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Current Events => Breaking News => Topic started by: SVPete on June 08, 2023, 11:20:08 AM
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Rev. Pat Robertson, Legendary Evangelist and 1988 Presidential Candidate, Dead at 93
https://www.dailywire.com/news/pat-robertson-legendary-evangelist-and-1988-presidential-candidate-dead-at-93 (https://www.dailywire.com/news/pat-robertson-legendary-evangelist-and-1988-presidential-candidate-dead-at-93)
Legendary evangelist the Rev. Pat Robertson, who built a small Virginia radio station into a vast religious broadcasting network and even ran for president over a career that spanned more than six decades, has died at age 93.
Robertson’s death was announced early Thursday by his Christian Broadcasting Network. No cause was given.
Born Marion Gordon Robertson, he was the son of Absalom Willis Robertson, who for 36 years served Virginia in the U.S. House of Representatives and the Senate. After graduating from Washington and Lee University, he served as assistant adjutant of the 1st Marine Division in Korea before graduating from Yale Law School.
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In addition to the Christian Coalition, which he founded in 1989, Robertson also established Regent University, an evangelical Christian school in Virginia Beach; the American Center for Law and Justice, which defends the First Amendment rights of religious people; and Operation Blessing, an international humanitarian organization.
Going back farther in Robertson's career, he started a Christian TV network, CBN (not the same as Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker's PTL Network). CBN was the foundation of Robertson's rise to public fame/notoriety (the latter being libs'/Progs' opinion of him).