Pat Robertson pees holy water, gives Bush "Blessings of Emperor"

Pat Robertson's theology is seriously warped. He has no humility whatsoever. Back in January, Robertson said God told him He would bless Bush with an election night blowout. Apparently, God is now backtracking. Last night on Paula Zahn, Robertson said:

ZAHN: How close is this election going to be?

ROBERTSON: I thought it was going to be a blowout, but I think it's razor thin now. But the president, in my opinion, in the next couple of weeks -- we only got two more weeks -- is going to pull ahead of Kerry and I think he will have a substantial Electoral College victory when it's all over.

God's hypocrisy not withstanding, Robertson went on to say lots of other really weird things. Robertson spouts concepts that should truly cause Americans to blanche. Here's Robertson on how George has the "blessings of the emperor":

ZAHN: But they're running an ad right now that rebuts your claim that God has taken a side in this election.

They say -- quote -- "We believe that claims of divine appointment for the president, uncritical affirmation of his policies, and assertions that all Christians must vote for his reelection constitute bad theology and dangerous religion."

ROBERTSON: I would never say somebody had to vote for anybody. That would be terrible. I haven't said that.

I just said, I think God's blessing him, and I think it's one of those things that, even if he stumbles and messes up -- and he's had his share of goofs and gaffes -- I just think God's blessing is on him. And you remember, I think the Chinese used to say, you know, it's the blessing of heaven on the emperor. And I think the blessing of heaven is on Bush. It's just the way it is.

Well, it's his opinion and he's welcome to it. The Jesus with whom I am familiar would hate some pompous ass assigning His divine allegiance to one politician and withholding it from another. I think that's what is generally called grandiosity.

He went on to call Sojourners Magazine a semi-socialist organization and lots of other creepy, smug things that are basically not very Christian. But, those aren't the scariest comments to come out of Robertson's mouth. Check out this doozy about his meeting with Bush prior to the invasion of Iraq:

ZAHN: He's been posed repeatedly in debates, what mistakes have you made? He's been asked that on the campaign trail and he hasn't come up with any.

ROBERTSON: I met with him down in Nashville before the Gulf War started. And he was the most self-assured man I ever met in my life.

You remember, Mark Twain said, he looks like a contended Christian with four aces. He was just sitting there, like, I'm on top of the world, and I warned him about this war. I had deep misgivings about this war, deep misgivings. And I was trying to say, Mr. President, you better prepare the American people for casualties.

Oh, no, we're not going to have any casualties. Well, I said, it's the way it's going to be. And so, it was messy. The lord told me it was going to be, A, a disaster and, B, messy. And before that, I had deep, in my spirit, I had deep misgivings about going into Iraq.

I actually watched this interview. When Robertson said that, I literally shook my head. Did he just say that Bush didn't think we would take casualties in Iraq? He did.

The really sad thing is...I believe it.