Thread by @mattsheffield

Part Robertson, the antisemitic Christian supremacist who was one of the founders of the religious right, has died. He was 93.

He never got to become the Republican presidential nominee, but his vision for the party completely triumphed.

apnews.com/article/pat-ro…

Regarding his antisemitism, see this piece on Robertson and "New World Order" conspiracism middlebury.edu/institute/acad…

Among the many terrible things Robertson did in life was his decades of persecuting and lying about queer people. Here's @RightWingWatch's clip of Robertson claiming that gay men wear rings to infect people with AIDS in order to kill them

One of the worst things Pat Robertson regularly engaged in was his "Answers to Prayer" segment pretending to heal people through the TV.

He made millions of dollars telling elderly shut-ins that he could magically fix them if they just had enough faith. One example:

Pat Robertson was such a con man that he even pretended to heal people through their DVR.

Conveniently, these people he claimed to have healed (if they existed at all) never did video interviews or talked in public about their alleged miracles. Another clip via @RightWingWatch

Throughout his entire career and into retirement, Pat Robertson routinely promoted lies and hatred against LGBT people, whom he accused of being agents of Satan.

Pat Robertson was also one of the most important Christian media figures to mainstream the extra-biblical Rapture theology.

He constantly pushed End Times obsessions. Literally any foreign policy event was a harbinger of the Rapture:

Pat Robertson also routinely gave medical and health advice to people, despite having zero medical training whatsoever. In 2020, he claimed that you didn't have to worry about covid-19 if you had "a healthy gut."

Pat Robertson also often told his evangelical audience that Donald Trump was God's servant and that they needed to support him.

He weaponized Christianity and used it as a spear for the Republican party.

Pat Robertson constantly slandered lesbians and gays, frequently making false claims that they wanted to "destroy the whole fabric of society" by wanting to have rights.

The billionaire-class lifestyle that Pat Robertson enjoyed was financed by millions of gullible people who believed his lies, especially the faith healing ones.

This clip of a Robertson fan whose MS hasn't been prayed away is heart-breaking. He just flicks her away.

Pat Robertson frequently promoted ludicrous superstitions to his followers, including the idea that "demonic spirits attach themselves to inanimate objects." He said it wasn't a bad idea to do exorcisms on thrift store clothing, just in case.

Demons were everywhere in his mind.

Pat Robertson routinely blamed natural disasters on human wickedness or lack of faith. He would often claim to have prayed hurricanes away. In this clip, he claims that the 2010 Haiti earthquake was caused by a centuries-old pact Haitians made with Satan.

I'll end the thread here w Pat Robertson & Jerry Falwell talking about how much they hated America right after 9/11. Falwell claimed the U.S. "deserved" terrorism because we had not enacted Christian supremacism.

Thanks to @RightWingWatch, the source of most of these clips!