Wednesday, September 2, 2009

Doctors have it rough

After having spent ten hours undergoing very intensive heart surgery performed by brilliant and highly skilled doctors, Pat Robertson gives credit where credit is (not) due:

Only the prayers of thousands of believing people kept me on this earth.

What a dis! I'm imagining now if one of the customers of the product I work on was like, "It can only be through the grace of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ that this PostScript document was spooled and converted into halftoned CMYK so that it could be printed with such holy image quality." I'd be so pissed...

Via Ed Brayton.

4 comments:

  1. yep, I used to know someone just like that. She and her husband worked for a woman who owned her own business, and after they spent a few years doing fairly hard work for her, taking over more and more of the day-to-day operations, the woman cut a deal with them to sell them the business so she could "retire" (read: go off to evangelize in Africa).

    That year's Christmas letter was NOT "Thanks to Boss, we now own the business" or "Thanks to all the hard work John and I did over the last few years and the generosity of Boss, we now own the business." No, it was "Thanks be to God, we now own the business."

    That was the beginning of the end of that friendship. Unsurprisingly, like Robertson, these two were also Baptists.

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  2. That reminds me of the North Korea film that we watched last year. It was disturbing that the people who underwent the life-changing eye surgery thanked Dear Leader for allowing the doctor to perform the surgery rather than the doctor himself. I felt really bad for the doctor. Sure, not they're thanking God, but I guess technically he is their deity. Although, many of them said that the best part of gaining their sight was being able to finally see Dear Leader. Pat Robertson can't say that about Jesus.

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  3. As I have written about before, I don't see a meaningful difference between a nominally secular totalitarian state and a theocracy. Thanking Kim Jong Il for eye surgery performed by a foreign doctor is not just similar; it's the same damn thing :)

    Although, many of them said that the best part of gaining their sight was being able to finally see Dear Leader. Pat Robertson can't say that about Jesus.

    heh, true.. thoough I suppose if there were residual affects of the anesthesia...

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  4. There's another thing about this that always puzzles me. If Robertson is sure of his "salvation," and totally confident that he's going to heaven, why is he so happy that all those people prayed to keep him here, in this hideously fallen world full of homosexuals and Democrats?

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