Current Affairs & Religion 07 Jan 2007 04:40 pm
It’s from God, or it’s not
There is the annual brouhaha about Pat Robertson’s supposed predictions based on what God told him. Except, well, he admits he’s been wrong:
In 2005 Robertson predicted that Bush would have victory after victory in his second term. He said Social Security reform proposals would be approved and Bush would nominate conservative judges to federal courts.
Lawmakers confirmed Bush’s 2005 nominations of John Roberts and Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court. But the president’s Social Security initiative was stalled.
“I have a relatively good track record,” he said. “Sometimes I miss.”
So, his predictions are from God, and have to be always right, or they don’t come from God, they come from his head. Or, I guess, worse still (for them), God isn’t omniscient?
Sometimes the lack of extremely basic logic among fundamentalists is staggering.
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