wow, it took 'em nearly two weeks!

from Media Matters, Robertson again proved capable of spewing hate and ignorance (oh, and some very anti-Christian theology):

Religious conservatives claim Katrina was God's omen, punishment for the United States

In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, some religious conservatives have speculated that the storm was sent by God as an omen or as a punishment for America's alleged sins. Media Matters for America has documented such statements from three religious conservative media figures: Pat Robertson, Hal Lindsey, and Charles Colson.
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ROBERTSON: "I was reading, yesterday, a book that was very interesting about what God has to say in the Old Testament about those who shed innocent blood. And he used the term that those who do this, 'the land will vomit you out.' That -- you look at your -- you look at the book of Leviticus and see what it says there. And this author of this said, 'well 'vomit out' means you are not able to defend yourself.' But have we found we are unable somehow to defend ourselves against some of the attacks that are coming against us, either by terrorists or now by natural disaster? Could they be connected in some way?"
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LINDSEY: "It seems clear that the prophetic times I have been expecting for decades have finally arrived. And even worse, it appears that the judgment of America has begun."
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COLSON: "Katrina gave us a preview of what America would look like if we fail to fight the war on terror. 'Did God have anything to do with Katrina?,' people ask. My answer is, he allowed it and perhaps he allowed it to get our attention so that we don't delude ourselves into thinking that all we have to do is put things back the way they were and life will be normal again."

Okay, so Lindsey is just a huge nut; unfortunately, he's a nut with a pretty big audience. Still, I'd put money on the fact that he will have to continue to "expect for decades" the end that he thinks has just begun. Colson decides that God destroyed the lives and livelihoods of hundreds of thousands of people just to warn the United States not to go soft on terror? I'd like him to point that out in the Bible. Robertson, however, once again takes the cake: according to Robertson, God works on the side of terrorists who attack the United States. That's right. That's exactly what he suggests: Because we were defenseless against the hurricane, God sent it; we are defenseless against some attacks by terrorists; therefore, God must be sending them, too. And of course Robertson decides that the innocent blood we're shedding against God's will is by allowing abortions to take place. If God sent the terrorists to attack us, though, doesn't that make their blood innocent, too? Or even, somehow, holy? Yet we're shedding not only their blood but the blood of thousands of people who are innocent by any measure.

When are people going to wake up and see that this guy isn't a man of faith? Hell, none of these guys are, not really. They all have an agenda that blinds them to at least 90% of the Gospel. Or maybe Jesus didn't mean all those things he said about loving our enemy, practicing forgiveness, giving to anyone who asks for aid, proclaiming release to the captives, giving sight to the blind, oh, and not worrying about the 'last days'/ end times / end of the age because no one knows about that time except God.