Name: Pat Robertson
Age: 88
Occupation: satan
Last Seen: Virginia Beach, VA
Bee-otched For: another bad day of TV
-Age: 88
Occupation: satan
Last Seen: Virginia Beach, VA
Bee-otched For: another bad day of TV
A few days ago, I was reading about how millennials were not going to church anymore.
When asked why they were skipping on Sunday services, the answers included the fact that they didn't share their values and the negativity regarding members and staff. There's the priests who rape and torture children and churches themselves who think that blacks and homosexuals are the Devil's handiwork.
And yes, there's the TV grifters like Pat Robertson.
Many of us have heard the stories of televangelists who fly jet planes and live in huge, cavernous mansions paid for by the ministries that they preach for and have created. Of course, Robertson's one of them. After all this is a man who purchased a failing TV station in Virginia in the 1960s and asked that if 700 viewers could donate $10 per month, they could stay on the air (hence the name The 700 Club). That station grew to become the Christian Broadcast Network and in 1990, Robertson sold CBN to himself for only $1 with the help of ultra-right-winged turd John Malone - the head of cable giant TCI - and in 1998, he sold that channel - now The Family Channel - for $1.5 billion. It's been sold twice since and is now Freeform, owned by Disney. Sadly, Robertson has forced all future owners of Freeform to air The 700 Club and other CBN shows.
Now, this weekend, being that stopgap weekend between football games, there's the good 'ol 700 Club beg-a-thon where Pat & co. beg people for their precious money. Of course, there's their little stories about people down on their luck who give money to Pat and VOILA! They're debt free and living in a nice, big mansion because Pat told them so. The poor, pathetic souls at Freeform will have to air 12 hours of the beg-a-thon. Here in Michigan, The 700 Club's sole over-the-air affiliates - WMYD 20 Detroit and Cadillac/Traverse City's WFQX 32 - will air two hours of the marathon this Sunday.
You know, when I think about people who give to televangelists, I think of Cousin Eddie from National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation. He ended up having to move into an RV because he gave a chunk of his life savings to a televangelist that got sucked into a scandal. Of course, the movie came out in 1989, around the same time Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker, Jimmy Swaggert and others were all busted. But somehow, Pat Robertson survived unscathed.
I used to know a family in a small hick town in northern Michigan called Mancelona. They lived in a trailer with another trailer in its backyard with its roof caved in. They weren't the most-desirable family I've ever met, sadly. Even worse, I remembered the father thinking the events on 9/11 were hysterical. Anyway, I remembered seeing a 700 Club envelope on the table. I was thinking that if they stopped giving 'ol Pat their money and put that money in a bank account to maybe buy a real house, GEE! WHAT A CONCEPT!
I feel for those who think that the prosperity gospel that Pat and others preach is the way up to heaven. The reality is that Jesus told us to help the sick and help the poor. Maybe we oughta buy that bum on the street corner a burger or help that family with mass amounts of hospital bills out. Pat Robertson doesn't need your money. The poor do.
And no, millennials, giving money to Pat WILL NOT make those college loans disappear, either.
And yes, there's the TV grifters like Pat Robertson.
Many of us have heard the stories of televangelists who fly jet planes and live in huge, cavernous mansions paid for by the ministries that they preach for and have created. Of course, Robertson's one of them. After all this is a man who purchased a failing TV station in Virginia in the 1960s and asked that if 700 viewers could donate $10 per month, they could stay on the air (hence the name The 700 Club). That station grew to become the Christian Broadcast Network and in 1990, Robertson sold CBN to himself for only $1 with the help of ultra-right-winged turd John Malone - the head of cable giant TCI - and in 1998, he sold that channel - now The Family Channel - for $1.5 billion. It's been sold twice since and is now Freeform, owned by Disney. Sadly, Robertson has forced all future owners of Freeform to air The 700 Club and other CBN shows.
Now, this weekend, being that stopgap weekend between football games, there's the good 'ol 700 Club beg-a-thon where Pat & co. beg people for their precious money. Of course, there's their little stories about people down on their luck who give money to Pat and VOILA! They're debt free and living in a nice, big mansion because Pat told them so. The poor, pathetic souls at Freeform will have to air 12 hours of the beg-a-thon. Here in Michigan, The 700 Club's sole over-the-air affiliates - WMYD 20 Detroit and Cadillac/Traverse City's WFQX 32 - will air two hours of the marathon this Sunday.
You know, when I think about people who give to televangelists, I think of Cousin Eddie from National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation. He ended up having to move into an RV because he gave a chunk of his life savings to a televangelist that got sucked into a scandal. Of course, the movie came out in 1989, around the same time Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker, Jimmy Swaggert and others were all busted. But somehow, Pat Robertson survived unscathed.
I used to know a family in a small hick town in northern Michigan called Mancelona. They lived in a trailer with another trailer in its backyard with its roof caved in. They weren't the most-desirable family I've ever met, sadly. Even worse, I remembered the father thinking the events on 9/11 were hysterical. Anyway, I remembered seeing a 700 Club envelope on the table. I was thinking that if they stopped giving 'ol Pat their money and put that money in a bank account to maybe buy a real house, GEE! WHAT A CONCEPT!
I feel for those who think that the prosperity gospel that Pat and others preach is the way up to heaven. The reality is that Jesus told us to help the sick and help the poor. Maybe we oughta buy that bum on the street corner a burger or help that family with mass amounts of hospital bills out. Pat Robertson doesn't need your money. The poor do.
And no, millennials, giving money to Pat WILL NOT make those college loans disappear, either.
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