Pat Robertson plays the race card

A simple slip of the tongue? Would there have been a problem if he just said 'national suicide'? Perhaps not, but it's hard to buy that coming from a man who has previously claimed divine retribution was behind everything from Ariel Sharon's stroke to Hurricane Katrina. Not to mention his investments in African diamond mines run by brutal dictators....

From the February 6 edition of CBN's The 700 Club:

ROBERTSON: Studies that I have read indicate that having babies is a sign of a faith in the future. You know, unless you believe in the future, you're not going to take the trouble of raising a child, educating a child, doing something. If there is no future, why do it? Well, unless you believe in God, there's really no future. And when you go back to the existentialism of Jean-Paul Sartre, the whole idea of this desperate nightmare we are in -- you know, that we are in this prison, and it has no hope, no exit. That kind of philosophy has permeated the intellectual thinking of Europe, and hopefully it doesn't come here. But nevertheless, ladies and gentlemen, Europe is right now in the midst of racial suicide because of the declining birth rate. And they just can't get it together. Why? There's no hope.

You read it here first, folks. Get your tourism out of the way now, because the Almighty intends to lay waste to the continent. Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to enjoy a heavenly Robertson-approved diet shake. My eyes should turn blue any day now.