Those of us upon whom a religious upbringing or education was inflicted are well aware that this past Sunday was the celebration of history’s biggest miracle; the revivification of a man who had been tortured to death by crucifixion. It makes you wonder, doesn’t it, why such wonders never happen in this modern age, for despite what Paul Simon sang, this is not truly the age of “miracles and wonders”. We’re still wondering, but miracles we see not.
Well, wonder no longer, for Pat Robertson tells us that the problem is those pointy headed intellectuals of the Ivy League, whose skepticism has apparently infected the whole country, for, according to Pat, nowadays, if you want to dupe someone into believing in miracles, you have to go to Africa, where, again according to Pat, you can get them to believe anything. And it’s all the fault of those Harvard and Yale elites that we aren’t as easily duped as the credulous Africans. (Spoiler alert, Pat went to Yale Law School, but apparently that doesn’t count)
According to Robertson, it’s the “skepticism and secularism” that is being taught at “the most advanced schools” around the country that is keeping God’s miracles at bay.
Meanwhile, Africans are “simple” and “humble.” “You tell ‘em God loves ‘em and they say, ‘Okay, he loves me’,” said Robertson. “You say God will do miracles and they say, ‘Okay, we believe him’.”
(via TPM News)
Give the man credit. It’s not easy to blend ignorance and racism so subtly that you almost don’t notice the racism. But note too, the clever manipulation of language. Most of us would say a miracle is an event that took place contrary to the laws of nature. Pat defines it as anything he can get a credulous person to believe.
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