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PAT ROBERTSON

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Robertson

Controversies surrounding Robertson include his earlier work as a faith healer,[33] his claim that some Protestant denominations harbor the spirit of the Antichrist,[34] and his claims of having the power to deflect hurricanes through prayer;[35] he has also denounced Hinduism as "demonic"[36] and Islam as "Satanic."[37]

Robertson has issued multiple condemnations of feminism,[38] homosexuality,[39] abortion[40] and liberal professors.[41]

Robertson also had financial ties to former presidents Charles Taylor [Actuellement jugé pour crimes contre l’humanité.] [42] (Liberia) and Mobutu Sese Seko[18] (Zaire), both internationally denounced for their systemic human rights violations.

Robertson was criticized worldwide for his call for Hugo Chavez’s assassination[18] and for his remarks concerning Ariel Sharon's health as an act of God.[43]

In addition to sociopolitical controversies, Robertson was criticized for involvement in a racehorse scandal,[44] misleading claims about his leg pressing abilities[45] and his response to an unflattering Facebook photograph.[46]

Less than two weeks after the August 29th, 2005, Hurricane Katrina that killed 1,836 people, Pat Robertson publicly alluded on the September 12th broadcast of the Christian Broadcasting Network's The 700 Club that Hurricane Katrina was God's punishment in response to America's abortion policy, stating,

«But have we found we are unable somehow to defend ourselves against some of the attacks that are coming against us, either by terrorists or now by natural disaster? Could they be connected in some way? And he goes down the list of the things that God says will cause a nation to lose its possession, and to be vomited out.»[47]

Robertson's response to the 2010 Haiti earthquake also drew controversy.[48] Robertson claimed that Haiti's founders had sworn a "pact to the Devil" in order to liberate themselves from the French slave owners and indirectly attributed the earthquake to the consequences of the Haitian people being "cursed" for doing so.[49][50]

CBN later issued a statement saying that Robertson's comments "were based on the widely-discussed 1791 slave rebellion led by Dutty Boukman at Bois Caiman, where the slaves allegedly made a famous pact with the devil in exchange for victory over the French."[51][52]

Various prominent voices of mainline and evangelical[53] Christianity promptly denounced Robertson's remarks.[54][55][56][57][58] The CBN failed to retract the false historical information in Pat Robertson's statement - Louis XVI of France was king when the Haitian Revolution - not Hatian "revolt" began, and ended under Napoleon I reign (1804-1815), not Napoleon III (Louis Napoleon)reign (1852-1870) as Robertson incorrectly stated.

Pat Robertson's historical oversight is serious since it was the Haitian victory over Napoleon I army that led to U.S. President Thomas Jefferson's Louisiana Purchase from France.

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