# 700 Club **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 29, 2010, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/700-club/526914 "2010-01-29T17:17:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2010, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/700-club/526914/41 "2010-01-30T19:15:48Z")
> [@Polycarp](#): > > Well, where do you think the portion Pat isn’t sending to Haitian relief will go? National exorcism ? ---
**Author:** ![anya\_marie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ebca7d/32.png) [@anya\_marie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anya_marie)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2010, 7:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/700-club/526914/42 "2010-01-31T07:48:42Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > I wouldn’t pay more than $666 for it. You’re a very generous person, I wouldn’t give them a wooden nickel. ---
**Author:** ![Zoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2010, 10:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/700-club/526914/43 "2010-01-31T10:47:51Z")
> [@](#): > > **anya marie** : I wouldn’t give them a wooden nickel. Good. I don’t think that was on the list of needed items. ---
**Author:** ![NinjaChick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/71c47a/32.png) [@NinjaChick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinjaChick)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2010, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/700-club/526914/44 "2010-01-31T18:43:32Z")
Pat Robertson is a loathsome hypocritical jackass who’s chummy with a (alleged) war criminal, has publicly called for the assassination of an elected official, and has made a fortune by lying to the lonely and vulnerable. Somehow, I’m not surprised that he’d use a natural disaster to try to make a buck. ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2010, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/700-club/526914/45 "2010-01-31T20:47:43Z")
> [@raindog](#): > > Satan isn’t taking his usual cut on this one, given the resounding successes he’s had in Haiti before the earthquake. It would be unseemly. Sure he is. Isn’t his current _persona_ Pat Robertson? (I do agree that the Pitting is weak–even silly.) ---
**Author:** ![Alienhand](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8edcca/32.png) [@Alienhand](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alienhand)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2010, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/700-club/526914/46 "2010-01-31T21:51:16Z")
“And Pat Robertson! Why, after your first few efforts produced nothing but hateful bilge, did you carry on talking? Even as a little boy couldn’t you have looked at the broader picture and pretended to be mute?” -Andy Zaltzman on [The Bugle](http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/us_elections/the_bugle/) ---
**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2010, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/700-club/526914/47 "2010-01-31T22:07:54Z")
**Magellan01** has the best answer, [over here:](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=550170) > [@](#): > > No, we don’t. None. I am almost tempted to believe him. ---
**Author:** ![MsRobyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/90ced4/32.png) [@MsRobyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsRobyn)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2010, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/700-club/526914/48 "2010-01-31T23:07:20Z")
> [@NinjaChick](#): > > Pat Robertson is a loathsome hypocritical jackass who’s chummy with a (alleged) war criminal, has publicly called for the assassination of an elected official, and has made a fortune by lying to the lonely and vulnerable. > > Somehow, I’m not surprised that he’d use a natural disaster to try to make a buck. I don’t believe in an afterlife, but I have heard others say there is a special place in hell for Pat Robertson, Jerry Falwell and others of their ilk who use religion to justify the tragedies of others and who use that bogus justification to enrich themselves. I’m starting to agree with them. ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2010, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/700-club/526914/49 "2010-02-01T01:16:20Z")
I’m not sure that Falwell deserves that. He was a hateful, spiteful little man and deserves whatever that brings him, but he is not Pat Robertson who has used his pulpit to engage in theft and the support of theft and the suppression of others (to promote his theft), and whose personal morals are probably not as good as the populations of most prisons. ---
**Author:** ![MsRobyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/90ced4/32.png) [@MsRobyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsRobyn)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2010, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/700-club/526914/50 "2010-02-01T02:36:33Z")
There is more than one way to enrich yourself. Robertson’s version involves money. Falwell’s involved personal glorification. Same concept, different manifestations. ---
**Author:** ![NinjaChick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/71c47a/32.png) [@NinjaChick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinjaChick)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2010, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/700-club/526914/51 "2010-02-01T18:35:15Z")
> [@tomndebb](#): > > I’m not sure that Falwell deserves that. > > He was a hateful, spiteful little man and deserves whatever that brings him, but he is not Pat Robertson who has used his pulpit to engage in theft and the support of theft and the suppression of others (to promote his theft), and whose personal morals are probably not as good as the populations of most prisons. Uh, Jerry Falwell is the guy who was violently opposed to racial integration, called Desmond Tutu a liar, blamed the 9/11 attacks on feminists, gays and lesbians, and the ACLU, and once produced a “documentary” in which he alleges that Bill Clinton was involved in a massive coke-dealing ring and an accessory to murder while he was the governor of Arkansas\*. Falwell may not be telling Granny that Jesus needs her social security check, but he made his career spewing hatred and encouraging people to turn against one another. Emotional theft, maybe. \*Admittedly, I haven’t actually watched more than a few minutes of this film, but it’s a [real thing](http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8438833120507357139#). ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2010, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/700-club/526914/52 "2010-02-02T04:46:39Z")
> [@FriarTed](#): > > I will say this: > > “They need to have, and we need to pray for them, a great turning to God.” > > is actually pretty good advice for a people in which Voodoo is predominant. Even worse, they’re [mostly](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_Haiti) [_Roman Catholics_](http://countrystudies.us/haiti/33.htm)!!! :eek: > [@](#): > > About 95% of the population claim Christian beliefs, and the most professed denomination by far is Roman Catholicism. Similar to the rest of Latin America, Haiti was colonized by Roman Catholic European powers. Following in this legacy, Catholicism is enshrined in the Haitian constitution as the official state religion, and between 80 and 85% of Haitians are Catholics. > [@](#): > > Adherents of voodoo do not perceive themselves as members of a separate religion; they consider themselves Roman Catholics. In fact, the word for voodoo does not even exist in rural Haiti. The Creole word vodoun refers to a kind of dance and in some areas to a category of spirits. Roman Catholics who are active voodooists say that they “serve the spirits,” but they do not consider that practice as something outside of Roman Catholicism. Never mind a few ancestor-spirit-feeding rituals here and there—those poor Haitians have been having dealings with the _Scarlet Woman of Rome_! No wonder ol’ Pat’s so worried about them. 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/700-club/526914.md?page=2)