has a financial need. You need money. You need $125,000. The Looord is going to give you that money!"

I couldn't help myself. My wife gave me a really strange look as I jumped up and started yelling, "Me! Me! Me!"

My wife's patience with the TV and me seemed to be at an end. "That's magic, that's not religion, he's abusing religion."

"Aww, come on. If I could get $125 grand?"

"He's abusing religion and playing on peoples ignorance," responded my proper church-going wife. "You know what he said about our church?"

"Uhhh no."

"He said that the Presbyterian Church, along with the Methodists and the Episcopalians, are filled with the spirit of the Antichrist. (--Pat Robertson, The 700 Club, January 14, 1991)

"Maybe he thought our services were more boring than his?" I interjected

"No. He doesn't like us because we are involved in human rights and have women ministers," responded my well-read mate. "He doesn't like women who are feminists. I found a direct quote from one of his letters."

"[The] feminist agenda is not about equal rights for women. It is about a socialist, anti-family political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism, and become lesbians."
--Pat Robertson, fundraising letter, 1992

I smiled and said, "Ha! Feminists are socialist lesbian witches who kill their kids?"

My wife laughed, "They probably spoil them to death..   Robertson sounds more like a member of the Taliban than a Southern Baptist."

"I might have some lesbian tendencies myself," said I with a leering smile. "I do like women."

"I think you've had too much TV today," replied my wife. Why don't you go back to playing your stupid computer games."

I sighed and went back to my computer. I turned it on, fired up my browser, and started surfing the Internet. It is strange what a person can find in cyber space: I just happened on to a Web page with the title: "Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson, and Osama bin Laden have a lot in common." There was an automated quiz with the instructions: Take the quiz and see if you can identify statements by each of these 'leaders.'" The address for the Web page is http://funnystrange.com/quiz/.
If you have a computer, you might want to take this test and see if you too can tell the difference. I know that I couldn't; I flunked the test. To me, all three of these "religious leaders" sounded the same.
Could there possibly be some sort of a message here?