And I’m sure those millions of Christians on the east coast would never have thought to pray until Pat reminded them.
JThunder-- Perhaps Patsie R. says that humans do not have magical powers. But he does claim that there exists a god who DOES have magical powers.
What’s the difference? Both are equally ridiculous.
What’s the expression, “there are no athiests in foxholes”? There are no athiests in the path of a cat III or above storm. A I or II is bad enough if you live right on the coast. I think coastal people are probably more religious as a result. No, not really.
Well, at least give him credit for eliminating the middle man.
I just realized that Diogenes the Cynic beat me to it, and we agree. The first part never surprises me on this board. The second just proves that sometimes he’s right. 
Seriously though, don’t start telling God where to put storms. Too much pride was Lucifer’s sin, wasn’t it?
[South Park] Maybe Pat can unseat Chris and Saddam, stay tuned.
Well, it’s working. Pat used his connections with the Big Guy to downgrade Izzy from a catagory 5 all the way down to a 2 in a little over a week.
So Pat, while you’re IM’ing God your petitions for mercy, do you think you could get him to drop some of that hurricane madness up New York way? Not enough to cause damage or kill people, just enough to get me a three day weekend? You know, like He did with the power outtage a few weeks back?
Thanks guy.
No need to go to all that trouble. You can buy them in bulk at lots of stores. I recommend the extra-long extra-wide ribbed, lubed version. YM*MV:D
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Oh bullshit. 
Gee … I wonder what’s back out at sea …
I wonder if we can pay some top-notch gay terrorists to kidnap Pat Robertson and keep him on one of those cruise ships for a month or so. I’m not suggesting they do anything untoward, I just think it’d be nice torture for him to be trapped there. And hey, maybe he’d do us all a favor and jump overboard in the middle of the ocean.
Well, most of this has been covered, but Robertson said on his show the past two days that the prayer protection bubble started in 1962 when he aand the attendees at a prayer breakfast for a local Christian business group prayed to deflect some hurricane when CBN first started and the only had one small station a single free standing tower. He claims prayer has been hurricane Kevlar for the area ever since. But he is especially proud of what happened in 1995 with Felix since he keep putting a stupid graphic of the storm’s path up on the screen.
I have no hope his followers will abandon the phony even if Isabel hits hard right on top of CBN headquarters. If people didn’t abandon him after his doom and gloom predictions about the collapse of civilization due to Y2K and his admonitions to stock up on portable generators, MREs, bottled water, and other survival gear, they won’t now. If they didn’t smarten up when he continued to back brutal Liberian dictator and US prison escapee Charles Taylor because of his business dealings with Taylor, they won’t now. If they continue to follow him even after it has been shown that the aircraft they funded to provide medical relief and supplies to wartorn parts of Africa has been used much more often as a commercial transport for Robertson’s mining interests in the region, they won’t stop now.
But I still wish Isabel would come straight into the Virginia Beach area just to see how the smarmy bastard will spin the damage on his show. I would feel sorry for anyone who is caught in its path or who has property damaged from it coming ashore there, except for him and his flock.
I’m doubting that the number of people praying makes a whit of difference, but Pat believes it does. And, to be honest, that’s one of his more benign beliefs, so I’m inclined to not complain about it.
As for the magic number; don’t know. Don’t exactly do a whole lot of praying to the Christian God being kinda-pagan and all, so it’s not something I’ve given a lot of throught. Again, God probably doesn’t bloody care how many people’re doing it. Still, though, I’d rather have these people praying a hurricane goes away rather than praying fod Disney World to burn down or something.
Excellent reference, and point taken. 
Apropos of nothing, but every time I read the thread title, I get that old Black Oak Arkansas song “Jim Dandy (to the Rescue)” stuck in my head for a few minutes.
Er…
I thought I was the only person in the world who even knew they were. 
Damn your eyes!
Now it’s on infinite loop! God, not thought of that song in ages. And, of course, all I can think of is the ‘chorus’. “Jim Dandy to the res-cue!”
Now I have to go hunt a copy down to get it out.
The only way we can test my hypothesis is to put a bunch of athiests in the path of a III or above hurricane and study their reactions as the eye wall passes over twice.
I need a lot of grant money for that. A LOT.
Of course, this is just going to mean the hurricane is going to run off in the opposite direction/kill everyone involved, seeing with god’s problem with being proven.
Even to someone who regards it as bullshit.
Now, what happens if pat robertson goes into the hurricane…
Supposedly, just one, but it has to come from a very faithful person.
But two or three people is sufficient to summon the divine presence! (Unless you’re Jewish, in which case it takes a whole minyan.)
Pat Robertson goes in the hurricane. Hurricane goes into Kansas. Witch is in Kansas. Our witch.