Pat Robertson, the founder of the Christian Coalition and a failed candidate for president, has spent several occasions over the last year explaining his belief that natural disasters and various calamities are really God's wrath for wrongdoing. He always apologizes soon after. This week was no different, claiming that the reason Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon suffered a massive brain hemmorhage and stroke was because Sharon was working to carve up the Holy Land in order to achieve peace in the region. Read the CNN article.
Of course, Robertson has since apologized. Sharon remains in a coma near death. This time, even the Bush Administration has issued a rebuke of Robertson.
Local commentator Ken Schram, of Seattle's KOMO-TV, offered his views, too.
My view? Pretty simple: Does anyone actually believe this nut anymore? Pat Robertson is grasping at any shred of hope to keep his name in the news. He's a lunatic and deserves no more media attention.
-- Wenatchee, Wash.
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