Bankrupt? Lost Your Home? Send Pat Robertson $20 a Month, and God Will Fix It

Holy shit.

Televangelist Pat Robertson on Monday encouraged families who could not pay their bills to become “partners” of his ministry because “it’s just $20 a month.”

At the end of Monday’s 700 Club broadcast, Robertson told the story of D.L and Deborah Hobby, who “lived large” in a 4,600-square-foot home until the housing market crashed and their real estate business dried up.

After selling their home at a “huge loss,” the Hobbys declared Chapter 13 bankruptcy in 2010. The “defeated” family of four was forced to move into a 1,000-square-foot home.

“That is when we really started to focus on God,” D.L. Hobby recalled.

“D.L. and Deborah did agree on one thing: They would keep on tithing despite their financial difficulties,” a CBN narrator explained. “The Hobbys began to watch The 700 Club and eventually became partners.”

That’s when “amazing things started to happen,” the report noted. “Deborah’s business eventually started to rebound. And within two years of the bankruptcy, the Hobbys bought a larger home.”

“They were faithful,” Robertson opined at the conclusion of the report. “Listen, there is no way you can out give God. You can’t do it. And that which is given to him will come back 30, 60 and 100 fold.”

“We encourage you to join the 700 Club,” the TV preacher added. “It’s just $20 a month. And if all of us do it together, it gets to be millions and millions and millions of dollars!”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/03/18/pat-robertson-says-bankrupt-families-should-give-him-just-20-a-month/#.UUhTowMsAxE.gmail

I don't know how or why people listen to this idiot or send him their money:

10. "Lord, give us righteous judges who will not try to legislate and dominate this society. Take control, Lord! We ask for additional vacancies on the court." –Pat Robertson

9. "Just like what Nazi Germany did to the Jews, so liberal America is now doing to the evangelical Christians. It's no different. It is the same thing. It is happening all over again. It is the Democratic Congress, the liberal-based media and the homosexuals who want to destroy the Christians. Wholesale abuse and discrimination and the worst bigotry directed toward any group in America today. More terrible than anything suffered by any minority in history." –Pat Robertson

8. "I would warn Orlando that you're right in the way of some serious hurricanes, and I don't think I'd be waving those flags in God's face if I were you, This is not a message of hate -- this is a message of redemption. But a condition like this will bring about the destruction of your nation. It'll bring about terrorist bombs; it'll bring earthquakes, tornadoes, and possibly a meteor." –Pat Robertson, on "gay days" at Disneyworld

7. "(T)he feminist agenda is not about equal rights for women. It is about a socialist, anti-family political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians." –Pat Robertson

6. "I know this is painful for the ladies to hear, but if you get married, you have accepted the headship of a man, your husband. Christ is the head of the household and the husband is the head of the wife, and that's the way it is, period." –Pat Robertson

5. "I'd like to say to the good citizens of Dover: If there is a disaster in your area, don't turn to God, you just rejected him from your city. And don't wonder why he hasn't helped you when problems begin, if they begin. I'm not saying they will, but if they do, just remember, you just voted God out of your city. And if that's the case, don't ask for his help because he might not be there." --Pat Robertson, after the city of Dover, Pennsylvania voted to boot the current school board, which instituted an intelligent design policy that led to a federal trial

4. "God considers this land to be his. You read the Bible and he says 'This is my land,' and for any prime minister of Israel who decides he is going to carve it up and give it away, God says, 'No, this is mine.' ... He was dividing God's land. And I would say, 'Woe unto any prime minister of Israel who takes a similar course to appease the E.U., the United Nations, or the United States of America.' God says, 'This land belongs to me. You better leave it alone.'" --Pat Robertson, on why Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon suffered a massive stroke

3. "Maybe we need a very small nuke thrown off on Foggy Bottom to shake things up" –Pat Robertson, on nuking the State Department

2. "You know, I don't know about this doctrine of assassination, but if he thinks we're trying to assassinate him, I think that we really ought to go ahead and do it. It's a whole lot cheaper than starting a war ... We have the ability to take him out, and I think the time has come that we exercise that ability. We don't need another $200 billion war to get rid of one, you know, strong-arm dictator. It's a whole lot easier to have some of the covert operatives do the job and then get it over with." –Pat Robertson, calling for the assassination of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez

1. "It may be a blessing in disguise. ... Something happened a long time ago in Haiti, and people might not want to talk about it. Haitians were originally under the heel of the French. You know, Napoleon the third, or whatever. And they got together and swore a pact to the devil. They said, we will serve you if you will get us free from the French. True story. And so, the devil said, okay it's a deal. Ever since they have been cursed by one thing after the other." –Pat Robertson, on the earthquake in Haiti that destroyed the capital and killed tens of thousands of people, Jan. 13, 2010

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Whatever, Dude.

This is called the "seed-faith" con. Oral Roberts first popularized it as a fund-raising gimmick and most of the radio/tv "reverends" who followed him employed it too.
It's derived from a verse in the Bible which effectively says, for every dollar you give to god, then god will give you back ten dollars.
But since god doesn't have a mailing address or a bank account to deposit the money into, the "reverends" are kind enough to take delivery of the money and give it to god for you.

Sal wrote:"And that which is given to him will come back 30, 60 and 100 fold.”

I stand corrected. It used to be a 10 to 1 deal but looks like Robertson has now upped the ante. lol

7. "(T)he feminist agenda is not about equal rights for women. It is about a socialist, anti-family political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians." –Pat Robertson

6. "I know this is painful for the ladies to hear, but if you get married, you have accepted the headship of a man, your husband. Christ is the head of the household and the husband is the head of the wife, and that's the way it is, period." –Pat Robertson

Pat Robertson should be locked up in a penitentiary somewhere.

LMFAO....

Ever notice they conveniently forget that whole "money is the root of all evil" thing when they want YOURS?

Televangelism is a license to steal; pure & simple. And if people are DUMB enough to send money to these jackoffs with Conway Twitty hair, let 'em...they deserve to be victims.

Stupidity SHOULD be painful....

The Viking wrote: if people are DUMB enough to send money to these jackoffs with Conway Twitty hair, let 'em...they deserve to be victims.

I agree, Viking. I've now lost all sympathy for the marks. If I was a younger man who still had some ambition left in him, I'd buy some radio or tv time and try my hand at "evangelism" too. Sounds like a pretty good racket to be in.
Except to have the conway twitty hair I'd have to wear a wig. lol

But in fairness to us men, it's not only male evangelators who have the big hair. lol

"Just like what Nazi Germany did to the Jews, so liberal America is now doing to the evangelical Christians. It's no different. It is the same thing. It is happening all over again. It is the Democratic Congress, the liberal-based media and the homosexuals who want to destroy the Christians. Wholesale abuse and discrimination and the worst bigotry directed toward any group in America today. More terrible than anything suffered by any minority in history."

-– Pat Robertson

Uh Pat, what in the hell does a con man know about Christians. When Jesus comes back I don't think he'll be singing the praises of someone who did shit like this...

Robertson had extensive business dealings with Liberian president Charles Taylor. According to the article, Taylor gave Robertson the rights to mine for diamonds in Liberia's mineral-rich countryside. According to two Operation Blessing pilots who reported this incident to the state of Virginia for investigation in 1994, Robertson used his Operation Blessing planes to haul diamond-mining equipment to Robertson's mines in Liberia, despite the fact that Robertson was telling his 700 Club viewers that the planes were sending relief supplies to the victims of the genocide in Rwanda. In response to Taylor's alleged crimes against humanity, the United States Congress passed a bill In November 2003 that offered two million dollars for his capture. Robertson accused President George W. Bush of "undermining a Christian, Baptist president to bring in Muslim rebels to take over the country." At the time Taylor was harboring Al Qaeda operatives who were funding their operations through the illegal diamond trade.[24] On February 4, 2010, at his war crimes trial in the Hague, Taylor testified that Robertson was his main political ally in the U.S., and that he had volunteered to make Liberia's case before U.S. administration officials in exchange for concessions to Robertson's Freedom Gold, Ltd., to which Taylor gave a contract to mine gold in southeast Liberia

from wiki

A more ghastly creature I've never seen...

-Grouch Marx
Night at the Opera

Bob wrote:But in fairness to us men, it's not only male evangelators who have the big hair. lol

You're on a roll, Bob...........tears!

I can't discuss this subject without thinking of Flannery O'Connor, who was also a favorite of Old Daze at the PNJ. Even though she died young and wrote in a different era, she knew her subject matter.

Here's one of her stories, "A Good Man is Hard to Find"

http://pegasus.cc.ucf.edu/~surette/goodman.html

Here's what Pat had to say today ...

Sal wrote:Here's what Pat had to say today ...

Jer 14:14 Then the LORD said unto me, The prophets prophesy lies in my name: I sent them not, neither have I commanded them, neither spake unto them: they prophesy unto you a false vision and divination, and a thing of nought, and the deceit of their heart.
Jer 14:15 Therefore thus saith the LORD concerning the prophets that prophesy in my name, and I sent them not, yet they say, Sword and famine shall not be in this land; By sword and famine shall those prophets be consumed.
Jer 14:16 And the people to whom they prophesy shall be cast out in the streets of Jerusalem because of the famine and the sword; and they shall have none to bury them, them, their wives, nor their sons, nor their daughters: for I will pour their wickedness upon them.

I pay about as much attention to these creatures as I do a disheveled homeless guy muttering how the King of Sweden is using his penis as a radio transmitter to send Soupy Sales & Barbara Streisand anti-semetic lesbian meatloaf recipes...

In other words, for the comic relief only...

This reminds me of the Vito Corleone line in The Godfather novel. "One lawyer with a briefcase can steal more than 1000 men with guns." Substitute 'televangelist with airtime' for lawyer with briefcase & it's the same damn thing...

That they discovered the ultimate loophole is all that keeps them from being targets of the bunco squads. It's a side effect to the 1st Amendment it's authors apparently never anticipated. And what these grifters know so well is that the First Amendment is here to stay and it can never mess with them. They know that no Supreme Court is gonna throw the First Amendment under the bus just to put them out of business. Because it's impossible to outlaw them without fundamentally altering the First Amendment. They know that's a slippery slope no one is ever gonna go down. And what it gives them is a sort of "separation of bunco artist and state". It was just too inevitable for them to come into existence. The perfect con. Or legalized con artistry you might say. lol

But it should be obvious what this is all about to anyone with an IQ of 50 or more. That's why I no longer have any sympathy for the marks. Those people must also believe Hulk Hogan was doing real wrestling matches. lol

Of course what puts Robertson in a class by himself is he's the only one who actually made a serious attempt to become President of the United States. Got a significant following too unbelievably.
That took extra big balls none of the others have had.