Pat, You're Just in Time

Pat Robertson is on a monthly schedule that you can set your period to. Every 28 days or so, Pat makes a ridiculous comment, like the fact that God smote Ariel Sharon for appeasing the European Union, or that citizens of Dover, PA will feel God’s wrath for striking down Intelligent Design (proponents of which swear it has nothing to do with Creationism), or that Americans deserved the Sept 11th attacks because of our feminists and groups that protect Civil Liberties, or that we should assassinate leaders of foreign countries…and then he apologizes a few days later.

By my watch, Pat was due to blurt out some sort of incredibly offensive yet slightly humorous statement on his 700 Club circus of hate, gladly aired of course by the Family Channel.

Pat’s latest contribution to the possessed, American Taliban that watches his show? Winning the hearts and minds of the Muslim community:

"These people are crazed fanatics and I want to say it now; I believe it's motivated by demonic power, it is satanic and it's time we recognize what we're dealing with...the goal of Islam, ladies and gentlemen, whether you like it or not, is world domination."

When fundamenalists make fundamentalist statements about another religion's fundamentalist behavior, the irony can be smelled all the way down to the hell each religion thinks the other is going to.

So just as Sharon suffered a stroke because he appeased the European union, rather than the fact that he was 300 lbs and in late 60’s, fanitcal conservative Muslims exist, not becuase they're products theocratic, poverty stricken nations set in the hottest bed of politics the world has ever seen, but rather because they’re possessed by the Devil.

Most people think of Pat Robertson the same way we think of a cute but slightly Alzheimer’s-afflicted grandfather who preaches on about “the blacks” and “the gays” taking over America during Thanksgiving dinner – we just kinda smile, and shake our heads with slight embarrassment while saying to ourselves, “ahh, he doesn’t know any better.”

However, when you stop and think about how much of today’s Republican party is controlled by right-wing Christian groups, and how heavily the leaders in the Republican party court the Christian Right, accept millions of their dollars, from Tom Delay on up to Bill First and our President, it’s not really so funny, is it? Conservative politicians are so far gone in this country, before you know it, they’ll have special Congressional sessions just to force feeding tubes back into brain-liquefied vegetables.