The Word According to Pat

by: JT

It is really not necessary to critique these quotations from evangelist Pat Robertson. They serve in themselves as a window into his character. I did chose to provide some background on the last quotation.

• The Constitution of the United States, for instance, is a marvelous document for self-government by Christian people. But the minute you turn the document into the hands of non-Christian and atheistic people they can use it to destroy the very foundation of 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 it’s happening is that God Almighty is lifting his protection from us.

• I know one man who was impotent who gave AIDS to his wife and the only thing they did was kiss.
• 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.
• They have kept us in submission because they have talked about separation of church and state. There is no such thing in the Constitution. It’s a lie of the left, and we’re not going to take it anymore.
• When I said during my presidential bid that I would only bring Christians and Jews into the government, I hit a firestorm. “What do you mean?” the media challenged me. “You’re not going to bring atheists into the government? How dare you maintain that those who believe in the Judeo-Christian values are better qualified to govern America than Hindus and Muslims?” My simple answer is, “Yes, they are.”
• I never said that in my life … I never said only Christians and Jews. I never said that.
• “With all due respect to those dear people, my friend, God Almighty does not hear the prayer of a Jew.”
• It is interesting, that termites don’t build things, and the great builders of our nation almost to a man have been Christians, because Christians have the desire to build something. He is motivated by love of man and God, so he builds. The people who have come into [our] institutions [today] are primarily termites. They are into destroying institutions that have been built by Christians, whether it is universities, governments, our own traditions, that we have…. The termites are in charge now, and that is not the way it ought to be, and the time has arrived for a godly fumigation.
• 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.
• After that, we ask God for our daily bread — whatever we need to carry out His work. It may be money, a car, food, clothing, a house, or a $20 million budget for a Christian organization.
• 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. I can love the people who hold false opinions but I don’t have to be nice to them.
• Planned Parenthood is teaching kids to fornicate, teaching people to have adultery, every kind of bestiality, homosexuality, lesbianism — everything that the Bible condemns.
• Let’s assume you had an accident in which your leg is broken. You can say, “I broke my leg. It hurts. But God’s power is healing my leg right now. The pain is leaving. Jesus is doing a miracle, and I thank Him for it. I thank Him that regardless of what happened to my leg, a miracle is taking place. Therefore I command my leg to knit together and be healed. Praise God!”
• How can there be peace when drunkards, drug dealers, communists, atheists, New Age, worshipers of Satan, secular humanists, oppressive dictators, greedy moneychangers, revolutionary assassins, adulterers, and homosexuals are on top?
• I think “one man, one vote,” just unrestricted democracy, would not be wise. There needs to be some kind of protection for the minority which the white people represent now, a minority, and they need and have a right to demand a protection of their rights.
• We’re undermining a Christian, Baptist president to bring in Muslim rebels to take over the country, And how dare the president of the United States say to the duly elected president of another country, ‘You’ve got to step down. [editorial note: this is in reference to Charles Taylor, at that time the murderous President of Liberia who has subsequently been charged with war crimes, and Liberia being a country where the wealthy Roberston just happens to have mining interests.]