Pat Robertson … but the evil he accomplished will live on It’s the end of an era — a very harmful and stupid era. Pat Robertson is stepping down from The 700 Club.
Robertson, the founder of the Christian Broadcast Network, has been the star of this very column SO MANY TIMES. I do not even know how many, honestly.
It’s tempting to write Robertson off as an old man yelling at clouds. He’s basically a caricature of a right-wing Christian minister: white, old, cisgender, hateful and woefully out of touch.
But he’s also been spewing his invective for decades. Progressive strategist Atima Omara put it best via Twitter: “Pat Robertson contributed 55 years of damage to society at large with racism, misogyny and xenophobia weaved into Christianity.”