the following two paragraphs are taken from my friend Brent’s blog.
Actual quote from Pat Robertson on his television show, The 700 Club: “I think George Bush is going to win in a walk. I really believe I’m hearing from the Lord it’s going to be a blowout election in 2004…The Lord has blessed him. I mean, he could make terrible mistakes and comes out of it. It doesn’t make any difference what he does, good or bad, God picks him up because he’s a man of prayer, and God’s blessing him.”
Actual Response from Barry Lynn, executive director of Americans United for Separation of Church and State, making his own prediction: “Pat Robertson in 2004 will continue to use his multimillion dollar broadcasting empire to promote George Bush and other Republican candidates. Maybe Pat got a message from Karl Rove (a Republican Party advisor) and thought it was from God.”
2 things:
a) i think a lot of people get “messages from God” that are not actually from God. Sometimes there are more distructive outcomes than others. Some might buy a certain car because God told them to, some might crash a plane into a building. Hmm..
b) i noticed one of you is reading Derrida. What do you think? I read some Derrida in a theory class I took, he’s a complicated fella.’
mcsweeney’s has a good satire of pat robertson and jesus running for president. pat of course rages against jesus’s hopelessly liberal platform. i don’t remember how to get to mcsweeney’s but there’s a link on my blog (slight promotion for my blog, admitted).
Lol! :^D
Sorry for 2004.