Pat Robertson says that America was a Christian nation and it belongs entirely to Jesus. Oh, and he built CBN through the power of God because God thinks he’s really, really special.
Robertson: I don’t care what the liberals have to say about this, America started as a Christian nation, it didn’t start as a heathen nation, it belongs to Jesus Christ, it’s his, it’s his country. What we need to do on a day like this is to reaffirm his claim over this land. We went down and had a celebration some years ago and we had folks dressed in costumes of various countries and areas of the world and they symbolically brought from a ship a seven foot oak cross and we laid our hands on it and prayed, and I have experienced the anointing of the Lord on a number of occasions with miracles and thousands of people coming to the Lord, but I never had anything like what I experienced that day. The power of God came on me so strong I could hardly stand up. God was saying, ‘you asked for it and I’m going to give it to you, we’re going to transfer the holiness that was here to this cross, you’re going to take it down to that new place you’re building and this is going to be a fulfillment of the prayers of those people, you’re going to take the Gospel all around the world.’ God had a plan, he saw CBN here.
He could hardly stand up? A guy who claims to be able to leg press 2000 pounds could hardly stand up? Hilarious.
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KG
May 6, 2012 at 9:37 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
That must have been some good blow, eh, Pat? Or maybe you just held the smoke in too long.
Didaktylos
May 6, 2012 at 9:45 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
I get annointed by the Lord every time I forget to take my brolly with me when a rainstorm is brewing …
dingojack
May 6, 2012 at 9:47 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Pat could hardly stand up?! I’m guessing the punk long-stroking his luggage could hard stop throwing up.
;) Dingo
frankb
May 6, 2012 at 9:52 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
When I am kneeling or squatting for a while I find it hard to get up too. But that is due to my age. Pat is older than I am. But Pat doesn’t mean it that way. He was supposedly overcome with emotion. Pat has made a nice living on over the top displays of piety. It is sad that so many people like it and give him money for it.
Rixaeton
May 6, 2012 at 10:00 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
So, you can forget the govt confiscating private property, as according to Pat, the people never had it in the first place. Although I thought his followers were pretty big on property rights, maybe I am mistaken?
Marcus Ranum
May 6, 2012 at 10:09 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
The power of God came on me so strong I could hardly stand up.
It’s just gas.
Michael Heath
May 6, 2012 at 10:12 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Pat Robertson writes:
I think this may be the first time I’ve actually trusted what Robertson asserts to be true.
Robertson’s also doing what conservatives did with the Republican party. As conservatives increasingly dominated the party, they increasingly and falsely asserted that conservatism equated to republicanism as practiced by the Republican. This was ironic because the non-conservative liberals and moderates within the party were the defenders of the party’s legacy in terms of its past ideology as southern conservative Democrats emigrated and eventually took over the Republican party.* So now the original population called RINOS by conservatives, which may now be an extinct species where the label’s now used against mainstream conservatives like Dick Lugar, were the ones most in line with the party’s primary framer Abraham Lincoln. Whereas non-RINO conservatives directly oppose what Lincoln and his fellow party members stood.
Here we have Mr. Robertson insinuating that all non-liberals are Christianists. He’s probably oblivious to the fact he concedes the moral high ground via Stephen Colbert’s snarky truism that, “reality has a well-known liberal bias”. Plus he’s attempting to add a new standard to maintaining one’s good standing in the conservative movement – that one must be a Liar for Jesus® by lying about our history; equivalent to Sean Hannity falsely claiming that Republicans are the protectors of equal rights as evidenced by Lincoln and the Republicans in the 1950s and 1960s who supported equal rights for black Americans.
*Southern conservative Democrats were successful in taking over the GOP due to their alliance with northern fundamentalists, evangelicals, and conservative Catholics, and in the west – Mormons, all who share their bigotries, anti-intellectualism, and opposition to objective truth.
Marcus Ranum
May 6, 2012 at 10:25 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
PS – and here I thought country belonged to Ralph Stanley.
schism
May 6, 2012 at 10:54 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
America started as a Christian nation, it didn’t start as a heathen nation
I wonder if Pat thinks Native Americans were the real colonists.
feralboy12
May 6, 2012 at 2:02 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Yeah, we all have to move out by the end of the month. He has a client who’s interested in the property.
Akira MacKenzie
May 6, 2012 at 2:32 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
I don’t care what the liberals have to say about this.
That’s Ok Pat, I don’t care what Christian, capitalist, piles of pig shit, like yourself and your followers, have to say about anything either.
Modusoperandi
May 6, 2012 at 3:04 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Assuming for the moment that he’s right, he does know that the Puritans wouldn’t have included him among their number, right?
matty1
May 7, 2012 at 4:39 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Robertson
From the Bible
There you have it, offering nations to Jesus is the devil’s work. Why are you on Satan’s side Pat?
d cwilson
May 7, 2012 at 9:31 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Citation missing.
dingojack
May 7, 2012 at 9:52 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
“Robertson: I don’t care what the liberals have to say about this, America started as a Christian nation, it didn’t start as a heathen nation, it belongs to Jesus Christ, it’s his, it’s his country“.
Uh, Patty there a lot of Amerindians who beg to differ…
Dingo
fastlane
May 7, 2012 at 12:08 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
I know some Lakota (and others) that might have something to say about that.
John Hinkle
May 7, 2012 at 5:26 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
With a cavalier aside, he tosses in miracles. It’s like, yeah, we got the car washed and we all felt uplifted because we didn’t have to lift a finger and then stopped for ice cream and a bluebird sang and miracles and a child on a Big Wheel and a sanitation worker with droopy pants cut a fart and …