More Pat Robertson Quotes

Following up the last article, in case you really want to just revel in how evil Pat Robertson is (and torment your ultra-ultra-ultra conservative friends), here are some quotes of Robertson through the years. (I got them from Wikipedia, in case you want more.) If I have a comment I put it in [brackets].

• "Feminism encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians." - 1992 GOP Convention [HYPERION’S COMMENT: This was first real introduction to this loony. I remember sitting there watching his speech and hearing Robertson saying that and spilling spaghetti that I was eating down my shirt.]

• "If anybody understood what Hindus really believe, there would be no doubt that they have no business administering government policies in a country that favors freedom and equality." [1] [HYPERION’S COMMENT: At some point you’ll start to wonder if Robertson isn’t really a fantastic comedian himself putting one over on all of us. Keep reading and you’ll see what I mean.]

• "If you go all the way back to the days just following creation, men lived nine hundred years or more." - Answers to 200 of Life's most Probing Questions [HC: This isn’t the worst thing ever, as quite a few people believe this, but I still find it funny. Plus, on the off chance my mom reads this, I want to make her mad.]

• "I have never met [Liberan Dictator] Taylor in my life. I don't know what he has done or hasn't done. I do know he was elected by the people, and he has maintained a relatively stable government in Liberia; and they observe the rule of law; they have a working legislature; they have courts. And though he may have certain dictatorial powers, so do most leaders in Africa." (talking about Liberia) [HC: I only include this to show Robertson’s rampant hypocrisy (I originally wrote a whole post on this but then tossed it. ) Taylor was more brutal than Chavez could dream of, but Robertson had a financial relationship with Taylor. Huge surprise that in this case, Robertson supports the dictator. Also, and I’m not hating, but Taylor claimed to be Baptist, like Robertson. Hmmm…]

• "I know this is painful for the ladies to hear, but if you get married, you have accepted the headship of a man, your husband. Christ is the head of the household and the husband is the head of the wife, and that's the way it is, period." [HC: Where are these women? Do they even exist?]

• "Just like what Nazi Germany did to the Jews, so liberal America is now doing to the evangelical Christians. It's no different. It is the same thing. It is happening all over again. It is the Democratic Congress, the liberal-based media and the homosexuals who want to destroy the Christians. Wholesale abuse and discrimination and the worst bigotry directed toward any group in America today. More terrible than anything suffered by any minority in history." (Interview with Molly Ivins) [HC: Oh yes. Not a week goes by when I don’t see some fairy in a SS outfit goose-stepping his way down the aisles of my dad’s church to cart the Christians off to death camps.]

• [Planned Parenthood] is teaching kids to fornicate, teaching people to have adultery, every kind of bestiality, homosexuality, lesbianism – everything that the Bible condemns. [HC: If only the Bible had a passage about judging not lest ye be judged. Oh, wait….]

• "Presbyterians are the spirit of the Antichrist." (The Best Democracy Money Can Buy, p. 85) [HC: Be honest, has Chris Rock or Robin Williams ever made you laugh this hard? At some point we really admit that Robertson is the world’s greatest comedian.]

• "The Antichrist is probably a Jew alive in Israel today." [HC: He’s also a Presbyterian.]

• "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." [HC: I know I had this before, but it’s worth reading again.]

• "The Islamic people, the Arabs, were the ones who captured Africans, put them in slavery, and sent them to America as slaves. Why would the people in America want to embrace the religion of slavers." [HC: Just so we’re clear, this is the same America that had nothing to do with the slave trade at all. Whatsoever.]

• "We have allowed rampant secularism and occult, et cetera, to be broadcast on television. We have permitted somewhere in the neighborhood of 35 to 40 million unborn babies to be slaughtered in our society. We have a Court that has essentially stuck its finger in God's eye and said, 'We're going to legislate you out of the schools, we're going to take your Commandments from off the courthouse steps in various states, we're not going to let little children read the Commandments of God, we're not going to let the Bible be read -- no prayer in our schools.' We have insulted God at the highest levels of our government. And, then we say 'why does this happen?' Well, why its happening is that God Almighty is lifting His protection from us." (in response to the 9/11 attacks) [HC the aforementioned “Hyperion is no longer white” speech. Look, you may have issues with abortion or any number of issues. But do you think that God punished America by having the towers come down? If he did, then Robertson has no reason to hate the Arabs now, does he?]

• "When lawlessness is abroad in the land, the same thing will happen here that happened in Nazi Germany. Many of those people involved with Adolph Hitler were Satanists, many of them were homosexuals – the two things seem to go together." [HC: WTF? I don’t recall “Swishies for Satan” on the Club sign up sheet at school. And correct me if I’m wrong, but didn’t Hitler kill gays along with other “undesirables”? Wouldn’t a better analogy be to say that persecution of homosexuals (like Robertson clearly wants) leads a society to be more like Nazis?]

• "You say you're supposed to be nice to the Episcopalians and the Presbyterians and the Methodists and this, that, and the other thing. Nonsense, I don't have to be nice to the spirit of the Antichrist." [HC: The Antichrist is NOT just a Presbyterian. He’s an Episcopalian! He’s a Methodist! He’s a Jew living in Palestine! Is it just me or is the Antichrist overextending himself a bit? Next thing you know he’ll be running the 700 Club.]

Selah