Given how many books he has written and how much time he spends in front of the camera on the 700 Club, it's no wonder that people have found all kinds of crazy things said by Pat Roberson. Despite this, though, he manages to continue to surprise with what he says and apparently believes.

Americans United has some recent examples, including:

“Now we’re welcoming this [Harry Potter books] and teaching our children. And what we’re doing is asking for the wrath of God to come on this country…. And if there’s ever a time we need God’s blessing, it’s now. We don’t need to be bringing in heathen, pagan practices to the United States of America.” –700 Club,” Dec. 5, 2001

“[I]t is my feeling that no crazed terrorists hiding out in mountain caves on the border of Afghanistan can threaten America. It is my firm conviction that Supreme Court decisions which have led to the wanton slaughter of 40 million unborn babies; the removal of cherished religious truth from the classroom and the public square; the usurpation of the constitutional powers of our elected representatives…; the sanctioning of pornography and the potential destruction of marriage, are all of themselves graver dangers in the decades to come than the terrorists which our great nation has defeated in Afghanistan and Iraq.” –Letter to U.S. Sen. Frank Lautenberg, May 2005

I wonder how many other conservatives share his belief that Islamic extremists in the Middle East are not a genuine threat to the United States? I wonder how many agree that things like abortion, pornography, and gay marriage are more dangerous than international terrorism? Not too many, I suspect. Pat Robertson is a fringe even among fringe elements, but he's a fringe element with a huge audience and a lot of influence.

 

Read More:

• Religious Right
• Religious Right News
• Christian Extremism