Robertson has made the predictions at least four times in the past two weeks on his news-and-talk television show "The 700 Club" on the Christian Broadcasting Network, which he founded. Robertson said the revelations about this year's weather came to him during his annual personal prayer retreat in January.Notice the hedging that allows Robertson to weasel out of a potential false prophecy. "If I heard the Lord right." "There well may be." And the uncertainty of the outcome--not a tsunami, but something as bad as a tsunami. Let's not forget that predicting storms on the coasts of America is like predicting crowds at Ichiro Bobblehead Night.
"If I heard the Lord right about 2006, the coasts of America will be lashed by storms," Robertson said May 8. Wednesday, he added, "there well may be something as bad as a tsunami in the Pacific Northwest."
With all that static on the divine frequency, Robertson should check his antenna.
Seeing as how the "coasts of America" are "lashed by storms" every year (it's called "hurricane season," Pat), I don't see how that's any more a prediction than saying, "If I heard the Lord right about tomorrow, the sun will beat down on the backs of outdoor laborers, giving some of them stinging sunburns."
ReplyDeleteAlso, seeing as how the Pacific Northwest is part of the Pacific "Ring of Fire" (which we know not from divine revelation, but from geologists who study plate tectonics) where tsunamis typically occur, that's not much of a divine prediction so much as it's a guess informed by the work of godless scientists. It's sort of like saying "God told me that there may well be a devastating earthquake in California." Well, duh.
Of course, it's just one more thing Robertson should have pre-emptively apologized for.
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