As usual, Pat Robertson has made a prediction for the new year.<\/p>\n

And no, I’m not going to make him NCOTW for that .. that would be too easy.<\/p>\n

Anyway, Pat predicted that there will be a terrorist(s) induced mass killing somewhere after September 2007.<\/p>\n

Actually, I shouldn’t say ‘prediction’, because Pat obtained this information, first hand, from God Himself.<\/p>\n

God wasn’t very specific about the actual number of victims, the method or the place (which somehow takes away a bit from the usefulness of this revelation, but okay, apparently God likes to keep some ‘outs’), but Pat ‘believes’ millions of people will die in this disaster, which is ‘probably’ nuclear in nature and involves major cities.<\/p>\n

Last year, God told Pat that storms and possibly a tsunami would crash into America’s coastline. The tsunami never happened (why did God say ‘possibly’ .. wasn’t he sure?), but, granted, it rained in New England in 2006.<\/p>\n

He used this to emphasize his good track record: said Pat:<\/p>\n

“I have a relatively good track record,” he said. “Sometimes I miss.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

What is all this I<\/em><\/strong> business? Isn’t it God who would have that track record? Isn’t Pat just the messenger? The channeler?<\/p>\n

Even more curious is this “sometimes I miss<\/em>“. Okay, so it’s obvious that God, being omnipotent and all that, doesn’t miss anything. But what does Pat “miss<\/em>“? Isn’t he listening when God speaks to him? That’s pretty rude! Or does God speak a language that Pat doesn’t fully know (and if so, why doesn’t God speak English, just like the rest of the world)? Or does God mumble, speak too fast or too soft? How can Pat<\/strong> “miss”<\/em> things? Very<\/strong> odd, these “misses”.<\/p>\n

I’ll let you in on a secret here: I can’t prove it of course, but somehow I have the distinct feeling that Mr. Robertson wasn’t told anything<\/strong> by the Lord, but that he just made it all up, so that in the event there is<\/strong> a horrible terrorist attack with millions of victims in a major city (uhm, duh, you can’t get millions of victims by bombing Bandera, Texas), he can then proclaim to be the new Moses with a direct, and proven!, line to God and that everybody has to listen to Pat “Moses” Robertson “from now on”. That’s what I think!<\/p>\n

I could be wrong of course.<\/p>\n

But I don’t think I am.<\/p>\n

Here’s a question for my readers:<\/p>\n

If you can talk to dead people, you’re called a psychic (well.. actually, talking to dead people is easy: the trick is to get them to talk back to you, and this is what most psychics claim happens).<\/p>\n

Now, if God talks to you … are you a psychic?<\/p>\n

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