Ethics

Robertson: God Angry at Chile

By Ed Brayton

As we always do when a major natural disaster hits, we turn to Pat Robertson to tell us what the tectonic plates -- err, I mean God -- were thinking. And wouldn't you know it, God is mad at Chile for not allowing Pinochet to keep killing people there:

Citing what he described as the "the persecution of a great hero who rid their land of Godless communists" as a possible cause, prominent TV evangelist and amateur seismologist Pat Robertson today argued that the 8.8 magnitude of the earthquake that struck Chile early this morning should serve as a warning to the population that "God is even angrier with them than he is with the people of Haiti."

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on March 06, 2010 (boomark / email).