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  • 23 Feb 2010
    Standing by 'biblical truth'?

    When televangelist Pat Robertson made his much decried comments last month about the Haiti earthquake being divine punishment for a "pact with the devil", critics and defenders alike took him at his word that he was asserting a "biblical view". This just goes to show how little we know.

  • 25 Jan 2010
    The Pat Robertson media paradox?

    Some see the decline in the impact of mainstream religion as meaning people in the US have no interest in religion. That is not so, says Martin Marty, and the case of Pat Robertson proves the point. The attention he gets is less of a paradox than some think.

  • 21 Jan 2010
    Demonising Haiti, ignoring slavery

    It is not enough simply to denounce Pat Robertson over Haiti, says Spencer Dew. Without honest confrontation of the legacies of our past as a slave society, some 'they' will always be demonised and some 'devil' will always be imagined as a mask for our earthly hatreds and fears.

  • 18 Jan 2010
    Pat Robertson Voodoo doll offered for sale on ebay

    The soul of American Televangelist Pat Robertson is being offered for sale on ebay, after he said that Haiti's earthquake was caused by a pact with the devil.

  • 7 Sep 2007
    A threat to the US religious right's hegemony

    If the Roman Catholic Rudy Giuliani is the next Republican candidate for US president, as seems likely, says Giles Fraser, it could well mark the beginnings of a historic GOP divorce from the religious right.