Oh, for the love of ... would the stupid scumvermin just make up his damn mind? He said it, he didn't say it, he meant it, he didn't mean it, he didn't understand what the other guy said, no he REALLY meant it yahoo!
So.
If we've insulted god by allowing "abortion and rampant Internet pornography", why aren't terrorists (or, apparently, messengers from god if you allow Robertson's logic) crashing planes into Europe? Or Canada? Or other countries with comparatively liberal laws and comparatively few fundamentalists of Robertson's ilk? This country is so favored by Robertson's version of god that his god is throwing planes at us because he's that pissed off? Because, frankly, if this is what it's like to be favored by god, I'll take being ignored; it's apparently a damn sight safer.
What strikes me as vastly amusing is that by advancing this proposition, Robertson actually accepts the terrorist position that they are messengers from god. (Granted, perhaps not the version of god either he or they quite intended, but Islam and Christianity technically have the same god, if different visions thereof and differently named.) Somehow, I don't really think he meant to do that; then again, logic hasn't always seemed a terribly strong point for the man.
Copyright © 2001, Iain Jackson, after-words.org
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