Televangelist Pat Robertson today blasted the Satanic Temple for unveiling a statue of Baphomet in Detroit. The group doesn’t actually worship Satan but is trying to make a point about the separation of church and state, arguing that any government property displaying the Ten Commandments must also house a Satanic monument.
But the host of “The 700 Club” was having none of it, telling viewers that Detroit and the U.S. in general could face divine punishment for the Satanic Temple’s actions.
“Aren’t you appalled?” Robertson asked. “First of all, we say that being a homosexual is a constitutional right, before that we said that slaughtering unborn babies was a constitutional right and now we want to unveil a statue of Satan in the midst of that economically plagued city? Can you believe that? Where are we heading? Isn’t this going to bring the judgment of God upon us?”
Robertson continued: “You say, could we possibly be serving idols? Could we be sacrificing our babies to some heathen god? Is there something that we are going to be having ritual sacrifice on the statehouse lawn of some state? Are we going to be allowing this to happen? And while we are doing it, we’ll be having polygamy and polyamory and all the other things that go along with a corrupt culture. Is that the way we’re heading? Well it looks like it is.”
