Time to remember Pat's legacy
The time when he told a woman that her deceased baby was killed by God because it would probably grow up to be the next Hitler didn't make it to the list.
Quote: Top 10 of Pat Robertson cringeworthy moments
1 Haiti’s “deal with the devil”
after Haiti’s devastating earthquake in 2010, which Robertson attributed to a “curse” tied to the malevolent spiritual forces with the help of which, he assured 700 Club viewers, Haitian slaves overthrew their French colonizers in a late eighteenth and early nineteenth-century revolution. The clear subtext is that people of African descent couldn’t possibly have fought for and gained their independence without some help from Satan himself.
2 Claiming that gay men deliberately spread HIV using rings that cut people
On a 2013 episode of The 700 Club, Robertson claimed that members of the gay community in San Francisco, “want to get people so if they got the stuff they’ll have a ring, you shake hands, and the ring’s got a little thing where you cut your finger.” He wasn’t joking, and he went on to describe this completely made up phenomenon as “vicious stuff” and “the equivalent of murder.”
3 Calling for terrorism against the US State Department
Robertson in 2003, suggesting that a little good old-fashioned terrorism might improve US foreign policy: “Maybe we need a very small nuke thrown off on Foggy Bottom to shake things up like Newt Gingrich wants to do.”
https://religiondispatches.org/as-pat-ro...y-moments/
The time when he told a woman that her deceased baby was killed by God because it would probably grow up to be the next Hitler didn't make it to the list.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
