Pat Robertson, conservative evangelist and Christian Coalition founder, dies at 93

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Source: NBC News

Pat Robertson, the conservative evangelist and media mogul who galvanized the modern Christian right, cultivated a massive national following and regularly drew criticism for his incendiary political statements, died Thursday, according to his official broadcasting network. He was 93.

The Christian Broadcasting Network, the organization he founded, did not immediately announce Robertson's cause of death. "Pat Robertson dedicated his life to preaching the Gospel, helping those in need, and educating the next generation," the company said. He was one of the most prominent and influential Christian broadcasters and entrepreneurs in the United States — equal parts religious leader and culture warrior.

In a way, Robertson was also a business visionary. He converted a small Virginia television station into a religious broadcasting powerhouse, marrying fiery ideology with 20th-century entertainment technology. He inspired other conservative Christians to take to the airwaves, too. He created the Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN), home to the talk show “The 700 Club,” and founded the Christian Coalition, a group that helped mobilize American evangelicals into a conservative political bloc and one of the cornerstones of the modern Republican Party.

Robertson reached the pinnacle of his national celebrity in the 1980s, when social conservatism was ascendant. He ran for the Republican presidential nomination in 1988, a contest ultimately won by George H.W. Bush. But he would remain a kingmaker in the GOP for decades to come, marshaling conservative Christians behind George W. Bush and Donald Trump.

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Pat Robertson, the conservative evangelist and media mogul who galvanized the modern Christian right, cultivated a massive national following and regularly drew criticism for his incendiary political statements, died on Thursday, according to his official broadcasting network. He was 93.

Robertson was one of the most prominent and influential Christian broadcasters and entrepreneurs in the U.S., equal parts religious leader and culture warrior.

In a way, Robertson was also a business visionary. He converted a small Virginia television station into a religious broadcasting powerhouse, marrying fiery ideology with 20th-century entertainment technology. He inspired other conservative Christians to take to the airwaves, too.

He created the Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN), home to the talk show “The 700 Club,” and founded the Christian Coalition, a group that helped mobilize American evangelicals into a conservative political bloc and one of the cornerstones of the modern Republican Party.

[marble falls]

1. But his soul died in the eighties.

[LenaBaby61]

8. THIS 👆🏻👆🏻👆🏻👆🏻

[we can do it]

21. Before that I think.

[Best_man23]

56. The Zombie Curse on Robertson finally wore off

[LiberalFighter]

89. Soul?

[underpants]

2. When someone dies you should say something good

Pat Robertson is dead. Good.


Read that here when Falwell died.

[LearnedHand]

4. Perfect!

[Butterflylady]

29. My sentiments exactly!

[hlthe2b]

30. Contemptuous silence is the best I can muster.

[LastDemocratInSC]

45. Mark Twain was the author of that saying.

[underpants]

55. Thanks. I'd forgotten that.

[Major Nikon]

54. Bless his piece of shit heart

[moose65]

63. Haha

That's also supposedly what Bette Davis said when Joan Crawford died.

[Ferrets are Cool]

66. Thank you for saying it for me.

[catbyte]

74. ...

[kairos12]

76. I hope he is roasting with Limbaugh.

[SouthernDem4ever]

109. Took the words right out of my mouth

They all have a special place in hell where they can congregate.

[KS Toronado]

110. He is !

It's ironic he couldn't practice what he preached about a rich man and the eye of a needle.
7QQ club started the "It's OK to lie about Democrats" business model.

[Ilsa]

128. And with that "President Taylor" (IIRC) of the African nation with

the diamond mines. That man said he loved God but he worshipped money and fed hatred for LGBTQ people.

And I hope they are standing right next to Osama Bin Laden.

[AZ8theist]

88. Good riddance

Robertson was a vile human being. I wouldn't mind pissing on his grave.

[LittleGirl]

113. +1 nt

[3catwoman3]

90. My first thought as well.

Creepy man.

[onetexan]

117. THIS!!☝️

[bucolic_frolic]

3. Here's hoping we are entering a period of deworming /nt

[LearnedHand]

6. Also perfect!

[Jerry2144]

62. But not for him

Hopefully he is worming. The worms are going to love chowing on his carcass. If there were a god and Heaven/hell, this guy would spend eternity in the land of fire and brimstone

[2naSalit]

5. ...

About damn time.

Perhaps their hell is opening it's maw to receive the hordes that are coming soon. He's just a deserving early arrival.

[Gaugamela]

7. Ding dong the witch is dead . . .

[lastlib]

108. Did he die? Or just nasty away?

Asking for a friend......

[HardPort]

9. One of the rare times when I wish their mythic Hell was a real place (n/t)

[LiberalArkie]

67. Hopefully he will not reincarnate.

[zuul]

10. I thought that fucker was already dead.

[3Hotdogs]

25. Nah. He just looked it. As I posted here, a few times,

When he's praying "hard," it looks like he's got 6 days of cheese burritos, stuck, goin' down the evacuation ramp."


However, when the hurricane was about to hit the Carolinas, he prayed hard and did convince God to spare the coast.

[twodogsbarking]

69. He has smelled dead since 1970.

[Ray Bruns]

11. Now we're going to party like it's 1999

[Croney]

12. Glad I outlived him.

[Simeon Salus]

13. Thank god!

I'll deign not so say anything about him today.

[Traildogbob]

26. Good one.

Thank you God, now get Graham Junior.

[Simeon Salus]

38. It's so gratifying that his actual story will be all over the news in the next few days

Billy Graham, Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson, Oral Roberts. Revealed. Just dust. As god intended.

[TurboDem]

14. Good riddance to that grifting huckster!

May all of the rest of them join him soon!

[C_U_L8R]

15. Judgment day.

No pearly gates for you.

[303squadron]

16. If you gave Pat

an enema, there wouldn't be enough left of him to fill a matchbook!

[JT45242]

17. Not sure which circle of hell he finds himself in

He and Jerry Falwell are two of the most heretical pieces of crap that ever claimed to follow a holy man while swindling the masses.

Joel Osteen is up there.

I can think of few who damaged real Christianity more than this sanctimonious windbag who apparently never read Matthew 25 about taking care of the weak, the foreigner, the hungry, etc rather than lining your own pockets.

[GoneOffShore]

42. Hope he's stuck in Terminal 5 Heathrow, going back and forth on the shuttle

And having to go through security each and every time for eternity.

AH, PAT, I'VE BEEN EXPECTING YOU. COME WITH ME.

[Bengus81]

58. Jim Baker

Fraudster,huckster,criminal,jailbird etc............

[BlueKota]

130. Always remember a joke about Jim Baker

by the late great Robin Williams. "If Jim Baker is such a fu..ing miracle worker why can't he make his wife's Jiffy Pop hairdo go down."

I still miss Robin

[jmowreader]

87. Judecca, in the Ninth Circle

This is for people who were Traitors to their Lords. The part about flying blood diamonds on his private airliner is enough to get him there.

Yeah, I can just imagine the conversation at Akzo Nobel headquarters this morning: "Do we have a drum of anti-urine coating? Since Pat Robertson died, we'll be selling one to protect his tombstone."

[BlueKota]

18. Not Saying For Certain

because it's not my place to judge souls, but the phrase, "beware of false prophets who come in my name," always pops into my head everytime I see or hear about a tele-evangalist. Right now I am thinking that my guess is Pat won't be meeting who he thinks he will be meeting on the other side.

[trusty elf]

105. ...

[lastlib]

111. I always wondered where he bought shoes for cloven hooves.....

[BlueKota]

129. 😅

[Blue Owl]

19. The kindly old man was always so pleased to take your money

[Simeon Salus]

41. Or to take your mom's money

Which was always my concern...

[ashredux]

20. ironically, he doesn't know he was living a fantasy...he isn't anywhere...there is no anything

[EYESORE 9001]

22. If you listen closely

you can hear the creaking of the hinges on the biggest gate to hell, which swing open wide to greet only the most distinguished of ‘guests,’ like this fool.

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

23. Took him long enough.

[RAB910]

28. Only the good die young

[UpInArms]

24. All people bring joy ...

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Some when they enter … and some when they leave.

Today, there is more joy in this world.

[Delmette2.0]

101. Well said. Thanks for sharing.

[blueknight73]

27. This day

Should be a national holiday

[dweller]

31. RIP

Rot in pieces you lousy bastard


✌🏻

[Miguelito Loveless]

32. FINALLY!

[markie]

33. next....

Lakewood Church

[cloudbase]

44. Fun zayn moyl, in Gots oyer.

(From your lips to God's ear, in Yiddish)

This Houstonian agrees with you.

[Autumn]

34. What a wonderful day!

Rot in your hell asshole.

[Solly Mack]

35. Few efforts, too little and way too late, could produce such pleasure.

[GoneOffShore]

36. Well, there's an announcement I never thought I'd read.

That picture makes him look like a chubby Nosferatu.
Anybody polishing their dancing shoes?

[AverageOldGuy]

37. Little known facts that Robertson never talked about

Pat Robertson was a Marine Corps infantry captain during the Korean War. Because his father was a US Senator, Robertson never saw combat while every other USMC infantry captain was in combat, most as company commanders.

Robertson, instead, was the Officers' Club manager, a job that allowed him to remain in the rear with the beer where he made frequent flights to Japan to purchase booze to restock the bar.

He also was known to frequent Korean prostitutes.

Google Pat Robertson, Korean War.

Robertson's first child was born on November. 6, 1954. Robertson and his wife were married on August 27, 1954. You do the math.

[chowmama]

148. Yes, it came up in his presidential run

A man who served with him and was an acquaintance stated that Robertson bragged about being able to keep from being posted into harm's way. He called himself "The Liquor and Whore Officer' who kept his superiors stocked and happy. He said he was so successful, they'd never willingly get rid of him.

I've called him the Liquor and Whore Officer ever since. I wouldn't turn my back on him, or leave him alone with my drink, my money or any person or creature I cared about (unless they could beat the crap out of him. Then I'd stay and watch).

A moral authority, he wasn't. Just another cheap opportunist. Good riddance.

[Pacifist Patriot]

39. I saw the news and immediately thought...

I must dash to DU and join in on the grave dancing.

I won't speak ill of the dead, he did enough speaking ill when he was alive. I think I'll just celebrate a world with a little less hate in it today.

[TeamProg]

40. May he rot in pieces. nt

[AZLD4Candidate]

43. I have nothing good to say about this bottom feeder. Goodbye, enjoy Hell if there is one, scumbag

[MayReasonRule]

46. Good Riddance!

[TexasBushwhacker]

47. Maybe this is the flip side of "only the good die young"

[BigmanPigman]

48. I wish he were alive,

So he could die again.

[NNadir]

49. Hell is getting crowded.

[niyad]

50. So glad the sparkly is already chilled.

[Oneironaut]

51. The only tragedy - He will never know it was all for nothing.

The hate, the wealth, the shoving of Christianity down peoples’ throats, etc. - all pointless now. He will never know that there is no afterlife, and, it was all pointless. In 100 years, he will be forgotten; the only remaining reminder of his existence being a crumbling headstone with his name on it, no different than the hundreds of millions of other crumbling headstones celebrating the lives of those he sneered at.

[James48]

52. Hot foot!

I think he’s finding out Jesus really wanted him to love people.

Uh-oh!

[mountain grammy]

53. a miserable human being

who brought misery to others..Good bye already!

[plimsoll]

57. And the obvious comment.

The good die young.

[FarPoint]

59. He was a mean fella up to the end...

I don't have anything nice to say....

[JohnSJ]

60. I will never forget when that creep prayed for the demise of RBG, and asked others to join him

An immoral, hateful human being who wrapped himself as some “messenger of god”, when in reality he was a conman and fraud

[BrinksHomeSexcurity]

61. Jesus got his ass now

[Marthe48]

64. Fire pits of hell are stoked

n/t

[Wonder Why]

65. Have you heard the story of the American Christian Evangelist who

died and when he got to heaven, he was personally met by St Peter? Moreover, there were legions of angels singing and playing harps. He was amazed at the reception. St. Peter personally showed him to his place in heaven which was a lavish mansion. It was decorated with bunting and a large sign welcoming him to heaven. He turned to St. Peter and said he anticipated what heaven would be like but this far exceeded his wildest dreams. He asked if everyone was treated so royally and St Peter replied "No. This only happens for really special people. I've been here for 2000 years and you are the first Christian Evangelist or Baptist in all that time to make it up here."

[Farmer-Rick]

68. If these "preachers" believed the religious dogma they spewed

They would stay far, far away from any form of wealth.

Because of what their Christ said. You know, the guy the whole Christian religion is based upon.

“It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.” (Matthew 19:24)."

Rich Christians are all hypocrites.

[barbtries]

70. these fucking republican haters

live much too long.

[blueknight73]

71. He had an amazing ability

To know God's intention and find that every disaster and misfortune of this country was his political opponents fault

[eringer]

72. Pat will be reunited once again with Tammy Faye

Pat gave Jim and Tammy their start. They created their own network after they were fired from CBN.

[sinkingfeeling]

73. Only the good die young.

[Trueblue Texan]

75. Pat, Rush, and Falwell...thank you, Lord!

..There are a few more you could swat off the face of the Earth--I mean, Lord, you've really done a shitty job of looking out for your creation here. But getting rid of those guys gives me hope. Now if you could wipe out childhood disease, fascism, and poverty as well as giving those who support them something to think about, you might be able to turn this mess around. Amen.

[Javaman]

77. Yup dead and good riddance. nt

[twodogsbarking]

78. I won't speak ill of the dead but y'all are doing a great job.

Keep it up.

[jaxexpat]

79. He may not have invented lying for profit on tee vee,

but he refined it. Frauds from R. Reagan to D. Trump copied and recopied his drivel recipe until it became the enemy of the people it is today. Congratulations Death. We owe you one.

[nwduke]

80. Good Riddance

Under the fallacy of religion, this man spread nothing but hate, bigotry and lies!

[keithbvadu2]

81. Pat Robertson, Franklin Graham and their ilk are CBR - Cash Based Religion.

Pat Robertson, Franklin Graham and their ilk are CBR - Cash Based Religion.

Judas was an early, modern-day, conservative disciple.

Judas got 30 pieces of silver, but just once, for selling Christ.

Franklin Graham, Jim Bakker, Pat Robertson, and their ilk get millions of dollars repeatedly for selling Christ.

Judas was a fool for doing a one-time sale.

.

[Upthevibe]

82. BumRushDaShow...........

The damage that man did may be incalculable.........

[TNNurse]

83. If only video and still images of him would now disappear.

I am not mourning. When my mother was lingering and my sister and I had responsibilities for her care, a neighbor asked if we worried she had been donating money to people like him. We assured them that Emily would have never donated to TV preachers. NEVER.

[virgdem]

84. Good riddance to bad local trash.

Virginia Beach is a better place without him.

[Rocknation]

85. The friends, colleagues, and family of Pat Robertson have my most sincere condolences

But then again, the family, friends, and colleagues of Pat Robertson have ALWAYS had my most sincere condolences.


Rocknation

[msfiddlestix]

86. Good Effin Riddance!

[TygrBright]

91. They should probably keep the location of his grave or urn niche unpublished.

I imagine there would be quite a queue otherwise, and not to lay flowers.

speculatively,
Bright

[The Grand Illuminist]

92. Good riddance all you want...

He has followers, he has family. All of them are dangerous, maybe moreso, that needs to be compromised.

[JohnnyRingo]

93. I did not care for the man.

And I'll not waste a moment mourning this inevitable, if late conclusion to a propagandist.

But thanx for posting. It may brighten an otherwise hazy day.

[infullview]

94. I would love to add something...

but honestly can't think of anything that hasn't already been said. Kudos to all the posters!

[obamanut2012]

95. Yay!!!!! My prayers finally worked! -- And, a few words form Charlotte Clymer:

Pat Robertson passed away this morning.

He used his large platform to claim LGBTQ people cause hurricanes, earthquakes, and tornadoes.
He subscribed to the belief that 9/11 was caused by feminists, queer people, and the ACLU, among others.
In 2010, after a horrific earthquake struck Haiti and killed an estimated 160,000 people, Pat Robertson went on The 700 Club and said that Haitians were to blame, claiming they made a deal with the Devil during their revolt against slavery in 1791.
He never apologized for these incidents. He never attempted to make amends.
So, while I'm sure there are many who will claim we shouldn't speak ill of the dead, I would like to point out that Pat Robertson went out of his way to inflict suffering on innocent people grieving the loss of their loved ones.
I hope his family receives more love than he ever gave us.

[Music Man]

96. And there it is!

[Sky Jewels]

97. Dear Nonexistent Sky Wizard:

Please take Murdoch and Kissinger as well. Amen.

[Evolve Dammit]

98. I thought it was warmer than usual today...

[JohnnyRingo]

99. All those decades of saying God spoke through him....

Perhaps now he can have his first real one on one. Should be interesting.

[tonekat]

100. Good Riddance!

I laughed out loud this morning when, after announcing Robertson's death, Morning Joe played "Take The Money And Run" as they went to the commercial!

[llashram]

102. byyyyyy

and bbbbyyy again...

[FoxNewsSucks]

103. Good riddance. I wish it didn't take so damn long

for my prayers to be answered. There are a lot more obituaries I pray to read soon, and the world will be far better without them.

[kooth]

106. Good!

He died? How can you tell?

[PortTack]

107. Ding dong the witch is dead!! Good!

[Celerity]

112. one less POS on the planet nt

[onetexan]

114. THIS!!☝️

[lastlib]

120. Instead of burying him, could they just run his carcass through the sewage grinder?

Trying to be eco-friendly here.......

[Celerity]

123. I would not condemn people living in that area to drink and/or eat one atom of old christofash Pat.

[swimboy]

115. Pulled himself up by his Senator father's bootstraps

But we’ll see very little mention of that in these obituaries.

[El Mimbreno]

116. I have never killed anyone...

"I have never killed anyone, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction" - Mark Twain

[Jilly_in_VA]

118. He may find the afterlife

somewhat different than he expected. However, it is now safe to go to Virginia Beach.

[kimbutgar]

119. I hope Satan was smiling and giving him a big welcome.

Now he can’t tell his brain washed loons how to vote anymore.

P

[boilinmad]

121. And just like that...

... God gives his greatest Pride Month gift, ever!!!

[Pepsidog]

122. Burn in Hell with Falwell, Limbaugh and the rest of the rw traitors.

[sakabatou]

124. Good riddance to that piece of fucking shit.

[Habibi]

125. My condolences to his loved ones. However, for me,

goodbye, and hope you get the afterlife you deserve.

[keep_left]

126. Robertson was also responsible for bringing the infamous Mother Angelica to the world, and...

...also somewhat indirectly, the execrable EWTN network for which she was better known. Mother Angelica was "discovered", more or less, by Robertson in the late '70s, when his CBN network began playing her videotaped shows. Robertson eventually saw her as a threat to his Protestant-centered programming, and kicked her off the network. That gave Mother Angelica and her ridiculous band of radtrad nuns the initiative to start their own network (EWTN) in Alabama. EWTN imitated all of the worst aspects of Bible Belt fundamentalism seen on Robertson's CBN, including a complete hermetically-sealed information system with a simulacrum of a news-gathering organization: the original "fake news". Almost everything on EWTN was cribbed directly from CBN, which served as the template for many similar networks over the past several decades.

[nowforever]

127. 99%

Of his phoney praying tears were for donations...one greatest grifters of all time. If there was a Hell he'd be roasting right now.

[twodogsbarking]

136. May he marinate in urine.

[Hekate]

131. While the Twin Towers were still flaming rubble, he said something so vile & jaw-dropping...

I saw it on the chyron and was so shocked I watched closely till it came back around & wrote it down under the heading “Know Thy Enemy.” Kept it posted on my home-office wall for many years.

Now that I try to find it again via Google, it seems Falwell said it and Robertson agreed. I spit on both their graves. May they have a meet-up in that Hell they claimed to believe in.

From The Guardian, Sept 19, 2001

What Mr Falwell said on Thursday on The 700 Club, while chatting with the programme's host, Mr Robertson, was this: "What we saw on Tuesday, as terrible as it is, could be minuscule if, in fact, God continues to lift the curtain and allow the enemies of America to give us probably what we deserve."

Mr Robertson responded: "Jerry, that's my feeling. I think we've just seen the antechamber to terror. We haven't even begun to see what they can do to the major population."

A few moments later Mr Falwell said: "The abortionists have got to bear some burden for this because God will not be mocked. And when we destroy 40 million little innocent babies, we make God mad. 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 secularise America, I point the finger in their face and say, 'You helped this happen.' "

To which Mr Robertson said: "I totally concur, and the problem is we have adopted that agenda at the highest levels of our government."

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2001/sep/19/september11.usa9

[The Blue Flower]

132. "Some people look better leaving"

A sign on someone's office wall from way back when. Happy to see the last of this creep.

[Novara]

133. GOOD

It's all there needs to be said.

[Dawson Leery]

134. May 1, 2011 comes to mind right now.

[Hekate]

135. 🎶 🎉. 🌸 🌈 🥂 🎶

and for good measure:

Know Thy Enemy:
Sept. 19, 2001
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 secularise America, I point the finger in their face and say, 'You helped this happen.'
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2001/sep/19/september11.usa9

[malthaussen]

137. Clarance Darrow may have the floor for me here. n/t

[Tarc]

138. Hmm

Good.

[Permanut]

139. And now his son Gordon can be the head grifter..

Although he hasn't quite mastered the squinchy eye thing for praying, like Pat did.

[SunSeeker]

140. If there is a Hell, he's in it. nt

[Moostache]

141. The single greatest thing that can happen now?

Forget that he ever existed and forget it fast.

Get that name into the dustbin of history, do not engage in retrospectives or analyses or white-washing efforts to expunge his more vile chapters...just forget that he ever existed at all.

There is nothing about his death that can undo the harm he did in life...but in death, we can collectively ignore his existence and allow him to be unmourned, unmarked, and unworthy of mention ever again.

[DJ Porkchop]

142. Happy Pat Robertson Is Dead Everybody month!

[Behind the Aegis]

143. And waiting for his new arrival...

[cstanleytech]

144. Proof that only the good die young?

[slightlv]

145. Being woman, a feminist, AND a Pagan,

a member of several of the groups he has villainized over the years, I am not unhappy to finally see him leave this earth. Whatever awaits us on the other side, if there is another side, let it be what he deserves. And please, blessed Lady, if he reincarnates, let him come back as a gay earthworm!

[LetMyPeopleVote]

146. For this thread

Link to tweet

[LeftishBrit]

147. They do say that the good die young...

[Kennah]

149. Sumbitches. I wanted in on the raid.

Didn't have to be anything big. I'll hold the door, hold the garlic, hold the crucifix, even hold the stake while it's hammered home.