A private retreat: Pat Robertson's 11,000 sq. foot (2nd) home

[arcadian]

or 3rd home or 4th, who knows? What is Pat Robertson hiding in Bath County, Virginia? Here is what bilking a few million true believers will buy you.

http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=37.913461,-79.862473&spn=0.001998,0.003439&t=k&z=18

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The day Pat Robertson's bodyguard pulled a gun on me

Pat Robertson's hideaway

Summary: A PRIVATE RETREAT is how TV evangelist Pat Robertson describes the house. With 11,000 square feet, it has given Bath County folks a lot to talk about.

They say faith can move mountains. If the Rev. Pat Robertson is any example, perhaps it also can build mansions on top of them.

When he grows weary from feeding the hungry, saving souls, collecting millions for his Christian ministry and charting a conservative political course for the future, the nation's leading televangelist unwinds in a stately mountaintop villa high over U.S. 220 in Bath County.


Robertson moved into the remote $1.17 million house about a year ago, setting tongues a-wagging among the area's residents.

``I appreciate my privacy, and this is a sort of little place I come for my privacy. This is a rather remote, private place,'' Robertson said before politely cutting short a telephone interview.

Robertson declined to describe the house in detail or allow a reporter and photographer to visit the guarded 27-acre compound. The property is a couple of miles down Virginia 703 from Ingalls Field, the local airport.

According to records on file at the Bath County Courthouse, the three-story stucco mansion's floor area totals 11,136 square feet, or about one-quarter of an acre.

It features four fireplaces and two chimneys and is equipped with four full baths and two half-baths. The records don't list the number of bedrooms, and Robertson declined to say how many there are.

The chalet sports a kidney-shaped swimming pool, an octagonal pool house, an enclosed porch, an open porch, a deck, a flagstone patio and a carport, according to the courthouse records.

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http://blogs.roanoke.com/rtblogs/dancasey/2009/11/20/the-day-pat-robertsons-bodyguard-pulled-a-gun-on-me-part-3/

[Mari333]

1. not exactly St Francis, is he?

[YOY]

7. Saint Francis was a filthy papist according to the likes of his followers.

n.t.

[Mari333]

9. gosh lighten up

compared to robertson he was god.

[YOY]

11. Actually I love St. Francis. He was one of the coolest Saints ever.

And a real Christian. I am a product of Franciscan schooling...although quite agnostic now I still loved the mans teachings as a precursor to environmentalism/earth stewardship.

I just hate RW Evangelicals and RW Southern Baptists and find them without redeaming values. I was merely pointing out their hate for Catholics (that rivals some folks here I may add.)

[Mari333]

18. oh lol okay I like him too

he was the saint I chose as my confirmation name. I liked his spunk with the pope. :)

[roguevalley]

29. St Francis and Pope John the 23rd are my favorite Catholics. Old

Pat is going to burn in the fires of the hell he believes for worshiping mammon and taking liberties with the strictures of the religion.

[Turbineguy]

2. Wow!

I'd better send him a donation right away to help pay the electric bill.

[Auggie]

3. What's his issue with trees?

[pansypoo53219]

28. so an attacker can't hide in them?

indeed. he sure likes lawn.

[Uben]

4. Just another scammer.....

...making money off of people that can't afford it. I hope he spends eternity in hell, and every soul he scammed out of their money torments him. I don't see how a man like this is afforded life. If thee truly was a god, he would strike this bastard down in a heartbeat,

[dgibby]

5. Yeah, his little "log cabin in the woods" sits on a mountain

directly above my home town. We were not pleased, to say the least. Or as they say, there goes the neighborhood.

[blondeatlast]

6. "PRO 3:34 He mocks proud mockers but gives grace to the humble."

131:1 My heart is not proud, O LORD, my eyes are not haughty; I do notconcern myself with great matters or things too wonderful for me.

138:6 Though the LORD is on high, he looks upon the lowly, but the proud
he knows from afar.

147:6 The LORD sustains the humble but casts the wicked to the ground.

149:4 For the LORD takes delight in his people; he crowns the humble with
salvation.
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That's just a taste of what He has to say about the likes of Pat Robertson. I almost pity Satan.

[arcadian]

8. Here is his mansion in Virginia Beach:

http://www.bing.com/maps/?v=2&cp=q3zxg98nh9n3&scene=33633754&lvl=2&sty=b&where1=Virginia%20Beach%2C%20VA

[YOY]

10. Wonder if someone could do Rush's.

n.t.

[blondeatlast]

Indeed. One difference: Rush isn't called upon to be humble. Robertson is. nt

[Botany]

14. Rush's place

[Tommy_Carcetti]

12. I'd love to see it given a family of Haitian refugees.

If only.....

[YOY]

15. Actually you could fit several big families in that place.

n.t.

[arcadian]

16. Well Pat loves the plantation life

It's why he modeled his main house after Virginia's early plantations.


Pat Robertson Mansion at Regent University, Virginia Beach

He clearly thinks black people are inferior, his father Absolom, when US Senator opposed Civil Rights legislation.

[frazzled]

13. I thought the square footage of public figures' houses was off limits

I do remember that those of us who thought John Edwards's 28,000 square-foot house was not consonant with his talk about "feeding the hungry" or "charting a political course for the future" ... got pretty sternly lectured about how peoples' homes were their own business, and not a reflection of anything.

Just sayin'.

[blondeatlast]

17. John Edwards doesn't preach the Word of God to my knowledge.

I think it's entirely appropriate to call out shameful hypocrisy.

[arcadian]

19. That sounds like a very OMCish argument.

[frazzled]

21. What is OMC?

Sorry, that's an acronym I honestly don't know: Optimum Moisture Content? Organizzazione Mondiale del Commercio? (The Italian name for the World Trade Organization).

Fill me in, and maybe I can respond.

[arcadian]

22. Eh never mind. he used to always say "the wealthy's wealth is their own business"

[frazzled]

24. Well, I'm making the exact opposite argument

I was one who thought Edwards's use of his wealth WAS our business, at least as it related to his message. Just as I think Pat Robertson's wealth is relevant to his message.

I was referring to the fact that there is a double standard.

But I'm still stumped on OMC: Old MacDonald?

[arcadian]

26. He was an old poster on this website.

A bit of a DU personality, if there is such a thing. He wallowed in self manufactured controversy. His user name was OperationMindCrime

[frazzled]

27. Thanks, I feel better

I kept thinking OMC is something everyone knew except for me. Or that I was starting to develop a weakening of the mind ... the first steps toward Alzheimer's. I'm relieved it was just a DU handle.

[Deep13]

20. Jesus wants him to donate it to ARC to be used as a hospital...

...for victims of natural disasters.

[safeinOhio]

23. Me thinks he

he cut a deal with some spirit.

[nolabear]

25. This is one mansion I'd like to see ...

surrounded by torches and pitchforks.