{"id":399,"date":"2006-05-18T00:18:48","date_gmt":"2006-05-18T05:18:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=399"},"modified":"2006-07-29T09:24:41","modified_gmt":"2006-07-29T14:24:41","slug":"pat-robertson-please-shut-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=399","title":{"rendered":"Pat Robertson: Please Shut Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UPDATE: Whew.  I broke the first rule of blogging: Don&#8217;t Post Mad. Under the cold light of morning this seems a little&#8230; unhinged. <\/p>\n<p>Ah well. Angry screed below the fold, but also pictures of robot ninja girls in panties.  <\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/story\/0,2933,195931,00.html\">VIRGINIA BEACH, Va.  \u00e2\u20ac&quot; Religious broadcaster Pat Robertson says God told him storms and possibly a tsunami will hit America&#8217;s coastline this year. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here are his actual quotes:<\/p>\n<div class=quote>&#8220;If I heard the Lord right about 2006, the coasts of America will be lashed by storms,&#8221; <\/div>\n<p>If God was talking to you, <strong><em>you would know it<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<div class=quote>&#8220;there well may be something as bad as a tsunami in the Pacific Northwest.&#8221;<\/div>\n<p>What is the &#8220;may be&#8221; crap?  That&#8217;s Psychic Friends talk. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?book_id=33&#038;chapter=33&#038;verse=33&#038;version=31&#038;context=verse\">It doesn&#8217;t work that way<\/a>.  You&#8217;ve either got the word or you don&#8217;t.  Moses didn&#8217;t tell Pharoh, &#8220;God might well do something bad at some point in the next year.&#8221;  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?book_id=2&#038;chapter=11&#038;version=31\">He had details<\/a>. He had testable predictions.  That&#8217;s the point. <\/p>\n<p>If you predict that Seattle, WA will be hit with a level x tsunami on June 23, and it happens, then we know you&#8217;re the man.  If not, we know that you are a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbn.com\/communitypublic\/shake.aspx\">lying<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.patrobertson.com\/businessman\/\">money-grubbing<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikiquote.org\/wiki\/Pat_Robertson\">sanctimonious<\/a> fool <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?book_id=5&#038;chapter=18&#038;verse=22&#038;version=31&#038;context=verse\">who should be ignored<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>I only point this out so people don&#8217;t get the idea all Christians are behind this fraud.  When people are quiet, it&#8217;s like an endorsement.  Just so we&#8217;re clear: I&#8217;m not with him.  He&#8217;s on TV because he&#8217;s very good at televised panhandling, not because we&#8217;re funding him.<\/p>\n<p>Sorry for the non-geeky post.  More anime and videogames tomorrow.  I&#8217;m going to purge the image of Roberson from my mind by watching Najica again.  Just because I bet it would annoy him. In fact, how about a round of Najica for everyone? Here, have some robot ninja girls:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/najica_ninjas.jpg\"\/><\/center><br \/>\n<center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/najica_ninja.jpg\"\/><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UPDATE: Whew. I broke the first rule of blogging: Don&#8217;t Post Mad. Under the cold light of morning this seems a little&#8230; unhinged. Ah well. 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