Unfortunately, Pat Robertson is recovering from a 10-hour heart surgery to correct a heart disorder.  We’re guessing his heart was two sizes too small, and black, but then, that can’t be confirmed.

He said recently in a statement “Only the prayers of thousands of believing people kept me on this earth.”  Thanks people of earth!

Think we’re being harsh?  Let us lay out a few of Mr. Robertson’s “gems” from his career as a “Christian.”

• “The feminist agenda is not about equal rights for women. It is about a socialist, anti-family political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.” – 1992 Iowa fundraising letter opposing a state equal-rights amendment (”Equal Rights Initiative in Iowa Attacked”, Washington Post, 23 August 1992); it is sometimes claimed that this statement appeared in Robertson’s 1992 GOP convention speech, but this is not the case (see also transcript)
• “One justice is 83 years old, another has cancer, and another has a heart condition. Would it not be possible for God to put it in the minds of these three judges that the time has come to retire?” — Letter on the Pat Robertson website posted in 2003
• “I think ‘one man, one vote,’ just unrestricted democracy, would not be wise. There needs to be some kind of protection for the minority which the white people represent now, a minority, and they need and have a right to demand a protection of their rights.” (talking about apartheid in South Africa)
• [Planned Parenthood] “is teaching kids to fornicate, teaching people to have adultery, every kind of bestiality, homosexuality, lesbianism – everything that the Bible condemns.” (The 700 Club, variously dated as 9 Apr. 1991 or 14 Jan. 1991).
• “Presbyterians are the spirit of the Antichrist.”
• “The Antichrist is probably a Jew alive in Israel today.” As quoted in “The Christian Paradox”, Harper’s Magazine (August 2005)
• “You say you’re supposed to be nice to the Episcopalians and the Presbyterians and the Methodists and this, that, and the other thing. Nonsense, I don’t have to be nice to the spirit of the Antichrist.” — Pat Robertson, The 700 Club, January 14, 1991
• “I want to say it again, and again, and again: Islam is not a religion, it’s a political system meant on — bent on world domination, not a religion. It masquerades as a religion, but the religion covers a worldwide attempt to exercise power and to subjugate the world into their way of thinking.”

What a great guy, eh?  Still think our headline is too harsh!?