Spent hours in the car listening to podcasts yesterday. In this one, I learned the following about Pat Robertson.

• He said a man whose wife has Alzheimers and doesn’t recognize him should divorce her and find somebody else.
• He said adopted children might bring demons into the homes where they lived.
• He said people with Aids in San Fransisco were wearing rings that had little knife edges on them so they could infect other people.

The New York Times on the life of Pat Robertson.

“He suggested. . . that Americans’ sinfulness had brought on the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks against the United States, and that the earthquake that devastated Haiti in 2010 was divine retribution for a promise that Haitians had made to serve the Devil in return for his help in securing the country’s independence from France in 1804.

He said that liberal Protestants embodied “the spirit of the Antichrist” and that feminism drove women to witchcraft. He called for the assassination of President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela. He maintained that his prayers had averted hurricanes. And he condemned homosexuality as “an abomination,” linking it at one point it to the rise of Hitler and declaring that it provokes God’s wrath, as manifested in natural disasters and even the death and destruction of 9/11.”