Evangelist Pat Robertson apologized in a Wednesday letter for saying that the major stroke suffered by Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon was divine retribution for "dividing God's land."
The apology -- offered in a letter to Sharon's son, Omri -- followed a threat by Israel to exclude Robertson from a proposed $50 million Christian heritage site in northern Israel.
Of course, it took him until Wednesday on January 11 to say anything--after his spokespeople had initially come out to reinforce and argue in favor of his stupid remark--and then his apology arrives only in the face of Israel deciding that maybe doing business with a rude jerk is a bad idea. Frankly, his apology strikes me as little better than the babbling of a child caught with his hand in a cookie jar. Certainly the child is sorry--sorry he got caught. And the apology sounds more like an excuse than anything else, since he blames those who reported his remarks claiming that somehow they misconstrued what he meant. Hardly. Frankly, he remains a jerk and this apology doesn't much help his case, since he still believes that what he said was true. I don't see that his theology has shifted. I think he's just worried about losing money.
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