Yup! On your knees, you pious christianists!
Pat Robertson,79, recently underwent "extensive heart surgery," according to CBN News:
"Robertson has suffered a condition known as atrial fibrillation, an often-debilitating heart disorder involving shortness of breath and weakness affecting an estimated five million Americans."
CBN goes into some detail explaining what the surgeons accomplished during the 10-hour ordeal, using a "state of the art technique they pioneered called Convergent Procedure."
While Robertson did have some good words to say about his attending physicians, Dr. Andy Kiser and his staff, he then went on to make this stoopid statement:
"Only the prayers of thousands of believing people kept me on this earth." [My emphasis]
In other words, the doctors helped, but it was "only the prayers" of all these "believers" that turned the tide!
And that calls for a couple of questions and a comment:
Why should anyone need to pray for good ol' Pat? Was not his god aware of his heart condition? Is his god some child who needs to be patronized and bombarded incessantly with piteous pleas to do the right thing? And one can't help but wonder if god likes ol' Pat just a little bit why he didn't make this atrial fibrillation go away a long time ago?
We know from extensive studies that prayer has little or no curative effect on sick people or people in process of undergoing surgical procedures. This has been thoroughly documented. In fact, the studies have shown that people who were prayed for tended to have more problems than those who were not prayed for.
Finally, what kind of god would intervene (using the doctors, of course) to keep ol' Pat alive when he is a noted liar, charlatan, con artist and general all-around nogoodnik; a nasty wolf in sheep's clothing?
It's enough to make one sick!
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