He’s Baaaaaack!

Last Updated on June 13, 2017

Ah, yes, it’s time for another journey into the odd remarks of Pat Robertson. This time, he recounts a message directly from God about hurricane season:

“If I heard the Lord right about 2006, the coasts of America will be lashed by storms.”

The late night comedians have already had a field day with the bit about whether he heard the Lord right or not; I suspect that if a regular person heard the voice of who they thought was the Almighty, they’d listen up. How a minister who seems to think he has such a unique audience with God Himself wouldn’t paid complete attention is beyond me.

But the second half of that statement yields as much entertainment. In 2006, the coasts will be lashed by storms? Hmm. I’ve worked in television newsrooms for 15 years now, and I can’t recall a year in which at least two of our country’s coasts weren’t lashed by at least one storm each. Maybe it happened: maybe there was such a year and it was so boring that I just slept through it, but I doubt it. So that’s probably a safe statement to make, no matter who one attributes it to.

Then he adds:

“There may well be something as serious as a tsunami in the Pacific Northwest.”

Those dinner theater psychics who aren’t really psychics use this technique quite often: “there may well be something as serious as a tsunami.” Then again, there may well not be something anywhere near as serious. When speaking in conditionals, anything truly is possible.

And though I fervently believe in God, I don’t need even Him to tell me that much!