Pat Robertson Says Divorce is OK if Spouse Has Alzheimer's

Hampton Roads' local whack job and most visible - and disgusting - professional Christian once again demonstrates the utter hypocrisy of the most outspoken Christianists. They claim that the Bible is inerrant yet conveniently ignore it when it leads to an unpleasant result in their own lives. Then it's perfectly fine to jettison inconvenient passages such as the directive against divorce. In his latest case of batshitery, Robertson says that its perfectly fine to divorce and abandon your spouse if they come down with Alzheimer's. Can't you just feel the Christian love? Here are highlights from the Virginian Pilot:

Religious broadcaster Pat Robertson told his "700 Club" viewers that divorcing a spouse with Alzheimer's disease is justifiable because the disease is "a kind of death."

During the portion of the show where the one-time Republican presidential candidate takes questions from viewers, Robertson was asked what advice a man should give to a friend who began seeing another woman after his wife started suffering from the incurable neurological disorder. The question was posed with 10 minutes left in the broadcast.

"I know it sounds cruel, but if he's going to do something, he should divorce her and start all over again . . . . The chairman of the Christian Broadcasting Network, which airs the "700 Club," said he wouldn't "put a guilt trip" on anyone who divorces a spouse who suffers from the illness, but added, "Get some ethicist besides me to give you the answer."

Most Christian denominations at least discourage divorce, citing Jesus' words in the Gospel of Mark that equate divorce and remarriage with adultery. Terry Meeuwsen, Robertson's co-host, asked him about couples' marriage vows to take care of each other "for better or for worse" and "in sickness and in health."

"If you respect that vow, you say 'til death do us part,'" Robertson said during the Tuesday broadcast. "This is a kind of death." A network spokesman said Wednesday that Robertson had no further statement.

The world would be a far better place without Robertson's and the Christianists' version of Christianity.