He’s at it again. On January 2’s 700 Club broadcast, fundamentalist Pat Robertson weighs in against the moral state of America today:
“America will survive what is coming but it won’t survive in its present form. The proud will be humbled and then the time will come that they will turn to the Lord… And, there’s one last thing that the Lord led me to in Isaiah. And this is Isaiah, the fifth chapter and it’s the eleventh verse following, and it comes out of the living Bible and I want to read this to you because I think it’s very- this is the living Bible, ‘Destruction is certain for you who get up early to begin long drinking bouts that last late into the night’ – the big carousing and the parties. The second is, ‘Destruction is certain for those who drag their sins behind them tied with cords of falsehood.’ There’s all kinds of sin going on and people lying about it and covering it up, but this next one is more significant than any. Now this is Isaiah speaking. This isn’t Pat Robertson. This is Isaiah the prophet, ‘Destruction is certain for those who say evil is good and good is evil that dark is light and light is dark, that bitter is sweet and sweet is bitter.’ Those who say evil is good and good is evil, and that’s what’s happening in this country. Certain perversions, sexual perversions for an example, are being touted as a privileged activity, and those who oppose it are being called evil.”
Now what could he mean by that? It means that the next terrorist targets will be San Francisco and Detroit. Here’s the zinger:
“Take this for no more than it’s worth and no more than that, but I do believe that San Francisco is going to be a target of these people [al Qaeda terrorists], and I think that Detroit is going to be a target. We had one person at a prayer meeting say that he had a dream so vivid about Dallas, that he woke up and turned the TV on because he thought he was seeing a newscast. But, I think something through ship is going to be the one. But this is what I think the Lord told me.”
I’m sorry, but this guy is nuts. God is channeling al Qaeda’s future attacks through Pat Robertson? And it just so happens that God is targeting a city identified with homosexuals and one identified with racial minorities. Surely this is proof even to those most sympathetic to their cause that these fundamentalist fanatics have somehow experienced the attacks on America as vindication of their world-view. Robertson wriggled out of his concurrence when Jerry Falwell blurted this out immediately after September 11. But these are his own words today. He means what he says.
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