Pat Robertson has passed

[Rhea]

I also find it difficult to speak ill of the dead, regardless of my opinion of their life.

This is interesting. I used to subscribe to this. But then life taught me some of the stories of the victims of bad people. And how we contribute to their trauma by never acknowledging the crimes or harm of their abusers. And so for the rest of the victim’s lives, they STILL don’t get believed, or even comforted by the shared acknowledgement that the abuser WAS an abuser.

This has been profoundly impactful on me.
And it is summed up by the horrifying revelation in several cases, “we protected the wrong person’s feelings,” leading to additional harm for which we have to painfully admit our own responsibility.


And so no, I no longer have any trouble “speaking ill” of bad people. Whether they are alive or dead, I have no obligation to protects the feelings of the person who has done the harm.

 

[bilby]

I also find it difficult to speak ill of the dead, regardless of my opinion of their life.
Tom

Two words:

Jimmy Saville.

There are plenty of people for whom life never brought them to book for their truly evil deeds, which only became widely known after their deaths. Refusing to discuss their vileness because they are no longer alive to defend themselves does nothing to help prevent others from doing similar things, and nothing to help their victims to recover.

 

[ideologyhunter]

In H. L. Mencken's 1926 post mortem on William Jennings Bryan, he mentions that editorial writers had been praising the just-deceased Bryan for his sincerity. "This talk of sincerity, I confess, fatigues me. If the fellow was sincere, then so was P. T. Barnum. The word is disgraced and degraded by such uses. He was, in fact, a charlatan, a mountebank, a zany without shame or dignity."

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

I think I heard hin referred to as the nicest daftest man.

 

[bilby]

No, he hasn't passed.

Pat Robertson has failed.

 

[Politesse]

He did say some things worth remembering:

"Feminism is a socialist, anti-family, political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians!"

Words to burn your bra and march to.

And this one:

"I have a zero tolerance for sanctimonious morons who try to scare people."

Just plain prudent life advice, you know?

And finally:

"Homosexuals are like Judas: They look good in a robe, and their kisses are legendary."

Hell yeah we do.

 

[Old Woman in Purple]

He did say some things worth remembering:
[snip]
"Homosexuals are like Judas: They look good in a robe, and their kisses are legendary."

Hell yeah we do.

Sounds like something to aspire to, if you ask me.....

 

[Politesse]

He did say some things worth remembering:
[snip]
"Homosexuals are like Judas: They look good in a robe, and their kisses are legendary."

Hell yeah we do.

Sounds like something to aspire to, if you ask me.....

I'll have you know I make for one good-looking gay chorister.

 

[James Brown]

Here is the list of good things I can think of about Pat Robertson's life and work...

Spoiler

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[steve_bank]

Friends, Romans, and countrymen.

We come to bury Robertson not praise him.

 

[marc]

This is PRIDE month:

Pat
Robertson
Is
Dead
Everybody

 

[James Brown]

Direct-mail fundraiser Pat Robertson is dead

Among other things, Pat Robertson changed our presidential elections.

When he ran for the Republican nomination in 1988, everyone knew that if you wanted to get elected president, you needed to build a huge direct-mail database. But Robertson didn’t build a direct-mail database in order to run for president, he ran for president in order to build his direct-mail database.

 

[Gospel]

I'm certainly going to miss his unique weather forecasts, where natural disasters were often attributed to some non-believer experiencing a particularly good day.

 

[ideologyhunter]

In the fall of 2020, he predicted Trump would win the election, but that civil unrest and at least two assassination attempts against Trump would follow. There would also be a war against Israel that God would end. Then five or more years of "extraordinary peace", only to end when an asteroid strike on earth would usher in the end times. Must be nice to just make shit up, willy-nilly, with a scattering of scripture and a wrinkly, folksy smile, and have your followers lap it up.

 

[jab]

Pat Robertson passed? Does that mean he was judged good and went to heaven? I would think it much more likely he bad and went to hell!

I think it's referring to flatulence. I know as I am getting older I seem to have more of it.

 

[jab]

He did say some things worth remembering:

"Feminism is a socialist, anti-family, political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians!"

Words to burn your bra and march to.

And this one:

"I have a zero tolerance for sanctimonious morons who try to scare people."

Just plain prudent life advice, you know?

And finally:

"Homosexuals are like Judas: They look good in a robe, and their kisses are legendary."

Hell yeah we do.

I, for one, look lumpish in a robe.