perfidy

Juxtaposed headlines from the Drudge Report:

PAT ROBERTSON: STROKE MAY BE GOD'S PUNISHMENT...

IRAN PRESIDENT HOPES FOR SHARON'S DEATH

I didn't have the heart to read either article. It is a cruel fate indeed that strikes down every peacemaker that Israel makes Prime Minister, while loathsome criminals survive for decades living off the fear, credulity and hatred they inculcate in their nations.

Of the President of Iran, I expected no more - for someone who has both denied and praised the holocaust, wishing for the death of a single Jew (however prominent) ranks almost as loving kindness.

But I dearly wish to travel to wherever Pat Robertson is lurking, and beat the ever-loving crap out of his sorry, putrid carcass. Either everything is God's punishment - everything - or else it is the ineffable work of a loving God who wishes nothing but our salvation through means that we will by no means comprehend fully. Robertson is either hopelessly banal or tragically wrong.

Or knowing him and his works, he has managed to be both.