RightWingWatch reports that on the 700 Club Monday, Pat Robertson said demons can attach themselves to material goods --so it’s not a bad idea to rebuke them before bringing them into your home.

This was in response to "Carrie," a viewer who had this question for Robertson:

"I buy a lot of clothes and other items at Goodwill and other secondhand shops. Recently my mom told me that I need to pray over the items, bind familiar spirits, and bless the items before I bring them into the house. Is my mother correct? Can demons attach themselves to material items?"

First, Robertson has a story (doesn't he always?) about “a witch who had prayed over a particular ring and asked for a spirit to come into it, and this Philippine girl was so attached to this ring, she had to buy it and all hell broke loose because she finally recognized what it was.”

“Can demonic spirits attach themselves to inanimate objects? The answer is yes,” Robertson said, "but I don't think every sweater you get from Goodwill has demons in it."

Whew! So only some of the sweaters you buy at Goodwill have demons in them.

"In a sense your mother is just being super cautious," Robertson continued, "so hey—it isn't gonna hurt you any to rebuke any spirits that might attach themselves to those clothes." (Does it also work on bedbugs and fleas?)

Okay, Carrie, you can pray away the minions of Beelzebub in your second-hand sweaters. Just please, wash them first, m'kay?

Here we go again. Pat Robertson is giving out more marital advice. Along with his co-host Kristi Watts, Robertson has this to say to 17-year-old Maxim, who says his father "spends too much time at the computer playing a war game" instead of paying attention to his mother, and wants to know what he can do about that.

ROBERTSON: It may be your mom isn't as sweet as you think she is. She may be kind of hard-nosed and so he says, my father, he's not paying attention to mom, but is mom ...

WATTS: How are you going to blame the mother?

ROBERTSON: It's easy to blame the mother! You know, a woman came to a preacher that I know—it's so funny—and she was awful looking. I mean her hair was all torn up, and she was overweight and looked terrible, clothes bad, everything. And she said, "Oh, reverend, what can I do? My husband has started to drink." And the preacher looked at her and said, "Madam, if I was married to you, I'd start to drink too."

We need to cultivate romance, darling. And it needs to be the men, have got to be cultivating romance, and the women. You always have to keep that spark of love alive. It just isn't something to just lie there ... Well, I'm married to him so he's got to take me slatternly looking. You've got to fix yourself up, look pretty.

In previous editions of 'Blame the Woman,' Robertson advised a man whose wife was suffering with Alzheimers to divorce her because she was, for all intents and purposes, already dead. Women who don't want their husbands to cheat on them should make themselves "as attractive as possible and don't hassle him about it," according to Robertson.

Robertson also told a caller who asked what he should do about a wife who insults him, “Well, you could become a Muslim and you could beat her,” Robertson responded. “This man’s got to stand up to her and he can’t let her get away with this stuff,” Robertson continued, “I don’t think we condone wife-beating these days but something has got to be done.”

Robertson is a total @sshat and a menace to society.

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Ho, ho, no, not again. The “War on Christmas” has arrived early, and the 700 Club is doing all it can to frighten you into believing that Christmas may cease to exist! Host Pat Robertson warns that “the Grinch is trying to steal our holiday” as “miserable” atheists “want to steal your holiday away from you” because they just can’t stand the joy of Christmas. “Atheists don’t like our happiness, they don’t want you to be happy, they want you to be miserable,” he said. “They’re miserable so they want you to be miserable.”

H/T RightWingWatch.

Pat Robertson is shocked and awed that 30% of women in the United States of America love porn. Women are "involved in" pornography? Men "struggle with it?"

Robertson, who has watched a lot of porn -- but only so he can report back to the world on the evils of porn, naturally -- described it as "boring." Then he implied that the best-selling novel "Fifty Shades of Grey" was to blame for the mass corruption leading women to the formerly exclusive to men world of porn. "Mommy porn" he called it, apparently never having heard of "romance novels."

Just wait until he wakes up and finds out there's a black man in the White House.

H/T RightWingWatch for the video.

H/T RightWingWatch for the video.

During a recent episode of Pat Robertson's "The 700 Club," a woman who had adopted three children from three different foreign nations wrote in seeking dating advice. She explained that she's having a difficult time finding a man who will date her after she tells him about the children.

Robertson replied in his typical most compassionate of conservatives fashion.

"A man doesn't want to take on the United Nations, and this woman's got all these various children and blended family. What is it?," said Robertson. He then explained how a "dear friend" of his who adopted a child from Colombia who turned out to have brain damage. "You just never know what's been done to a child before you get that child," he said. "What kind of sexual abuse, what kind of cruelty, what kind of food deprivation, et cetera."

Robertson's statement typifies everything that's wrong with the Republican party today. They demand that every fetus be brought to term no matter what, because of the "sanctity of life." Yet when these children are finally born? That's not their problem.

As I posted earlier, George Carlin hits the nail on the head here:

"Boy, these conservatives are really something, aren't they? They're all in favor of the unborn. They will do anything for the unborn. But once you're born, you're on your own. Pro-life conservatives are obsessed with the fetus from conception to nine months. After that, they don't want to know about you. They don't want to hear from you. No nothing. No neonatal care, no day care, no head start, no school lunch, no food stamps, no welfare, no nothing. If you're pre-born, you're fine; if you're preschool, you're f*cked."

But, that "United Nations" comment from Robertson also smacks of racism. Now I don't believe for a moment that if the adopted children had been "white" he would've been any more approving. It just makes him more reprehensible.