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Related: About this forumOn this day, June 8, 2023, Pat Robertson died.
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heleninedinburgh
16 minutes ago
Speaking of theofascists hey guess what?
https://apnews.com/article/pat-robertson-dead-christian-broadcasting-700-club-91299d0953c014ca6860fe545cac793e
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June 8, 2024
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heleninedinburgh
16 minutes ago
Speaking of theofascists hey guess what?
https://apnews.com/article/pat-robertson-dead-christian-broadcasting-700-club-91299d0953c014ca6860fe545cac793e
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Pat Robertson, broadcaster who helped make religion central to GOP politics, dies at 93
BY BEN FINLEY
Published 5:20 PM EDT, June 8, 2023
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (AP) Pat Robertson, a religious broadcaster who turned a tiny Virginia station into the global Christian Broadcasting Network, tried a run for president and helped make religion central to Republican Party politics in America through his Christian Coalition, has died. He was 93.
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BY BEN FINLEY
Published 5:20 PM EDT, June 8, 2023
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (AP) Pat Robertson, a religious broadcaster who turned a tiny Virginia station into the global Christian Broadcasting Network, tried a run for president and helped make religion central to Republican Party politics in America through his Christian Coalition, has died. He was 93.
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mahatmakanejeeves
3 hrs ago
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Blue Owl
(59,789 posts)1. As shitty as things are right now, at least there's that
Easterncedar
(6,577 posts)4. You beat me to it
The Madcap
(2,106 posts)2. I totally forgot he is gone.
Big party in Hell...Robertson, Epstein, Dahmer, etc.
rsdsharp
(12,116 posts)3. I recall that when Robertson was running for President
he said he would not appoint anyone to any position who wasnt either Christian or Jewish. That would be a religious test, in direct violation of Article VI, clause 3.
Apparently Yale law school didnt cover that.
3Hotdogs
(15,653 posts)5. Is he the one whose face looked like a constipated whale when he was praying hard to the Lord?