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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe only appropriate Pat Robertson obituary:
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Robertson is widely credited with ushering Christian-conservatism into mainstream politics in the 1980s and 1990s, and laying the groundwork for the modern right-wing culture war. He has a history of extreme, bigoted commentary including that gay people and abortion caused 9/11, that Haitians deserved the 2010 earthquake that ravaged the island nation, and that feminists are evil.
The 700 Club, Robertsons long-running program on the CBN, was his most common platform for hate. In the days after 9/11, he brought on pastor Jerry Falwell to discuss the tragedy. I really believe that the pagans, and the abortionists, and the feminists, and the gays and the lesbians who are actively trying to make that an alternative lifestyle, the ACLU, People for the American Way, all of them who have tried to secularize America, I point the finger in their face and say, You helped this happen,' Falwell said, to which Robertson said I totally concur and that the agenda has been adopted by the highest levels of our government.
Robertsons bigotry toward gay people was boundless. He said on The 700 Club that he wished Facebook had a vomit button for when he came across a picture of gay people kissing, equated gay people with Nazis and Satanists, suggested God unleashed hurricanes and other natural disasters punishment for homosexuality. I would warn Orlando that youre right in the way of some serious hurricanes, and I dont think Id be waving those flags in Gods face if I were you, he said of Disney Worlds Gay Days. Itll bring about terrorist bombs; itll bring earthquakes, tornadoes, and possibly a meteor.
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/pat-robertson-dead-obituary-1234766208/
Paladin
(28,204 posts)GreenWave
(6,494 posts)Bluethroughu
(5,096 posts)I'm not a religious person, but some people should be swimming in that lake under their flat earth.
The man was a devil.
MayReasonRule
(1,460 posts)Nazis are evil by definition.
Pat Robertson was evil.
Here's to the demise of the 700 Club and all other organizations fueled by obscuring truth through delusion and instilling hatred throughout mankind.
Bluethroughu
(5,096 posts)A little louder and longer.
It's a wonderful day.
MayReasonRule
(1,460 posts)KentuckyWoman
(6,666 posts)Using Facebook to surf gay porn? Someone should have given him a better website.
musette_sf
(10,184 posts)electric_blue68
(14,623 posts)Hermit-The-Prog
(33,041 posts)It's a sign!
GenXer47
(1,204 posts)FarPoint
(12,209 posts)These types tend to live long and they prosper on their delusional, unkind thinking.
The Unmitigated Gall
(3,720 posts)Could have done some good in the world, but worked actively instead to make it worse.
Glad he's gone.
AllaN01Bear
(17,383 posts)Takket
(21,425 posts)Anything else is a lie
William Seger
(10,742 posts)If the Jesus I learned about in Sunday School is waiting for him, he's in big trouble.
LetMyPeopleVote
(144,005 posts)Probatim
(2,459 posts)pile on that vile old man.
It's every insult you wish you had thrown at an asshole but didn't think of during the argument. There won't be any regrets that something was missed upon its publication.
jmowreader
(50,453 posts)Probatim
(2,459 posts)ashredux
(2,593 posts)Martin Eden
(12,803 posts)Robertson was rewarded on earth with fame and fortune.
Evil charlatans like him almost make wish Hell exists, because he'd fry for eternity.
Martin Eden
(12,803 posts)Are an unholy union which forms the core ideology of today's Republican Party.
ZonkerHarris
(24,156 posts)Carlitos Brigante
(26,483 posts)Duppers
(28,094 posts)Good one.
I often wish there were a hell.
Carlitos Brigante
(26,483 posts)roamer65
(36,739 posts)bagimin
(1,326 posts)NowISeetheLight
(3,941 posts)Have fun in Hell (if there is one) you hateful bigoted racist bastard.
Xoan
(25,294 posts)dflprincess
(28,057 posts)He threatened everyone he didn't like with.
JHB
(37,132 posts)A constant theme on his 700 Club was how persecuted Christians were, and how the dreaded Secular Humanists were just itching to round them up and put them all in concentration camps.
Including "dramatizations" where a model family (husband, wife, small boy and even smaller girl, white and blonde, for course), were being forced into a black van by armed men in black tactical gear. This was around the same time as the "black helicopters" paranoia.
lostnfound
(16,138 posts)Mobuto Sete and Charles Taylor
nolabear
(41,915 posts)Chi67
(1,053 posts)My mother said to only say good things about the dead:
Pat Robertson is dead- GOOD.
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(107,111 posts)hunter
(38,264 posts)... Pat Robertson gained control of one with his Christian Broadcasting Network.
When Robertson and his fellow freaks weren't spewing their Christian Coalition hatred they ran it as "The Family Channel."
When Disney eventually acquired the channel for $5.3 billion in 2001 it was with the stipulation that they would continue to broadcast Robertson's "700 Club" at a reasonable hour.
The whole normalization of these Christian fascists by the mass media is one of the reasons I quit cable television more than a decade ago, and it's one reason I will be celebrating when cable television finally dies.
I have nothing nice to say about Pat Robertson on the occasion of his death. If his spirit lives on, as he seemed to believe, I suspect he is now suffering the ultimate smack down for his crimes against humanity.
3825-87867
(827 posts)The kind of guy you don't like at first but grow to hate.
cab67
(2,963 posts)NowISeetheLight
(3,941 posts)And the dogs chased him back over.
ShazzieB
(15,958 posts)Fortunately, like Pat, even the meanest ones succumb eventually!
Marcuse
(7,399 posts)enigmania
(105 posts)and that's it.
AnyFunctioningAdult
(192 posts)when Jerry Falwell died: "If you gave him an enema, he could be buried in a matchbox.
Omnipresent
(5,620 posts)P-Nutt
(59 posts)Some third rate schmuck, hiding behind a prayer book, died? Who cares?
electric_blue68
(14,623 posts)electric_blue68
(14,623 posts)TomSlick
(11,035 posts)Upthevibe
(7,884 posts)LetMyPeopleVote
(144,005 posts)Warpy
(110,913 posts)through his consistently vicious rhetoric against anyone who wasn't a rich white straight male and pillar of his church.
He was first and foremost a businessman who wanted to escape paying taxes and found the religious grift full to the brim of willing marks.
May the grass on his grave be well fertilized by all who knew him.
DinahMoeHum
(21,737 posts)"Matthew Seven, Twenty-Three
I NEVER KNEW YOU"
keithbvadu2
(36,369 posts)"...equated gay people with Nazis"... Now Nazis are republicans.
Like you, PR.
Do the math.
turtleblossom
(504 posts)Especially with the wiping out of Native Americans.
turtleblossom
(504 posts)May God have the same mercy on him as he has had for the people whom he spent his lifetime hating.
TallMike
(161 posts)a simple, simple man.
I feel that a simple Fuck You, Fuck You again and dollop of good riddence you FUCK, is really all that is needed.
TexasBushwhacker
(20,044 posts)DFW
(54,056 posts)Ummm, Pat, we have a problem with your entry application. For decades, you were telling people, « God told me this, » and , « God told me that, » when you knew not a word of it was true.
Robertson, smugly, « well, its too late to rectify any of that now, isnt it? »
St. Peter: « We are relieved to hear that we all see it the same way. Tell Satan we said hi. NEXT! »
leftyladyfrommo
(18,816 posts)The Jungle 1
(4,552 posts)Because of this vile man a lot of fellow Americans look at Christians as evil.
His hate and bigotry was unlimited.