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Friday, July 22, 2005
Pat Robertson: Clairvoyance
Just for fun, let's take a look at how Pat Robertson's God-informed 2005 forecast has turned out so far:
- Robertson: "America, again if I'm hearing God right, we will see a tremendous incident of miracles in the year 2005." Reality: No miracles so far, unless you count faces in breakfast pastries.
- Robertson: "And I think the American stock market is going to surge upward, if I heard from the Lord." Reality Dow Jones, 12/31/04: 10,800. Dow Jones, 7/22/05: 10,627.
- Robertson: "What I heard is that Bush is now positioned to have victory after victory and that his second term is going to be one of triumph..." Reality: Bush has had his victories, but nothing major. He won on judicial appointments, but has lost so far on Bolton and his entire domestic agenda. Bush's approval ratings are in the toilet, we're just waiting for the Rove stink to force America to flush.
My predictions are wrong all the time, too, but I don't have the balls to claim my predictions come from God. Robertson has five months for things to turn around, otherwise he owes an apology to God and to all of us.
4 Comments:
Robertson is also big on "end-of-the-world" predictions. He kept throwing them out during the 90s, and I think the last one was for - of course - 2000.
By 
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10:14 AM
Oh, well, not even God can be right every time. It's not all Pat's fault. He can only pass along the information he's given.
Unless, of course, Pat Robertson doesn't actually talk directly to God...
Deuteronomy, 17:20But the prophet, which shall presume to speak a word in my name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or that shall speak in the name of other gods, even that prophet shall die.
17:21And if thou say in thine heart, How shall we know the word which the LORD hath not spoken?
17:22When a prophet speaketh in the name of the LORD, if the thing follow not, nor come to pass, that is the thing which the LORD hath not spoken, but the prophet hath spoken it presumptuously: thou shalt not be afraid of him.
By , at
1:46 PM
Now that's a great comment. That belongs on a T shirt with Pat Robertson's face.
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