{"id":27032,"date":"2009-09-02T20:29:30","date_gmt":"2009-09-02T20:29:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2009\/09\/02\/pat-robertson-prayer-is-not-en\/"},"modified":"2009-09-02T20:29:30","modified_gmt":"2009-09-02T20:29:30","slug":"pat-robertson-prayer-is-not-en","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/02\/pat-robertson-prayer-is-not-en\/","title":{"rendered":"Pat Robertson:  &#8220;Prayer is not enough&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;You also must rely on Science.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nWell, OK, he didn&#8217;t actually SAY that, but he did DO that&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Christian broadcaster Pat Robertson underwent 10 hours of surgery to repair an irregular heartbeat that put the 79-year-old at higher risk of a deadly stroke or heart attack, his lead surgeon said Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Robertson was back at home in Virginia Beach after his release on Thursday from a hospital in North Carolina. He ultimately will be fitted with a heart monitor, Dr. Andy C. Kiser said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That is not the kind of surgery the average poor folk are likely to get, it seems to me.  Anyway, he had his chance to ask for a simple miracle, which he totally deserves because he is god&#8217;s BFF.  But, he didn&#8217;t ask.  In fact, it seems that he jilted god.<\/p>\n<p>Something bad is going to happen to Pat Robertson.  A tornado, a hurricane, something.  It&#8217;s in the cards.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, it turns out Robertson had a Twin Brother inside his body when they went in there:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In a separate but related procedure, doctors also removed an abnormally enlarged left appendage on Robertson&#8217;s heart. They believe the growth contributed to Robertson&#8217;s atrial fibrillation.<\/p>\n<p>The appendage was 6 centimeters long, or slightly longer than adult pinkie finger.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Or maybe it was an angel?<\/p>\n<p>Robertson, following the surgery, said: &#8220;Only the prayers of thousands of believing people kept me on this earth.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That and 20 years of education including medical school, you ingrate!<\/p>\n<p>Hat Tip: <a href=\"http:\/\/fabulousflatulence.wordpress.com\/2009\/09\/02\/god-hates-pat-robertson\/\">PMF<\/a>, where you will also find the link to the original source quoted here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;You also must rely on Science.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[2486],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-720","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27032"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27032\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}