Agnostic Mom

My Pat Robertson Radar has been on. Pat is in the news today, this time applying the repentance concept. Of course, it required a major consequence to compel yesterday’s apology. And those of us who heard about that recent consequence (which I will describe momentarily) were expecting one to come soon.

Here is a portion of the apology letter Pat sent to the son of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, which I copied from a news article in the Jerusalem Post:

“My zeal, my love of Israel and my concern for the future safety of your nation led me to make remarks which I can now view in retrospect as inappropriate and insensitive in light of the national grief experienced because of your father’s illness.

“I ask your forgiveness, and the forgiveness of the people of Israel for saying what was clearly insensitive at the time.”

After all the ludicrous statements Pat has strewn, what compelled this sudden humility? Pat was part of a $50 million project to construct a Christian Heritage Center in Galilee, often referred to as a Christian amusement park. After Pat blamed Sharon’s stroke on God’s punishment for withdrawing from Gaza, the Tourism Ministry in Israel announced it would not allow Pat on the project.

I guess if you hit Pat where it hurts, you can squeeze a drop of humility out of him. Still, I wouldn’t call it complete humility. He and his spokespeople blame the news media for taking his statements out of context, and not reporting his statements of concern for Sharon.

Hmm, I seem to remember reading those statements. It didn’t take away from the fact that Pat likes to think he knows the mind of God, and will condemn others in His name.