Televangelist Pat Robertson has once again managed to insult another US ally. This latest remark is so weird that it’s stranger than science. Europe is committing racial suicide, he says, because Europeans aren’t having enough babies. And who is to blame for the low birth rate? Not Satan, but French existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre!
From the Feb. 6 edition of his news program, The 700 Club, Robertson said:
Studies that I have read indicate that having babies is a sign of a faith in the future. You know, unless you believe in the future, you’re not going to take the trouble of raising a child, educating a child, doing something. If there is no future, why do it? Well, unless you believe in God, there’s really no future. And when you go back to the existentialism of Jean-Paul Sartre, the whole idea of this desperate nightmare we are in — you know, that we are in this prison, and it has no hope, no exit. That kind of philosophy has permeated the intellectual thinking of Europe, and hopefully it doesn’t come here. But nevertheless, ladies and gentlemen, Europe is right now in the midst of racial suicide because of the declining birth rate. And they just can’t get it together. Why? There’s no hope.
These remarks follow Robertson’s suggesting that God had punished ailing Israeli PM Ariel Sharon for abandoning the Gaza Strip and that the US should assassinate Venezuela’s new president, Hugo Chavez.
Methinks Robertson, now 74, can’t get it together, either. His brain cells seem to be on permanent vacation.
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