Atheists Don’t Fear Divine Punishment
Pat Robertson believed in divine punishment. Atheists are free of this fear.
Pat Robertson, who died a couple weeks ago, hosted the 700 Club television show for years and was a major organizer of the Religious Right.
In a 1992 fundraising letter, he called feminism an “anti-family political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.” He “repeatedly called non-Christians ‘termites’ akin to ‘a virus,’ attacked Hindus as ‘demonic’ and claimed Islam is inherently violent and not a real religion” and could be heard “comparing gay people to murderers and rapists and suggesting that LGBTQ orientation was a result of ‘demonic possession’” (HuffPost). He “raised funds for Contra death squads in Nicaragua,” and after fundraising “to fly relief supplies to Rwandan refugees,” his planes instead “mostly transported equipment for a diamond mining operation” (Democracy Now!).
I’ll review some examples of the individual and collective punishment in which he believed.
Atheism is one way to avoid believing in this sort of stuff. Of course, many people believe in God, or in multiple gods, and don’t believe in this. There are many kinds of religious beliefs. Yet atheism seems to…
