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>>>I have wondered for quite a while, why are such idiots so influential? Why do newspapers even quote him, for example? I mean, there must be lots of people talking nonsense, or even their own doubtful interpretation of religion, so why do people like Pat Robertson get all the press?
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>>I'm not sure it's possible for someone to be a bigger horses a$$ than Pat Robertson.
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>Was it Pat Robertson or one of the other televangelists who did that thing where he asked for donations (in the millions) by a certain date? When the money was not there by the target date the date was moved back. The lord granted him an extension!
Oral Roberts, in the early 80s. I remember because it was on the radio in the morning as I was going to my dentist in San Franscisco. I was ranting about it pretty seriously as I got in the chair. (I was much less shy about telling people what I think in those days <s>) As he was preparing the needle for the novacaine and while I was about halfway into a tank of nitrous he told me he was a graduate of Oral Roberts University, Of course I thought he was kidding. He wasn't.
In fairness, he was a good dentist, but I never was able to go back to having a medical procedure of any kind done by somebody who thought the earth was 6000 years old.
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
