Posted on 01/05/2009 10:44:12 AM PST by NYer
For the uninitiated, every year televangelist Pat Robertson has predictions dressed up as prophecy. He contends that the Lord speaks to him [in his heart presumably] and let's him know about things for the future.
Now don't get me wrong, I think that God can and sometimes does speak to people. He does this for His reasons. I must admit that I don't think that God and Pat are on very good speaking terms.
Now I have made my predictions for 2009. Prescient or imbecilic, they are mine. Other than creating my weak little brain, God had nothing to do with it. The stupidity is my own. Pat is not satisfied with such personal prognostication so he often infuses them with the aura of a prophetic word. To Robertson's ear, the Lord is a part time commodities trader.
"The Lord said the dollar is going to go down dramatically," Robertson said in the interview. "If I'm hearing him right, gold will go to about $1900 dollars an ounce and oil to $300 a barrel."Does God really inspire his own to predict commodities futures? Now I am not saying that Pat is wrong, just presumtuous to claim this is from God. For instance, Pat says:
Socialist policies and massive government spending, Robertson told Meeuwsen, could lead to heavy hyperinflation, sending prices through the roof and the value of the dollar through the floor.I have said as much in my predictions, but I think it would be rather uppity of me to claim God's imprimatur.
I don’t understand why people send them money, myself. Seems like people can pray by themselves, and it shouldn’t cost money.
I’m not a chr*stian, but I do recognize liberal scorn when I see it. And many of the comments on this board sound like they came from Hollywood.
Here’s some conservative scorn. About once a year PR makes a really stupid statement in public and then winds up apologizing or retracting it. If his comments are from God, why would he retract them?
Sorry, Pat. Reverend Ike is my man...
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