What do you think about the TV show "the 700 club"

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What do you think about the 700 club TV show?

They pray for people and have a testimony of answered prayer.
 
I think they’re a bunch of charlatans that prey on people. You asked me what I think, I gave my answer.
 
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I watch it about once a year for giggles. I don’t mind the praying but I do mind the preying.
Pat Robertson is just a pompous old pundit like so many others.
I miss Ernest Angsley inviting us to put our hand on the TV screen and pray with him. I did that once or twice but never would send him any money.
 
I grew up watching this show along with Jack Van Impe. But as I became older I was put off by Pat.
 
I think it’s an embarrassment to Christianity.

I think they have helped harden people in their atheism and hostility towards the Church FAR more than they have helped bring people to Christ.
 
They are charlatans like others have said and I think their faithful viewers would be surprised that they are financially “blessing” Roberson and highest up on the 700 Club food chain. Everyone on the show is out of touch but the elder Robertson is sounding more unhinged each year.
 
As others have said, I think it’s a fool’s paradise. Give us money and God will bless you. Yeah, right.
 
So if some are comforted by the show it’s okay if others are bilked or led out of the Church?
 
How do you suggest we stop others from being bilked ? If someone were planning to leave the Church over 700 Club, I’d certainly try to talk them out of it. But we can’t demand that someone be pulled off the air just because we don’t like what they say.
 
Let’s share some of the lovely things ol’ Pat has said over the years.

On homosexuality
“Many of those people involved in Adolf Hitler were Satanists. Many were homosexuals. The two things seem to go together.”

On assassinating Hugo Chavez
“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.”

On the tornadoes that ravaged the Midwest in 2012
“If enough people were praying, (God) would’ve intervened. You could pray. Jesus stilled the storm. You can still storms.”

On the devastating 2010 Haiti earthquake
“They were under the heel of the French, you know, Napoleon the third and 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 prince.’ True story.
And so the devil said, ‘OK, it’s a deal.’ And they kicked the French out. The Haitians revolted and got themselves free. But ever since they have been cursed by one thing after another.”

On a man with an Alzheimer’s-stricken wife
“I know it sounds cruel, but if he’s going to do something, he should divorce her and start all over again, but to make sure she has custodial care and somebody (is) looking after her.”
Asked what about the “Till death do us part” part of the marriage vow, he said Alzheimer’s is "a kind of death.

I TOTALLY agree with him on that last one. I mean, obviously if you’ve been married 65 years and your wife develops dementia, the most Christian thing to do would be divorce her and kick her demented self to the curb. VERY Christlike.
 
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Going back to the OP, they asked, “what do you think?” and the person whom I replied to thinks it’s okay because they might comfort some people. I’m challenging the idea that they are okay per the OP"s question. No, we can’t get them pulled off the air but I’m not going to allow that it’s fine for some and not for others.
 
Well, a shot of whiskey gives comfort to some as well, and for others it leads them into the hell of alcoholism, serious auto wrecks, or mortal sins.

Robertson probably does comfort some people even while doing great harm to others.
 
I used to watch it a long time ago.
I liked it, but I wasn’t convinced to leave the Catholic Church, however.
I can’t say I ever heard any startling speeches from PR, but I wasn’t a daily viewer.
 
I commend your zeal. When I made the comfort comment I was imagining a home bound senior citizen, a lifelong Baptist perhaps who wasn’t likely to ever become Catholic. Like I said, I’m no fan of that show or his message.
 
What if that senior citizen is swayed by their requests for money? If Robertson and company wan’t geting rich off of the show I’d have less of a problem. Only less though, because Robertson has said some pretty awful things in the last several years. His filter is broken and now we can hear what he really thinks. HIs show happened to be on in the ER waiting room last night and I tried to pray with him but I reverted to Aves and Glorias.
 
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