So What Do Televangelists Do?

Everytime there is a disaster, especially natural disasters, I am always on the look-out for some religious nutbag blurting out insensitive, essentially tactless, fundamentally heartless remarks. And Lo and Behold! there is Pat Robertson, the same man who equated homosexuality with child abuse, is now actually blaming the recent Oklahoma Tornado victims for their plight for their lack of piety, well actually for not praying, but you get the point.

In December 2012, Typhoon Pablo delivered devastating rains that caused unimaginable suffering and death to the people of Compostela Valley in Mindanao, Philippines, a Catholic Bishop, Broderick Pabillo, blamed the incident at the time on the growing support for the Reproductive Health Bill, a first in this rabidly hypocritically Catholic country.

It never fails to surprise me that this so-called messengers of god are sowing not only further insult and injury to victims of calamities, they do not even realize that their words are doing more harm than good. To put it mildly, they spite and rant amidst the calamities of people, oblivious to basic human concern and decency, decorum and simple consideration. Instead of comforting words and reassuring touch, what they do is belittle and insult, embarrass and harass, all to a non-existent deity that assuming, arguendo, did really exist, is not only brutal and bloodthirsty, but is gargantually vain and egotistic as to hurl untold misery and pain to people who do not agree with his policies, or even who do not believe in his omnibenevolence or omnipotence, not to say question his existence. Much like Kim Jong Un's North Korea torture and maim, kill and subjugate those who even slightly question the policies, tactics and actions of the ruling elite.

I hate to hear these superficial religious zealots talk about their god when their lives are lived in relative safety, comfort and seclusion from the hussle and bussle of ordinary human existence. Deprived of the intricacies of actually living life as most humans do, they talk about heavenly platitudes and theocratic dogmas as if they are the be-all and end-all of all that exists! They are nothing more than rapacious vultures cloaked under the banner of superficial profundity and fabricated humanitarianism.