Pat Robertson has a few words to say about Syria (aka. the Sammy Hagar of the Axis of Evil) :

Did you know that Pat Robertson can leg-press 1500 pounds! How does he do it? Where does Pat find the time and energy to host a daily, national TV show, head a world-wide ministry, develop visionary scholars, while traveling the globe as a statesman?

Whoops, wrong quote. That was from a page about Pat’s Age-Defying Shakes (Not to be confused with his Age-Defying Protein Pancakes) Pat’s musings about Syria are here :

Syria is a creation of one of the big powers just like Iraq was. Iraq was a keystroke of Winston Churchill. He formed Iraq. It used to be Mesopotamia. And now it’s Iraq. And the same thing with Syria. There was a big fight over whether the British or the French would get it, and the French got it. Syria has a ba’athist regime just like Saddam Hussein.

Third grade sentence structure aside, Pat’s contention is that the invasion of Syria will somehow fulfill a Biblical prophecy. Of course like every other prophecy in the Bible, his “evidence” is quoted out of context and is really sketchy. I’m sure this will be used as the latest evidance that the Bible is full of prophecies and that Jesus is the fulfillment of those prophecies (despite the mountain of evidence to the contrary). The Old and New Testaments have been bundled together for many hundreds of years and the authors of the New Testament were clearly writing a book whose goal was to fulfill the percieved prophecies of the Old Testament. There’s nothing prophetical about that. Maybe Pat Robertson needs to learn the word “foreshadowing”.

And speaking of Pat, how are fundies not able to put two and two together and see the clear paralells between televangelism and the story of Jesus getting pissed at the money changers in the temple? The money changers weren’t Coinstar machines, they were assholes like Pat trying to make money off religious people. By the way, you can go to Pat Robertson’s site and get the great new book “The Bible Cure for Candida & Yeast Infections”.