Pat Robertson, televangelist who 動員するd Christian 投票者s, dead at 93
By Joseph Ax
June 8 (Reuters) - Pat Robertson, the televangelist who helped turn Christian 保守的なs into a potent 軍隊 in U.S. politics, died at age 93 at his Virginia home, the Christian Broadcasting 網状組織 said in a 声明 on Thursday.
Robertson 設立するd the 網状組織 in 1960 and hosted the 旗艦 program "The 700 Club" for １０年間s, 申し込む／申し出ing 祈りs and political commentary. In 1980, the show helped galvanize support の中で Christian 保守的なs for 共和国の／共和党の Ronald Reagan's successful （選挙などの）運動をする for 大統領，／社長.
Robertson unsuccessfully ran for 大統領，／社長 himself in 1988. He finished second in the Iowa （政党の）幹部会，党集会s 大部分は by 控訴，上告ing to the 明言する／公表する's sizable evangelical 全住民, a 戦略 that has since been 基準 practice for 共和国の／共和党の 大統領の 競争相手s in the Midwestern 明言する／公表する.
Soon after his White House 企て，努力，提案, Robertson 設立するd the Christian 連合, a grassroots organization that 証明するd a powerful mobilizer for the 保守的な 宗教的な 投票者s who became a 核心 選挙区／有権者 for the 共和国の／共和党の Party.
His "The 700 Club" show - stemming from a fundraising telethon in which he asked 700 テレビ視聴者s to send 月毎の 出資／貢献s - drew a committed audience. But he was also 非難するd for 議論の的になる 声明s over the years.
After the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, Robertson （人命などを）奪う，主張するd an angry God had permitted them to occur because the U.S. had embraced abortion, homosexuality and secularism. In 2005, he called for the 暗殺 of Venezuelan 大統領 Hugo Chavez.
He 示唆するd the 破滅的な 2010 Haitian 地震 was God's 罰, 主張するing that the country had made a を取り引きする Satan to 伸び（る） independence from フラン two centuries earlier.
Nickn amed "Pat" by his older brother, he was born Marion Gordon Robertson in Lexington, Virginia, on March 22, 1930. His father was Absalom Robertson, a Virginia 民主党員 who served in the U.S. 衆議院 and the U.S. 上院 for more than three １０年間s.
Robertson 卒業生（する）d from Yale 法律 School, where he met his 未来 wife, Dede, and later earned a master's degree from New York Theological Seminary. Dede died in 2022 after nearly 70 years of marriage.
In 新規加入 to the Christian Broadcasting 網状組織, which 結局 reached countries around the world, Robertson also 設立するd Regent University, a 宗教的な school in Virginia; the American 中心 for 法律 and 司法（官）, a Christian 合法的な advocacy group; and 操作／手術 Blessing, an international charity.
Robertson had four children, 含むing his son, Gordon, who is 大統領，／社長 of the 網状組織 and has hosted "The 700 Club" since the 年上の Robertson stepped 負かす／撃墜する from the show in 2021. (報告（する）／憶測ing by Doina Chiacu and Joseph Ax; Editing by Susan Heavey and Rosalba O'Brien)
