Pat Roberson’s 700 Club

[liberty]

We financially help there entities:

The church, tithing, the Special Olympics and St. Jude Children’s Hospital.

Now we have decided the add another Pat Roberson’s 700 Club. They do a lot of good works around the word from the Ukraine to India from individual facial surgeries to community water wells. I think it is money well used.

[dgs49]

Do you have any idea what percentage of their donation revenue goes to actual charitable work?

[Sue U]

We financially help there entities:

The church, tithing, the Special Olympics and St. Jude Children’s Hospital.

Now we have decided the add another Pat Roberson’s 700 Club. They do a lot of good works around the word from the Ukraine to India from individual facial surgeries to community water wells. I think it is money well used.

What good works does "Pat Robertson's 700 Club" actually do? As far as I can tell, it's a TV show. Why is it "money well used?"

[Lord Jim]

Do you have any idea what percentage of their donation revenue goes to actual charitable work?

To me that's always the operative question...

There are plenty of worthy causes, but if say only 10 cents of every dollar raised by an organization is actually going for the cause they are touting (while the other ninety cents goes to "administration") then you should pick another organization to contribute to....

It's been a lot of years since I've watched The 700 Club; are you able to contribute to a specific fund he has set up for the projects you mention, or do you just send a check made out to The 700 Club?

[Lord Jim]

Lib, here's a link you may want to check out:

http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/Wolves/700_club-bbb.htm

Robertson may have a screw loose, but no one has ever accused him of corruption, (he's certainly no Jim Bakker) however apparently he's very secretive (which he has a legal right to be) about how much of the money he raises actually goes to charitable works, which should be a red flag.

[dales]

The Salvation Army gets my money.

[liberty]

The Salvation Army gets my money.

That is a very good organization to support. They have a lot of dedicated people doing God’s work I once knew some of them.

[liberty]

We financially help there entities:

The church, tithing, the Special Olympics and St. Jude Children’s Hospital.

Now we have decided the add another Pat Roberson’s 700 Club. They do a lot of good works around the word from the Ukraine to India from individual facial surgeries to community water wells. I think it is money well used.

What good works does "Pat Robertson's 700 Club" actually do? As far as I can tell, it's a TV show. Why is it "money well used?"

Unless they are blatantly lying, and since they are conservatives I doubt it, I have seen on their program where their Operation Blessing has done heart and hair lip surgeries in China and Indian. They have provided high efficiency wood stoves for gypsy in the Ukraine. But most impressive things I have seen them do is to drill community water wells in third world. Most of us in the West just don’t understand how big a deal a supply of safe and convenient water is.

[Gob]

World Vision Australia is a Christian charity, we sponsor a child, Sethu, in Swaziland via them.

Outside of that I avoid religious charities like the plague.

[liberty]

We financially help there entities:

The church, tithing, the Special Olympics and St. Jude Children’s Hospital.

Now we have decided the add another Pat Roberson’s 700 Club. They do a lot of good works around the word from the Ukraine to India from individual facial surgeries to community water wells. I think it is money well used.

What good works does "Pat Robertson's 700 Club" actually do? As far as I can tell, it's a TV show. Why is it "money well used?"

Unless they are blatantly lying, and since they are conservatives I doubt it, I have seen on their program where their Operation Blessing has done heart and hair lip surgeries in China and Indian. They have provided high efficiency wood stoves for gypsy in the Ukraine. But most impressive things I have seen them do is to drill community water wells in third world. Most of us in the West just don’t understand how big a deal a supply of safe and convenient water is.

You didn't call me on this: Unless they are blatantly lying, and since they are conservatives I doubt it, But here is my explanation anyway. A conservative with the visibility of Pat Robertson would be a fool to lie and he does not appear to be a fool. There are just as many rich liberal as conservatives and maybe more. And to they appear more willing to put their money where mouth is when there is no possibility of financial gain involved. It would not surprise me that at this very moment if there were not investigators overseas checking up on Operations Blessing.

[Rick]

Pat Robertson is a Charlatan no ifs ands or buts...

[MajGenl.Meade]

Pat Robertson is a Charlatan

Now let's see. "is a charlatan" hmmm? What do we have here? There's an "a" and a "rich" and... oh my... who's this? Could it be "Satan"? Yes and there's an L left over and we know where Satan rules don't we, boys and girls? That's right - in L!"




Look at the Time magazine photo of Pat Robertson... Notice the occult hand sign that he is making. He's certainly not placing his hand over his heart to pledge to the U.S. flag. Robertson is a known occult insider, further evidenced by his scores of ghostwritten books and works of darkness containing occult symbols; and his infamous Satanic hand sign that he flashes during an episode of The 700 Club (pictured to the right). That's no coincidence or casual movement of the hand; but rather, a clear manifestation of who Pat Robertson really serves.



Isn't that special?

[Gob]

Less than two weeks after Hurricane Katrina killed 1,836 people, Robertson implied on the September 12th broadcast of The 700 Club that the storm was God's punishment in response to America's abortion policy. He suggested that September 11 and the disaster in New Orleans "could... be connected in some way"

Nuff said.

[Rick]

Yes Meade he is...

[rubato]

Pat Robertson and the 700 club have a long and very colorful history:


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Robert ... troversies

Only a damned fool would give that lying asshole a dime.

Personal morality issues:

First child conceived out of wedlock

During Robertson's unsuccessful presidential bid in 1987 it was publicly revealed that his first son was conceived out of wedlock, and that Robertson had lied about the date of his marriage in an attempt to cover the truth up. While conceding the reports were accurate, Robertson denounced the media choosing to report on the issue as "outrageous" and "reprehensible."[4]

"God Wants Me to Lie and Steal from the Sick". Faith healing episodes:

Criticism of Robertson's faith healing

In the 1970s and 1980s Robertson was a faith healer. James Randi devoted a chapter of his book The Faith Healers, criticising Robertson faith healing.[1] Randi commented that "in 1986, soon after the full importance of the AIDS epidemic began to become evident, Robertson was attempting to cure it" by proclaiming people cured after prayer.[1] Randi commented, "Gerry Straub, a former associate of Pat Robertson and his television producer, pointed out in his book Salvation for Sale the astonishing fact that God seemed to time miracles to conform with standard television format," and "God would stop speaking to Pat and stop healing exactly in time with the theme music."[1] Randi explained that "in 1979, it appeared to Robertson's staff that their boss had been taking lessons from Oral Roberts" and "proposed to film the Second Coming!".[1] The project was eventually publicly dropped, but "budget allocations [CBN] are made for their development."[1] Martin Gardner also criticized Robertson's faith healing in Gardner's work Beyond Reason.

One of many bizarre comments about other countries:

Comments on Scotland

In 1999 Robertson said Scotland was "a dark land" overrun by homosexuals. In response the Bank of Scotland dropped their plans for a business operation with Robertson, following customer complaints.[28]

Reaganesque in his support of brutal dictators:

Financial ties to African leaders

Robertson repeatedly supported former President of Liberia Charles Taylor in various episodes of his The 700 Club program during the United States' involvement in the Second Liberian Civil War in June and July 2003. Robertson accuses the U.S. State Department of giving President Bush bad advice in supporting Taylor's ouster as president, and of trying "as hard as they can to destabilize Liberia."[33]

Robertson was criticized for failing to mention in his broadcasts his $8,000,000 (USD) investment in a Liberian gold mine.[34] Taylor had been indicted by the United Nations for war crimes at the time of Robertson's support.

Prosecutors also said that Taylor had harbored members of Al Qaeda responsible for the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania. According to Robertson, the Liberian gold mine Freedom Gold was intended to help pay for humanitarian and evangelical efforts in Liberia, when in fact the company was allowed to fail leaving many debts both in Liberia and in the international mining service sector.[citation needed] Regarding this controversy, Richard Land, head of the Southern Baptist Convention's public policy said, "I would say that Pat Robertson is way out on his own, in a leaking life raft, on this one."[35]

Robertson has also been accused of using his tax-exempt, nonprofit organization, Operation Blessing, as a front for his own financial gain, and then using his influence in the Republican Party to cover his tracks. After making emotional pleas in 1994 on The 700 Club for cash donations to Operation Blessing to support airlifts of refugees from Rwanda to Zaire, it was later discovered, by a reporter from The Virginian-Pilot, that Operation Blessing's planes were transporting diamond-mining equipment for the Robertson-owned African Development Corporation, a venture Robertson had established in cooperation with Zaire's dictator, Mobutu Sese Seko, whom Robertson had befriended earlier in 1993. According to Operation Blessing documents, Robertson personally owned the planes used for Operation Blessing airlifts.

In 1993, Mobutu was denied a visa by the U.S. State Department after he sought to visit Washington, D.C. Shortly after this, Robertson tried to get the State Department to lift its ban on the African leader.

Good at finding modern prophets:

United States presidential election, 2012

On televangelist Benny Hinn's "This Is Your Day" program (as aired October 31, 2012 on the TBN network), Hinn conducted a 30-minute interview with fellow televangelist Pat Robertson. At the 10:47 mark, the following exchange takes place:

Pat Robertson: "He's gonna win. Romney will win the election."
Benny Hinn: "What makes you believe that?"
Pat Robertson: "Because The Lord told me."

yrs,
rubato

[dales]

In 1999 Robertson said Scotland was "a dark land" overrun by homosexuals. In response the Bank of Scotland dropped their plans for a business operation with Robertson, following customer complaints.[28]

LOL.....that's why they all wear kilts ye dammed fool!

Thanks for the Wiki link there, rubato

[MajGenl.Meade]

... it's why they toss cabers too.

In 1999 Robertson said Scotland was "a dark land" overrun by homosexuals. In response the Bank of Scotland dropped their plans pants for a business operation with Robertson, following customer complaints.[28]

Fixed that for you

[dgs49]

I really don't know much about Robertson or his organization, but I do know that the MSM makes sport of excoriating anyone who manifests a belief in the truth of the Bible, and Robertson plays right into this incessant campaign.

Anytime I see a long, detailed, defamatory description that contains a few words in quotation marks I pretty much assume that the writer is making a major misrepresentation, otherwise the quote would have been in context.

For example: In 1999 Robertson said Scotland was "a dark land" overrun by homosexuals...

What conceivable legitimate reason would there be to quote only those three words as part of a significant defamatory assertion about Robertson? There is only one that I can think of: to quote him more fully would not serve the writer's defamatory purpose.

Most reporting about Robertson's statements is much the same. And given the fact that he is constantly on air, speaking extemporaneously about an infinite number of subjects...

[Rick]

Robertson, truth, and the bible are on parallel courses.

They'll never meet...

[liberty]

I really don't know much about Robertson or his organization, but I do know that the MSM makes sport of excoriating anyone who manifests a belief in the truth of the Bible, and Robertson plays right into this incessant campaign.

Anytime I see a long, detailed, defamatory description that contains a few words in quotation marks I pretty much assume that the writer is making a major misrepresentation, otherwise the quote would have been in context.

For example: In 1999 Robertson said Scotland was "a dark land" overrun by homosexuals...

What conceivable legitimate reason would there be to quote only those three words as part of a significant defamatory assertion about Robertson? There is only one that I can think of: to quote him more fully would not serve the writer's defamatory purpose.

Most reporting about Robertson's statements is much the same. And given the fact that he is constantly on air, speaking extemporaneously about an infinite number of subjects...

Well Dave, it seemed bias to me. As active as Pat is and how much liberal hate Christian conservatives they should be able to catch him in a couple of blatant lies. And if they did that would be it for me. If he is serving God I am with him he is not I am gone.