God donned a surgeon's scrubs and operated on Pat Roberton's heart

Why else would he thank the powerless deity for having saved him during a very lengthy and complex open heart surgery, rather than the actual doctors and surgeons who fixed him up?

"Only the prayers of thousands of believing people kept me on this earth," Robertson said in a statement.

Oh, that's right – because he's a fucking inconsiderate, ungrateful nutjob. Shoulda remembered.

Rather, Mike from Mewyn's Rantings has decided to do the right thing and thank the doctors on Robertson's behalf:

Well, Mr. Robertson, I’ll do what you won’t. Thank you to all the doctors, researchers, scientists and support staff, as well as anyone I’m leaving out. Thank you for your hard work and dedication to perfecting open-heart surgery and science-based medicine. Hopefully everyone will give you some thanks, instead of thanking prayer, their sky daddy, or some zombie.

If I ever went under for surgery later in life, I'll try quite hard to remember to let my last words as I fall unconscious be "thanks" to the doctors there. Not because I'm overly mushy – it's just the right thing to do.

(via Friendly Atheist)