order of 35% in the next five years. And, of course, the Pentagon is being conservative. Genius investor Warren Buffet goes further saying it is “inevitable.” Therefore, what Pat Robertson is saying is not that radical. What is radical about his statements is the accompanying incitements to do violence against “non-believers” in his brand of fundamentalist Christian doctrine.
If the things he suggested, such as assassinating foreign leaders, had come from a Muslim cleric he would (and should be) be imprisoned. Therefore, I predict Pat Robertson will be removed from the desk of the 700 Club for inciting violence and hate crimes. It is only a matter of time before he comes uncorked on national television and tells fundamentalists to “convert” the unbelievers, “one way, or the other!”
Take a look at this scenario, it is late 2007, the war in Iraq is a complete shambles and the casualty list has hit 10,000, due in no small part to ill begotten plans of the White House. The Congress has turned on the President and both sides of the aisle are yelling “impeachment!” The Presidents lone allies, other than Big Oil, the fundamentalists Christians standby their man to the bitter end, all the while pontificating about Armageddon.
Enter Robertson. In desperation seeing that Christ is not likely going to pop in and save the day he goes to the airwaves and ‘suggests’ that
real Americans retake the country, by force if necessary. A growing number of neocons join the extreme right wing, white supremacists and survival types. Seeing the ground swell Robertson again ‘suggests’ the time for action is now! Like some horrible science fiction movie, they seize much of the nation by force aided by neocons and other the fascist persuasion.
Seem unreal? Is it anymore unreal than a twisted cleric praying for the death of a foreign leader? I didn’t think so.