Pat Robertson Blames Haiti Earthquake on "Pact With the Devil", page 3

Many years ago, back when Daddy Bush's recession (amazing how a Bush presidency and a recession seem to always go hand-in-hand) resulted in my last long-term layoff, I used to watch the 700 Club. It was like a train wreck of stupidity; absolutely ghastly to view but, somehow, you couldn't look away. Let me tell you, every bogus, spin-doctored move in the Fox News repetoire was pioneered on the 700 Club's fake new reports. Of course, after the bogus news was reported, all of Pat's sidekicks would turn to Daddy Pat in confused bewilderment and ask him to grace them with his divine knowledge on the topic just presented. Pat never let them down. He always had "Pact With Satan" inside info that no history book has ever documented to firmly lodge the recent event within that special universe known as Quasi-Christ-Robertson-ianity.

I will never forget one particular program. They had teasers all morning long that there was a Major Announcement from His Majesty coming up!! Finally they couldn't put it off any longer and Pat took center stage to declare that, none other than Gawd hisself, had put it on his heart to do a Great Work in some such forsaken backwash of a country, I really don't recall which hell-hole it was. Naturally this "Great Work" was gonna cost mucho drachmas, and Pat was ardently asking his audience to please, please, send him as much of their disposable income as they possibly could in order to make this "Great Work" a reality. That's when I really understood the evil genius of the man and that there was no act so low or vile that he wouldn't willingly go there to make a buck!

Think about it, He claimed that the Lawd had put it upon HIS heart to do this Great Work. At this point in his repulsive life he's so rich that he has stupid money available to him to squander on anything he might fancy. He could easily have financed the whole enterprise all by himself! But, NO, Pat doesn't want all the GLORY for himself. He wants the trailer park trash that watch his program to do without so that THEY can fund this Great Work and thereby share in the blessing of the Lawd. Pat wants senior citizens who are struggling to get by on their meager Social Security payments to pony up the cash. He wants welfare recipients to forgo buying a million lottery tickets every week and, instead, send the money to him so that he can make God's miracle plan happen. I seem to remember that he was even offering some silly key ring or something to people who donated over a certain amount. And I thought that Pat hated Public Television!

to me the Anti-Christ isn't a single man, it's a huge global corporatocracy that deliberately take the New Testament and twist it to suit their money-making and power brokering schemes. All churches, whether they are big or small, are money-making businesses, pure and simple, and they all traffic in twisting the Gospels this way and that and making promises that they cannot possibly keep (salvation). They are like vampires who prey upon the weak, the simple, the beaten and the broken. Pat Robertson is a king among them. He is one of the pioneers of modern televangelism. Perhaps even more than Billy Graham, he demonstrated the unbelievable earning potential that was locked in those ancient scripts and paved the way for a thoroughly modern method to exploit them for riches and political power. Not even the equally odious Jerry Falwell could match Pat's unparalleled profiteering in the name of Jesus. Like I have said before, if there really was a God, or, at least a God who recognized his moral responsibilty to police the activities of those who act in his name, then Pat would have been a pile of cinders a long long time ago. As long as Pat continues to go unpunished I can be pretty certain that God is just a another made-up superhero and that Hell is really here on Earth, in a large part thanks to people like him.