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Fifty bucks says the question was a load of caca. I doubt it really happened. But the question was one that might get an arse brain response from doddering old Pat. It's likely that the producer throws handfuls of made up questions brainstormed by the show's writers to Robertson. They film Pat's responses, pick the worst of them and edit them into specific shows to be aired on specific dates - all for news value and ratings and donations from the desperate.
So a woman goes into her work environment, that she knows is primarily a Buddhist environment, and in her very recent born-again zealotry begins badgering the the dog **** out of her Buddhist co-workers about their faith or lack of faith and/or the majesty of her faith and she is upset because they talk about Buddhism to her. Possible, but no likely. Or we have none of the real facts.
Let's just reverse the situation and make it a devout Christian workplace where one person who recently becomes a Buddhist and in her zealotry she began badgering the dog **** out of all the Christians about their faith and how they are wrong and how Buddhism is better. Who would be surprised that most, many or all of her Christian coworkers would soon avoid her because she would not shut the hell up about her beliefs and how everyone else is wrong? Maybe soon she writes into one of the many Buddhist talk shows on cable TV and complains to an insanely wealthy Buddhist show host about how she is treated badly by Christians. No ****! Could you blame them? LOL!
In either case the religious zealot would be a pain in the ass. Not really newsworthy at all unless you put the question before a madman with a television audience. THAT is what it is all about. Pat Robertson has nothing much at all to do with religion except that it has made him very rich.
To be fair, I can kind of see where he may have thought he was coming from with that comment. Namely, what he was trying to get across is that being surrounded by aggressive non-believers can be a challenge to one's faith, and that this woman might want to consider removing herself from that environment if she was having doubts.
He simply chose the most offensively insensitive analogy humanly possible to get the idea across. :lol:
I do agree, however, that the woman's story was almost certainly being told in a one-sided manner, if it wasn't made up completely. No sane employer would put up with employees having regular theological debates on the company's dime.