# Pat Robertson has died **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [June 8, 2023, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-robertson-has-died/985201 "2023-06-08T12:30:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2023, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-robertson-has-died/985201/21 "2023-06-08T15:56:11Z")
> **[Pat Robertson says Haiti paying for 'pact to the devil' - CNN.com](http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/01/13/haiti.pat.robertson/index.html)** > > Pat Robertson, the evangelical Christian who once suggested God was punishing Americans with Hurricane Katrina, says a "pact to the devil" brought on the devastating earthquake in Haiti. And to think millions regarded him as an example of “A Good Christian”. ---
**Author:** ![Yodalicious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yodalicious/32/8195_2.png) [@Yodalicious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yodalicious)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2023, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-robertson-has-died/985201/22 "2023-06-08T15:56:28Z")
Happy Pride! ---
**Author:** ![slicedalone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slicedalone/32/12515_2.png) [@slicedalone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slicedalone)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2023, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-robertson-has-died/985201/23 "2023-06-08T15:59:09Z")
As was said of Elvis, I believe, good career move! ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2023, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-robertson-has-died/985201/24 "2023-06-08T18:15:06Z")
Can’t be canonized, even by the lay press, until you’re dead. He may be bucking for a promotion. I’d have preferred it if he’d instead been cannonized about 20-40 years ago. Ka-boom!! ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2023, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-robertson-has-died/985201/25 "2023-06-08T18:54:47Z")
> [@Odesio](#): > > When I was younger, I used to get Pat Robertson and Pat Buchanan mixed up. > [@LSLGuy](#): > > I’d have preferred it if he’d instead been cannonized about 20-40 years ago. Ka-boom!! Just to tie these two posts together… I always used to refer to Pat Buchanan as “Bat Puke Cannon”. I would have loved to be able to fire a bat puke cannon at Pat Robertson. That is all. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2023, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-robertson-has-died/985201/26 "2023-06-08T19:01:03Z")
[![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/S5-Kyl5Bmx8/hqdefault.jpg "SNOOPY'S HAPPY DANCE.wmv") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5-Kyl5Bmx8) ---
**Author:** ![mozchron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c2a13f/32.png) [@mozchron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mozchron)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2023, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-robertson-has-died/985201/27 "2023-06-08T19:04:16Z")
I don’t normally take pleasure in another person’s death but in this case i’ll make an exception. I’m glad that mutherfukker is dead. I hope it was painful. ---
**Author:** ![74westy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/74westy/32/3950_2.png) [@74westy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/74westy)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2023, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-robertson-has-died/985201/28 "2023-06-08T19:05:33Z")
Just came by to say that God called home but I guess that was Oral Roberts ---
**Author:** ![snowthx](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowthx/32/10660_2.png) [@snowthx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snowthx)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2023, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-robertson-has-died/985201/29 "2023-06-08T19:06:33Z")
Yeah, I don’t like the idea of dancing on anyone’s grave or celebrating anyone’s death. That said, I am glad this excrescence is gone. ---
**Author:** ![Tatterdemalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/43a26b/32.png) [@Tatterdemalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tatterdemalion)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2023, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-robertson-has-died/985201/30 "2023-06-08T19:07:09Z")
He is certainly someone who made the world a little worse for his having lived in it. ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2023, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-robertson-has-died/985201/31 "2023-06-08T19:14:06Z")
The [New Republic](https://newrepublic.com/post/173397/pat-robertson-statements-explain) has a list of some of the nasty shit he said over the years. As an example: > In a 1992 fundraising letter, Robertson wrote: “The feminist agenda is not about equal rights for women. It is about a socialist, anti-family political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.” ---
**Author:** ![mjmartin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3d9bf3/32.png) [@mjmartin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mjmartin)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2023, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-robertson-has-died/985201/32 "2023-06-08T19:18:37Z")
The tv station that is stuck with airing Robertson’s 700 Club due to some contract issues, posts a sign just before it starts that says: “What you are about to see is not from Freeform. We can’t tell you not to watch, but have you tried literally anything else?” Good riddance. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2023, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-robertson-has-died/985201/33 "2023-06-08T19:19:35Z")
A friend posted a meme on Facebook. In text, it says: **P** at **R** obinson **I** s **D** ead, **E** verbody! Of course the text is yellow, red, orange, green, and blue; but I don’t know how to do that here. (brackets with color= and /color don’t work.) ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2023, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-robertson-has-died/985201/34 "2023-06-08T19:19:52Z")
> [@DCnDC](#): > > But he _still_ needs another few million dollars. God doesn’t just let people into the afterlife for free you know! I thought it was the other way around – God will “call you home” if you _don’t_ come up with enough money… > **[Oral Roberts, pioneer of TV evangelism, dies at 91](https://www.theguardian.com/global/2009/dec/15/oral-roberts-evangelist-death)** > > Founded own ministry and university, spoke of visions and commands from God > …In 1987 he issued what some interpreted as an ultimatum to sympathisers to donate $8m or he would die – as he put it, God would “call me home”. It worked: he raised more than $9m… ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2023, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-robertson-has-died/985201/35 "2023-06-08T19:24:49Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > And to think millions regarded him as an example of “A Good Christian”. Well, why not, since that’s exactly the king of “good Christians” they were and are? ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2023, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-robertson-has-died/985201/36 "2023-06-08T19:27:38Z")
> [@](#): > > In a 1992 fundraising letter, Robertson wrote: “The feminist agenda is not about equal rights for women. It is about a socialist, anti-family political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.” That last bit has been a propaganda point for quite a while, as evidenced by this classic: > **[hauntedhorns (@heatherhorns@plush.city)](https://plush.city/@heatherhorns/110368065641876791)** > > Attached: 1 image > > anti-suffragist propaganda is a goldmine because the arguments seem to take three routes: > > 1. I hate women, these women are ugly (not as fun, these are the bad ones) > > 2. women are gonna emasculate us :( and just general domestic... ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2023, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-robertson-has-died/985201/37 "2023-06-08T19:35:45Z")
> [@EddyTeddyFreddy](#): > > > [@running\_coach](#): > > > > And to think millions regarded him as an example of “A Good Christian”. > > Well, why not, since that’s exactly the king of “good Christians” they were and are? As I say, there is only one exception I make about the usual rule about not talking about the bad when someone famous passes, it is when the famous committed crimes against humanity or supported the ones that did so. Pat Robertson is on that list. > **[Republicans Were (Briefly) Big Fans of Man Who Ordered Murder of Potential...](https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2015/02/reagan-administration-archbishop-romero-pope-francis-roberto-daubuisson-well-liked-in-80s-washington.html)** > > Pope Francis has declared that murdered El Salvador archbishop Oscar Romero is a martyr, a key step in Romero's potential canonization as a saint.... > Members of the Religious Right also offered their support to D’Aubuisson in the 1980s. Pat Robertson claimed to have gone to dinner with D’Aubuisson, [calling him](https://books.google.com/books?id=-J0vBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA73&lpg=PA73&dq=pat+robertson+roberto+d%27aubuisson&source=bl&ots=paZVh1VBoM&sig=cXl-mxUjlqBlz5AGHkyPHwRqB10&hl=en&sa=X&ei=SpnRVPzKNeSCsQTS1oCwAg&ved=0CDoQ6AEwBQ#v=onepage&q=pat%20robertson%20roberto%20d%27aubuisson&f=false) a “very nice fellow.” D’Aubuisson was [honored](http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/09/25/389727/-80s-Flashback-Right-wing-wined-and-dined-Nazi-apologist) at a 1984 dinner at the Capitol Hill Club by a number of conservative groups, including the Moral Majority, the National Pro-Life Action Committee, and _The Washington Times_. > > A [1993 report by a United Nations “truth commission”](http://www.derechos.org/nizkor/salvador/informes/truth.html) concluded that “Roberto D’Aubuisson gave the order to assassinate the Archbishop and gave precise instructions to members of his security service, acting as a ‘death squad’, to organize and supervise the assassination.” ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2023, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-robertson-has-died/985201/38 "2023-06-08T19:39:35Z")
Roast in piss. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2023, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-robertson-has-died/985201/39 "2023-06-08T20:01:23Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > Of course the text is yellow, red, orange, green, and blue; but I don’t know how to do that here. (brackets with color= and /color don’t work.) ⁢ It’s complicated, but I figured I’d do it. I even added [the pink and light blue](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FyHfGU8aUAU5lzF?format=jpg). \small \color{red}\textbf{P}\color{#217ccc}\textsf{at} \small \color{orange} {\textbf{R}}\color{#ca519d}\textsf{obertson} \small \color{#d5c500}{\textbf{I}}\color{#217ccc}\textsf{s} ⁢ \small \color{green}{\textbf{D}}\color{#ca519d}\textsf{ead} \small \color{blue}{\textbf{E}}\color{#217ccc}\textsf{verybody!} ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2023, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-robertson-has-died/985201/40 "2023-06-08T20:26:16Z")
> [@EddyTeddyFreddy](#): > > > [@running\_coach](#): > > > > And to think millions regarded him as an example of “A Good Christian”. > > Well, why not, since that’s exactly the king of “good Christians” they were and are? I expect your “king” there was a typo. But it’s an apt one. Pat Robertson; King of ignorant hate-filled MFs. Hmm, has a nice ring to it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-robertson-has-died/985201.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-robertson-has-died/985201.md?page=3)