National exorcism ?
You’re a very generous person, I wouldn’t give them a wooden nickel.
Good. I don’t think that was on the list of needed items.
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.
Sure he is. Isn’t his current persona Pat Robertson?
(I do agree that the Pitting is weak–even silly.)
“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
Magellan01 has the best answer, over here:
I am almost tempted to believe him.
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.
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.
There is more than one way to enrich yourself. Robertson’s version involves money. Falwell’s involved personal glorification. Same concept, different manifestations.
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.
Even worse, they’re mostly Roman Catholics!!! :eek:
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. 