“but I realized that was not what the Lord would have me do ... I had promised to stay, so I did,”
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Pat Robertson
Marion Gordon "Pat" Robertson was an American media mogul, televangelist, political commentator, presidential candidate, and charismatic minister. Robertson advocated a conservative Christian ideology and was known for his involvement in Republican Party politics. He was associated with the Charismatic movement within Protestant evangelicalism. He served as head of Regent University and of the Chr…
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business · American media mogul and minister (1930–2023) · military officer · entrepreneur · politician · Christian minister · televangelist · writer · presenter · also Pat Robertson, Marion Gordon Robertson, Marion Gordon "Pat" Robertson, Robertson
Born 22 March 1930 · Died 8 June 2023 · Q364990
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To insinuate that our movement is trying to destroy Christianity is disgraceful and outright offends our Christian siblings who are a part of our movement against racial injustice,
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2026· 3 entries
“To insinuate that our movement is trying to destroy Christianity is disgraceful and outright offends our Christian siblings who are a part of our movement against racial injustice,”
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“The Islamic people, the Arabs, were the ones who captured Africans, put them in slavery, and sent them to America as slaves. Why would the people in America want to embrace the religion of slavers.”
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2023· 2 entries
Robertson died at his home in Virginia Beach, Virginia, at the age of 93
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Died 2023-06-08.
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2022· 1 entry
And had four children, among them Gordon P
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2021· 2 entries
fact checker rated the claim “Historically conservative televangelist Pat Robertson is “woke” to police brutality.” correct.
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Snopes rated the claim “Pat Robertson sharply criticized recent, high-profile incidents of police violence during an April 15, 2021, broadcast of "The 700 Club."” True.
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2020· 2 entries
Snopes rated the claim “Televangelist Pat Robertson blamed oral sex for the COVID-19 coronavirus disease pandemic.” Labeled Satire.
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Snopes rated the claim “Pat Robertson said Jews should become Christians because "nobody is shooting up churches."” False.
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2019· 1 entry
Snopes.com rated the claim “Pat Robertson said that the Notre Dame fire was the result of "hell bubbling over with homosexuals."” False.
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2018· 2 entries
Snopes.com rated the claim “Televangelist Pat Robertson said "God came to me in a dream and said that if America elected Trump, he would protect us from the effects of global warming."” False.
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Robertson suffered an embolic stroke at his home in Virginia Beach
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2017· 3 entries
Robertson was hospitalized after sustaining minor injuries in a fall from a horseback riding incident
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Claimed: “Russian natural gas company “Gazprom held Europe by the throat — they were a monopoly, and now the U.S. is breaking into that monopoly with our exports of (liquefied natural gas).”” — rated Half True by PolitiFact.
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Snopes.com rated the claim “Televangelist Pat Robertson said "staring" at First Lady Melania Trump could "cure gays."” False.
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2016· 5 entries
Claimed: “Margaret Sanger “wanted a black Christian leader to be like a Judas goat and lead the blacks to genocide. Remember that? And they picked Martin Luther King as their spokesman.”” — rated Pants on Fire by PolitiFact.
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Snopes rated the claim “Pat Robertson advised men whose wives are voting for Hillary Clinton to "boycott sex" until they changed their minds.” False.
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Snopes rated the claim “TV evangelist Pat Robertson described nude photographs of Melania Trump as "pure art that shows the beauty of God's work."” False.
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Snopes.com rated the claim “Pat Robertson claimed David Bowie wasn't dead, but instead that "demons kidnapped him to entertain them in Hell."” False.
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Though Robertson's sale of the channel continues to require Freeform to carry four hours of CBN/700 Club programming per weekday, along with CBN's yearly telethon
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2014· 1 entry
Turned against the legalization of cannabis, citing a need to protect children, whom he claimed were using cannabis at a higher rate in Colorado following legalization there
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2011· 2 entries
Awarded Ig Nobel Prize (2011).
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“People who are atheists, they hate God, they hate the expression of God, and they are angry with the world, angry with themselves, angry with society and they take it out on innocent people who are worshiping God. And whether it's a Sikh temple, or a Baptist church, or a Catholic church, or a Muslim mosque – whatever it is – I just abhor this kind of violence, and it's the kind of thing that we should do something about. But what do you do?”
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2010· 1 entry
At his war crimes trial in the Hague, Taylor testified that Robertson was his main political ally in the U
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2009· 2 entries
“a violent political system bent on the overthrow of the governments of the world and world domination”
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Robertson said that Islam is "a violent political system bent on the overthrow of the governments of the world and world domination"
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2007· 1 entry
Robertson announced that he was endorsing Rudy Giuliani to be the Republican nominee in the 2008 Presidential election
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2006· 1 entry
Robertson claimed to have leg pressed 2,000 lbs three years earlier at the age of 73
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2001· 1 entry
And its name was changed again, to ABC Family
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1999· 1 entry
Robertson entered into a joint venture with the Bank of Scotland to provide financial services in the United States
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1995· 1 entry
His views made the news when a review in The New York Review of Books argued that Robertson's beliefs were antisemitic; others stated that Robertson, at the least, used antisemitic sources or wording
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1994· 3 entries
Endorsed the document "Evangelicals and Catholics Together"
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The Coalition was fined for "improperly [aiding] then Representative Newt Gingrich (R-GA) and Oliver North, who was then the Republican Senate nominee in Virginia
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In the aftermath of the Rwandan genocide, Robertson solicited donations to provide medical supplies to refugees in neighboring Zaire (present-day Congo), where Robertson also had exploratory diamond mining operations
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1990· 2 entries
1992 and 1994 and failing to report its expenditures," yet the complaint was dismissed by a federal judge
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IFE produced and distributed family entertainment and information programming worldwide
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1989· 1 entry
Career landmark: Founder of the Christian Coalition of America (1989–2023).
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1988· 1 entry
In order to devote "his full time and energies toward the successful attainment of the Republican nomination for the president of the United States
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1987· 1 entry
Left the Southern Baptist Convention to run
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1986· 1 entry
Former Republican Congressman Paul "Pete" McCloskey Jr
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1982· 2 entries
Served on the Victims of Crime Task Force for U
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Was the President of its executive committee from 1985 to 1986, and a member in 1984, 1988, and 1998
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1977· 1 entry
CBN launched a religious cable network, the CBN Satellite Service, which eventually became The Family Channel
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1966· 1 entry
Which Robertson served as a long time co-host
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1961· 1 entry
Was ordained as a Southern Baptist minister by Freemason Street Baptist Church in Norfolk, Virginia
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1960· 1 entry
Robertson established the Christian Broadcasting Network in Virginia Beach, Virginia, by buying the license of a defunct UHF station in nearby Portsmouth
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1956· 1 entry
Robertson met Dutch missionary Cornelius Vanderbreggen, who impressed Robertson both with his lifestyle and his message
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1954· 1 entry
Robertson married Adelia "Dede" Elmer, a fashion model and beauty queen in the Miss Ohio State contest, who was studying for her master's degree in nursing at Yale University
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1948· 2 entries
The draft was reinstated and Robertson was given the option of joining the U
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“Although I worked hard at my studies, my real major centered around lovely young ladies who attended the nearby girls schools.”
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1930· 2 entries
In Lexington, Virginia, into a prominent political family, the younger of two sons
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Born 1930-03-22.
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