Sure, it’s annoying that Pat Robertson would try and scare a little Pennsylvania town with the wrath-of-God bit, but it’s really no different than the threat of hell used to coerce millions and millions of people into religious submission. I prefer the Santa Claus doctrine: Be good for goodness sake.

Pat's favorite book, of course, is the Old Testament. All that smiting, smoting, burning, drowning, plaguing arouses him. Purely, good old-fashioned religious arousal, mind you. I've also heard he has a book club, but it offers only one book. You can probably guess what it is. (No, it's not Scooter Libby's suddenly revived novel.)