#The 700 club

[odinsblog]

Great news everyone! Thanks to the death of a horribly influential racist, homophobe, and all around evil ass old white man, the world is better off now than it was when Pat Robertson was alive 😊

And if you don’t like me celebrating the death of an objectively evil person who used religion to spread hatred, racism, misogyny and so much more—if you think I’m just as bad as he was, you can go fuck yourself. Seriously. Go make your own post where you virtue signal and flex about how good YOU allegedly are, but any marginalized group that suffered under Pat Robertson should be respectful and contain ourselves.

Fuck. That. Bullshit.

This dude is who I picture whenever someone says “white devil”

I’m glad his hatin’ ass died during Pride Month 🌈

Anyway, have a better day now 😊😊😊

[8aeddel-vriska]

PAT ROBERTSON (HOST OF THE 700 CLUB AND FAR-RIGHT EVANGELICAL FIGUREHEAD) IS DEAD

[roninkairi]

Now...

How much you wanna wager Kirk's book fair program contains only books aimed at one specific audience?

And what precisely counts as "sexually explicit" to these people? If it's books that discuss LGBT issues I would not be surprised at all. I doubt any books they feature will be as bad as Tier 15.

If it's picture books where the girls wear skirts higher than the knee then I think we need to consult the Amish on boundaries we can all feel comfortable with.

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[justinspoliticalcorner]

Peter Montgomery at RWW:

Pat Robertson, who was a central player in religious-right broadcasting and politics for decades, died on Thursday. As People For the American Way President Svante Myrick noted, “Pat Robertson was a key figure in the rise of the authoritarian religious-right political movement. He helped build the movement’s massive media, legal, and political infrastructure, which today is pushing harmful attacks on the freedom to learn, LGBTQ equality, reproductive choice, church-state separation and more.” Robertson was a pioneer and longtime force in Christian broadcasting. His 700 Club television show went on the air in 1963, and long after Robertson was no longer a personal force in right-wing politics, the show gave him a platform for promoting bigotry, conspiracy theories, and right-wing politicians, up to and including Donald Trump. (He stepped down from hosting in 2021 but continued to provide occasional commentary.) Robertson was part of a crop of televangelists recruited by right-wing political operative Paul Weyrich in the 1970s to get conservative white evangelicals more involved in politics in opposition to federal challenges to Christian schools with racist policies and in support of anti-choice and anti-LGBTQ campaigns and hard-right candidates. Robertson started to dedicate a portion of his 700 Club show to right-wing politics in the 1980s.

[...] Robertson founded Christian Broadcasting University in 1977, later renaming it Regent University, where he served as Chancellor.  Through its undergraduate and graduate programs, it promotes its founder’s religious worldview. The law school absorbed Oral Roberts University’s law school, which former Rep. Michelle Bachmann had attended. Bachmann is currently dean of Regent’s Robertson School of Government, and has used it as a vehicle for promoting, among other things, false claims about the 2020 presidential election and Jan. 6 insurrection. Robertson also founded the American Center for Law and Justice, launched in 1990, as his counterpoint to the ACLU, and it uses the courts to promote the religious-right agenda just like its bigger brother, the Alliance Defending Freedom. In its heyday, the Christian Coalition hosted “Road to Victory,” then the largest annual political gathering of religious-right activists. When the Christian Coalition fell on hard times, the Family Research Council picked up the baton, hosting the Values Voter Summit for many years before recently renaming the gathering Pray Vote Stand. Ralph Reed, the political operative who built the Christian Coalition into a political force, made an unsuccessful run for public office before founding the Faith and Freedom Coalition, a voter-turnout operation which also hosts its own annual conference for right-wing activists called Road to Majority.

Televangelist Pat Robertson died at 93 yesterday. He left a very harmful legacy due to his unbridled support for religious right policy priorities and set the building blocks for a right-wing media apparatus.

[ourquietman]

New Poem THE GHOST OF PAT ROBERTSON

putting the fear of God into people

while making a fortune from their money

sitting with cohost Ben who looks on as

folksy Pat says the most gosh awful things

wrapping bigotry and hate in biscuits and honey

>

tried to be president but it was 1988 and

too many people saw through him

but he, like Falwell, could tell blind faith followers

who to vote for and vote for again

>

he died, but he still lives in the hearts

of people who say “woke” like a curse word

and do their best to drag anyone with a different

vision of God into a dungeon with 24-hour DVR

playing nothing but 700 CLUB episodes

[giantratbf]

late to the party but here at last - friens winxsonas fanart

top: @parola-di-winx & meee :3 btm: @nymphietonkslupin // @charmixpower // @snarky-art

individual versions:

[lucid-daydreams]

Me: Alas, none of the Kasimir art I've found online fits my incredibly specific vision for the character! Whatever can I do?!

My six-year-old drawing tablet: hey

I drew the king of lexapro himself! I'm excited for my characters to meet him. I'm not too satisfied with the scars so I'll probably revisit this in the future.

[beetlethebug]

this one is dedicated to this vriska anon. what did you mean. you literally keep me up at night.

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[justinspoliticalcorner]

Rancidly right-wing televangelist and longtime 700 Club host Pat Robertson died at 93

Antonia Blumberg and Sara Bondioli at HuffPost:

Pat Robertson, a popular televangelist and founder of The Christian Broadcasting Network, died Thursday at age 93.

Robertson was a prominent figure in conservative Christian political and entertainment circles, and for years promoted sexist, homophobic and Islamophobic ideas on his CBN show, “The 700 Club.”

His death was announced by his broadcasting network. No cause was given.

A former Southern Baptist minister and son of a U.S. senator, Robertson founded CBN in 1960 as the first television network dedicated to Christian broadcasting in the U.S. CBN is one of the largest television ministries in the world, according to Robertson’s website, producing programming in 200 countries and 70 different languages.

“The 700 Club,” which CBN is perhaps best known for, started in 1966 and is one of the longest-running religious television shows. Robertson began hosting the show in 1972 and retired from the show in 2021 at the age of 91.

Robertson founded several other organizations and corporations, including International Family Entertainment Inc., Regent University, Operation Blessing International Relief and Development Corp., American Center for Law and Justice, and The Flying Hospital Inc.

The majority of his endeavors aimed to promote conservative Christian values in U.S. education, media and law. The ACLJ, Robertson’s website boasts, “focuses on pro-family, pro-liberty and pro-life cases nationwide.”

Robertson’s upbringing played a large role in his development as a conservative and a Christian. His father, Absalom Willis Robertson, was a Democratic U.S. senator from Virginia in the years before the liberalizing trend that took place in that party during the middle 20th century.

“Our heroes were Confederate generals Robert E. Lee ... and Stonewall Jackson,” Robertson wrote in an autobiographic article on his early life.

Robertson also pointed to a lineage of Christian leaders in his family as evidence of his inherited calling as a minister. “Although I may have had flowing in me the blood of statesmen, noblemen, and warriors, I had even stronger in me the blood of priests and men and women of God,” he wrote.

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Robertson was ordained a Southern Baptist minister in 1960 ― a title he shed in 1987 when he announced his bid for the Republican presidential nomination. A statement from his Virginia campaign headquarters at the time said Robertson was stepping away from ministry to appease concerns that a Robertson administration would inhibit “the free exercise of religion by any of the people.”

Robertson lost to George H.W. Bush after enjoying some initial success with primary victories in Washington, Nevada, Alaska and Hawaii.

He launched the Christian Coalition, a conservative religious advocacy group, in 1989.

CBN was courted by former President Donald Trump and granted access to the White House during his administration. Robertson interviewed Trump during his first year in office, in a wide-ranging conversation that touched on Russian President Vladimir Putin, former Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton and Trump’s popularity among evangelical Christians.

[...]

Through his years as a Christian broadcaster, Robertson proved himself to be anything but welcoming of those with beliefs different than his own.

The televangelist repeatedly called non-Christians “termites” akin to “a virus,” attacked Hindus as “demonic” and claimed Islam is inherently violent and not a real religion. He called feminism an “anti-family political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.” In the aftermath of the destruction and devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina, Robertson suggested it was a result of God’s wrath over abortion.

Robertson was also staunchly anti-LGBTQ, comparing gay people to murderers and rapists and suggesting that LGBTQ orientation was a result of “demonic possession.”

Far-right hatemongering televangelist and longtime 700 Club host Pat Robertson died at 93. Robertson ran for the GOP nomination for the Presidency in 1988, and lost to eventual winner George H.W. Bush. 

He founded several right-wing Christian conservative organizations, most notably the ACLJ and Regent University.

Robertson has made numerous comments that have generated controversy over the years, including attacks on the LGBTQ+ community, feminists, Muslims, Hindus, and abortion access. 

🎶 Ding-dong, ding-dong, the bigot is dead! 🎶

See Also:

LGBTQ Nation: Televangelist Pat Robertson has died but his anti-LGBTQ+ legacy will live on

Daily Kos: Pat Robertson, Televangelist Central to Republican Party’s Culture War Agenda, Dead at 93

[kattaomoii]

Think I just became as religious as they come; I think I just found God

[aranciadotcom]

i know that some of the sb producers confirmed that the widow's mite is the very last ep of reimagined but it would be funny if cbn just said "sike" and announced s6

since most people in the fandom were waiting for s6 and were also making predictions, here are the most common ones that i've found (disclaimer: these aren't my predictions, these were entirely ones that were from stuff i've seen in the fandom):

• one of the episodes will be a samson and delilah ep

• chris and joy will be teens. this is actually a smart idea bc they are used as a reflection of what kids/preteens or people in general go through (cbn's words, not mine). if they use(d) this idea, then cbn would show what it's like to be in your teenage years and how to deal with the struggles of being one using the kids as examples

• sb would delve into darker concepts even more (i know the series delved into darker concepts before like death/grief being the most major ones)

• the kids would eventually become adults, play house and let their children live on their legacy or at least somewhere in the series they would have a crush on each other

if i missed anything, then i'll just find it idk

b u t , cbn did confirm that they'll do more for the series this year and i'm hoping to God that it won't be low budget gizmo content (dw i'm not throwing shade at gizmo go, i'm referring to the specials). the fandom's just starved for more sb news and canon media at this point. like,,, at least leak deleted scenes from the storyboards/animatics or scrapped parts from past scripts please

also thank God for the sb producers/people behind sb bc they spill almost everything abt the series. apparently, there was supposed to be a s6/other seasons and even a film but of course, cbn ruins things by scrapping the idea. on top of that, we had a rushed s5 that was beginning to be good but the later eps were boring. thanks a lot, gordon...

here's the post that one of the people who worked on sb said abt the scrapped season 6 and other stuff:

[whatthefuckisasweep]

this page has lived in my mind since the day i read it. they are so fucking… [smacks head against sharp objects, impaling myself multiple times] … if you even care btw.

It just— this shows all their characters so succinctly? There are tears in my eyes—

[vesperss]

Diamond rushhhhhh PLEASEEEE

[shinobicyrus]

Trump facing federal indictment for hoarding state secrets in his bathroom and Pat Robertson joining his Dark Lord in the afterlife both on the same day this Pride Month is truly blessed.