Rio de Janeiro - (Ungodly Mess): The Reverend Pat Robertson is in fine fettle this week after living proof that the Almighty is finally siding with him about ungodly papists ruining religion.
Robertson, 69, was at his Virginia Beach home when he heard the news that a massive storm had erupted in Brazil in the wake of the Catholic Church failing to condemn "acts of gross nudity, depravity and orgaistic decadence" at the Rio Carnival on Shrove Tuesday.
Shrove Tuesday is the day that secular traditionalist call Pancake Tuesday and celebrates a final food binge-out before the start of a period of abstinence called Lent which beging the following day, Ash Wednesday.
Now pancakes is something the Reverend knows plenty about.
On his US tv show The 700 Club Robertson promotes his age-defying miracle protein pancakes from a recipe he claims was given to him "by the Lord himself, as used at the Last Supper".
A few days after complaining bitterly about the godless Brazilians "what with their disgusting pubic waxes and carnival frivolity" Robertson warned that his pal, The Lord, would soon send a public message vindicating his lonely Virginia Beach mouthpiece.
And sure enough, on Sunday lightning struck Rio de Janeiro's 130 foot tall statue of Christ the Redeemer which tops the 2,296 foot tall Corcovado mountain overlooking Brazil's premier city.
"Glory be to the Almighty!" Robertson ejaculated from his ringside seat in front of the tv.
"This is the sign I have waited for! Thank you Lord, your servant is vindicated."
Residents of Rio de Janeiro watched with amazement as lightning struck the 130 foot statue, making the Lord's face glow with fiery animation and sending shivers of foreboding into local clerics' souls.
Further sign may be imminent.
