Pat Robertson: God says I can drive my Corvette over 100 mph on public roads

[geardaddy]

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/11/pat-robertson-god-says-i-can-drive-my-corvette-over-100-mph-on-public-roads/

Televangelist Pat Robertson likes to drive fast, and he says that God has given him permission to ignore the speed limit.

On Thursday’s edition of The 700 Club, a viewer asked Robertson if her husband was sinning by driving over the speed limit.

“My husband insists on speeding even when he’s on time,” the viewer named Nora explained in an email. “In the last 2 years, he’s gotten 4 speeding tickets and our insurance has gone up. He doesn't feel that God cares if we speed.”


“You’re asking a guy that had a Corvette with a 430 horsepower engine, who is now driving a car that has about a 650 horsepower engine,” Robertson laughed. “Who also drove 30 laps around the Charlotte Motor Speedway in a stock car.”

“I don’t get tickets, I pay attention,” he continued. “But there was one night up in the mountains, when it wasn't anybody around a four-lane highway late at night, and I did get that little bug up a little over 200 mph.”

“Two hundred!” co-host Terry Meeuwsen exclaimed.

More idiocy at link.

[snooper2]

1. he didn't die yet?

[Blue Owl]

2. Sounds like Pat has been tasting the forbidden fruit!

And he LIKES it!

[Politicalboi]

3. I bet God tells him where the cops are

So he knows where and when to speed. I hope those suckers were listening when he described his cars before they send this piece of shit another dime.

[upaloopa]

4. One time my wife and I were invited to our neighbor's house

for a party. They introduced everyone to us as their Christian friend so and so and introduced us to their friends as their friends. Then they had a discussion about wether going through a red light was violating a moral law as well as a civil law.
Soon after we excused ourselves and left. Several times after I have been at parties where I was the only unaffiliated person. It is difficult when you couldn't care less about what the Christians think is important.

[Liberal Veteran]

5. An 84 year old driving around in a Corvette over a 100 mph? What could go wrong?

[badtoworse]

6. I remember driving a friend's 340 'Cuda (with 6 pack) at well over 100 mph

But I was young and stupid - it was scary fast. I can't imagine 200 mph

[MindPilot]

17. About that six-pack...

We talkin' three 2bbl, six cans of beer, or a set of well-sculpted abs?

[badtoworse]

18. Three 2bbl.

Six cans of beer and I likely wouldn't have survived the ride. I've never been close to six pack abs (and I'm as far away now as I ever was)

[Initech]

7. My Maserati does 185 / I lost my license / Now i can't drive

Pat you should hear the words of Joe Walsh....

[SomethingFishy]

15. Well he probably has a limo... rides in the back..

locks the doors in case he's attacked.

[MisterP]

8. what terrifying mixture of fundamentalism, hedonism, and Christian anarchism is he unleashing?!

[lpbk2713]

9. He scares me.

The thought of this clown behind the wheel of any
vehicle at any speed gives me cause for concern.

[trueblue2007]

10. PAT ROBERTSON IS A SINNER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[hfojvt]

11. the keys to this snip seem to be

1. nobody was around
2. nobody got hurt

So why should God care? Because He's a control freak?

The trouble is, at 200 mph, somebody could quickly be around. Moving at 293 feet per second means you will have very little time to react. Somebody easily could get hurt.

Myself, a few times driving late at night, I may have pulled these illegal stunts when I was the only car on the road.

1. Straddling both lanes of the interstate for a few miles.
2. cutting off my headlights and driving by the light of a full moon for maybe a mile

Illegal? yes.

Dangerous or hurting anybody? No.

On the other hand, the MSRP for a new Corvette is $54,000. So really?

[hobbit709]

12. Sir Isaac says if you violate the Laws of Motion you're a goner there, Pat.

God has no power over chariots made of iron.

Judges 1:19
And the LORD was with Judah; and he drove out the inhabitants of the mountain; but could not drive out the inhabitants of the valley, because they had chariots of iron.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

13. And, Jesus got his donkey up to 400mph.

We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. H.L. Mencken

[Xyzse]

14. What an entitled bastard.

He takes the concept of "White Male Entitlement" to the nth degree.

There is something serious and very wrong with that guy.

[jmowreader]

16. Pat, say hi to Ryan Dunn when you get where you're going

Or more precisely, wave to him on your way to be fitted for a gilded lead cloak.

[CrawlingChaos]

19. I'm thinking this could be a Rainman "I'm an excellent driver" kind of thing

I think maybe a lot of things happen in Pat's own mind. 100mph, 200mph... then there was that night when Jesus took the wheel and they broke the sound barrier together. Sure, why not.

[yortsed snacilbuper]

20. GOD, protect me from your followers!

[JHB]

21. Translation: "You're asking a guy who pretends his desires are God's...

...about another guy who pretends his desires are God's? And we both do the same rewrite about the same things?"

[petronius]

22. I doubt God cares if he speeds or not, but my hope is that he is given plenty

of opportunities to "render unto Caesar those things that are Caesar's" in exchange for his lead-footed pleasures...