"LOL! You're the best, God."

The reason for this enhanced detachment from sanity would be, according to Barksdale, because the calamitous Christian’s actions would have effectively depicted God as an unreliable liar--a blow to faith so deep that Robertson might never recover. 

 For thousands of years it has been a cornerstone of most religions, Christianity included, that God is omnipotent, prescient, and an all-around great deity.  With a statement of this magnitude said to originate from God himself that did not come to pass, Robertson would feel as though he set Christianity on its ear; in essence, destroying everything that he has ever stood for. 

His psychiatrist believes that although it is most likely that Robertson would simply say that he “misheard God” or that God used a metaphor the he could not understand, the worst case scenario would be that the preacher would, himself, devise a plot to stage an attack in order to make God’s purported forecast a reality. 

Although we can all pretty much say that if Robertson could actually talk to God he’d probably be a better, more understanding and tolerant person, odds are that he is just a little bit nuts.  Let’s hope that if God does decide to talk to someone down here, he’ll have enough sense to get in touch with somebody else.