Sadly, at least in Robertson's case, the added stress doesn't mean a shortened lifespan.

They're worried about imaginary shit, but blissfully stupid about everything else - global warming, etc.

This could be applied to anything on facebook. You log into facebook and see "is in a relationship

...and your reply cuts off early for some reason and you curse your comupter, and the person's new significant other on facebook.

It's not just Pat, I'm afraid. Technology is being used to create new "God of the Gap" BS for congregations that don't know any better.

I was dragged to a church service for Easter, I think, and the old minister starts talking about how you have to have faith in the unknowable and so forth. So he decides to compare the Holy Spirit to things in our lives that we just don't understand. For that metaphor, he picked cloud computing. "No one knows how it works, you just trust that it does. You send your most precious memories and thoughts into 'the cloud,' and just like the Holy Spirit, it's there for you."

I wanted to ram his metaphorical iPhone down his idiot throat for being such a willing dumbass and dragging the IQ of everyone around him down. This service was also preceded by a trailer for "Heaven Is For Real," if that's any indication of what sort of gullibility was on display...

I unconsciously heard Pat saying that quote about the pastor and the cloud, SPK, as I was reading it in my head. It was eerily natural, with Pat's crackly "I'm about to fall asleep at any moment" quality.

He does sort of look like a fetus, all shrunken and hunched over like that. How is our bitchcraft failing?