In an ‘unsolicited question’ from the folks at home, ‘Ken’ asks the following. “Why do amazing miracles (people raised from the dead, blind eyes open, lame people walking) happen with great frequency in places like Africa, and not here in the USA?
What can we do to encourage those things to happen here? Is America too far gone for miracles like this? ” Off topic: I selected this photo for the resemblance to Alfred E. Newsman from ‘MAD Magazine’ “What – Me Worry?” Coincidence or miracle…You decide. Then again, I may just need a new prescription for my glasses.
Gosh Ken, here’s a ‘pat’ answer for your query. According to Robertson, we have embraced Darwin, science and other ivy league obstacles to faith. If we could just back up the evolutionary bus – and toss Darwin out at the first stop, then we too might experience miracles – but only if we can also eradicate thousands of years of scientific knowledge…We’ve got to dumb it down a lot!
The Africans of your imagination, embrace missionaries from The 700 Club with child-like acceptance. Please note! I am not implying by any means that all of Africa is uneducated or in desperate straits, merely those who Robertson feels are most blessed. Those people are blessed by the miraculous – as well as with AIDS (with the attendant baby rape as a ‘cure’), lack of education, starvation, Ebola and the rape and pillaging of war. I’m not so sure about the lame walking, but each new day that one wakes up alive must seem like a miracle to many of the people in war-torn Africa! I suspect it would be somewhat of a ‘miracle’ as well, if a live audience member could actually get a question addressed by Robertson on the air.