Ethics

Pat Robertson Predicts Nuclear War

By Ed Brayton

Pat Robertson is making another one of his famous predictions, but of course he's leaving himself the perfect out by calling on his followers to pray about it. That way if it doesn't happen, he can say, "See? We prayed it away."

Christian broadcaster Pat Robertson is urging prayer before Election Day to stave off an imminent Mideast war he said could bring nuclear attacks on the United States.

In a letter on his Web site, www.patrobertson.com, Robertson said his opinion was that Israel would bomb Iranian nuclear sites between Nov. 4 and the inauguration of the United States' new president.

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on October 10, 2008 (boomark / email).