Steve Silberman
Broadcaster Pat Robertson, who helped replace Christ's gospel of love with the endlessly overflowing sewer of hate, bigotry, nonsense, and lies that is today's #Republican Party, has died. https://apnews.com/article/pat-robertson-dead-christian-broadcasting-700-club-91299d0953c014ca6860fe545cac793e
Pat Robertson, broadcaster who helped make religion central to GOP politics, dies at 93

Religious broadcaster Pat Robertson has died. He had an enormous impact on American politics and religion. Robertson turned a tiny Virginia television station into the far-reaching Christian Broadcasting Network, where he hosted the flagship “700 Club” show for half a century. Robertson ran for president as a Republican in 1988, and from that experience founded the Christian Coalition, which helped cement the Republican Party's enduring alliance with evangelical voters. Robertson also drew attention for his televised pronouncements of God’s judgment on America for everything from homosexuality to teaching evolution. Robertson died Thursday at the age of 93.

AP News
Jun 8, 2023 at 3:32pmWeb
Show threadTom MaxwellJun 8, 2023
@stevesilberman May he be quickly forgotten. A moral homunculus.
Show threadlirosoJun 8, 2023
@stevesilberman
To paraphrase Bette Davis speaking on Joan Crawford's death:
"My mother taught me to speak only good of the dead.
Pat Robertson is dead.
Good."
Show threadninavizzJun 8, 2023
@stevesilberman FUCK. YEAH. <3 Mazel tov, my friend. We are all better with him gone.
Show threadPDJun 8, 2023
@stevesilberman ‘Bye Pat. Too bad your afterlife doesn’t exist, I’d love to think you’re in agony for eternity.
Show threadDarwin WoodkaJun 8, 2023
@Pdlobster @stevesilberman Imagine if he actually had to meet his God...
Show threadLocksmithJun 8, 2023
@darwinwoodka @Pdlobster @stevesilberman He will meet someone alright.
Show thread🍸Pooka🥕Boo🍸Jun 8, 2023

@stevesilberman

a truly ugly and despicable person.... thank nature!

Show threadGeorge Liquor, AmericanJun 8, 2023
@stevesilberman Good riddance to bad rubbish !
Show threadDarwin WoodkaJun 8, 2023
@stevesilberman may his movement die with him
Show threadlcgastonJun 8, 2023
@stevesilberman He was America's Sultan of Sanctimony. I can imagine an interesting conversation as he gets tutored by the spirit he professed to worship but whose teachings he seemed not to understand.
Show threadJL RobersonJun 8, 2023
@stevesilberman And he is now facing a pretty big surprise I'll bet
Show threadThreadbaneJun 8, 2023
@stevesilberman
Let us not forget "Presidential candidate Pat Robertson"...God forfend.
Show threadWendy LadyJun 8, 2023
@stevesilberman (don't)rest in hell, Pat.
Show threadSouthern LeftistJun 8, 2023

@stevesilberman
Barry Goldwater, the capitalist leech, even said this:

"Mark my word, if and when these preachers get control of the [GOP], and they're sure trying to do so, it's going to be a terrible damn problem. Frankly, these people frighten me. Politics and governing demand compromise. But these Christians believe they are acting in the name of God, so they can't and won't compromise. I know, I've tried to deal with them."

I hate him, but he's respectable for his sanity.

Show threadRed FasterJun 8, 2023
@stevesilberman it does feel like a good day today
Show threadNonya Bidniss 🥥🌴Jun 8, 2023
@stevesilberman Well put.
Show threadNicJun 8, 2023

@stevesilberman
To quote Christopher Hitchens on the demise of Falwell.
"If you gave him an enema you could bury him in a matchbox"

So be it for Robertson.

Show threadFish HeadJun 8, 2023

@stevesilberman
Let’s hope “The evil that men do dies with them.”

Think about why someone would become a religious predator.

Show threadSpacecat EJun 8, 2023
@stevesilberman myb bobby will play us a hell in a bucket in honor of the occasion 🌈
Show threadPonygirlJun 9, 2023
@stevesilberman Good riddance.