I normally don’t make a habit out of watching?The 700 Club; but, when I feel like I’ve been a bad girl, a bad girl who deserves to be punished -?deserving of self-inflicted torture – I tune in.
Yesterday, Raw Story shared an article that featured a video?of Pat Robertson traveling in a sexually explicit tangent. It is one of the weirdest pieces of television I’ve witnessed in a long time. I fear this Pat Robertson quote may haunt me for quite a while. Words really don’t give it justice, though. You really must watch the video.
In a creepy, raspy voice, that makes me feel sorry for his wife, he says:
?Man. I’ll purify ya. I’ll purify ya. Just think of that. How many men ? dozens ? has she had relations with? How many had ogled her naked body as she was dancing, how many had groped at her, and fondled her, and made obscene remarks about her, and used her??
But this type of oddity isn’t anything new for the narrow-minded televangelist. Here are seven more outrageous quotes from Pat Robertson.
If you’ve also been extremely bad and deserving of punishment ? watch the clips.
- “Something happened a long time ago in Haiti, and people might not want to talk about it. They were under the heel of the French . . . and they got together and swore a pact to the devil.”
- “I don’t know if you’re dealing with something that is demonic or something that is deeply ingrained. It’s something beyond normal human experience, something has happened and she associates God, maybe she had an abusive father, somebody who raped her and then acted like he was preaching to her from the Bible, you just never know what is going on in somebody’s childhood.”
- “So you see these little children that we call mongoloid, you know, Down syndrome, sweet little children but the back part hasn’t formed. It’s a deformity, if you have a little girl, can you imagine having a big hole in the mouth?”
- “Satan wants to destroy our babies. Destroy our babies.”
- “Like it or not, males have a tendency to wander a little bit. What you want to do is make a home so wonderful that he doesn’t want to wander.”
- “A woman came to a preacher that I know, and she was awful looking. I mean, her hair was all torn up and she was overweight and looked terrible, clothes bad and everything. And she said, ‘Oh, Reverend, what can I do? My husband has started to drink.’ And the preacher looked at her and said, ‘Madam, if I was married to you, I’d start to drink, too.’ We need to cultivate romance, darling . . . You always have to keep that spark of love alive. It just isn’t something to just lie there, ‘Well, I’m married to him so he’s got to take me slatternly looking.’ You’ve got to fix yourself up, look pretty, look alluring.”
- “Well you could become a Muslim, then you could beat her. I think this man’s got to stand up to her. And he can’t let her get away with this stuff. I don’t think we condone wife beating these days, but something’s got to be done to make her . . . So what do I say? Move to Saudi Arabia!”
The Christian Broadcasting Network?s CBN.com?describes The 700 Club?as “a mix of news and commentary, interviews, feature stories, and Christian ministry.” Just think about that. The 700 Club reports news. Let that sink in a moment.
Here are a few other claims?from the website.
The show is:
- seen in 96 percent of the homes in the U.S. through several different television stations
- seen daily by approximately 1 million viewers
- creating indigenous versions in 39 languages
- broadcast in 138 countries to an estimated annual audience of 360 million people.
Now that’s a lot of crazy spreading.
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