Pat Robertson: : 'I don't have to be nice to the spirit of the Antichrist'

[Nikki Stone 1]

http://www.gregpalast.com/detail.cfm?artid=49&row=0

A great Greg Palast article on who Robertson really is and what he is worth (between 200 million and 1 billion). Some snippets:

"...The combination of ministry and Mammon has provided Robertson with a net worth estimated at between $200m and $1 billion. He himself would not confirm his wealth, except to tell me that his share of the reported $50m start-up capital for the bank is 'just a small investment for me'. ..."




"....There was also, says Volder, the $7m he gave to 'Operation Blessing' to alleviate the woes of refugees fleeing genocide in Rwanda. Robertson's press operation puts the sum at only $1.2m. More interesting is the way the Operation Blessing funds were used in Africa. Through an emotional fundraising drive on his TV station, Robertson raised several million dollars for the tax-free charitable trust. Operation Blessing bought planes to shuttle medical supplies in and out of the refugee camp in Goma, Congo (then Zaire).

But investigative reporter Bill Sizemore of the Virginian Pilot discovered that over a six-month period - except for one medical flight - the planes were used to haul equipment for something called African Development Corporation, a diamond mining operation a long way from Goma. African Development is owned by Pat Robertson.

Did Robertson know about the diversion of the relief planes? According to pilots' records, he actually flew on one plane ferrying equipment to his mines...."



"...One of Robertson's former business partners recalled that, although he often travelled in the minister's jet, he never saw Robertson crack open a Bible. 'Everywhere we were flying he had the Wall Street Journal and Investors' Daily.'..."

[flakey_foont]

1. maybe Pat IS the "anti-Christ"

just sayin'

[indepat]

7. Have long speculated that thesis on the DU board

[flakey_foont]

9. I've seen many thoughts along that line

what better agent could Old Nick use than someone pretending to be 'holy' ? some say

[Nikki Stone 1]

12. Ah, the old false prophet trick

:evilgrin:

[meow2u3]

13. He's only the False Prophet

Question is, who's the beast? :shrug:

[Gidney N Cloyd]

2. self delete

[louis-t]

3. Why won't MSM, Congress, SEC, FTC

investigate this? Oh, I forgot.

[LittleClarkie]

4. That's not the anti-Christ, that's just a man

And calling for that man's assassination is NOT what Jesus would do, you fraud.

[Neocondriac]

5. Robertson claimed...

at one point , that the Antichrist would be revealed to us as a Jewish male. That settles it..Pauly Shore is the Antichrist

[Nikki Stone 1]

6. Who'd a thunk it!

Pauly Shore...;)

[Fire Walk With Me]

17. Do not bring your evil to this place

Let us keep DU Pauly Shore-free. Mention of Robertson is quite enough ;-)

[Dob Bole]

8. What's sad is that in that quote, Robertson was talking about Methodists

not even making that up.

[Nikki Stone 1]

18. Really?

Do you have the citation?

[theHandpuppet]

20. Here ya go

"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."
-- Pat Robertson, The 700 Club, January 14, 1991


And hiya, Nikki!

[Nikki Stone 1]

21. Thanks, HP. This guy's a real cut up, isn't he?

Glad you're safe and sound.

:loveya:

[Bluerthanblue]

10. and the fruit

of the 'spirit' is
love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control.

Anyone have any pesticide?

[kentuck]

11. The ultimate rationalization!

I wonder how many death row inmates will think of that one !

[sepia_steel]

14. Christianity, among power,

is just another 'front' business. Pat's like a really preachy mob boss.

[Cha]

15. patwah doesn't have to be nice to

bush? Could a knocked me over with a feather!

[calimary]

16. You're correct, Pat! We DON'T have to be nice to the spirit of the Anti-

Christ. That's why we WON'T be nice to you OR to georgie-POO. Because the two of you EMBODY the spirit of the Anti-Christ. If indeed one or the other of you isn't actually the Anti-Christ.

[Raksha]

19. Neither do we, Pat! n/t

[SpiralHawk]

22. Nominated and kicked - this is juicy

my, my, my...what a tangled web

THE OCTOPUS rears its ugly tentacles again. they are everywhere.