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 Virginia Beach, VA: According to Reuters, Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN) president and 700 Club host Pat Robertson believes the current heat wave sweeping much of the western hemisphere has made him a believer in global warming.
"We really need to address the burning of fossil fuels," Robertson said on his 700 Club broadcast. "It is getting hotter, and the icecaps are melting and there is a buildup of carbon dioxide in the air." It should be noted that he’s contributed to in no small way.
Hmmm…if God put all those fossil fuels in the ground, and then gave good Christians like Ken Lay, George W. Bush, and Dick Cheney the means to make a tidy buck off them, only to produce a Biblical rash of climatic consequences that threaten humankind, would that be an example of Intelligent Design? Or is the scientific method breaking out in the Land of Nod?
Last year, Robertson railed that hurricanes Katrina and Rita were signs that the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (who, given their means of transportation, don’t contribute to global warming) were knock-knock-knocking on heaven’s door. But of course, that’s the lense he sees the world through. Well, that, and money. On September 12, 2001, he and Jerry Falwell blamed the WTC attack on “feminists, lesbians, and those who would secularize America,” by pissing off the Almighty and causing "the enemies of America to give us probably what we deserved."
In October 2005, Robertson – a sanctimonious peck-sniff if ever there was one, and a miserably failed 1988 Republican presidential candidate to boot – criticized the National Association of Evangelicals for making common cause with "far left environmentalists" over human-caused global warming. Maybe he dialed the wrong number that day and got the devil instead of God.
Apparently, there are two kinds of Christians in the world – those who want the polar ice caps to melt causing widespread death and destruction, and those who don’t. Which category do Christian fundamentalist presidential aspirants Gov Mike Huckabee (R-AK), and Senator Sam Brownback(R-KS) fall into? Stay tuned…
~Jack McEnany
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