God Don't Like Ugly.

You have to hand it to Pat Robertson. Not many people can so effortlessly share the spotlight with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and still be on The White House's speed dial.

While ol' Mahmoud, the chief Iranian lunatic (which is saying a lot) is publicly praying for Ariel Sharon's death, Robertson, holding his own in God's bozo tag-team, announces that Sharon's stroke is all about God being pissed off that Israel gave up Gaza.

There's not much to do about Robertson, because he's not advocating Sharon's demise, although he has done as much before. And he isn't known to be working on a nuclear bomb, so the parallel between the two nutjobs isn't a perfect one.

It's interesting that the people most likely to be certain of God's intentions and motives make God look, by their own descriptions, to be a spiteful, puerile crackpot. One would think that God would be more rational, and want to get rid of Robertson more than Sharon.

But they say that God don't like ugly, so I'll trust that the Big Guy is just waiting for the perfect time to deal with Pat.

For all those people who continue to send Pat their money, well, it's not certain what God thinks about stupid.

Comments

[Vavoom]

Why anyone would pray for another's death or proclaim God's wrath as a reason for a stroke is completely insane. Both men should be marginalized by all, but strangely enough each has a strong following. Go figure...

[Older Bro]

For a long time, most interpretations of any supreme being I've heard from any fundamenatalist (of any religion) has been of one I have no desire of following, one that more often than not is contrary to the concept of a loving god. "Spiteful, puerile crackpot" pretty much sums it up.

[Daniel]

I think, though, that it is worth noting once again that the parallel is inexact. Robertson did finish second in Iowa, didn't he? That aside, he has come in for fairly broad-based criticism and continues to hang himself with every utterance. It is so far inconceivable that a US president would utter such statements, which throws the Iranian president's words into high relief.