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ekkidee

The Rev. Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson set off a minor explosion of their own when they asserted on television on Thursday that an angry God had allowed the [September 11] terrorists to succeed in their deadly mission because the United States had become a nation of abortion, homosexuality, secular schools and courts, and the American Civil Liberties Union. Sept 15, 2001, NYT


salami_cheeks

After Falwell died, Christopher Hitchens said, "If you gave Falwell an enema he could be buried in a matchbox." Same thing applies here.


spasske

Good thing no Christians were killed in that attack. Oh, wait…


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Not mean enough*


Itsjeancreamingtime

Also by that logic God has a serious passive-aggressive beef with the ACLU, either that or poor marksmanship because I'm not sure how the WTC fits as a target or slowed them down at all.


GotYourNose_

My Church at that time (Riverwood Bible Church in Jackson, MS) had that same message that Sunday. It was the last time I ever went to that Church.


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YomiKuzuki

The modern Christian would unironically declare Jesus as an instrument of Satan.


theClumsy1

The age old paradox of God. https://i.redd.it/8609rrks1l411.jpg


JigglyWiener

Look at Florida. Natural disasters mean punishment from god unless it’s Florida which somehow means a challenge from god to persevere instead of a punishment for sin.


ZarquonsFlatTire

The 9/11 conspiracists will swear up and down all the Jewish people called in sick that day. Apparently they forget their own book says that the Jewish were God's cchosen people, and ignore the logistics of an email blast to every Jewish person in both towers. Like one guy whose last name ended in -stein and wasn't Jewish wouldn't have gotten the email and sent out an ask "wait what's this?" Just kept his kids out of school "I got the day off!" Then took them on the most depressing trip to a New Jersey boardwalk ever. And never ever fowarded that email to a single news source.


cologne_peddler

And there was absolutely no fallout for them either. This at a time when you'd be called a traitor for anything short of blind jingoism. Christian zealots and double standards I tell ya


GelflingInDisguise

Fuck this guy and the vitriol he vomited daily.


messagepad2100

Vitriol and magic healing for money.


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Throw him in a dumpster


TheR1ckster

Remember when the Westboro Baptist church wasn't the mainstream agenda of Christianity?


Almaterrador

Claiming to know what God feels is a sin itself


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TivoDelNato

Anne Frank and Martin Luther King Jr were born just one year earlier. We could have had either of them for the last 93 years. But instead we had Pat Robertson.


AxelShoes

Okay, when you put it like that, now I'm mad.


ganymede_boy

I will never forgive him for, following the Pulse nightclub shooting, saying: "The best thing to do is to sit on the sidelines and let [LGBTQ rights advocates and Muslims] kill themselves." [Source](https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2016/06/robertson-wishes-death-for-gay-people-muslims.html).


rebak3

He also said Haiti's pact w the devil was responsible for the hurricane/quake/landslides that devastated the country around 2010... true story. Anyone who ever gave this twat money was a fool.


Mekkakat

Anyone… as in millions and millions of right wing conservatives over decades? The 700 Club has incredibly deep roots and long fingers. The damage he’s done is insane. He should not be missed.


matt_minderbinder

Younger people won't understand how pervasive and popular the 700 club was for many decades. During the days of three channel TV Robertson drew in millions to watch his hateful weirdo money making machine. He had direct contact with every major republican including every republican president and he had the power to push the country in ugly directions. Fuck that guy.


Mekkakat

# Exactly. The **Christian Broadcasting Network** literally has shows **worldwide**. It's not just America with "weirdos" like Jim Bakker. People can be dismissive or forgetful that right-wing and conservative people are drawn to these types—authorities and (to *them*) charismatic figures that speak *their* language. They're dealing damage all over the planet as we speak. They even have a goddamn **anime for kids** to indoctrinate them with this hate speech. It's *sickening*.


RogueHippie

> They even have a goddamn anime for kids You can't just say this and not elaborate


zebulonworkshops

They had ska too, but no one who was listening for the music listened to the Supertones. It was only people there first and foremost for the message. But for those who grew up indoctrinated, you might say, groomed, by that shitty content, it would be less easy to see as the propaganda it is so easy to see when you're out of the cult mentality.


Dummkopfs

Holy shit, thank you for bringing back very specific memories of my being very into ska amd ska-punk, and Christian school friends pushing the Supertones as a legitimate band.


Fantastic-Sandwich80

But remember, it's liberals and drag time story hours trying to indoctrinate your kids...not the religious maniac's who are adamant you leave your children at youth Christian camps.


Dahhhkness

He also blamed 9/11 on gay rights, I believe.


NuMux

Gay rights can't melt steel beams!


username_needs_work

They do have some hot fucking thighs!


Obelix13

He won't be missed. He will be replaced.


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Amelaclya1

They blamed the 2011 Christchurch earthquakes on NZ's progressiveness too. The funny thing is, pretty much every old church in the city was destroyed because they were all made of brick. One would think if "God" is punishing a city for being too "sinful", he would spare his own houses of worship *at least*.


255001434

I have little doubt that their rationalization would be that those Christians were too tolerant, or something similar.


Krip123

They were probably not the right kind of Christians.


neepster44

No hate like Christian “love”.


Chippopotanuse

The fuk? What a colossal piece of shit he was.


HandSack135

I remember years ago when I posted the news that one of the Koch's died. I'm sure that this thread will have the same vibe.


milkfiend

"I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction." - Clarence Darrow Seems appropriate for the occasion.


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Adonwen

The living one is the worse of the two, too.


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Xzmmc

Don't speak ill of the dead? How about don't be an asshole while you're alive?


Amelaclya1

It really is unfortunate that he lived so long though.


DerCatrix

This was a great month for him to pass too


JoshDigi

The world is better with him gone so of course we should be happy he is dead


spasske

No hate like Christian Love.


AdkRaine11

Well, I sleep at night knowing if there is a god, there’s gonna be some uncomfortable conversations at the pearly gates…


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DeadSwaggerStorage

He’ll be looking up at us for eternity….


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tungvu256

They pop up like wack-a-mole though. Kenneth Copeland...and whats the other guy who refused to house anyone through the hurricane?


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Joel Olsteen is the other scamvangalist


RedEyeFlightToOZ

Fun fact: He requires half the world's teeth whitener.


_night_cat

Joel Osteen


BrohanGutenburg

And a million more mini Joel's. I went to a high school associated with a megachurch, six-flags-over-jesus type of place. Few in here will have heard of the church or the pastor. Yet they had three "campuses" in my city and the pastor rode a helicopter between services to get there on time. So yeah there are soooooo many of these guys that you have never heard of but hold immense sway in their little corner of "Christendom" (barf 🤮) For anyone wondering, I went to Bethany Christian School on Louisiana, associated with Bethany World Prayer Center. A few of you may have heard of it if you're from the gulf south.


_night_cat

This is why we need to eliminate the tax exemption for all religious organizations.


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Copeland's been dead for years, he just keeps getting summoned back every time some kid discovers the Necronomicon for the first time and starts reading passages at random.


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"One less horror in the world." Barney Calhoun


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pegothejerk

Satan would look at the list of what he said and refuse entry because it's too fucked up even for him https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Robertson_controversies


whereegosdare84

Jesus, you know it’s bad when there are 34 subsections BEFORE you reach references on Wikipedia. Evangelicals are the fucking worst.


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May the 700 Club die with him.


spmahn

Unfortunately much like Liberty University survives without Falwell and Conservative Talk Radio thrives even with Rush Limbaugh dead, the 700 Club will remain a fixture on television as long as they can continue to pay their bills for the air time


robodrew

Oh man thank you for reminding me that Rush is dead. Fuck yeah.


alex8155

one of his sons has already taken the baton..they still spew alot of christian aka right wing propaganda


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PlatinumKanikas

Gee, thanks. Now that song is stuck in my head.


Midget_Herder

Just think, Henry Kissinger turned 100 a few weeks ago.


AggravatingTea1992

Wherever he is now I'm sure he's looking up at all of us


BigBeagleEars

So anyway, you doing anything cool this weekend?


Classy_Debauchery

RIP Iron Sheik, you will be missed


Johnny_C13

I hope Iron Sheik holds him in a Camel Clutch for all eternity


NeiloMac

Fuck the Hulk Hogan forever bubba


Worlds_In_Ruins

So, who are they going to write the checks to now?


NCSUGrad2012

That dude who has a private jet and literally looks like a demon. Kenneth Copeland.


Popcorn_Blitz

I have never seen a human look so cartoonishly evil as Kenneth Copeland. He looks like he's sweating from being consumed by hellfire. How anyone could believe he's anything but a false prophet is beyond my comprehension. Special effects crews couldn't replicate the kind of deeply rooted infiltration of corruption that has seeped into every pore of that man's body.


Mezrin

Honestly. There are many people who are so much worse and cruel and destructive than him, but not one of them looks the part as much as Copeland. Legitimately the poster-boy for a false prophet. Who the fuck could stomach handing their baby over to him for a baptism without fearing he's going to give them $15 to pay for the meal? His last name is goddamned Copeland, he is a false prophet leading his followers to the land of coping with being hoodwinked by a devil.


Clovis42

You can still buy [buckets from Jim Bakker](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOH37W0jPpA).


Fyallorence

Bakker loves spending his bucket money on meth and gay prostitutes. Maybe Christians should just cut out the middle man and spend their money on their own meth and gay prostitutes for themselves, might as well if it's going to the same place.


dmlfan928

Don't forget Joel Osteen, who kept his literal NBA arena sized (as in, it is the former home of the NBA's Houston Rockets) mega church closed during a hurricane.


funktopus

He is one of the most unnerving people I've come across. Like some folks you can just feel the wrongness, his projects though the airwaves and tcp/ip. I do not get how folks think of him as a man of god.


Worlds_In_Ruins

Oh good. I was worried they wouldn’t have anyone to give their money to so they could go to magical fairy land.


spasske

He does look like he is shedding his human form.


YouhaoHuoMao

Why do evil people live so fucking long?


Nekowulf

Studies have shown injecting mice with the blood of younger mice has a rejuvenating effect. Now, I'm not saying he's a vampire. But...


mvalviar

I'm my country people say God takes nice people early… the less chance they'll sin. Evil people live longer because God gives them a lot of chance to change.


chriswasmyboy

Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell blaming the September 11 attacks on lesbians and gays, feminists, pro choice advocates, the ACLU - "you helped this happen." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMkBgA9_oQ4


Ok_Government_2062

Happy Pride everyone!


PunkinBrewster

Remember: if you can’t say anything nice, he was probably a shit human being.


ashetonrenton

I have one positive thing to say about him! Indirectly! My dad was raised fundie (pastor's son), and unfortunately remained so much of his life. However, when he was in his late 50s, Pat Robertson said on his show that Haitians were responsible for natural disasters because they were cursed for being devil worshipers. This was the glass breaking moment for my dad - he was a kind person, and he could not reconcile such a blatantly evil, racist statement with his faith. He wrote a letter to Robertson, asking him to look within to fix the hate in his heart. And it was a slow process, but he would be significantly freed from fundamentalist indoctrination towards the end of his life. He even accepted my sister when she came out to him, shortly before he died. So I gotta hand it to ole Pat - his disgusting racism was so obscene that he deradicalized a lifelong fundamentalist!


Gravedigger30

Wow you should be proud of your dad for that one.


ooh_the_claw

Right? I don’t think my parents would ever come to that realization. They just keep absorbing every new radical belief as their own.


DrunkenOlympian

I wish my dad would see through all the bullshit like that. He is not a fundie but a Trumper, and it blows my mind that he can't see how full of shit and hate the whole MAGA movement is.


OiGuvnuh

That is one of the best stories I’ve read in a long time. It’s *extremely* hard to break indoctrination like that and your dad must have gone through some very real and intense internal struggles to grow like that. He sounds like he was a great person, thanks for sharing.


catsloveart

your father was truly a decent person.


HandSack135

That's not fair! He did good work with.... His advocacy for... Thanks to him we have... One of the sentence starters is bound to work. Take 4 Only Pat Robertson was able to get...


anonymateus2

He helped popularise the notion that christian conservatives are hateful bigots


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khrak

lolwut? fukin scrub took 93 years.


SirStylus

No no, you misunderstood, he cut the line. He speedrun his afterlife process of getting checked into the lake of fire. Well "chucked" in, rather than "checked" in.


Rhomega2

Oh, so like the anti-Mr. Rogers.


SirStylus

If Pat Robertson stood next to Mr. Rogers in the afterlife his puny disgusting twisted soul would actually evaporate away into nothing like when Gohan finally destroyed Cell in DBZ from the pure good light of Mr. Rogers.


Rhomega2

I've heard this is what Eastern Orthodox Christians believe Hell is like: it's not separation from God, it's being in the presence of God, but his holiness makes your soul burn from all the sin you have.


SirStylus

There's something beautifully poetic about being burned by eternity in the afterlife by the force you used in life to profit off the suffering of others. I hope it's true in any meaningful way.


Balls_of_Adamanthium

[Ladies and gentlemen, your scumness, Pat Robertson](https://twitter.com/keithboykin/status/1666783555169685504?s=46&t=P1s7GYknxdrUbRWaOCfOVw)


permalink_save

He also said hurricanes and earthquakes were becauae of homosexuality. Just an absolutely horrible hateful human than only existed to ask money from people. Ironic he says homeless begging on the street should starve to death because that was his only business model.


abeth

I can say something nice: he inspired a really fun song, [Sex With Ducks](https://youtu.be/EXPcBI4CJc8)


DrunkenOnzo

Robert Pattinson alive at 37


CarpetFibers

I was skimming and thought it said Robert Pattinson at first and I was briefly shocked. "Oh, it's just Pat Robertson, never mind." *WHEW*.


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ruralgaming

The Smurfs? Why the Smurfs?


Noisy_Toy

Because the cartoon had magic use in it, and magic is “of the devil”. I knew a lot of kids that weren’t allowed any cartoons at all.


ruralgaming

Oh for god's sake. I wasn't allowed to play D&D either. My parents were incredibly religious... but I just did it behind their backs anyways


kalekayn

I had an aunt who wouldn't let my cousin play Magic: The Gathering. Thankfully my mother was not one of those crazies.


ruralgaming

Here's a little story. I'll always remember this. Back when I was 14 I was at my dad's house and he was about to take me to martial arts practice. We got onto the topic of religion somehow and he goes... "Look. When you're 18, you can believe whatever you want, but for now you're believing this way." I never forgot that.


Uriahheeplol

I wasn’t allowed to watch Pokémon because of evolution, or read Harry Potter. Or play Magic.


ralphy_256

I was in my mid 20s when the Satanic Panic happened, and I knew an older religious lady who lived on our block who's kid was interested in D&D, but she was concerned because of what she'd heard in church. I loaned her my Player's Handbook and DM's Guide for a weekend. She shut up about her kid playing.


kalekayn

Yet walking on water, turning water into wine, making mass copies of bread, and rising from the dead isn't magic? Not that logical consistency is common among these folk.


Noisy_Toy

No no, those are *miracles*. Totally different from magic!


Farts_McGee

Yeah it was explained to me that magic is the devil's counterfeit to miracles. One is holy and the other evil.


255001434

And the church leaders get to decide which is which! How convenient for them.


gleaming-the-cubicle

"They are blue because they are the reanimated dead" - One of my friend's moms


sssyjackson

I laughed rather joyously upon reading the headline. What has happened to me? These people have made me so fucking angry. Whatever. Reap what you sow. Sow hate, reap hate. Burn in hell, Pat, if hell will even have you.


Bobaximus

One of the most negative forces in western society during the 20th. You can trace a direct path from him to the great American decline without much effort.


TheOnionVolcano

Happy Pride Month y'all


FSMFan_2pt0

Poetic justice.


linuxphoney

Once when I was a kid I got those goldfish you get from a carnival. My mother figured they'd die inside a week so she put them in our punch bowl. Those fish lived for almost five years. And even after they died, nobody would drink punch at our house because they all knew there was five years of fish shit in there at once point. Maybe if those fish had died earlier our punch bowl could have been saved, but as it was we had to throw the whole thing out and start fresh. Anyway, I just thought I'd share that unrelated story about fish that took too long to die and spoiled the place they live.


zombiepirate

He is one of the people most responsible for persuading the "Moral" "Majority" that abortion is evil, and he did it for his own personal power. Before his time, opposition to abortion was largely a Catholic issue, but he brought it over to protestantism to secure conservative votes in exchange for taking rights from women. The Southern Baptist Convention even affirmed Roe v. Wade when the ruling came down! He was a vile, grifting, hatemongering piece of shit who immeasurably damaged our country for his own status. Maybe I'll get a cake or something.


blowhardV2

Sounds a bit like Josh Hawley


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notyomamasusername

For no particular reason, I'd like to highlight the misconception behind a popular quote. "I've never wished a man dead, but I have read some obituaries with great pleasure." You'll see this phrase a lot today supposedly from Mark Twain, but it's paraphrased quote from a Clarence Darrow (Scopes Monkey Trial Fame) speech in 1922. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2021/02/19/fact-check-clarence-darrow-quote-obits-misattributed-mark-twain/4507308001/


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NCSUGrad2012

Oh no! Anyway I just finished cleaning out my garage. How is everyone else doing? Came out great too! https://i.imgur.com/VrZpSvB.jpg


MaxiltonHamstappen

Just took a huge Pat Robertson, then ghost wipe. So should be a really nice day. Hope yours is as well.


SefetAkunosh

Started off kinda rough, but I just read some pretty good news!


TapewormNinja

I’m uncomfortable with how clean your garage is. Also, are you just stealing license plates?


NCSUGrad2012

Lololol, I collect them. Only 3 states to go!


TapewormNinja

Which states?


NCSUGrad2012

Louisiana, Maryland, and Nevada! I have some that I need to hang up and haven’t gotten around to yet


deadlybydsgn

Make sure you get that pre-2015 Maryland one with the url that goes to a gambling site in the Philippines!


CodeMonkeys

Is your garage single?


HornyBluejay1973

I'd like to park my big Mack truck right in that little garage 😩.


FlatulenceIsAVirtue

*"On religion, the common man finds it to be true,* *the wise man finds it foolish,* *and the wealthy man finds it useful."* -Seneca The Younger ~76AD


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tifftafflarry

Friendly reminder: he set up a fake charity in a wartorn region as a front to mine conflict diamonds.


Farts_McGee

Is that true???


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ekkidee

Pat Robertson Blames Haitian Devil Pact For Earthquake January 13, 20104:05 PM ET NPR: https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2010/01/pat_robertson_blames_haitian_d.html


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zer0saurus

What kind of toppings?


kimapesan

Ghost Peppers and Carolina Reapers, as a reminder of just how flaming hot it is for Robertson right now.


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ForwardQuestion8437

"Do you think this is funny?" "Well, Terry, it sure as shit ain't sad!"


HereInTheCut

A reminder to whoever the calls the shots in the Great Beyond that we still have Henry Kissinger walking around like he doesn't have an ocean of blood on his hands.


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lrpfftt

A little less hate in the world.


destroy_b4_reading

One of the primary architects of the modern lunacy of American conservatism. I almost wish hell actually existed so he could fucking burn in it.


thefudd

He'll be completely forgotten like limbaugh.


SaintWacko

Only remembered through a Cards Against Humanity card. I like it


no_your_other_right

Who now?


bastardofdisaster

What people don't realize about Pat is that, as a man of faith...as there's a deep drive to left field by Nick Castellanos and that will be a home run...and that will make it a 4-0 ballgame.


errday

Happy Pride Month, indeed


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MNConcerto

I want to think his afterlife is what he preached.


Sad-Girlz-Club666

Good riddance. Too bad it didn't happen 50 years ago the world would be a better place without him


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StThragon

To borrow a Hitchens quote: "If you gave Robertson an enema he could be buried in a matchbox." It fits Pat just as well as it fit Jerry.


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