Evangelic nutcase Pat Robertson doesn’t see any problem with going over 100 mph on an open stretch of road. In fact, God may even have given him permission. While doing his what-sometimes-can-be-described-as-radical show, The 700 Club, a viewer called in and had the following interaction with Robertson:
“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.
“No, 100, I’m sorry, it won’t go 200,” Robertson replied. “Is it a sin? I think it’s a sin to hurt somebody. I think it’s a sin to drive recklessly… If your driving imperils other people, you are sinning, there’s no question about it.”
“But in an open stretch of road, you go to Texas, I think some areas, there’s no speed limit at all,” he added. “There are times when police do pick you up, but I better not say any more.”
“But the whole idea of traffic — it is… sin or not sin — it is to regulate the flow of traffic to keep people from hurting each other.”
Basically, Robertson is saying he has been detained for driving too fast and he uses his name recognition to get out of tickets. Plus, it is a-OK with the big guy upstairs as long as he doesn’t endanger anyone else on the road. We can’t say that we’ve never broke the speed limit before, but, we’ve never leaned on the divine to justify it, either.
Readers, what do you think?
Comments
I’m no theologian or a Christian, but I’m pretty certain that the Bible doesn’t say anything about speeding in a sports car on a deserted road. Probably because it doesn’t have to, and probably because even people like Robertson, as polarizing as he is, know that no matter how often or where you speed there will always exist a chance for you screw up royally.
Take someone else’s life because of your negligent driving, and have society, the courts, and the weight of your God’s judgement on you to deal with.
Pat is just doing the work of the Lord. In a Corvette he just does it faster.
I am a Christian but I even believe old Pat is way around the bend to looneyville.
When it comes to speed there is a time and place for everything and there is a risk at any speed.
Anyone who loves a car and has owned a real performance car has done things with them that are not always legal. In my youth you are stupid and take risk as you are too young to die or so you think.
Now that I am older the fun is not as often and in more controlled placed where you can contain the odds of a issue much easier. I even have had the cops here tell me were I can go to make a run with little risk of life and or them.
But then again the most dangerous runs I have made were just in rush hour traffic on the 5 from San Diego to Santa Anna. I got in the Diamond Lane there after a long flight and just keeping with the cars in front and back of me was a 95 MPH run the whole way. I was passing few cars and just keeping with the flow. Also people do not keep apart much. That was a white knuckler in a car I had only been in for about a Half hour.
I have done 115 MPH into turn one of a 1/2 speedway in a Howe chassis stock car with much less fear while thinking there is no way this car will slow and turn. Thank God and Willwood wide five brakes LOL!
Times like this I ask WWTSD.
What Would The Stig Do!
I say more power to him if that is what he enjoys. It sounds like he uses caution. I’ve had my Vetts over 100 and they are very stable, that’s how they are built.