And to think millions regarded him as an example of “A Good Christian”.
Happy Pride!
As was said of Elvis, I believe, good career move!
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!!
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.
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.
Just came by to say that God called home but I guess that was Oral Roberts
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.
He is certainly someone who made the world a little worse for his having lived in it.
The New Republic 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.”
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.
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.)
I thought it was the other way around – God will “call you home” if you don’t come up with enough money…
…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…
Well, why not, since that’s exactly the king of “good Christians” they were and are?
That last bit has been a propaganda point for quite a while, as evidenced by this classic:
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.
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 a “very nice fellow.” D’Aubuisson was honored 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” 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.”
Roast in piss.
It’s complicated, but I figured I’d do it. I even added the pink and light blue.
\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!}
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.