Does anyone actually *listen* to Pat Robertson? Or, is he mostly an embarassement to Christians and America?

Question

I'm just wondering (seriously) if anyone out there listens to Pat Robertson and looks to him as a spiritual and moral leader.

For me, it is very hard to see how any person could listen to his rantings and ravings calling for the assassination of individuals, stating that "God is a Republican" (I thought God was not able to be understood by the human mind), and to say that the homosexuals and corruption in New Orleans brought on Katrina.

Do people take this at face value, or consider it the rantings of a lunatic? I definitely fall within the latter category. (Try not to make fun of him too much, I don't want to make him a martyr for his cause)

Answer 1

People's perceptions of the world around them are constantly changing, and so even though most don't realize it, everyone has within them many different conflicting ideas all at once, and Pat Robertson touches some of the more warped ideas with the christian right, and reaffirms what they believe based on how they live. I seriously doubt any of Pat Robertson's following even know what it's like to live below poverty, and are quite happy giving lip-service to tolerance while insisting this is a purely christian country that should enforce God's law on the land. They don't want to think about how much it sounds like what Hitler said, it's all "their" fault. "They" don't follow God like we do.

Answer 2

You know what? There's TOO MANY people that DO listen to folks like Pat Robertson. Otherwise, we wouldn't have people trying to put discrimination against homosexuals into the Constitution. Folks like Pat Robertson and George Bush are so out of touch with what being an AMERICAN actually means that they are harmful and dangerous to our country.

I am amazed at how many people actually believe that they are entitled to create a theocracy in the United States. It's like they never even heard of the First Amendment, or the Fourteenth either. Hopefully, sanity will prevail, but the Democrats aren't helping. They're taking the spineless approach on stuff like homosexual legal unification by saying "It's not important enough to debate," instead of, "It's constitutionally protected, stop trying to be bigots." We need leaders who value the Constitution to speak out against Pat Robertson. Hopefully, some of his blind followers will realize that he reeks of wrongness and that his ideas clearly endanger the true American way of life: freedom.

Answer 3

You obviously watch liberal media. Do you ever watch his show? He's probably had some statements that have been made that are very offensive to some. But when I'm sitting in my house talking with my husband, we say we don't understand how you can be a Christian and a Democrat because of what they stand for. In other words, we think God has to be Republican. Take it how you want. What Democrats stand for in no way lines up with the Bible.

Does God love Democrats? Sure.

Get over it. The conservative media/talk radio could pick apart plenty of things liberals say and show how they aren't really Christians if they wanted. We have better things to focus on.

Answer 4

Pat Robertson is not all bad, he has said things that I don't feel are correct, but he has done a lot of good for a lot of people. He is no worse than Rush Limbaugh and some of the other. He may be a Christian, but he is Human first, bound to make mistakes and put his foot in his mouth at times like the rest of us.

Answer 5

The guy is a loser and I doubt he ever leg pressed 2,000 lbs. as he claimed. Anyways, the guy is dillusional in the sense that he is religious first and foremost. His religion (typical of most religious people) give him a blind eye to the world and they cannot understand or grasp events without relating it to religion. As far as his comments go about Katrina, it probably did help New Orleans as it cleaned out the city and rid it of some bad areas which could not of been done with other means. It had nothing to do with gays and corruption though.

Answer 6

Pat RObertson, Billy Graham, Jerry Falwell, John Hagee, Fred Phleps, James Dobson, Kent Hovind, and that LEE strobel because hes a liar, CS Lewis because he converted out of cowardice, makes me proud to be a Pagan.

Oh and the nasty way christians treat other sects of christianity makes it all the more worthwhile.

Answer 7

did you understand that Pat Robertson claimed that God informed him that the international may come to an bring about 1982...!! "In late 1976, Robertson envisioned that the accurate of the international became coming in November or October 1982. In a ought to 1980 broadcast of The seven hundred club he said, "I assure you by technique of the accurate of 1982 there is going to be a judgment on the international."

Answer 8

To be honest, I never heard any of his preachings. But from the little that you had mentioned, I would have to consider some of the statements he is making. I wouldn't take him seriously if he is going on that God is a republican. You're right, we can't completely understand God. If he was a true christian, he would know that. it sounds to me that money is getting the better of him!

Answer 9

Those who are narrowed mined in views listen to Pat and his so called "religion." Funny if some "liberal" man of the cloth uttered the same words of Rev. Pat he would be blasted in the press. i turn off Pat and Jerry each time I see them on TV. Do wish to hear the agenda of right wing religion.

Answer 10

Pat Robertson is an embarrassment to humanity, not USA only.
I think true Christianity has nothing to do with him.