In the name of God...

Perhaps you have heard the most recent egregious statements from the mouth of Pat Robertson, a self-proclaimed evangelical. If not, I'll bring you up-to-date. After Ariel Sharon's stroke (he was the Prime Minister of Israel who brokered the deal with the Palestinians to give up part of the Gaza Strip), Robertson pontificated about how this was God's judgment upon Sharon for giving away God's land. Never mind the fact that Robertson was in the midst of negotiating a deal with Israel to build a Christian tourism center focused on the fact that "Jesus was here."

Surprisingly (not really...I'm being facetious), Israel canned the deal as well as Robertson:

"We will not do business with him, only with other evangelicals who don't back these comments," Hartuv [a spokesman for the tourism department] said. "We will do business with other evangelical leaders, friends of Israel, but not with him."

Regardless of Robertson's apparent lack of international and personal common sense, was his statement (as a Christian) a good thing to say? It may have been right, it may have been wrong, but either way is it a good thing for a Christian to point out things such as "this is God's judgment?"