Pat Robertson is a good man and a good American. Sometimes he speaks from his heart before engaging his brain. We all do. Including the POTUS, GWBush. Pat's comments about Chavez were on target. Chavez is a megalomaniac. Pat's remarks about Sharon were in the context of his religious values and beliefs. He said it was bad timing and apologized. Pat even wrote a letter of apology to Chavez. People shouldn't be so hard on others, especially when their not perfect creatures either.
Well Said. You can add his Katrina releif efforts as well. Sure didn't see the Vatican with their gagabillions helping out.
(retired roman catholic)
"Chavez is a megalomaniac"
Robertson has an empire that would make Chavez look like a pauper. Just go to "Regent University" in Virginia Beach. Robertson's mansion makes the White House look like an outhouse. Behind one building is an array of satellite dishes that would make NASA jealous.
$300 million per year from the 700 looking for one-way tickets to heaven gives Pat a wonderful life style.
The phrase "impressive fraud and hypocrite" come to mind. Talk about megalomania!
I too used to feel sympathetic support toward Pat Robertson, having been raised a fundamentalist Christian myself. (I even sent him $$)
After hearing a dozen or more pompous statements where he claims to know the mind of God, I have concluded that Pat has become an egomaniac, believing himself to be appointed by God a modern day prophet.
Now, I think he does more detriment toward the evangelical (and conservative) movement than he does good.
In other words, I wish he would simply disappear into the graveyard of other blowhard TV evangelists who, by their own hand, (Swaggart, Jim and Tammy Fay Baker, etc), ruined their own reputation.
People at my local church (a fairly fundamentalist Baptist church at that) also agree. Robertson has become a liability.