Pat Robertson, who after claiming to be visited by the Holy Spirit in Ontario cottage country developed and hosted 700 Club for nearly six decades, binding the ascendant evangelical movement to Republican Party politics, has died. He was 93.
The death of Robertson, who ran for U.S. president in 1988, was announced Thursday by his Christian Broadcasting Network. No cause was given.
Described as “the most curious and contradictory of all the Christian right leaders” by Frances Fitzgerald in The Evangelicals: The Struggle to Shape America, Robertson’s broadcasts didn’t see him thundering from behind a pulpit to an in-person megachurch congregation.
Instead, he
