"God considers this land to be his," Robertson said on his TV program "The 700 Club." "You read the Bible and he says `This is my land,' and for any prime minister of Israel who decides he is going to carve it up and give it away, God says, `No, this is mine.'"

He must have a macro for "That's not what I meant; I was misinterpreted." You watch. People will get all het up and he'll totally back down, in the meantime having gained a smidge of notoriety among his set of crazies. He's like what Howard Stern would be, if Howard Stern became a fundamentalist (without giving up his grandstanding abilities).

What would televised crazies do if they couldn't make outrageous statements to the media? I mean, it's not like they can do a Girls Gone Wild episode of the 700 Club for sweeps.

Although, if they did, I would laff and laff and laff.

I wish we could silence our nutbars...and not only because I'm catnip to them.

So they keep trying to roll around in you? That could get inconvenient.

there's more free enterprise in American religion

That's like saying there's more chocolate in Hershey's kisses.

Yeah. Well, we're all a little weird, but the closest I get to prosletizing is recommending "The Wire" a lot.(And I can't even spell prosletize correctly.)ETA: You're not as far off as all that, bt. For all that you're joking...I've been followed, touched without my consent and sprinkled with stuff. Yikes. One guy a few years ago bothered me for long enough I threatened to get a cop. Man's Law 1 God's Law(maybe) 0.

Even though I'm not a fan of organized religions, there are plenty of religious people that I respect and admire. So no, relgious != nutbar to me.

Is it just me, or does Robertson's version of God sound a lot like a three-year-old? I mean, this is the universe governed in a spirit of "Gimme! I don't wanna share! You can't make me!"

Even ignoring the sheer offensiveness of it, I'm puzzling over the logic. So, if Israel hangs on to everything, that's the same as it being God's? And if it doesn't, then it's not? The government of Israel is God? That's... well... yeah. If so, then it can't really do wrong, can it? Q.E.D. (or, per Nilly, M.Sh.L.) I'm off to prove black is white, then.

Most hard-line Christians seem more into the Old Testament than the New. The Old Testament God bore a lot more in common with Zeus and other petulant pagan gods than Jesus.

I've always thought that, too. Not that God thinks that, but that Robertson people do. I believe that God, if God exists, takes the long view...it's one of the perks of being infinite.

Fay thinks we do. She sees America as primarily a religious country, not unlike Egypt in that way, and distinct from England or France.

nods.

Yes. Yes, this is what I think. Definitely.